You Don’t Have to Wait to Have the Perfect Life before Living Your Divine Purpose
January 11, 2008 by MichelleVandepas
Are you living your Divine Purpose?
What are you waiting for?
The perfect life?
The perfect timing?
For you to get everything you need and want?
I’ve spent years looking for my purpose in life. And all the while it was right in front of me. I suspect it might be that way for you as well. You are looking for something ‘out there’ , or for something to change, so that you can live a life full of joy and passion.
Maybe it’s around your job; You’d love to go be in service to the world, or to work as an artist, or to be a writer, and you know in your heart that is part of your life purpose, but instead of starting today, you put it off.
What if you just took a moment to write a paragraph in your journal, - right this minute. Or if you made one phone call to ask about volunteering at the soup kitchen. Or to take your child’s crayon and do a bit of coloring in a coloring book.
So what if you don’t know what your Divine Purpose is? How do you find it? Is it possible that you don’t have only one purpose to your life but that you have many? How about if you just start to find something you can get excited about.
To tap into one purpose - service, Chris over on SouporNuts has a great solution to get started living your life purpose today:
In order to help yourself, you must help others. There’s no better long-term strategy to achieving your success. As Dr. Phil would say, “It ain’t about YOU!” Become a listener and a people person. Help others and then help yourself indirectly.
Helping others can start with smiling at the store clerks, opening doors, picking up trash. Look out your window, there is always something you can do. Right now.
Start today.
What are you doing to live your Divine Purpose?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Written by Michelle Vandepas - Michelle is a writer, speaker, facilitator and radio talk show host. She also consults with people and companies who wish to have a stronger web presence. Contact Michelle directly using the contact page above, or leave a comment below.
Wow! This is a fantastic post. Like you, it took a little while before I found the true nature of “my calling”, but now, I’m on a mission. Thanks for noticing soupornuts.com.
Chris Melton
http://www.therotater.com
Dear Michelle -
I have thought a lot about this topic and it comes down to what is your talent? And a very broad sense of what you would like to do.
My direction has always been toward communication.
I have found that has led me to many directions and multiple careers.
I think that is yours also.
I had a spiritual teacher once who said, “Follow the energy right in front of you.” Best advice I ever got!
You Don’t Have to Wait to Have the Perfect Life before Living Divine Purpose
I’ve spent years looking for my purpose in life. And all the while it was right in front of me. I suspect it might be that way for you as well. You are looking for something ‘out there’ , or for something to change, so that you can live a life fu…
Michelle, I have also thought about this quite a bit. I have been wondering what are the foundational pieces to support my purpose. The first step is knowing! I’ll share some of these steps in a post. Thanks-ck
Chris, Once we get an inkling of what our purpose might be, then being on a mission - moving toward that light every moment helps us get closer to our mission and stay on track.
Corinne, Communication, I like that!
CK, I’m looking forward to the post that you’ll share. You are a great writer - one of your ‘purposes’…
Hi Michelle,
recently I just changed my tagline in my blog into “Helping introverts to be successful”
I’m myself is an introvert, has lots of limitation, looking forward to change and grow, becoming a better me, but I’m still in the journey. Sometimes I thought, am I putting the right tagline of helping others while I’m still not that successful, I’m still struggle with lots of weaknesses.
The quote you shared really encouraged me a lot, to be successful, I must also focus in helping others to be successful, that’s how I’m going to do it, and I can start now, through my blog.
Thanks a lot, really appreciate that!!!
Robert
Robert @ reason4smile’s last blog post..How to make better decisions (Part II)
Great post! I did a lot of waiting around until some fuzzy future to work at what I’m passionate about. Then I got laid off from the chemical industry and suddenly I had a lot of time to discover my passions while I was job-hunting.
I found out I’m a teacher and a writer. I kind of knew about the writing because I’ve always kept a journal and have stacks of them. I started blogging as a replacement for some of my journaling. Very private things still go into a handwritten journal.
I needed a job and started tutoring part-time and I found I love working with kids and teaching. Now I’m giving considerable thought and research into becoming a high school science and math teacher. They could use teachers with real world experience. Some of what my science students are being taught is pathetic.
Sherri Joubert’s last blog post..Value All Gifts and Talents
Yes there is an immense amount of personal satisfaction to be gained in helping others. And it’s a well known fact that when you stop thinking and pondering about a question and focus on something else, the answer just pops up out of your brain unbidden.
Karen (Karooch from Scraps of Mind)’s last blog post..Words to Live by
I do live in the divine purpose but I didn’t know that such word exists.
Thanks for sharing.
Raymond Chua’s last blog post..Don’t Just Stand There. Jump Off The Building Now!
Hi Raymond, I’ve seen you over on StumbleUpon. Thanks for coming over to see us.
Robert, Writing can help you come out of your shell, but in a different way. There is nothing ‘wrong’ about being an introvert - unless you want to change!
Sherri, Teaching is very rewarding. My guess is that you naturally taught all the time even before you were officially teaching!
Karen - I agree!
Thanks for stopping by!
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