In Vicky White’s latest issue of Design Your Life newsletter, she offers the following questions that can guide you toward discovering your purpose:
1. What do you think is wrong with the world?
What makes you just want to shake people – if only they’d get it?
Is it your concern about how adults talk to children?
Is it that we allow people to be homeless in our wealthiest countries?
Is it that people act like victims in their lives?
Whatever your greatest concern, this is part of what you’re here in the world for. What is one thing you can do today in your life to make a small change?
2. Who do you feel envious of?
Perhaps: an artist friend, someone with a cottage, someone living by the sea, a friend who’s off to Tuscany for a month?
Julia Cameron says in The Artist’s Way ‘jealousy is a mask for our fear of doing something we really want to do but have not been brave enough to take action toward’. By taking note of our jealous feelings we gain insight into what may be buried deep within us.
What’s one action you can take to give yourself the essence of that part of yourself you’ve been denying? Could you go get some travel brochures, sign up for an art class, take yourself to the sea for a day?
3. What would you like to put out in the world before you leave? Imagine you had six months to live. If anything were possible, what would you like to be remembered for? What relationships would you let go immediately? Which ones feed your soul and nourish you?
Now take action – what is one thing you can do with this new found awareness?
And, watch for synchronicity. There are messages all around.
