How To Live With More Purpose

How do we step out of our conditioned selves in order to live with more purpose? Why is it that in the daily grind we simply forget about living with a sense of purpose?

Much of it has to do with our mindset - the way we have been shaped, together with our beliefs, ideologies and patterns of thinking. So, how do we begin to shift our mindset so we can live with more purpose?

1. Spend more time with your passions: if you are spending more time doing what you love doing, your purpose will slowly reveal itself to you again. Our interests are often linked to our purpose. What we enjoy doing is where we gain our sense of self, our sense of meaning.

2. Cultivate your natural abilities:spend time on your craft, on honing your skills in the area where you excel. Mastery is a lifelong process. However, often we think, if I just achieve that goal only then will I be happy. This isn’t necessarily true. Spend time on the process and get your joy out of working with the glory of your craft.

3. Learn from the experts in your field: a great way to align with your purpose is to gain knowledge from the people that have gone before you. Whether it be through being taught, coached, through reading, writing or an apprenticeship or just observing, there is such a wealth of knowledge out there that we can tap into.

4. Observe your push-back: Notice the times when you feel anxious, fearful, or angry and observe your behavior in relation to these feelings. How do they inhibit you from moving forward to living with more purpose? Often you will find just with more awareness and perspective these restrictive states of consciousness will not be such big stumbling blocks.

5. Feed your flow: What do I mean by flow? It’s where your challenge and creativity meet. You are challenged enough to have to really apply yourself, but at the same time you are in your zone where your creative abilities are honed enough to allow you to move through the challenge. You have the skills, abilities and focus to move through your challenge with ease and purpose.

Living with more purpose is a process that takes time, patience and persistence. If you truly want to live with purpose then these are some of the habits that you can slowly build into your life until they become part of your makeup.

Until we get to the point where at the leading edge, we are grounded in our purpose and we have the ability to apply it effortlessly. After all purpose drives, shapes us, defines us.