What does it take to find your purpose?
Whether you feel strong about the sense of purpose in your life, or you feel like you haven’t quite found it yet, we all have moments (days, weeks, months) when we feel a little lost in the dark woods.
So no matter where you are on your soul path, here’s something for you today to help you find your way again.
What does it take to find your purpose?
The path of purpose is the path of action.
ActionS.
It’s a path of not knowing until you try.
A path that may seem meandering until you look backwards and realize that all the twists and turns and detours actually served a purpose.
A path of trust, and a path of intention.
I have a client who decided to say “yes” to herself more: her mental health needs, her physical health hobbies, socializing in groups where she feels at home, finding communities and classes that align with her interests.
At the same time, she’s saying “no” more, too: to drama at work, to giving more of her energy to a job that doesn’t fulfill her, to other people’s expectations.
In this process, she’s finding more and more clues leading her along her path of purpose. Every time she chooses her hobbies, her needs, or her boundaries, she gets another glimpse, a new clue, about where she wants to take her life.
Who would have thought that prioritizing what you yearn to do on weekends and hanging out with people who make you feel good would give you insights on what your soul mission is?
But that’s how it works.
Her example highlights 3 things that, if you practice them, help you find your way if you ever feel lost. In my experience, this combination works every time. Here it is:
Finding your purpose will take:
1) Exploration: having the courage to choose play in a world that glorifies nonstop work.
Explore your inner core: who you are, what you need, what you like, what’s actually important.
Explore your talents: what are you truly good at, even if it doesn’t seem relevant or valuable?
Explore how you want to self-express: from style, to your voice, to what you share with others, to what you want to create. What’s true for you?
Explore what’s available to you: a new skill, a new hobby, a new experience, a new place?
Follow what you’re drawn to & you’ll find more of you.
2) Devotion: commitment to yourself, first of all.
Commitment to your desires, needs, body signals. Ideas, sparks, callings.
Devotion so big that you always choose in integrity.
But also - devotion to your path. The nerve to stay in what feels true & right despite feeling uncertain or misunderstood.
Devotion to your soul mission, even if it’s not quite clear yet. Belief that you HAVE ONE. And that it’s always calling.
Devotion to listening to its call.
3) Discernment: the courage to say “no” to what doesn’t align.
When others value what you don’t - discern.
When society says “this way is the way to success” - discern.
When your loved ones say “it’s safer to stay where you are” - discern.
Exercise your internal filter of soul integrity.
Follow what aligns with your sense of purpose.
Filter out what doesn’t.
Finding your purpose will take work, and it will be 1000% worth it.
FOLLOWING your purpose after you’ve found it will take work, and it will be 1000% worth it.
STICKING with what you know is true and right and real and important and yours even when you’re uncertain and scared and shaky and doubtful - it’ll take work. And it will be 1000% worth it.
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So much love,
Kat
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➛ If you’re not sure who you can be outside of your current job/career:
Article & thought exercise: “What You ‘DO’ vs Who You ‘ARE’”
(And why basing your identity on your job title is harmful in the long run!)
