4 Tips to Your Life Purpose

When we were born, we had a very clear idea of what we were going to do, here in these brand new body suits. Then we started getting bigger and bigger, learning words, learning what was a no-no and what got us hugs and kisses.

And we sang and we played and most of all, we pretended. Oh the fun in pretending! Then, somewhere along the way, we got the message loud and clear that pretend wasn’t real and we had to cut it out.

And along about the same time, we began to lose track of what it was we really came here to do.

Take a moment here to just get comfy, wriggle your shoulders around a bit, take a deep slow breath. Let yourself remember back to when you were a child, some time before you were 10 years old.

What really caught your fancy?
What did you keep doing, whether the grown ups thought it was a good idea or not?
What did you have fun pretending?
What did you really really really want to be when you grew up?

The answers you just told yourself are your clues to what you came here to do.

For me, I was always listening to people. I loved listening to grown-ups telling their stories, talking about their lives. I would ask questions and then listen, very carefully, to what they would say. Sometimes, I even asked questions that other grown-ups didn’t think were “appropriate”. Oh well. I kept on.

They didn’t call it coaching then, I was just a curious kid who thought people were really wonderful and interesting. Most of all, I wanted to know what they thought and why they thought that way. I learned a lot (still am).

As a grown-up, I’ve spent a lot of years dancing around that, doing all sorts of other things. What’s really interesting though is — every single one of those “other things” (one way or the other) involved listening to people, asking questions, and then really really really listening to their answers.

I’ll bet, once you start looking, you’ll discover the same thing.

So . . . what are you here to do? I would love to hear from you.

Blessings,

Elmdea