Do you know your life purpose?

Many self-help books encourage you to explore what your personal life purpose statement is. And if you are like most people who are trying to discover their life purpose, you will be stuck for words and ideas.

What blocks you from being able to understand what you really want to do? Why does your life purpose escape you? Where have all your dreams and passions gone that you cannot identify them anymore?

These questions are very difficult to answer. You may find that self reflection is almost impossible. However, to find your personal life purpose it is necessary to scratch your way through the layers of pre-conditioning you have acquired over the years of your life.

Many people live their lives just making do, never finding that passion. With this comes a constant sense of dissatisfaction or discontent. You always feel as if you are missing out on something, that life is drifting past without having achieved anything.

These feelings come from inside of us where our inner self keeps on trying to let us know that what we are doing is not in line with our life purpose. Many people never find it and spend their life scratching at that niggling feeling that they are missing something.

Most often people we spend our time, energy, and resources trying to fill the void with other things. You may have experienced some of this yourself. You spend your money buying new clothes, cars or homes in the hope that it will make you feel good. You spend your time in unproductive ways, watching brain deadening television shows, or sedating yourself with alcohol or drugs.

It does feel good to drive that new car or move into a lovely home, and television, drugs, and alcohol help us escape reality but the escape is always short lived. It never lasts because it doesn’t address the underlying feelings of dissatisfaction and unease that we have.

You might find yourself drifting from one relationship to another, hoping to discover in the new partnership a feeling of completeness that you know is out there somewhere but that you are just not able to find.

If all those lovely new things don’t bring lasting happiness and our relationships are not fulfilling perhaps it’s time to start thinking about what our personal life purpose statement is. Discovering that and aligning yourself to it could be what you have been looking for for so long.

You will not be the only one looking for this answer. In recent years the number of best-seller books that deal with self-help and personal growth issues have grown exponentially. The popularity of the “The Secret” video stunned even the people who produced it.

It seems that people are waking up to the fact that they are not following their life purpose. In fact many have no idea what it could be. Often times we end up thinking that the problem is that we are not good enough, that we need to improve themselves in order to fit into someone else's idea of what we should be.

We think that if we work hard enough on the self-improvement angle then we will feel better about ourself and the life we lead. Is that the answer? Surely not.

Self-improvement work is often just another misleading direction to take. Finding your life purpose and following it is a better way to discovering inner happiness and contentment.

Tomorrow I'll start a series of postings that will lead you along the path towards discovering your life purpose. Until then...have a great day!