3 Steps to Discovering Your Life’s purpose

In step two, the client reflects on the purpose statement with more profound prompting questions. Below, I answer these questions through a series of insights.   

Insight #1: I care deeply about helping individuals with a gift they want to share with others. Why don’t we give more of our knowledge to others? 

So much of what we learn in our lives can be helpful to others. Just knowing that others are experiencing the same things that you are can be so helpful. I don’t know about you, but my brain tends to spiral into “not good enough” at every opportunity. Mainly because so many people are trying to “prove” that they “are someone “ or “know something,” and if you don’t … then you aren’t “good enough.” 

It might seem gruesome, but I’ve always thought about a “legacy” and what would be left after I’m “gone” since I was young. I thought everyone thought about this, but realized later that most people avoid the topic of death as we do taxes. 

Since working with over 50 entrepreneurs who all have massive gifts to give to the world, I believe it is my purpose to help them succeed in building a business, community, program, course, or training to support their ideal client or member because they are changing the lives of people who need their help. 

Unfortunately, most of my clients are overwhelmed, stressed out, exhausted, and frustrated creators who can’t figure out how to make a living or find a way to share their gifts with others. 

Insight #2: The world wants to be part of a “community,” but in 2023, we won’t have the bandwidth to “support” this financially (someone has to be paid to facilitate these environments.) Many community professionals have lost their jobs, and I had to close my own community due to an inability to keep operations running without income. 

Others have controlled our lives, and I want to be part of a creator’s movement that takes back our power and says “NO” to the big marketing companies who want us to keep creating “content” so that they make money. 

The mission drives me to give creators a voice, hear them, and help them elevate their businesses to make a difference with their life’s work. 

This is so important to me because it’s my own personal mission, too! I’ve spent the past 20 years caving into the idea that since society says I can’t make a living as a writer, that’s that – well, I’m no longer accepting this. 

Why is it okay for a writer to give up writing and take whatever job is available? That’s my personal experience. I have spent the better part of two decades, since I was 20 (now 43), trying to pay bills and survive, like so many others. 

We are at a turning point; that’s what the pandemic gave us: a gift to change the trajectory of the human experience. We can take what we’ve learned, let go of what’s not working, and create a new system that fits the humans living in 2023. 

Let go of the old “1950s” approach – Work, work, work, then … IF you make it to retirement, AND you’ve saved, now…. Relax. Know that we are OKAY. (unless you aren’t… then find safety) 

Creatives know that we aren’t guaranteed “retirement,” we’ve seen so much that we don’t want to waste time doing things that don’t bring us joy, give us energy, or offer us meaning and purpose. The biggest challenge we face as a society is maneuvering this next shift. 

We are working remotely, balancing many things, and trying to find some joy and calm in life. What is the point of living if not to enjoy it? 

It’s time to live a life that makes us happy – not the kind of happiness that advertising sells (buy this thing, and then you’ll be happy) but TRUE happiness and joy, which can only be found within. 

Helping leaders find their purpose and build a business they love will then ripple to their clients and members of their communities that will begin to transform in unimaginable ways. That’s the power of purpose.