240 Who Do You Think You Are?
Everybody has a purpose and it’s uniquely theirs. On a grander
level every human has the same purpose, but it has a unique expression
in each person. I say I am a scout. That’s how I identify mine. Someone
else may say, “I’m an explorer.” Someone else may say, “I am a teacher.”
Someone else may say, “I’m here to learn loving relationships, I’m here
to share something.” But how do you find out what yours is?
It’s not an analytical process, it’s not a mental process as all. It’s
an awareness process. If you try to figure it out mentally or analyze it,
you won’t find it. It’s uncovering it, where you just know it. The easiest
way I know how to do it, or to lead someone to it or to support them to it,
is I have them make a list of all the times in their life when they
experienced great joy, clarity, pure loving, wonderful enthusiasm, peak
moments, memorable moments in their life that were genuinely positive.
It could be a peace, it could be a loving, it could be a victory,
enthusiasm, it could be when you were acknowledged, it could be the
birth of a child, whatever is there. It could be an A you got in a class, a
test you passed, a swim meet you won, a book you wrote, something
where the experience inside was full of great joy and happiness and ease.
I think everybody’s got some of those.
Once they have their list, I can see the thread that runs through
the list and that’s their purpose. Then all you need to do is identify it in
your own words. You need to do it quietly and just allow it to happen. If
it doesn’t show up really fast, then I’d put it aside and come back to it
later. It isn’t something you try to figure out and analyze and puzzle over,
you just get it. There’s a light inside of you and basically you’re just
connecting with it. And this is a mechanism through which people can
connect with it again, to uncover it and bring it to life. Once you’ve got
it then do your best to make your choices on purpose. I have found that
when I do that my life really works well.