{"id":32591,"date":"2018-01-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffcheriegate.com\/uncategorized-en\/proposito-de-vida\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:27:52","slug":"life-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffcheriegate.com\/en\/self-knowledge\/life-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become Aware of Your Life Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous article<\/a>, I wrote about the importance and benefits obtainable if you guide your life, choices and actions based on your life purpose<\/strong>, which can be a single one or many by the way! The problem is that we often don\u2019t know or are not aware of what is our purpose. For this reason, in today\u2019s article, I suggest a few considerations that may help you to become aware of which purposes govern your life.<\/p>\n

To start with, I would like to make clear that the reflexions I propose here are just the starting point for you to think about the subject, if you haven\u2019t already done so, but they are in no way the definite solution towards becoming aware of your life purpose.<\/p>\n

This is a path that involves a lot of self-knowledge<\/a>, which is something that only you can decide on and will accompany you throughout your life. Moreover, as you mature, you will notice that awareness, as well as the scope and the strength of your purposes, will change. A purpose that had more importance at a certain stage in your life can matter less at another phase and so on.<\/p>\n

As in the previous article, I used the studies<\/a> of two George Mason University researchers, Patrick E. McKnight and Todd B. Kashdan, as a backdrop to draw up the following questions. Let\u2019s go:<\/p>\n

11 Questions to start off the reflexion about your life purpose<\/h2>\n

The following exercise is simple. Find a place where you can be alone, with no interruptions and distractions, and answer the following questions. It\u2019s important to write down the answers so that at the end, you can reflect on them and identify patterns, similarities and elaborate better on your life purpose.<\/p>\n

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Notebook and pen (Photo: Freddy Castro \/ Unsplash)<\/p><\/div>\n

Do not, incidentally, go out of your way too much to try to find \u201cthe\u201d purpose. It\u2019s not always a single one and don\u2019t be surprised or amazed to find there is more than one, ok? Moving on to the questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. 1.<\/span> What do you remember having done in your life that gives you the most pride?<\/li>\n
  2. 2.<\/span> What would you like to do the whole time and be so well paid for it that you wouldn\u2019t need to do anything else?<\/li>\n
  3. 3.<\/span> Think of the people that you admire the most. Which of their qualities and actions bring you to admire them?<\/li>\n
  4. 4.<\/span> When you reach the end of another day and you\u2019re going to talk to your spouse or a close friend, what things do you say you did that day that bring you the most satisfaction?<\/li>\n
  5. 5.<\/span> What are the things in life in which you most believe? That you feel help you to decide which path to follow when you run into a fork in the road?<\/li>\n
  6. 6.<\/span> What are your most important values? The ones that you do not relinquish and feel very proud of being identified with and recognized for?<\/li>\n
  7. 7.<\/span> What subjects do you love talking about? That if you were asked to teach a class on, would give you great pleasure to do so?<\/li>\n
  8. 8.<\/span> Which causes do you feel most attracted to and moved by when you remember them<\/li>\n
  9. 9.<\/span> If you had to define some objectives for your life, what would them be? If you could look back and assess if you were able to achieve all of them, which would bring you peace and which you\u2019d like to go back in time and have another go at trying to achieve them?<\/li>\n
  10. 10.<\/span> What are the things you do that add great meaning to your life, whose absence would make you very unhappy<\/li>\n
  11. 11.<\/span> What are you very good at, for which you possess genuine talent and are praised for?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Reading the answers (Photo: Mariana Vusiastytka \/ Unsplash)<\/p><\/div>\n

    After you answer these questions, go through your answers and try to identify patterns and similarities. Is anything repeated? Things that make more sense to you? Some that define you as a person and that you would like to accomplish throughout your life?<\/p>\n

    Based on those considerations, make a draft of your life purpose on a sheet of paper and following that, apply the two tests below to refine your draft.<\/p>\n

    Test 1<\/h3>\n

    Remember that purpose must be something that defines your life objectives<\/strong> and provides you with personal meaning<\/strong>. When you read the draft you wrote, can you identify these two elements in it or is something missing? If there is, go back to the previous reflexions\/considerations and try to identify what was missing. When your draft on \u201cpurpose\u201d has gone through this first test, move on to the second.<\/p>\n

    Test 2<\/h3>\n

    Think about your daily life and ask yourself: do I feel that my behaviour and decisions are guided, most of the time, by what I have written here? Think about critical situations, decisive moments in your life and see if the answer is \u201cyes\u201d most of the time.
    \nIf this happens in many different areas, such as personal, financial, professional and spiritual, for example, it\u2019s a sign that your purpose has far reach in your life. On the other hand, if you feel that it very frequently guides your behaviour and decisions, it means that it\u2019s a much stronger purpose.<\/p>\n

    If both happen, there is a great chance that your draft contains a real central and important purpose. If on the other hand you think something is missing, go back to the first answers and try to identify what you think must be added to your definition of purpose, until you feel confident that the definition of your life purpose has passed these two simple tests with flying colours.<\/p>\n

    As I said before, this is just the beginning of a reflexion about your life purpose. I hope to have helped to open your heart and mind to a theme which I hold very dear. To spend most of your life guided by your purposes is equal to good quality, health, satisfaction, achievement and success. I can honestly no longer see myself living any other way. How about you?<\/p>\n

    Cover photo credit \u2013\u00a0Woman thinking (Photo: Monkeybusinessimages\u00a0\/ iStock<\/span>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Responda as 11 perguntas desse artigo para come\u00e7ar a tomar consci\u00eancia do seu prop\u00f3sito de vida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-32591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-knowledge","tag-autoconhecimento-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLife Purpose: 11 Simple Questions to Help You Became Aware of It<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wondering how to become aware of your life purpose? Looking for a simple way to start thinking about it? 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