Finding Your Life's Purpose

I posted this in an answer in another thread and was asked to post it as a separate thread:

Here's an extract from an online course I'm putting together:

"How Do You Find Your Purpose?

One way is to answer some simple questions:

What is important to me?
What am I doing when I feel the most inspired, loving and grateful?
What am I most passionate about?
What am I really good at?
What can I do for hours and not notice time passing by?
If success was guaranteed, what one great thing would I do?
If I could design my ideal life, what service would I be giving to mankind?

Remember, you are an individual! Your passion is never going to be exactly the same as someone else's. Your general answer may be the same as other people but the specifics will be unique to you.

So just in case you are tempted, don't look at someone else's purpose and compare your own unfavourably! You can only be yourself and you can only bring your own talents and skills to achieve your purpose. No one will do it quite like you and that is ok! People will soon spot if you are trying to be someone else!

Learning positive things from other people is clever, making negative judgments about ourselves isn't. If you allow these unfavourable comparisons to begin and to influence you, there's a big danger that fear will creep in and before long you achieving your purpose will suffer."

Once you've found your purpose, you then need to find your "sweetspot".

This is at the intersection of your purpose, what you are passionate about, your strengths and the value you can bring to others. It's a little more difficult to find but once you do, knowing your purpose and sweetspot is extremely useful; for example, it helps you to avoid Shiny Object Syndrome as you can simply ask yourself whether the new shiny object fits into your purpose and sweetspot.

Good luck and IM me if you need more help