Happy New Year! Are you looking forward to making some changes in your life this year? Inevitably, the question of who we are and what is our unique purpose pops up when we feel bored, restless, or frustrated as the year begins. In this article I will give you a chance to do some self-analysis to help you get some insight about what you value and need—strong indicators about the purpose of your life. These exercises are adapted from my book, Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life.

It’s Not a Job Title—It’s What You Value and Need

I believe that it’s a big mistake to think of your life purpose in terms of a job title. It’s’ much more complex than that. You were born with a purpose, a desire to experience and create certain things in this lifetime. Maybe you even have unfinished business with other souls—people in your family, friends, lovers, or people that you work with on projects. Life purpose can be partially detected in those things or ideas to which you feel very connected, or that you value highly.

What is it that you most value and must have in your life? Is your first thought, "I have to have my morning coffee!"? or, perhaps, "I must have good friends in my life." "I must have freedom. I have to work for myself." "I need to feel I’m making a difference in someone’s life." Or "I have to live near nature. That’s non-negotiable."

As we begin to focus more consciously on what our needs and interests are, we further activate the Law of Attraction. Remember, this universal law states that whatever you focus on expands. Therefore, to increase positive flow, keep looking for things in your life for which you are grateful, and which you want to attract. Let the daily irritations drop away from focus. Criticisms and retelling old problems and frustrations actually dilute the positive intention for the success that you really want.

Below is an easy and enjoyable exercise (you’ll need at least thirty minutes to an hour) to help you define what you are currently about and where you’d like to go. The beauty of this exercise is four-fold: 1) It shows you how many wonderful things you have already created or been given by life. Therefore, you may find that you are not so far from your goal as you thought; 2) Acknowledging your actual abundance and success builds trust and confidence in yourself; 3) Using symbols to represent your life matrix stimulates powerful, magnetic unconscious forces; 4) Delineating your life matrix helps clarify what kind of over-all path you are on...

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© Copyright Carol Adrienne, Ph.D. This article was originally published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in Jan. 2001, as part of Soulful Living's "Life Purpose" Issue.

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