How do I find out what my purpose in life is?

Answer 1

Follow your heart's desires and you will find out. What are you passionate at? What are you good at? ..

If you do it and it brings you joy, that is your purpose.. Good luck.

Answer 2

What do you love more than anything else? For some of us, its helping other people. For others, its children. Then there are those who love taking things apart, and those that like putting things together. You take the things you are most passionate about in life, and then you look for a job that will utilize that passion...and somewhere in there you find something you're really good at, that you really love, and that gives you purpose...and before you know it, every day feels like your purpose.

Answer 3

You don't find it ,like on the side of the road ,If you a father be the best father you can be ,if you a husband be your best ,if you a boss or employer do your best ,you will know your purpose if you single volunteer for a charity start giving without expecting nothing back .
just your question tells me you sound like a terrific person .

Merry Christmas .
next time you wonder your purpose ,look in the MIRROR the answer is staring back at you.

Answer 4

Reading ur question makes me feel that u r between the age of 18-23.sit down with a paper and pen and first write ur age .till date where are u what u have achieved .after jotting down write down what do u want to become in life and to reach that position what necessary steps and means is required to reach there. write ur obligations and how to adress that obligation.(family obligation ,personal obligations in life)buddy life is very short and if u really want to enjoy this life than find a purpose or mission in life which is very much necessary.Believe me 5-10 yrs down the line u will repent for wasting ur time.so get up and get going.if au get stuck then do not hesitate to reach me at [e-mail]

Answer 5

just do the best you can, make the most out of every thing you try and you will find your purpose in life

Answer 6

Well put. Before you find your purpose in life, do the dishes and take out the trash. After you find your purpose in life, do the dishes and take out the trash.

Answer 7

Occasionally I get bummed out and begin asking, "What's the purpose to life?" I ask this because I see that most people live without purpose, without caring about others or about any cause. For me, that life is not worth living. A world that is composed of people who care nothing for others or for any moral cause is not a world worth living in. This is so obvious to me that I cannot understand why people are willing then to go through life without some higher purpose. I suspect that they can only by spending a lot of energy distracting themselves from the horrendousness of the choice or by being dimwitted enough not to contemplate reality wider than their plate and bed.

One dear person close to me, offered his formulation of the purpose of life. For him, he said, the purpose of life is to have the highest number of positive emotions. I pointed out to him that Emelda Marcos had many positive emotions - probably many more than the average. But that those positive emotions were borne on the back of the toil of her countrymen. Leona Helmsley. Al Capone. Perhaps even Hitler. This formulation leaves out morality and thus the good of the whole. Therefore its pleasure is shallow and short.

Once I believed that the purpose of life was to live for others. I do know people who espouse this doctrine: lay down your life as Christ did. I know few who practice it. I did. I was disappointed. Perhaps I was disappointed mostly because the church I discovered was adamant on being more like the people cited above than like a community attempting to live out Jesus' precepts. At any rate, I found plenty of crucifixions and no resurrections.

However, there is a purpose to life. This I believe. For belief, I have found is useful, both to the individual and to the whole community. The purpose of life is to serve and enjoy the good forever. One cannot enjoy the good without serving it. One cannot either truly know or reliably continue to serve the good without enjoying it.

Let us stake our faith, then, on this principle: the purpose of life is to serve and enjoy that which is good. The principle can be one of health to the individual psyche. The result can be one of health for the whole of humanity. Balance service to others with enjoyment, for enjoyment which forgets the claims of the others will in the end be withered and forgotten pleasure.

Answer 8

That is a tough question. You will get a million different answers to this one, but here is what I have found. My purpose in life is to serve God. I believe men and women were created by God, and after He had created us, he gave us a choice to follow Him, or go after our own ways. We chose to follow after our own ways, and so He had to find a way that we could come into His presence again. That was His son Jesus Christ. From Able and on, God deemed sacrifice as the best way to commune with man. But no animal would do it. So he sent his son to die instead. He also promised to give anyone who accepts His son the Holy spirit. Which is a gentle quiet voice in my heart, that urges me to follow His ways. His ways are peaceful. Jesus once said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Mat 11:28-30 This is what my meaning in life is. I hope it helps you find yours.

Answer 9

Your purpose in life is to love God with all of your heart, mind and, soul and to love other people as you love yourself. Jesus said that this is the whole duty of man.

Answer 10

Take the Myers Briggs Test...it will tell you a lot about yourself and offer a path to follow.
Otherwise...you can live you whole life and not understand who or what you are and can look back and find it was satisfactory or not; hopefully you'll find it was fullfilling for you....