Finding Your Purpose

Finding Your Purpose

By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

From Dare to Win

To find your own purpose, our suggestion is that you go deep into yourself. Use meditation if you can. Go into the secret compartment of your mind and ask yourself, “If I knew my life purpose, what would it be?”

Keep asking yourself, and it will eventually unfold. Then you can easily write it down. To help you, here is a chart that shows the relationship of purpose to results:

Purpose = Why

Goal = What

Action-Strategy = How

The “Why” is our purpose. It determines the “What,” which is our goals. And our goals determine the “How,” which are the actions and strategies we undertake to achieve the results we want.

Once you have your statement of purpose, your life will become more meaningful. It could change your whole attitude. A crystal-clear statement of purpose that you act upon could mean the end of alcoholism, drug abuse, obesity, sleeping too much, a whole plethora of ills.

When you have a clear purpose, you won’t have time for negativity.