How To Fulfil Your Purpose?

The world as we know it today, has become more like a village, with mostly social media and television setting the trends at a global level. It is easy for individuals to get sucked up into what is sometimes just utopian fantasy to fit in and be relevant.

Consequently, thousands or even millions end up living one person’s dream. The pressure then causes many to lose themselves and their identity.

It is important, however, to highlight that content does not necessarily need to be controversial to be considered as an unfavourable influence in an individual’s life. How easy is it to stay true to who we really are and fulfil our purpose with so much information and instruction at our disposal?

What Is Your Purpose In Life?

To be able to fulfil our purpose, the first thing we need to do is to find what our purpose in life is. An individual’s purpose is nothing out of the ordinary. It is knowing our reason for existence and living according to it.

It requires us to identify our talents or strengths which we can develop and use to improve our lives and the life of our dependents without intentionally stepping on other people’s toes.

When The World Influences Your Purpose

The challenge most people face nowadays is the feeling that who they are is not enough. This is largely a result of flashy lives their peers and the world at large display on social media and, televisions and magazines among other platforms.

Consumers of such information then get to a position where they go out of their way to ensure that they ‘improve’ their lives, fit in, and are not left behind. Identity is lost and purpose is forgotten. As much as some people can successfully live according to standards set by the content producers, some find it hard to strike a balance between this popular life and who they really are.

Frustrations ensue when the demands seem nearly impossible to meet. This leads us to the next point. How do we remain true to who we are given the situation?

It is easy for anyone to be tempted to give up who they are in order to find easier ways of getting things they dream of. Maybe the question we should ask ourselves is; will we be proud of our achievements and who we have become, afterward? Do we have the peace that allows us to enjoy what we have acquired?

To avoid finding ourselves in a position where we are not happy with the answers we give to these questions, who we are or should be and our purpose must be a priority and must also guide what we do and how we do it. What others do or possess should never have the power to redefine us or our purpose.

To protect ourselves from unwanted influences, especially content that gets us questioning our good deeds, it is important to be selective. We need to be careful in choosing what we feed our minds and give our attention. Where possible, we must seek inspiration from people who share almost the same life principles.

We also need to remember that our life stories are different and what works for some people may not work for us. We need to be patient with ourselves and our loved ones and stop seeking approval from the people around us.

Purpose Is Calling You

Purpose is calling! We may all have different views of the world and different beliefs based especially on what we have been exposed to as individuals. Some are confident that life will turn out just the way they plan to have it while others have lost hope in ever seeing a better life.

In some cases, it is so bad that others have given up on everything and are locking themselves up in a room waiting for death to arrive. Life challenges can indeed be so severe, and the results may be devastating depending on the mental state the challenges are met with. Even so, we are all born with something within us which we are meant to use to contribute positively around us.

That purpose is calling means that your services are needed and require you to act. It is calling us out of a life of laziness, self-doubt, procrastinating, and worthlessness. In other words, we are encouraged to stop what we are doing, if we are doing nothing, we need to stop doing nothing and do something about our lives.

Imagine if everyone else, policymakers, health service providers, or teachers woke up one day and decided they did not want to do any work anymore. Imagine if people who run orphanages, children’s homes, charities, and old people’s homes decided they wanted nothing to do with helping people anymore.

Imagine if everywhere around the world people decided that they no longer wanted to go to school to study for some of these essential service professionals. Who would take up the jobs when those who are currently serving get to the retirement stage?

To bring it closer to home, what if the breadwinner says he or she is tired of taking care of everyone? The point is that for the world to be functional, collective, or individual effort is required from each of us.