How to Find Your Purpose

About this episode

This episode explores how to find your purpose from within rather than searching externally.

If you feel like there is something missing, like you are drifting rather than truly living, this episode is for you. I remember at a low point in my life, feeling lost, Googling "how to find your purpose." I did not find the answer there. A mentor of mine used to open talks on purpose by telling a room of two hundred people: you cannot find your purpose by coming to talks like this. Purpose is not something outside you that you need to find. It is something you realise from the inside. There is a story I love of Nasruddin, the wise fool of Sufi tales, racing frantically through the streets of Baghdad on his donkey, looking for his donkey. When we search outside ourselves for purpose, for a feeling of meaning, for the life we are meant to live, we are doing exactly that. Looking in the wrong place. The work is not to search harder. Your purpose is innate. The more you live from your true self, the more it gets revealed, one small breadcrumb at a time. I trained as a therapist purely for fun, with no intention of making it my career. Halfway through the course, I realised: I think this is what I am meant to be doing. You do not need to burn your life down to find your purpose. You…

People in this episode

Host: Russell Davis

Topics covered

• finding purpose
• self-discovery
• inner self
• personal growth
• meaning in life

Keywords

• purpose
• self-realization
• personal development
• inner journey
• meaning

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