Finding Your Purpose has always been man's greatest mystery in life. Since man began he has search for the answer to the question "Why are we here?"

Even Adam and Eve were not content with their garden and wanted more, resulting in the biggest sin of all!

So why is it that Finding Your Purpose in life is the most elusive subject on earth? What is the secret to finding your purpose and why do we need to have purpose in the first place?

First of all what is so important about having a purpose in life?

Well can you image an inventor making a new gadget and launching it at the big press conference...

The press ask "Sir, what does your new invention do?"

"Nothing!" he replies

"Well what is it for?" they continue.

"For? It's for nothing?"

"Well what's it's purpose then?" they probe further.

"Purpose? It doesn't do anything! It's for nothing? It has no benefit! It produces nothing! Solves no problems...It does absolutely nothing and has no value. I just invented it because I thought I would!"

The press leave at this point and in the newspapers the next day there is no write up, no article. The press just went home and said "What a waste of my time! What's the purpose? What's the point? What's it for?"

Can you imagine living your life in the same manner as the invention in the example above?

You have no reason for being? No use? You are for nothing? No value? Contribute nothing to society?

How would you feel? Lost? Empty? Useless?

Unfortunately this is how some people live their lives and they drift through life without really enjoying their live always searching for something that they can never quite reach.

This is why Finding Your Purpose in life is so important. It gives us a reason to live. It adds excitement to our lives, meaning to our day, purpose and aim in our objectives.

When you know your purpose in life, you can start to make plans and it gives you something to live for. How boring would life be if we just lived all day in a box without doing anything? Purpose justifies our existence and gives a meaning to what we do.

80 years is a long time to wander without meaning and once we know our purpose in life we can reach for all the things that complement our purpose and bring them into our life.

So now we know why it is so important to find the purpose the next question is how to find your purpose!

The world has become very complicated.

Everything around us is technical and demanding and I think we have forgotten the art of finding simple solutions to problems in our lives.

The Americans spent about 20 million dollars trying to invent a pen that would write in outer space so that the astronauts could write. The Russians who were on a tight budget, just used pencils!

We have become obsessed with complication and I think the same is true when it comes to Finding You Purpose in life.

We have been told all our lives that there is some special spiritual path that we need to take to find our enlightenment and our purpose and that it is written in the starts and the heavens by God a long time before we were born.

It is probably true, that God (or Universal Power) would like us to do certain things in life, but as we were given freedom of mind, Universal Power has given us the option of choice. So if we do something that was not on the original plan, I think universal Power will accept that, just as I will allow my son to choose his own life style even if I would prefer him to have another.

This takes away the "voodoo" element from finding your purpose!

This means that your purpose in life is whatever you choose it to be!

How exciting is that? Not only can you choose your purpose in life, but presumably as you live your life you can change it as well as things progress!

Finding your purpose in life can be easy. Just decide what you would like it to be, the same way as you would decide what kind of career you want!

Hopefully you will decide to take a path that has use, that has meaning, that is useful for fellow man and brings meaning to the world around you.

If this article has enlightened you to a new way of thinking, then get out a piece of paper write down your goals and your dreams and make it a point to think about Finding Your Purpose.

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