So many people ask this question,
What is my life's purpose?
What am I meant to do?
What is my calling?
And I completely understand.
I've asked the same things in my own life ad nauseum.
And what I've learned is it's kind of a misleading and ambiguous question.
And what I think is that you don't experience a call to your life's purpose,
You experience a call to adventure,
Which then leads you to a life of purpose.
Let me say that again.
You don't experience a call to your life's purpose,
You experience a call to adventure,
Which then leads you to a life of purpose.
And Joseph Campbell talks extensively about this in his famous Hero's Journey Archetype.
And it's this adventure that will involve or may involve doing many different things.
You may be a potter,
You may be a grocery store clerk,
You may start companies.
And it's not the specific doing things that matters.
But what matters is who you are being and who you are becoming as you move through your adventure.
And the adventure is going to come wrapped in comfort and uncertainty.
And it may be this feeling that you need to leave a job and not know how you're going to make money or to leave a relationship or move to a new city and have this new life come to you.
And you don't really know what the next step is going to be.
And there will definitely be a lot of that fear involved in your call to adventure.
What there won't be is a sign that says,
Guaranteed manifestation for a dream job that pays you lots of money.
Because that would be easy.
Of course,
Of course you would go do that.
I would go do that.
And Joseph Campbell will tell you that your path,
It often starts at the darkest,
Scariest place in the woods.
The adventure,
Your adventure will be masked in doubts and fears.
But there will also be this pull towards it that you can't quite understand and you can't seem to let go of.
So instead of focusing your life's purpose or looking for your life's purpose,
Begin to make it your life's purpose simply to start the adventure,
However it shows up in your life.
And remember,
You can't know how it's going to turn out.
It's like if you were a backup for the New York City Marathon and you get a call that someone dropped out and you're the one that's in.
You can't know how you're going to feel on mile 20.
All you can do,
All you have to do is just get yourself to the starting line.
All you have to do to live your purpose is to take that first scary step into the unknown.
Your adventure and your purpose,
Remember,
Is uniquely,
Uniquely yours.
As Joseph Campbell says,
If there was a path laid out before you,
It's not your path.
If it's a seven step proven system for abundance and happiness,
It's probably not leading you to your life's purpose.
So stop looking for your purpose out there.
Stop looking for your purpose as it's something to do in your life.
Instead,
Start looking for the call,
Look for those signs of a call to adventure,
Of a sign to move into something that's uncomfortable and that's new.
Ask yourself,
What is scaring you in this moment right now?
What do you feel pulled towards?
Your only purpose is to start that adventure.
Sending you so much love and blessings.
Be well.
