How to Find Your Life's Purpose

This short talk provides a fresh look at how find and live your life's purpose. The first step is to be open to experience a call to adventure, which leads you to a life of purpose.

Transcript

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.

Reviews

Thank you for your thought provoking talks. Such beautiful nuggets to ponder on!

This is so helpful! It takes away some of the pressure that I've been putting on myself... Thank you!!🙏🏽✨🙏🏽

I’m in the midst of a significant life change and this positive message is so helpful!

One of the best 4-min pep talks I’ve ever had. You’re right - this perspective is quite refreshing. Just walk your adventure! Your purpose will be there along the way. Just like my Grama said years ago, “The point of life… is to live.” Thank you so much for this lil track. Many blessings to you too and to all who find this little yet powerful pep talk 💗🙏🏼💫

For me I felt that was inspiring and assuring , thank you Lou

I love the reframing of this idea, to shift from searching for purpose to searching for adventure. Thank you Lou!

The “purpose” is the call to embark on the journey. Thank you for the insightful reminder!

Thank you so much for sharing. This is so true having just gone through an extremely a rough and painful journey, now in a better place I am now on a mission to highlight and ensure that as many people as possible do not have to go through the same. I feel it is my obligation. Namaste 😊🙏🏾

Insanely beautiful and insightful, thank you!!! 🙏🏼

Thanks for sharing. this was important piece of information that I needed

Exactly what needed to come through for me in this exact moment. So crazy. Thank you 😊

Lou, thank you for your useful and insightful talk. 🙏🏻

It is so true that when one discovers their life’s purpose, is during the dark days🌚🌃! In my experience, I sensed the light started to shine ✨ through that very dark long tunnel! I never looked back🤍⚡️🕊️.

Much love, light and joy 💚😊💜🌞

❤️🌻

I’m in my 60’s, and this is how I’ve lived my life. I have found quite a few purposes and am still finding more, just by taking risks, making so called mistakes, and learning.

You are called to adventure and it leads you to a life of purpose. Love this reframe. Thanks Lou!

I love all of your talks! This one really hit home and I will return to it often 😊

Thanks for removing the pressure the word purpose unnecessarily creates. To curating curiosity and joyous adventuring 💫

I am searching for my life purpose since few months and this track eas very helpful changing the way of my search. This was quite inspiring..thank you

Yes! Very motivating, Lou! My News adventure is dipping in the lake...now that's going colder in Germany. 💝🙏

Thanks for the encouraging words…getting myself onto the starting line…we’ll see where this writing takes me. Thanks again for your course on Healing and Transformation too! Your wisdom is truly inspiring.🙏🏽

Very true, I never looked at life that way, something to consider. Very good motivation. Thank you.