How to Find Your Purpose in Life: A Real-LIfe Example of How One Successful Entrepreneur Did It

Richard Leider, a leading authority and author of numerous books on how to find your purpose in life wrote in The Power of Purpose:

If our purpose is genuine enough, it involves us deeply and orders all areas of our life. We begin to eliminate what is irrelevant and what is so much clutter. A simplification takes place, and we achieve a clarity as to what we're about. We don't need to pretend to be what we're not. What is of real importance stands out more clearly.

As a success coach, I hear a lot of stories of from those who take this advice to heart. Here's one I want to share with you to illustrate you how once you answer the question "What is my purpose?", the steps you need to take to achieve it becomes very clear. As Leider so eloquently said, we begin to eliminate what is irrelevant.

Finding Your Purpose In Life: How It Changed Everything for This Successful Business Owner

This entrepreneur owned a successful real estate business. Though she loved her profession, it wasn't a burning desire. What she really wanted to do was write; she'd known that since she was a small child. Realizing that she'd always loved the water (the ocean), she said she also wanted to live someplace where she could see it day in and day out. Her third goal was to travel.

However, everything she was doing in life was taking her away from what her real passions were in life. For example, lived in a land-locked, cosmopolitan city with no ocean near; she owned investment properties, which left her with very little time to escape to some place near the water and write; let alone travel for months at a time.

Finding Your Passion in Life: The Value of Having a Life Plan

One day, she said she actually sat down and wrote out her life plan. Upon seeing in black and white that she was working against herself on almost every level, she decided to make some drastic changes.

She sold her real estate holdings, started an online business that gave her the flexibility to work from anywhere and settled on a small Caribbean island where she wrote every day.

Now, this didn't happen overnight, and she said she lived a "lower standard" of living than she had before. While her friends and family thought she'd lost her mind on some level, she said she'd never been happier.

Stress: The Silent Killer

As a side bonus, she said she also lost 30 pounds (without really trying) and felt more content.

As an aside, one real drawback of not "living your life on purpose" is stress. It's a silent killer. It's a major contributing factor - directly and/or indirectly - to a whole host of diseases, eg, coronary artery disease, cancer, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide, which is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.

Back to our entrepreneur - she not only asked the question, "what is my purpose in life," she answered it and took definitive action. And this is what Leider meant when he said when you know your purpose -- a simplification takes place... what is of real importance stands out more clearly.

Success: The Easy Part of Living Your Life on Purpose

As a success coach, I can tell you, success also becomes that much more likely - because you're fueled by your very spirit, your heart, your soul, your being. Because of this, you have the energy you need to do what you may have thought was impossible before.

So spend some time digging inside to find your purpose in life - and get busy pursuing it. It's a choice you'll never regret - as I've witnessed many times personally in my work -- and as this story so clearly illustrates.

About the Author: Shari Strong is the creator of The STRONG Blueprint(TM), a structured, individualized self-development plan that helps you figure out how to find purpose in your life by first identifying your strengths and talents, so you can harness them and achieve your goals. To receive a free copy of her book, Embrace Your Inner Critic: A 5 Step Guide to Embracing Your Inner Critic and Get Unstuck -- This Week!, which discusses this plan, go to StrongFreeBook.com and it will be emailed the same day.

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