If you don't feel fulfilled by or happy with your life, you may decide to evaluate your life’s purpose. While this can be a challenging self-examination that may lead you to believe that you’ve been living life the “wrong way,” take heart; it’s never too late to begin living the life that you want to live—a life that is meaningful and happy. Find your life’s purpose, then take action to implement the kind of life you really want to livearkrishna
Evaluate yourself:
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Keep a purpose journal. Journaling is a useful tool for making any changes to your life or your perspective. Create a dedicated journal that will help you write down and explore your thoughts about your life’s purpose, you passions, and your joys.[1]
Do not worry about how your writing sounds; this journal is just for you, and no one else will read it. It’s important that you are completely open and honest, not that the writing is particularly good.
9 question you should ask yourself daily
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Question yourself. To begin assessing your life’s purpose, it’s important to assess what you love to do, what you currently do, and what needs to change to live a more purposeful life. Some questions to consider are:[2][3]
When have you been happiest in your life?
What has made you truly proud of yourself?
What qualities do you most admire in other people?
What makes you feel really alive and energized?
How happy do you feel on an everyday basis?
If you had one week to live, how would you spend that week?
What “shoulds” are overriding your “want tos”?
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
What one change could make your life happier?
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List your interests and passions. Write down the things that you enjoy spending time doing. These can be related to your work, your personal life, or your home life. They should be things that make you happy, that you really enjoy doing. These are things that you enjoy doing without getting paid to do them,[4] and they are likely things that cause you to lose track of time.\
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Write down what you love. The things and people that you love are very important to the quality of your life and how you spend your time.[5] Acknowledging the things and people that you love can help you focus your passions and your purpose. Focusing on things that you love with your heart, rather than value with reason, can bring you closer to your true passions.[6]
If your primary loves are your family, you are unlikely to feel fulfilled if your life is dominated by a career that causes you to spend almost all of your time away from them.
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Find your joy.
This is similar to your interests and passions, but finding your joy is a little more focused.[7] To find your joy, think about what makes you feel blissfully happy. Think about the last time you laughed so hard your sides hurt, or smiled so much that your cheeks were sore.
It can be useful to think about the type of play you most enjoyed as a child.[8] Does similar play (or work that mimics that sort of play) bring you a child-like joy?
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Use backwards planning. Imagine yourself at 90 years old. Imagine that you are looking back on your life, and you are completely content that you lived a meaningful, wonderful life.[9] Imagine what the specifics of that life are, then work backwards through time to determine what you need to do by each decade between now and 90 in order to life that complete life.
For example, say that you picture yourself 90 years old, surrounded by great-grandchildren, happily retired after a successful career helping your community, living in your own home with a lot of land.
This tells you that you want to have a family, that you’d like to have a career helping others, and that you would like to live independently in a rural setting.
Your backwards planning could lead you to determine that you should start having children when you are 28, you’d like to find a position as a social worker by 25, and you should maintain your health constantly so that you can continue to live independently in old age.
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