Life Purpose - How To Find Your Reason For Living

I am so excited my book has been published. I am absolutely thrilled to bits! Life Purpose - How To Find Your Reason For Living has been a long time in the making. In fact over twenty five years. Too many fears have held me back; fear of what people would think and say. I refuse to live in fear any longer....so below is the first chapter. If you like it (and I hope you do) pop along to Kobo or Kindle and download it. Its priced at GBP £6.47 (I think about $10.00 USD)

Chapter One

Life Purpose

You are not alone in wondering about your Life Purpose. There are millions of people on this planet wandering around asking themselves this question, “What is my life purpose?, what am I here for? why am I having this life?”. It doesn’t matter whether they are the poorest of the poor, the richest of the rich, sooner or later these questions (if they have’t already) are going to hit you. So, what is your answer? Do you know why you’re here? Why you are living in this time and that place where you are right now? What’s been happening in your life so far? Can you say you are fulfilled or are you ‘marking time’? Are you living your life according to you or someone else’s idea of what your life should be?

Life Purpose - What is it about these two words when placed together cause such a problem to people? What is it that is blocking you from knowing your life purpose? Have you ever known what it is? Did someone heap scorn upon you when you stated it out loud? Were your hopes and dreams squashed underfoot by perceived responsibility and the dreaded ‘shoulds’? You wanted to do something but felt it was too silly, too impractical. You wanted to do something that felt too outlandish and that wouldn’t earn you a ‘living wage’. Your life purpose was felt too impractical by parents/peers so actually you have never followed your hopes and dreams but have just lived a life that has either been fairly comfortable or felt downright wrong.

You are an amazing person, you came here from love and you are love. There is really nothing you ‘need to do’. Don’t struggle or make your life miserable trying to live out what other people expect of you, it’s not worth it. That was then, this is now, this is your life now. Do you want to be present in your life and create a beautiful painting entitled ‘My Life’, or do you want to spend more minutes, hours, days, weeks, years; in fact a whole life time living out someone else’s idea of what your life should be. Don’t let another artist paint your life canvas, you must paint your own.

If you are a painter, then paint, if you are a cook, then cook, if you love arranging flowers then be a florist and so on. It’s your passion and when you feel your passion for the things you love doing then you have found your purpose in life – your life purpose.

It has taken me until I’m fifty three years old to summon up the courage to write this book. I have played at it, I have dabbled at it, I have then deleted various versions of it for the fear of being laughed at. “How can you write a book?”, “Who are you that you can write a book?” “What do you know about life that makes you think you can write a book telling other people how to live?” These are just some of the fear thoughts that have held me back over the years. My answer now is “Well I’m writing it and am enjoying writing it and if nothing happens with it, at least I know I have written it!” My life purpose I know is to help people wake up from the illusion and drama of their lives and to see that they are truly magnificent spiritual beings. If this book reaches only a few people and makes a difference to them, then I am glad. If it doesn’t, well then, I’ll try some other way to live out my life purpose.

Some people live their entire lives pretending to be something they’re not, or pretending to love something they don’t, only to wake up one day and realise they haven’t really lived. In Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan is dying and he asks his wife “What if my whole life has been wrong?”. That is certainly a wake-up call, who wants their whole life to be wrong? What a sad waste of a life. Do something now to find out your life purpose and work towards it before you’re on your deathbed asking Ivan’s question.

We come into this world for a reason, a promise to fulfil that we made to ourselves before we are born and for the first few months of our lives, that promise is remembered, then we forget it! Why do we forget it? I really believe it is squashed out of us by well-meaning parents and teachers and by the time we get round to choosing the subjects at school that will lead us on to university and then onto a ‘good job’, the life purpose that we chose before we were born has been totally forgotten.

Have you got to the point in your life that makes you feel like you are living someone else’s life? The point where you feel you have been living a lie? Read on to find out how we find our life purpose.

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