Today I would like to go over seven different forms of purpose that I have observed in highly motivated people. If you read this article till the very end, you will gain a clear idea of how to rekindle that fire within yourself. So, that you can feel alive again.
Be ready cause we are about to start off its list with one of the most common forms of purpose which is......
1. To provide
Providing has been around since the very beginning and it used to be one of the strongest and most common forms of purpose that people had. Most of us have a built-in desire to provide for those that we love whether it be for our kids, our family, or even our community. We want to give these people our time, food, care so that they can survive, grow, and prosper the problem with providing. Nowadays is that most of it are done for us, right? We no longer need to spend an entire day chasing around a boar or gathering berries to keep our loved ones fed. Nowadays, we can simply press a couple of buttons and have food delivered to us within 30 minutes.
If you want to cultivate this sense of purpose, you have to place yourself in a situation where the only person that can provide for an individual is you.
I have seen this occur in a person who had to become someone's relying on for their survival, or people who had a family member that suddenly become ill, or when new parents have a baby for the first time. By this, a fire awakens within them to provide. This actually relates to the next form of purpose which is...
2. To protect
The desire to protect is not only about protecting our family or loved ones. People often have a desire to protect their community, their ethnic group, and even their ideas. This is an incredibly strong form of purpose. If you think about it, it has been the driving force behind most wars in human history.
The protection of resources, protection from invaders, and protection of ideas being the most common cause of these conflicts even the idea of honour when boiled down is simply a strong desire to protect what one stands for.
If you want to cultivate a sense of purpose, you need to do two things;
- First, you need to fall in love with something outside of yourself. This can be a person, a group of people with the same interest or hobby, or even an idea.
- Second, you need to observe something that threatens the survival of what you love. This can be something that you see coming in the future, an attack from another group or even another idea that threatens your idea.
3. To teach
4. To explore
However, it is not only limited to physical experiences. If you have a strong desire to explore, you will enjoy exploring ideas. As well as learning becomes fulfilling, especially when it comes to things that you know little about.
In order to cultivate this form of purpose, you need to first cultivate one of the big five personality traits.....which is called openness.
An interesting fact about openness studies has found that it naturally increases from the time that we are born until we are about eight after.
It decreases which suggests that most people enjoy exploration as a kid but as they get older, they prefer to stick to what they are used to.
If you want to cultivate a strong sense of purpose, you must do the opposite, you must become a kid again and embrace your fear of the unknown and you can do this by starting out small things. By going to places in your own city that you were never gone before, by trying out a new dish instead of always ordering the same thing in the same restaurant. So it is certainly possible to be like that once again even tho it is once in a blue moon (haha).
Another way to cultivate the desire to explore is by learning new languages. See? When you learn a new language you are literally training your brain to think about things differently. Not only that but you will also be able to dive deep into a foreign culture to get an authentic taste of what it is like living and thinking in a totally different world.
5. To conquer
you must have a belief that you can rise to the top with enough work and effort.
Without confidence, it simply won't seem possible. On top of that, you will need to spend some time to conquer your competition. The more you think about it, the larger the fire will burn within you. Now a fair warning of having a feeling to conquer as the main purpose in life can be powerful. It can motivate you to do many things, but it's not very fulfilling. At the end of the game, you see Olympic athletes are often met with a wave of depression once they hit the best record and won the gold medal because all of a sudden they realise that they are the best and there is no one else can beat them up. Precisely, they are left with no purpose in life.
6. To create
Creating can make us to give back to the world instead of only take in order to cultivate this form of purpose.
We simply need to spend less time consuming and more time creating. It means, commences to take baby steps instead of spending all day surfing the web. Here, take 10 minutes and work on something like building some crazy innovation, writing a poem, drawing doodles, or even making a cartoon and get used to the idea of creating. Let it flow. Start to enjoy it more and more. And finally, the last form of purpose issssss......
7. To help
Helping here is to remove the suffering of others, to help them overcome whatever obstacle that they are currently facing.
The desire to help is built into most of us and it is one of the most fulfilling forms of purpose out there. To cultivate this form of purpose, you need to do at least two things:
- First, you need to love other people. You must have a deep understanding that all human beings are the same that we have many of the same fears and desires, also we all feel pain. Once you realise this, you will have a strong desire to help those that are in need because preventing suffering in another becomes as essential as preventing suffering in your own life.
- Second, you have to get a taste of what it is like to help others. Try and do a small favour for your neighbour, join a volunteer program, go out of your way to give food to the homeless or the needy, help your juniors or your friends when they need you. Once you do to make sure to look at them in the first place and see how much of a difference your actions can make. You will start to realise how much happiness you can bring into other's life by simply lending a hand. The more you do this the more this form of purpose will be within you.
Now it is important to note that what I have written is not all the things you can find by surfing out there. This simply seven of the most common ones.
Hmmm, I am curious, which of these appealed form of purposes to you the most, which one do you feel like? Write your answer in the comment box below! Let me know what it is!
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Warm regards,
Farah 😊
