How can I find my purpose?
For those who have read "Designing Your Life", "How Will You Measure Your Life", "Finding Your Element", or the contrarian "So Good They Can't Ignore You" and "12 Rules for Life", or sifting through podcasts and threads, you might be constantly searching for your purpose and to understand your sense of self. You may be trying personality tests like 16personalities, Understand Myself, among others.
Questions like these may muse frequently: Why am I in this world for? How will I find my calling? Will I be regretless on my life's onset? How can I be sure of my purpose?
And sometimes, having a sense of being on the right track but with something amiss, or having a "societally approved success" mixed with a hollow feeling, can creep into our daily inner mind storm.
Introspection may lead us to ponder "How do I want to be seen and who do I want to see at my funeral", as well as "Who do I want to be when aged 30, 50, 60, 90", or "What do I hope to have built at the end of the road".
Again, Claton Christensen shines here, defining “likeness, commitment, and metrics”.
Your likeness is the person you want to become. This will come out of pondering A LOT. If you’re religious, you can ask yourself what person would God want you to become as well.
Commitment is literally a compromise with yourself. Always working towards that likeness means you will need to let that likeness guide your everyday actions and decisions.
Metrics are how will you measure your life. E.g. Number of people whose lives you have improved, the kindnesses you show others, or the generosity you demonstrate to others. Steering away from hedonic treadmill inducing metrics is important here (non-economic or status derived metrics).
Look at the Fins, read through books, learn the science, and sincerely find a time for you to think about what makes you happy.
I hope this helps you find a road towards self-fulfillment and well-being, regardless of the culture you may be immersed in and the metrics our globalized society imposes.
