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Living a life of purpose

 

There are three questions to ask yourself if you want to become the hero of your life: have I contributed something meaningful?, am I a good person?, and who did I love, and who loved me? When we have become older and reflect upon our lives, these three questions will be the most important to answer. In this post I would like to focus on the first one.

To contribute something meaningful to the world, we must discover what is our calling in life, our mission. We must identify our gifts and talents, those things that are easy for us to do even though they are not the same for others. We can ask our family and friends to help us identify them, and we would be surprised to find some things in common in their answers.  Moreover, we can ponder what are the activities we enjoy the most; those that, when we are working on them, we lose sight of the time, our need for resting, or even we do not think on eating or doing something else. It is what is called to be in the flow. It is something that bring us great joy, and we do not mind to invest a great deal of time and effort to master it. We want to become the best at it, and we are decided to put our mind and soul to reach our goal.

If we are able to find the intersection between our God-given gifts and our most joyful activity, we are near to find our calling in life. It will inspire us to serve others, to satisfy a deep existing need, something that we cannot resist and want to work towards its improvement. There must be something that must call to our hearts for action, something we feel we can help to solve using our gifts and talents.

If we have not identified our gifts and talents, we should start working on it as soon as possible to live a life of purpose and happiness, and to serve and bless others’ lives.

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