Identifying Your Purpose In Life

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<h1>Identifying Your Purpose In Life</h1> by Zach Kong <div align=justify>What is your purpose in life? Or what is your mission in life? Or why do you exist in this world? What is the meaning of life to you? What is the reason for being here in the world? Are you able to come out with an answer to the above questions? Or your answer is just a simple, "Don't know!" If you are not able to answer the question right now, don’t worry for you are surely not alone. It also took me quite some time before I really know what is my true purpose in life. “We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.” ~~ W. H. Auden ~~ Personally I believe everyone comes to this world with a purpose. To some, their purpose is to honor and serve God. To others, it is to bring smiles to the faces of the unfortunate people, like Mother Theresa. You may have a total different purpose. Everyone comes to this world to provide different services to their community. Scientists contribute by inventing and innovating new and better technologies to aid mankind while entrepreneurs create more job opportunities for the society. Like what W. H. Auden said, you need not concern yourself with the other people's purposes. You just have to identify your purpose and live up to it. Your purpose of life is surely NOT only about you. Rather is the the type of service you offer to others. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” ~~ Victor Frankl ~~ Real happiness and fulfillment comes not from taking, or getting or waiting to be served. Instead, it is about contributing to the society, providing valuable services to other people and to give away freely. Identifying your true purpose in life helps you to break away the “Me, Me, Me” mentally. It requires you to throw away the self-centered and selfish you. “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~~ Helen Keller ~~ Seeking purpose is not about seeking self-gratification. It is not to seek pleasure, richness or power. It is to give, to contribute and to provide wealth, abundance and love. Your rewards in life is in fact in direct proportion to what you can contribute to life. Many successful people in life have worthy, wonderful and big purpose in life. Examples of some successful people's purpose: ~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~ Robert Allen: “To inspire and empower people to achieve their destiny.” Anthony Robbins: “To humbly serve the Lord by being a loving, playful, powerful and passionate example of the absolute joy that is available to us the moments we rejoice in God’s gift and sincerely love and serve all of his creations.” Mark Victor Hansen: “To create and inspire one million millionaire who each give $1 million to their church or charity.” ~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~~~<>~~ As you can see successful people don’t become successful because they take from others. Instead, it is because of the amount of contribution they make to the society. Also, it is their worth-dying-for-purpose that helps them to face all adversities they in their lives. It also helps them to persist and preserve through all challenges and obstacles along their route to success. Therefore by having a worthy purpose and truly understanding the WHY, you’ll be able to continue through your route of success no matter how difficult it may seem for in front of your purpose, obstacles are nothing but stepping stones to help you fulfill your purpose in life. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” ~~ Edgar Cayce ~~ So what type of purpose are you crafting for yourself?</div> Article source: <a href="http://www.ArticlePros.com/self_improvement/inspiration/article-76986.html">ArticlePros.com</a> <table align=center width=550 cellspacing=1 bgcolor=silver cellpadding=5> <tr bgcolor=antiquewhite> <td> About the author Zach Kong is the faciliator of a personal development site which focus on building a community to support, inspire and motivate succeed. For more information click on: <a href="http://www.zachkong.com">http://www.ZachKong.com</a> <a href="http://www.zachkong.com" target="_blank" title="will open in new window" class=blue>http://www.zachkong.com</a> <input type=button class=asubm value="Other articles by Zach Kong" onclick="document.location='http://www.ArticlePros.com/author.php?Zach Kong'" style="height:20px;cursor:hand"> </td> </tr> </table>