What Is Your Purpose?

This is of course a question that has different answers. On one level if we have children, our purpose is to see them thrive, to see them with the tools that will help them move successfully through life. On another level it might be a social conviction, or perhaps career. So there are many ways of answering this, with none of them wrong if they relate in integrity to our deepest values. I would like to suggest a vitally important purpose to each of our lives, We are here to enjoy the experience of living,

When you hear something you know is true, but have not heard before, it is a powerful experience. When we hear something that we know in the depths of our being we have a nutritional moment that also helps our relationship to our intuition. This is one of these things. If you have never heard before that one of the purposes of life is for you to enjoy it you know it is true.

I have to admit something here. I am not proud of it, but I am one of those people that sometimes read a novel and find myself looking forward to relieve the tension. This happens because of taking the story too seriously.  If we live our lives without some level of detachment we can not really enjoy it, we take it too seriously and also work to manipulate those individuals who we feel make us vulnerable.

So to enjoy life we have to find a way to make things feel less serious. This gives us the ability to be more effective, and less self righteous. We are more able to listen to what others have to say. There is also a greater capacity to act from our deepest values. We can more effectively adapt to crisis, and have a greater ability to deal with transformation.  We are less fearful and die easier 

A successful life is an enjoyable life. It is found in learning to make small and subtle things more important and in realizing things are not as bleak as they sometimes seem. It is found in not being on a string to anything, and yet with the capacity to enjoy this moment right now. The rest will take care of itself. Your purpose is to enjoy your life.