Beyond Resolutions: Find Your Purpose By Richard Hartung
As we enter 2022, it’s helpful to take some time to decide on our purpose - for our life, not just for the year. Then, setting meaningful goals and creating a vision of how to achieve them can help ensure that we live our purpose and create a truly meaningful life.
Find your Purpose in Life At the start of the year, it’s traditional to make New Year’s resolutions with goals to achieve during the next 12 months. While goals yield a sense of achievement and are essential to living the life you desire, renowned coach Tony Robbins observed, purpose takes those goals to an even higher level.
Start by thinking about what brings you the most joy in your life, both at work and at home. As well-known coach Jack Canfield puts it, explore what you love to do, what comes easily to you, and what the world would look like if it were operating perfectly according to you. You can use this to figure out where your passions lie.
Then, identify about five people you admire the most and the characteristics that make you value them. It could be the passion Tom Brady has for football, the caring nature of Mother Theresa, the dedication of your mother or father to their work or family, the creativity of Steve Jobs, the hope for nature of Jane Goodall, or someone To get from New Year’s resolutions to figuring else. When you reflect on the commonalities in out your purpose in life will take reflection and the characteristics of these five people, you can a little time. Still, it can be more straightforward figure out the key qualities that can help define your own purpose. and faster than you might imagine. 28 LIVING IN SINGAPORE