How To Know You're Not Throwing Your Life Away
Just because your lungs are breathing, your heart is beating, your pulse is pulsing, none of these are signifiers you are truly alive.
A life with no purpose, a life with no dream pursued, is a life adrift at sea. It's a life with no aim nor destination. It's a story with no author at its helm.
It is a life being thrown away.
Just because your lungs are breathing, your heart is beating, your pulse is pulsing, none of these are signifiers you are truly alive. The question is, are you alive or ALIVE in your life?
What is your true proof of life?
Existing is not living. Existing is not even existing. True life is a life of self-created agenda, self-created purpose and the personal self-creation of yourself. True life is artistry. True life is when you are sitting in the middle of it, clear about what you want from the life experience, determined to clench and devour it as a realized dream.
If you no longer feel you are the owner of your life, it is DIVINED you take BACK possession of the wheel.
If a dream did not shove your bed and awaken you this morning, you could have stayed asleep. Dream-hunting keeps a person awake at the wheel of their life. Without an active dream, even when we arise, we remain asleep.
That kind of life does not require our “wokeness”. Just going through the motions, uninspired and unconcerned about the mundanity of our lives is not an activity requisite of alertness. Perhaps, this is not why you came to the planet. Perhaps your soul originally came here, on fire, enthused to seek and devour something specific –– like an experience worth enduring a lifetime for. What was it? What so urgently required your embodiment in this life?
Some of you know exactly what that thing is. And some of you have allowed the vexing demands of adult life to eat every crumb of your dream away from the palms of your hands. It's been gone for so long you have forgotten what ultimately awakens you inside. True?
If you no longer feel you are the owner of your life, it is divined you take back possession of the wheel. It's time you seek and find the slice of this life that makes it worth living day in and day out. Until you declare your life your own, it will continue to be owned by others. It will be theirs. Not yours.
Grab a sheet of paper. Grab a pen. You're about to re-discover you.
[Put aside at least an hour to do this.]
REDISCOVERING THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE
Write this down:
• Why do I specifically exist? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
• What is the most important thing in life to me? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
• What have I determined is my key purpose as a human being? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
• What am I specifically here to do, express or accomplish? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
• What kind of person do I want to be to others as I'm doing, expressing or accomplishing this? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
• What is the one thing in this life I refuse to live without? - [Answer that.]
• If your life was everything you wanted it to be, describe exactly how it would look and feel? - [Write a paragraph on that with very detailed specifics.]
• If you wanted this vision to come true in the next 2 to 5 to 10 years, what actions must you take right now to fulfill it? - [Write a paragraph on that.]
Neatly rewrite the contents of your scratch piece of paper onto another sheet of paper. At the top of your new sheet, title it:
"The Purpose and Pursuits of My Life: My Reasons for Living"
Frame it. Perch it. Immortalize it. You now have a life compass. I suggest you read it every single morning to launch the journey of your day in the right direction. With this map, you'll no longer be a life adrift at sea again. Perhaps, for the first time, you'll be the author and owner of your own story--daily––and for life.
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