When you are inspired by some great purpose… all your thoughts break their bounds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. ~ Patanjali
If you have gone to a reunion or some special gathering and met people from your high school or college days, you may have noticed that most of them seem to let life happen to them. They don’t really plan for what they want out of life.
They never found their purpose for living.
Adam Leipzig is a producer, advisor, educator, author, and speaker. As a game-changing visionary and leader, he is known for disrupting expectations in the entertainment industry.
During a TED talk, he gave a simple 5-step process for finding your life purpose. Check out the brief video:
- Who you are
- What you like to do
- Who do you do it for
- What do those people want and need
- How do they change as a result
What I like about his formula is that it is more about other people than yourself. Have you noticed that the happiest and most successful people always focus on serving others?
Your mind controls your brain, and your brain controls your body. When you understand what you want to do in life, and why you want to do it, your mind expands and becomes limitless. You’ll find yourself living in a new and great world that you never knew existed.
When you get there, you are equipped to teach your child to discover their purpose too. When they know their purpose, the learning difficulties they encounter will be placed into proper perspective.
Their minds will expand, and they will believe they can do whatever they want to do in life. The resulting change in their brain structure will set them up for achieving learning success.
It is very rare that adults ask children these questions. There is the assumption that children are tabula rasa or a blank slate and that adults can impose their desires upon the kids by writing their wants, their needs, and their interests into the child’s story. That the children has their own stories, that they are not blank slates, but, instead, are living beings who know who they are doesn’t always register with adults. Adults need to listen more and let the kids tell them who they are.
I couldn’t have said it better, Alice. If parents take time to observe their children, they will see their strengths. They can then better guide them during discussions of their purpose, keeping in mind that it can change as the child grows, matures, and develops different interests.
I love that balance of you and others in those 5 questions – so necessary for happiness..