For many people who are on their life journey, this has been a perpetual question that has always been challenging to answer. How do you know what your life purpose is, and how do you confirm what you think your life purpose is?
The key thing with living our life purpose is to understand that we do not live in a vacuum. Anything that has to do with our life purpose has something to do with the environment around us as well as the community that we interact with. It doesn’t make any sense for you to have a life purpose of just meditating on the planet of Mars if there is no effect on something or someone else. 
For all intents and purposes, you might as well not have existed!
An Area of Your Competence
If you believe that you were born with a life purpose, this means that you have been “sent” here from some other spiritual plane or dimension. Being able to fulfill your life purpose does require you to have some level of ability.
You wouldn’t send an electrician to build a wooden chair, would you? In the same way, you wouldn’t be here without at least the latent ability to be good at the something that fulfills your life purpose.
This doesn’t always mean that you are already competent at what you should be doing. It depends on where you are in your life stage. If you are just starting out, then you may or may not have gained the knowledge, developed the skills and gathered the experience you need to be very competent at what you should be doing.
If this happens to be the case for you, then realize that by default, the passing of time will help you to develop your competence as you do what you are supposed to do! It’s pretty much a “no lose” situation.
But what if you have already been around the block once or twice, and you still don’t have what you think is the necessary competence in the area of your passion?
The great news is that ability can always be developed wherever you are. Anyone can develop any skill they desire. It is just easier if you also have the talent and passion for whatever it is that you are doing. But you can be sure that if it is something that you are truly drawn to and have a passion for, you will surely develop a level of competence and skill with time.
The Importance of Passion In Fulfilling Your Life Purpose
A lot of times, we aren’t sure about what we are truly passionate about. If you have been in this position, you’ll understand what I mean. Perhaps you’d like to do something. You like it, but you are wondering if you truly like it enough to make it your life’s work.
The truth is, how do you know you are going to be passionate about something until you’ve tried it out? It’s only after you’ve tried something and perhaps thought to yourself, “Hey… this is really damn freaking fun! It would be a blast if I could do this for a living…!!!” that you would know it’s something that you love doing.
Have you ever thought you love something, only to realize the actual experience of it is quite different from what you thought? Well, life’s kind of like that. What goes on in our head sometimes just doesn’t tally with what’s really going on around us.
One of the best indicators, I believe, is to actually go try something out if you think you might like it. Give yourself a fair chance at liking it or disliking it. All you have to do is give yourself an experience of it before you decide. You’ll know soon enough if it’s something that you want to continue doing for where you are right now.
Being passionate about your life purpose is important. Can you imagine what it would be like if you went around moaning and groaning, complaining every time you were doing what you thought was your life purpose? You’d hardly be any good at it, and you probably would put people off what you were doing.
Unless… of course… putting people off is your life purpose… :-p
Passion and Getting Out of Bed
Being passionate about what you do will also help you get through those inevitable moments of ups and downs. Without that passion, it’ll get harder and harder to drag yourself out of bed in the morning to do something that you hate. Whether it’s your life purpose or not, everyone will go through the highs and lows of this life.
Just because you believe that it’s your “Life Purpose” everything will always be fine and dandy, I think you’re going to have a rude awakening once the first challenge comes along. In every endeavor, there will always be something to discover, something new to learn, and something to get through to move on to a different place.
Having passion about what you do will keep you going on when everyone else around you falls away because they don’t really like what they’re doing. It’s what will separate you from others, and it’ll be the fuel that keeps you pushing on even when you meet with the inevitable challenges that come along.
One thing that I’ve realized that while we can make a living doing something that we are good at, it’s only those who follow their passion who truly have a life worth living. Following your passion will be something that makes your moments that much more incredible.
Every drop of sweat and every tear that you shed along the way will only make it that much sweeter when you live the life that resonates with your heart and soul.
It’s when you combine both your passion and competence, it is far easier for you to rise to your best and be recognized as an individual who clearly loves what you are doing. And this too can be another indicator that you are fulfilling your life purpose here on this earth.
Living Your Purpose Helps Improve Your Community
Together with passion and competence, whatever you do has an effect on improving your community in some way. For example, if you are a someone who loves cars, and is an extremely good car mechanic, your ability to build, repair and even improve cars is how you contribute to your community. Or perhaps you love cosmetics and helping people to look good. That’s how you contribute to your community as well!
Think about this. I’m sitting here, at Starbucks, typing out a blog post on my laptop. How much of a “big deal” is that? But if what I share helps someone, hey, that’s a freaking big deal to me!
Living your life purpose doesn’t always have to be a big thing. It just has to start with where you are right now, because that’s the only place that you can actually do something. You can’t go back into the past or do something in the future simply because you are not there. You are here.
Confirming What Your Life Purpose Is
When you have an area of knowledge, skill or competence that intersects with an area of passion as well as improving your community, you can be pretty sure that’s where your life purpose will be fulfilled.
It might take a while to get there, but if you have an idea of where you are headed, all I can say is don’t give up on yourself or on life.
Who knows how much difference the little things you do, where you are, can make to someone else who really needs it now?
