What’s my Purpose & How Many are There?

Is this life enough for you?

You are the person who ultimately has to decide whether your life was enough for you. When you leave this physical plane you’ll revise your life in pictures in memories and in emotions and decide whether you were worthy enough. Whether you gave enough or whether you were brave enough in the face of adversity and discomfort. You will be the one who decides whether you were Good enough. So what’s your purpose?

In this life, there are many purposes and although there is no right and wrong way to live, you will always automatically strive for the highest purpose you can attain. And we have many levels of purpose throughout our lifetime.

Is Somebody Else’s Vision Right for You?

When I was 28 I went and visited a clairvoyant. I hadn’t been to one before so I was excited and a little apprehensive about it all. She told me amongst other things that I would be managing a block of units on the Gold Coast in Australia in my 50s. 

Even though this felt like a lifetime away I came away with a heavy feeling of disappointment. Not for the reading. I had no reason to doubt it was true. But because I thought, is this all my life will amount to?  Is this all there is? For some reason, I thought I’d do so much more than manage a block of units, even at the beach.

It was a few days later that I realized that this was only one possible future out of many. And I never did manage a block of units in the Gold Coast in my 50s but I know I could have. I never thought the clairvoyant was wrong. I just wanted something different so I changed my future. It’s never set in concrete. 

I Took A Hold of My Own Purpose

So I began to look for new teachings. To develop my inner or soul guidance. Become somebody I could look back on and be proud of. 

I remember when my boys were younger and personal computers were just beginning to reach the market. These were the big bulky desktop types. We were fortunate enough to be given one of those.  I used to play a computer game with the kids. The graphics were pretty simple in the mid-90s and you just pressed buttons to move the figure around. But one of our favorite games was called Blakestone and you had to find treasures and then uncover a key to get to the next level. And if you uncovered the key early you still couldn’t get to the next level without some of the necessary treasures.

An Overreaching Purpose

What I’ve discovered is that life is a lot like this. You have an overreaching purpose or thread through life and then a purpose based on the level you are playing at this moment. Then when you get to the next level your purpose changes, even though the thread remains the same.

For instance, your purpose thread may be healing and when you left school your purpose may have been to establish your career and then climb the corporate ladder. (Your purpose is different to a goal) There’s nothing wrong with that. But you won’t have had the same purpose to be a CEO and make a difference in people’s lives when you were 10 years old.  You weren’t on the same level. You still had the same thread but it hadn’t matured so you hadn’t uncovered the treasures or gained the key to the next level of your game. 

Each level of your life comes with its own treasures and rewards and the purpose changes to match your level. It makes a lot of sense. My purpose to help people make their dreams come true would not have even been on the radar when I was 20. There was no way that I would have known how to go about doing this. It would have seemed overwhelming. And I might not have even been interested at that time.