ALIGNING YOUR LIFE DESIGN WITH YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

Aligning Your Life Design with Your Life Purpose

As we consciously begin to recognize our role in being the interior designers of our own lives, we can consciously choose to design them in a very focused, integral (body, mind and spirit) way. Consciously designing our lives in this way can bring us the fulfillment we desire.

Life is constantly bringing you new challenges and new learning opportunities. When you become more purposeful by consciously choosing and designing your experience, you will find yourself attracting more opportunities to experience real heart-felt satisfaction. To create the life of your dreams, you must develop the courage to create! You create (consciously or not) through your intentions, your beliefs, and your actions.

As you examine the current state of your life, you will be able to honestly determine whether you are thriving or merely surviving. When you are absolutely fulfilled and satisfied with a particular area of your life, you are thriving. When you are not satisfied with a particular area of your life, you are merely surviving. What would your life look like if you designed it with conscious focus and attention? What would fulfillment look like and feel like for you in each area of your life?

As you being to focus on what you really want and couple that clear desire with a vision that represents it, you will naturally being to move toward your goals. A key element in discovering your true desires begins with establishing a life purpose statement for yourself. This involves focusing your attention on the essence of who you are. It involves recognizing your true soul passions. Your purpose will serve you in multiple ways. It will give meaning to your work, your relationships, your choices and your life! It involves an intuitive feeling of being perfectly aligned with your specific reasons for being alive and being in this world. You might describe it as your “calling.” However you describe it, it powerfully shapes the direction of your life.

Once your life purpose is established, accepted and welcomed, it becomes easier to align your life design work with the work that is associated with your life purpose. An authentic purpose statement clarifies what you will do with regard to your work, your relationships, and your life. Confirmation that you’ve connected with your purpose stems from a strong, intuitive feeling of connection to it, a desire to fulfill it, deep feelings of satisfaction when you act upon it, and a natural gravitation toward actualizing it.

Fulfillment in life is truly derived from living from your purpose and your primary values. You will naturally allow feelings of wholeness and satisfaction when you create life design goals that are based on how you would view your life if you were living out your life purpose. You are alive to accept and expand upon your true passions. When your purpose, your internal power and your passion blend together, you will understand the true meaning of fulfillment. You will simultaneously enrich the lives of others because you are living purposefully and joyfully.

The truth is that each day you are presented with opportunities to live out your purpose. With awareness, clarity, focus and determination, you can consciously design your life ON PURPOSE. You do this by selecting relationships, work, environments, creative pursuits and attitudes with care. When you use your purpose as a guide to making decisions that will lead to greater joy and an authentic expression of your true self, you will become clear about the path to pursue and the path to release.