purpose too

Deciding on your purpose in life can be a daunting task.

After all most people go through life without ever even thinking about this.

The self development books and programs emphasize that this is one of the first steps you should take. Many of them have whole sections on getting this job done. You should figure this out and you should do it now is their advice.

I don't entirely agree with them.

This is great advice for some people, good advice for others and poor advice for a few of you.

I think it has something to do with our upbringing. For those of us whose parents could identify with a chosen profession it may be easier. For those of us whose parents simply worked their way through life, who never found their own purpose, it may be harder.

If you find it difficult to construct your own personal purpose in life I suggest you treat it like a puzzle and just put part of it together today and come back some other day to work on it again.

You see you may not figure all of it out but you probably have a good handle on part of it. Let's use our current example on this blog to look at. You may know that you want to be fit for the rest of your life, so you use that as part of the overall picture of yourself, of your purpose. Work on your fitness and when that pays off add the next component.

By doing it like this you can build yourself the complete picture. The picture you are trying to figure out now.