Written by: Tze Ching Yeung, Executive Contributor
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Most of us struggle to know what we want to do with our lives, even if we’ve already finished school, got a job, changed careers, met our life partner, or had children. Finding your purpose means finding a way to impact the world in a way that fulfills and satisfies you. Your purpose aligns with your dreams, your values, and your actions.
Here are some simple steps that you can follow to help you find your purpose:
1. Take time to yourself. In today’s society, we are so busy! We hardly have time to think, which is very counteractive to staying true to ourselves and finding our purpose.
In order to try and find our purpose, we need to disconnect from busyness as usual and really take the time to listen to our hearts. Switch off all devices and just listen to our own hearts. Feel the emotions that we feel and acknowledge everything that we are grateful for.
2. Explore the things you love to do. What do you enjoy doing?
What gets you to smile and feel a sense of fulfillment and happiness when you are doing it? It could be anything. It could be playing an instrument or could be writing, or gardening, or anything. So what fills you with a sense of happiness?
3. Identify your own values and beliefs. Our lives are based on our values and beliefs. What we believe in or value determines what we do and how we act. Identify your values and beliefs. For example, I value a sense of contribution in my life, and I believe that everyone can make a difference. So my goal is always to contribute in some ways in my work.
Someone may value animals, and they believe all animals should be treated with kindness, so therefore they may decide to become a vegetarian. What are your values and beliefs?
4. Ask yourself, what causes matter to you? Who would you like to help? And why? You know what you love doing and what you are good at. It is now time to decide who you would like to help. Doing what you love doing is not your purpose. Doing what you love doing while contributing to improving the lives of others or the world is.
What causes do you care about? What or who would you like to help doing it?
It could be something big like end world poverty or could be a “smaller” purpose like help raise money for your village to buy a new bench, in memory of someone special. The size of the cause doesn’t really matters, as long as you are clear on what it is and why it is important to you.
5. Learn more about what you are passionate about. Gain capabilities. Your purpose or passion doesn’t have to be something that you are already good at. It is important that we don’t let our own capabilities or skills limit our purpose. Gain capabilities where necessary to achieve your goals. What skills do you need to acquire to fulfill your purpose?
6. Build a community. Be with like-minded people with the same interest and/or purpose as you. Surround yourself with like-minded people. There is nothing as frustrating as being surrounded by nay-sayers and people that don’t value you and your purpose. Not only that, when you find or build your community, your sense of purpose will grow stronger as you will feed on the collective energy.
7. Take action. Dream big but start small. For your purpose to grow, you need action! What isn’t moving is not growing. It is only through action that you can keep something alive or fully explore it’s full potential. Dream big but start small. Lots of smaller, consistent steps make more long-term impact than only one huge giant step. Also, thinking in small steps is essential in planning your goals to avoid overwhelm and procrastination.
Summary
Connect with your heart, understand your own beliefs, values, and your why. Then take consistent steps to follow through and achieve your purpose and your goal. Last but not least. Have fun and enjoy the journey of exploration.
Tze Ching Yeung runs a 7-day program called “Cut The Cr*p and Thrive,” where she helps teens and young adults discover their purpose and explore ways to confidently create a meaningful life.
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Tze Ching Yeung, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Tze Ching Yeung is a mum to teenage twins, Award winning brand-owner, Social Entrepreneur and Digital Marketing consultant and coach. She has been a purpose driven entrepreneur for well over 10 years.
Tze Ching believes that we are all put onto this world with a mission, a purpose to serve and to help others. Sometimes, that purpose gets lost in life itself but once we find it, it becomes the driving force behind everything that we do.
Tze Ching’s approach to life, brand-building, as well as marketing is based on that same notion of purpose and why.
“ In life if you don’t have a purpose or a why, you become lost and aimless, same goes for your products and services, if you don’t know why you create them, they have no purpose. Marketing is about connecting people to that story, that why. “
Tze Ching Yeung is passionate about making a positive impact and has launched several purpose driven businesses, helped many business owners promote theirs, and currently also trains disadvantaged young people in marketing and purpose driven entrepreneurship, as part of a local government scheme, to help them build a brighter future.
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