How Your Hopes and Dreams Hold the Key to Unlocking Your Purpose

What is it that you’re ultimately after in life? If you don’t have a good answer to this question then there’s a very good chance that your life is lacking a sense of passion and purpose. Purpose is all about understanding the reason for your existence. Passion is the resulting experience when you’re clear on your purpose and you are working towards it. 

The good news is that living a life of purpose and passion is incredibly simple. All you have to do is to give yourself a reason to get out of bed each morning. It is simple enough but I’d be lying if I said it was easy. The hard part is that most people have never been given permission to dream big nor have they been encouraged to ask for what they truly want deep down in life. 

The truth is that we all have hopes and dreams. At some point along our journey we’ve had thoughts and ideas of ‘wouldn’t it be cool if…’ or ‘I would love to…’ The problem is that these thoughts are often discounted or dismissed immediately either by others or ourselves. This tendency stems from the negative impact of societal conditioning, which often compels us to diminish our ambitions. As a career coach, one of my primary responsibilities is to convey to people that these hopes and dreams are far from frivolous. In fact they hold the key to your freedom, joy and prosperity. If you would only dig them back up and take them seriously.

I can offer you countless examples of clients who came to me feeling so stuck in their careers. Their energy and motivation was so low that they began to question whether or not they were in the right career. Then I took them through the exercise below to of having them share with me a description of their ideal life in detail. What came through was a look at their long abandoned hopes and dreams documented for us both to see. 

This is step one. Step one gets the ball rolling because it gives you something to shoot for. Step two is learning to believe in yourself and in your inspiring vision and step three is taking concrete steps in the direction of making it happen. The effect of going through these three steps is what I call a life force activation. Imagine how you might feel when it begins to click that you could actually have the life that you’ve always wanted for yourself. Can you imagine how exciting and energizing that might be? That is your life force energy, or prana as they call it in the east, getting turned way up. In the west we like to call it 'passion' or 'enthusiasm.' The result is the same. You come alive. And it is exactly this aliveness that propels people ever further down the path of realizing their hopes and dreams.

Now it’s your turn to give it a try. To create an inspiring vision for your life take 10-15 minutes to write down a description of your ideal life in detail. Allow yourself to dream and imagine, and create a vivid picture. If you can’t visualize a picture, focus on how your best life would feel. You can pick any point in the future that would represent you in your prime. What you see may surprise you. Set aside preconceived notions. This is your chance to dream and fantasize.

A few prompts to get you started:

• What will you have accomplished already?
• How will you feel about yourself?
• What kind of people are in your life? How do you feel about them?
• What does your ideal day look like?
• Where are you? Where do you live? Think specifics, what city, state, or country, type of community, house or an apartment, style and atmosphere.
• What would you be doing?
• Are you with another person, a group of people, or are you by yourself?
• How are you dressed?
• What’s your state of mind? Happy or sad? Contented or frustrated?
• What does your physical body look like? How do you feel about that?
• Does your best life make you smile and make your heart sing? If it doesn’t, dig deeper, dream bigger.

Now that you have your destination in mind all you have to do is embark upon the journey of its fulfillment. Taking it one day at a time you can begin to take steps moving you in this direction. The most rewarding thing about this journey is that you don’t need to reach the destination in order to start feeling its benefits. The benefits are felt the moment you commit to taking that first step because you get to enjoy the fact that you are making it happen and you have just given your life a very strong sense of purpose. What could be a better purpose than to be working towards fulfilling your hopes and dreams? It's my belief that it's the whole reason you are here.

If you’re interested in embarking on this journey and you’d like to make sure you stay on track and experience rapid growth and progress then schedule a free career clarity call today.

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About Adam Hardt

Adam Hardt is a renowned career coach, empowering professionals to unlock their full potential and achieve extraordinary success. With a proven track record of transforming lives and careers, Adam brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge to his coaching practice. Through his guidance, clients have successfully changed their careers, started businesses and have created lives of purpose and prosperity. Learn more at adamhardt.com.