You Can Also Live a Happy, Fulfilling Life — Without Knowing Your Life Purpose
Finding your life’s purpose is a rewarding and fulfilling experience. The problem is, most people get stuck trying to find it and give up. Instead, find this to easily bring meaning, fulfillment, and joy into your life.
You Can Also Live a Happy, Fulfilling Life — Without Knowing Your Life Purpose.
I recommend use a low-pressure substitute that brings tangible results and that you can practice every single day: focus on your #contribution
What is Contribution and Why It Matters.
Contribution is about you playing a small role in something bigger than yourself. Greta Thunberg herself can’t reverse climate change– but she can sit outside of the Swedish parliament to raise awareness of the issue. With contribution, you are not supposed to be the lone hero; contribution is about adding your small piece to the world’s success. Greta’s one contribution, week after week, eventually inspired millions across the globe to also contribute in their own ways, resulting in a massive worldwide movement.
Contribution is about producing these small nudges that help to create the world you want to live in. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that, in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, we can only achieve miraculous results and solutions by working — and contributing — together.
3 Ways To Start Contributing Right Now
If every person contributes to the world daily, that’s 8 billion steps forward every single day; the difference will be enormous. Your contribution doesn’t need to cure cancer; it only needs to be a small step in moving the goal forward.
1 - Get Motivated
Motivation comes from seeing quick progress and enjoying your results. Ask yourself at the end of every day what you have contributed to those around you and the world. Keep it small to start with and think about what’s reasonable to accomplish in any one given day to really feel the “win”.
2 - Aim to contribute in the places that make you feel happy
The world has infinite possibilities for where to contribute. Volunteer at a local soup kitchen? Teach kids soccer in Brasilândia? Bake gluten-free cookies for the school fundraiser? All are worthy causes. Don’t focus so much on what you should be contributing and instead focus on what you like to contribute. Enjoying your contribution will feel less like a burden or a chore and you’re less likely to quit because you’re satisfied. Liking what you give is what makes your effort sustainable for you to keep your contribution practice going in the long run.
3 - Contribute in your unique way
The most important contributions you can make are the contributions only you can make. Only you have had your life experiences and see the world in your unique way. While “fitting in” might temporarily feel more comfortable, “standing out” with your unique contributions is what it really means to make your life meaningful. Begin to learn about what you do well — better than others — and see how you can start offering that to more people in more ways.
Your Life Does Have a Purpose
Small daily actions may initially feel like they’re not big enough or that they are too insignificant — but that’s just your impatience talking! Every one little step in the right direction sends you miles and miles beyond where you ever believed you could reach if you actually just start. The world needs you and your unique contribution. And if you focus every day on how you can contribute to the world, you will indeed be (accidentally) fulfilling your life’s #purpose.