How To Live A Life Filled With Purpose
Do you ever question why you are on this Earth and what your purpose is?
Do you feel you have a purposed filled life?
If not, think about how the world would be different without you.
The lives of everyone you have ever known or encountered in some way would be altered in some small or significant way.
The world population is nearly 6,700,000,000. If everyone in the U.S. alone lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost seven times. That’s a lot of people. Why are all of these people here milling about on the planet for our 85 or so years?
In the scheme of things, you and I are infinitesimal drops in an enormous sea of humanity.
It makes you wonder if your life makes any measurable impact in this big world. What makes one life (yours) exceptional and memorable? How do you live a life filled with purpose?
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Just how much of your time do you use up worrying over the past or fretting about the future, doing things you don’t like, or frittering away valuable time with mind-numbing activities? Consider it for a moment and be honest with yourself.
- Could you be an over-thinker?
- Do you come up with never-ending to-do lists?
- Do you commit lots of time watching TV or surfing the net?
- Do you work too much or too long?
Since I have gotten a little older and the inescapable fact of life’s fleeting nature has become more real, I’ve begun to see each day, each moment as an amazing opportunity for joy, contentment, and love. Oh how I wish I had felt this way in my younger years.
If we all live to age 90, from birth to death most of us have 32,850 days of living. Our Earth has existed 4.55 billion years. Our existence here is merely a blip of time.
This realization has provoked plenty of soul searching for me. (Some might call it a mid-life crisis!) I have thought, read and studied a lot about what comprises