How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Every morning before you touch your phone, sit somewhere quiet for five minutes and ask yourself what you want, what makes you happy and what you are passionate about, and done consistently that conversation with yourself is how your purpose becomes clear.
Dandapani gives one simple daily practice for beginning to find your purpose. It is five minutes of self-reflection each morning, before the phone, in a quiet spot with no music and no books, spent asking yourself a specific set of questions.
What this talk covers
- As soon as you wake up, do not pick up your phone or interact with it.
- Answer the call of nature, then find a quiet spot in your house and sit down with no music and no books.
- This is not meditation. It is five minutes of conversation with yourself.
- Ask what you want in life, what you are happy about, what makes you happy, what drives you, and what you are passionate about.
- The more consistent you are with this every morning, the more you get to know yourself and the more answers come from within, until you have crystal clear clarity about your purpose.
You have to spend time with yourself in self-reflection, not meditation, and ask yourselves the right questions to begin to know who you are and what it is you are here on this planet to do.Dandapani
Questions
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Begin with five minutes of self-reflection every morning before you touch your phone. Sit quietly and ask yourself what you want, what makes you happy, what drives you and what you are passionate about, and keep doing it daily.
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No. He is explicit that this is self-reflection and not meditation. There is no music and no book, just you asking yourself the right questions and getting to know who you are.
Transcript
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Are you having trouble figuring out what your purpose in life is? Here's one simple thing that you can do every day to begin the process. Every day, as soon as you wake up, don't pick up your phone, don't interact with your phone, answer the call of nature, find a quiet spot in your house,
sit down with no music, books, this is not a meditation, and spend five minutes in conversation with yourself. Ask yourself what it is you want in life. What are you happy about? What makes you happy? What drives you? What are you passionate about?
You have to spend time with yourself in self-reflection, not meditation, and ask yourselves the right questions to begin to know who you are and what it is you are here on this planet to do. And the more consistent you are with this practice that you do every morning, the more you get to know yourself, the more you start to gain answers from within you,
until eventually you'll have crystal clear clarity around what your purpose in life is.