How to Find My Purpose in Life? Take the Quiz!
Finding one's purpose in life can be a challenging task. However, it is an essential step towards living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Your purpose should align with your values, passions, and strengths. Take the my purpose in life quiz. Let’s explore your purpose in life through a short series of suggestions, examples and questions. At the end are suggestions for life purpose and resources.
Suggestions:
1. Identify your values: Your values are the principles or beliefs that guide your behavior and decision-making. Identifying your values is an essential step towards finding your purpose. To do this, write down a list of values that you consider important. Examples of values include honesty, kindness, loyalty, creativity, and spirituality. Once you have identified your values, reflect on how you can live your life in alignment with them.
2. Discover your passions: Your passions are the activities that bring you joy and fulfillment. To find your passions, consider the activities that you enjoy doing the most, whether it's playing an instrument, hiking, or cooking. Reflect on how you can integrate your passions into your daily life.
3. Evaluate your strengths: Your strengths are the skills and abilities that come naturally to you. To find your strengths, consider the tasks that you excel at and enjoy doing. Examples of strengths include problem-solving, leadership, creativity, and empathy. Once you have identified your strengths, reflect on how you can use them to make a positive impact on the world.
4. Identify your unique talents: Your unique talents are the skills that set you apart from others. To find your unique talents, reflect on the things that people often compliment you on, whether it's your writing, public speaking, or artistic abilities. Once you have identified your unique talents, consider how you can use them to make a difference in the world.
5. Consider your impact: Your purpose should align with making a positive impact on the world. To do this, reflect on the ways in which you can use your values, passions, strengths, and unique talents to make a difference. Consider how you can contribute to your community, society, or the world at large.
Examples:
1. A person who values creativity, has a passion for music, and excels at writing may find their purpose in life by writing and producing music that inspires and uplifts others.
2. A person who values kindness, has a passion for volunteering, and excels at public speaking may find their purpose in life by using their public speaking skills to raise awareness about social issues and inspire others to take action.
3. A person who values spirituality, has a passion for teaching, and excels at problem-solving may find their purpose in life by teaching mindfulness and meditation to others, helping them find inner peace and clarity.
4. There is a test you can take called, the Carl Jung typology test that uncovers various archetypes in which you can find your personality type that helps people decide on what career choice or purpose they have in life. I also created my own test that will help you discern what your purpose in life is.
In conclusion, finding your purpose in life is a process that requires self-reflection and exploration. By identifying your values, passions, strengths, unique talents, and considering your impact, you can find a sense of direction and purpose in life. Remember that your purpose may evolve over time, and it's okay to revisit and adjust it as you grow and change.
15 questions to discover your life purpose quiz
These questions are designed to elevate to the surface what your purpose in life is, the assessment tools are at the end.
What activity brings you happiness?
What do you love doing, that helps or contributes in a positive way to humanity?
What gives you a sense of being in the zone and fuels your passion in life?
What topic could you teach a masterclass on if you had to start teaching tomorrow?
What are your innate strengths and talents that come most naturally to you?
What accomplishments would make you feel truly fulfilled looking back decades from now, that would be your legacy?
What dream have you long abandoned but still tugs at your heart?
What issues or problems in the world resonate most deeply with you on a personal level?
Are you a humanitarian at heart?
Do you like helping people?
Are you willing to take a risk?
Do you find yourself being bored with your life and searching for more meaning?
Do you want to start doing something that gives your life meaning and purpose?
Are you willing to go the extra mile to create your purpose in life that could one day leave a legacy?
What were your childhood dreams, aspirations and desires for your life?
These questions are designed to guide you to your purpose in life. Whatever you said for question 1-4 and it helps humanity, therein could be your purpose in life. However, questions 1 - 8 are a way to focus on what your purpose is too. If you answer yes to at least 3 questions 9-14, you are ready to move forward with your purpose in life.
In very simple terms, whatever you love doing, that will in some way help humanity, therein lies your purpose in life. The key is to take baby steps to get you started.
For example, I love writing, so I used my writing to help humanity with my online courses, my books and retreats. I take a great deal of pleasure out of helping others and find it rewarding to help people find their own purpose.
Here are 10 potential purposeful pursuits someone could devote themselves to in life:
Writing - Using writing to inspire, educate, entertain or impact readers. Sharing stories that change perspectives.
Art - Expressing creativity through mediums like painting, pottery, photography, etc. Using art for meaningful self-expression and sharing that art in galleries or online or other areas.
Teaching - Educating and empowering the next generation. Guiding students to reach their potential.
Volunteer Work - Donating time and energy to serve causes in need like homelessness, animals, or environmentalism.
Spiritual Practice - Seeking truth and inner wisdom. Living devotedly through yoga, meditation, or religious faith and perhaps sharing that with others as a yoga instructor, or meditation expert.
Entrepreneurship - Starting a purpose-driven business to enact positive change through capitalism.
Activism - Advocating politically and socially for important issues like human rights, healthcare, economic policy.
Mentorship - Using experience and knowledge to guide those less advanced in their career or personal development.
Music - Harnessing the connective power of music composition, performance or therapy.
Science & Research - Furthering human understanding through discipline and discovery. Pushing knowledge forward.
Coaching little league or becoming a big brother for a fatherless child.
Creating a website that invokes peace in the world.
If you need more help in establishing your purpose, then take the Jung Typology Test, which is an in depth test that will access your personality type and give you more awareness of what you are cut out to do in life.
There are endless ways for someone to pursue a purposeful path of meaning in life, that is tailored to your unique interests, values, and abilities. Defining an individual sense of purpose enables profound fulfilling living.
If you have any questions, please contact me. I can help as a life coach. Contact me for a totally free consultation.
You can also take my online course, Transform your Life with Purpose, which gives you a guide on discovering and implementing your purpose in life. Or check out my online course, The Power is Within - Finding your Purpose in LIfe. (Step by Step guide to you purpose)
