Discovering Your Life Purpose‍

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Finding your purpose is not easy. If it were, we’d know exactly why we are here and we’d be living that purpose every minute of the day. We agree with Mark Twain who said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” People notice when your purpose is authentic because it drives every decision you make.

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Studies by Harvard Business School have found that fewer than 20% of leaders have a strong sense of personal purpose, and even fewer can distill their life purpose into a concrete statement. Tragically, hardly any have a clear plan for translating their purpose into action. As a result, they limit their aspirations and often fail to achieve their most ambitious professional and personal goals. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us, unplayed.”‍

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We intend to change that by helping you find and crystalize your purpose, values, and future vision.Doing so is the key to accelerating growth and deepening your personal and professional impact. Indeed, articulating your life purpose and finding the courage to live it authentically – what we call purpose to impact – is the single most important task you can undertake as a leader, whether you are actively operating a business or just running your family enterprise.

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Your purpose is not what you do or how you do it but why you do it, and it incorporates the strengths and talents you bring to the table no matter where you’re seated. Although you may express your purpose in different ways across different contexts, it’s what everyone close to you recognizes as uniquely you and would miss if you were gone. It’s who you can’t help being.

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To discover your life purpose, we will go through 13 exercises together listed and summarized below.

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Completing a Whole Life Audit & Gap Analysis

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We will divide your life into six areas and more than twenty components to help you assess what works well and what you want to change. You can also assess the human capital in your immediate family and develop a plan to ensure everyone has the necessary financial and qualitative skills to lead a happy and productive life.

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‍Examining Your Fears

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‍There are six basic fears we all share: poverty, criticism, illness, loss of a loved one, old age, and death. By understanding your personal fears, you can reframe and address their negative effects on you and your family, turning fear into motivation, strength, and perspective.‍

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Writing an Aspirational Eulogy‍

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By crafting an aspirational eulogy, you embark on a holistic evaluation of your life both past and present, confronting your mortality and recognizing the successes and crucibles that make you who you are. The eulogy encourages you to articulate an aspirational legacy, providing clarity and direction as you build the life by which you want to be remembered.‍

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Completing a Three-Year Painted Picture

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Your Painted Picture consists of a three- or four-page detailed document describing how your professional and personal life will look and feel three years in the future. You refrain from imagining how you will accomplish each portion of your future. The Painted Picture describes what the future looks like, not how you’ll get there. Three years is short enough to be realistic and achievable, but long enough to help you generate and, ultimately, realize innovative and expansive goals. Once you’ve envisioned your future, you unleash your conscious and subconscious mind to begin reverse-engineering it.‍

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The Life Purpose Journey – Steps‍

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Step 1: Early Life Experiences

Step 2 Your Life Story

Step 3 Whole Life Audit

Step 4 Fear Setting

Step 5: The Greatest Crucibles of our Life

Step 6: Self-Awareness

Step 7: Your Values

Step 8: Your Passions and Motivation

Step 9: Your Talents and Capabilities

Step 10: Your Relationships and Support Network

Step 11: Living an Integrated Life

Step 12: Your Life Purpose

Step 13: Final Step: Your Three-Year Painted Picture

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