Finding your life mission allows us to make sense of our existence.
But how to find and define it? Here is a method that will help you highlight your own mission:
1. Define what constitutes your life story, in 3 steps: childhood, adolescence and adult life.
Highlight the highlights for each period. For example, what has characterized your childhood?
Were you a fan of sports, music?
Were you attracted by the arts, the outdoors?
Were you recognized as a popular, discreet?
Now, go to teenage years. What did the others say about you?
Did you have obvious natural talents? What did you like to do in your spare time?
Were you considered an adventurous person, from earth to shore?
Now, what characterizes your adult life?
Bring out the important elements.
Are you involved with some organizations?
Do you prefer to spend as much time as possible with your family?
Are you lonely?
What do you like, what do you do to relax?
Do you live in the countryside, in the city?
In short, note what is obvious, what comes to mind spontaneously. Let the answers come in by themselves, do not force anything. Your heart will guide you.
2. When you were a child, what did you dream of becoming?
What are your dreams as a child? Did you dream of becoming an astronaut, a teacher, an artist? Did you dream of saving the world, of caring for animals?
3. Did you have skills and talents already evident in your youth?
What were you doing with ease? Did you have natural talents that came out? Were you good at communicating, did you have any facility at school? Did you have an overflowing imagination? Were people naturally attracted to you?
4. What qualities do you have?
We all have qualities of which we are proud; qualities that our peers recognize and attribute to us. Are you generous, patient, enthusiastic, intelligent, understanding, honest, caring, loving? Do not feel bad if the list is long, or on the contrary!
5. Which areas attract you?
This can affect several different spheres. You can be attracted by humor and finances, by psychology as much as by gardening.
6. What values are important to you?
List the values that are most dear to you. You can value friendship, love, happiness, respect, harmony and inner peace, freedom, honesty, wisdom, integrity, etc …
7. What are your passions?
What do you do in your spare time? What activities make you vibrate? What makes you lose the meaning of time? What makes you dream?
8. What do you like?
Perhaps you appreciate the job well done, the efficiency? Perhaps you enjoy developing plans, understanding the meaning of everything? Perhaps you like relaxation, calm and solitude?
9. What solutions have you found to deal with the difficulties?
To do this, begin by writing down the difficulties you have faced in your life. Next, write down the solutions you have found. You could write: professional difficulty and as a solution: listen to your inner voice, learn to stop and think, ask questions. You could write: financial difficulty. And as a solution: think in terms of abundance, educate yourself and take stock of prosperity.
10. What skills have you developed through your life experiences?
Each of your experiences gives you a lot of skills and allows you to develop specific skills. This can include being able to handle stress effectively, have a good memory, have the ability to work in a team and adapt to all kinds of situations.
11. What catches your attention?
What book will you be asked, what TV show or what movie do you like to watch? Do you prefer documentaries on animals, on science? When you surf the net, which site are you interested in? What advertising attracts you?
12. What people inspire you in life?
We have in our surroundings and in the world in general people who inspire us, who serve us as a model, to whom we are naturally attracted. Write down the names of these people and list the qualities they have in common.
13. If you were certain that you would succeed, what would you do immediately?
This question is well known in the field of personal development and it prompts us to reflect on what really holds our hearts and that we would accomplish if we put aside our fears and uncertainties. We can also interpret it in another way. What would you do if you were certain not to succeed, but if you did not, you would regret it for the rest of your life? Our mission of life comes from our soul, it makes our whole being vibrate. Once discovered, we can no longer live otherwise, we go beyond the limits created by the ego and the failure of us makes us more afraid.
14. If you learn that you have only a short time to live, what would you do?
This question is somehow an ultimatum towards happiness. By answering this question, you will see what makes you really happy, what is important to you.
What to do as a result of this exercise:
As a result of this exercise, highlight the elements that come up again and again. Note them on a separate paper and see if there are links to make between these different points. In this way, you will have a global vision of what is important to you, who you are, and why you came to this world.