3 Critical Questions To Confirm Your Purpose

​By  Dale Partridge

3 Critical Questions To Confirm Your Purpose

1. What are you most passionate about? If your passion is not your profession, you have a problem. We spend the majority of our lives working; and if you dislike your job, you often dislike your life. Sticking with the pattern of college, steady job, retirement, and death typically pulls purpose from the picture.
   
   So what drives you? What work makes you come alive? Maybe you have a dream to start a business, launch a profitable blog, or build a charity. Regardless of what chains you wore as a child, it’s time to break free. We live in a world filled with resources and support to help cut that rope and create that career. The question is, do you believe it?
2. Who’s most important to you? Life is only as meaningful as the people you experience it with. But too often our fears keep us from words to be said and commitments to be made. Instead, we live on as independent entities homesick for relationships we believe we can’t have.
   
   But not anymore. I don’t believe we are victims to life, I believe we are victors. We have choice and we have the ability to create the relationships we desire. So who is the one person most important to you? Who makes you better, loves you fully, and brings joy to your life? If you’re on a separate journey from this person, it might be time to reconsider the path you’re on.
3. Where is your favorite place on earth? It’s baffling to watch millions of people lay down their dreams for destination and settle for living vicariously through the social media feeds of those brave enough to live. It’s common to find comfort in familiarity. But if you have a desire to live on a farm (like our family does), yet you live in a city, it’s time change that. If you hate the cold of the Midwest and fill your home with images of tropical destinations, it’s time to chase that.
   
   Location determines the majority of our activity. And just because you were born one place, does not mean you must die there. Look, in maturity, we must come to the realization that someday isn’t a day and a dream without a plan is merely a wish. If your heart desires a destination in which you believe you can thrive, then it’s time to begin planning. Because even if you can’t move today, you can start making steps to move there in the future.

Bottom line, if you’re working on what you’re passionate about, with the person most important to you, in a place that brings adventure and excitement to your story, then you are living your purpose. Don’t let anyone make it seem more complicated than that. These people are merely individuals still struggling with the conditioning of their history’s chains.
Reality CheckThese are big goals that fill big spaces in our lives. It took our family almost 3 years to begin living within all three of these questions. Three years of difficult decisions, personal sacrifices, and brave moves.


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