3 steps to finding your calling, your personal mission, and what you truly live for

1. Stop solving problems.

When you become a problem-solver, you stop dreaming. You forget what really moves, touches and inspires you. Instead, you get stuck in the practicalities of life and fit yourself (and other people) into the daily grind that keeps the world moving the way everyone agrees it should. We spend a lot of our time solving problems. That’s a sure way to live a predictable, mundane life. Now, if you got the problems out of the way, what would you be doing, and doing it for? Try doing something different today and see what happens. Make links: what does this have to do with that?

2. Eliminate what stands in the way of your dreams.

Rules. Advice from parents, teachers, bosses, and friends. Criticism. Inventions that dictate how we work and live, and how things are done around here. Our limiting beliefs about ourselves: what if I’m a disappointing failure? It’s too hard. What will people think? Before you know it, you’re telling yourself, “Oh well, it was just an idea.” Amid all of that noise, is there a voice that keeps prompting you to step into a deeper truth? What would happen if you empower that voice and act on it? Dreams don’t have to be dreams; they can be real. How can you turn your dreams into reality? Perform an act of courage today and see what opens up.

3. Choose to express your talents, values, and gifts.

If you’re not doing what you love and loving what you do, you might just be going through the motions in life. The difference between ‘do’ and ‘own’ is your ability to express your deepest values and gifts in your engagements. Chances are they lie in your deeper truths. What openings and opportunities exist that allow you to be fully expressed? If you start prioritizing those and exercise choices in that direction, you’ll stop being busy and start living a more fulfilling life.