There are some undeniable signs that tell you whether you’ve found your purpose or it’s just a seasonal dream. After guiding hundreds of people to find their life purpose, I’ve come to realize that only about 10-20% know their life purpose since they were young. The rest of the people find it later in life, or they pursue different purposes at different stages of life.
An undeniable sign you’ve found your purpose is that you can’t imagine doing anything else. Very few other things occupy your mind than your purpose, which makes you single-minded. There is no hesitation, circling back and forth. It feels as if your energy unites around a shared vision.
Although you can be, of course, present and fully engaged with other things, as long as you have peace, you go back to your purpose. To become excellent in your soul’s calling, you need to be single-minded. And often face judgment from others who don’t understand their level of commitment.
When your life purpose is the first and last thought, you rearrange your life so that you can show up to it. This may look like releasing any drama so your energy can fully flow into your purpose. You take your attention from wherever it may be and channel it right back into your purpose. You feel more peaceful and stable within because you know your true North Star.
The second sign you’ve found your purpose is that you’d do it for free, without any clear, obvious gains. And likely you’ve been doing it for free for a while. For you, it’s never been about money. It’s never been about how to make your life easy; it’s about how to make it true.
It’s your calling, and as such, it calls to you, your heart and soul. It finds you until it fully claims you. Until you devote yourself entirely to it.
Even though it’s your calling, you still need to hone your skills to achieve excellence. And that requires years. It requires you to show up for your purpose wherever you are. You’re willing to put in the effort it takes to gain mastery.
Even if it takes 5 years before you start making a living from your purpose, you don’t give up. You support yourself financially through other jobs if needed, but you don’t give up. Because, simply, you can’t give up. Your willpower becomes stronger than your circumstances.
While others dream of retiring at 45, you know you’ll continue your life purpose as long as you can, well into your nineties, hopefully. Your purpose makes you patient. Because it’s worth it. You’re in it for the long run, and you enjoy every part of it even though it challenges you and pushes you outside your comfort zone constantly.
You can’t retire from your purpose. You’ll do it as you can because it’s a part of you – the way your soul expresses itself. Which also means that a lot of advice directed at standing out quickly, making more money, and being more visible may work for others, but it may not necessarily work for you.
In the world that is loud and shiny, your path is one of silent mastery.
You realize that you can’t follow trends and quick fixes because they’re simply not in integrity with your soul and your purpose. There is nowhere to hurry because for you it’s a way of life. A way of being. Since you have a long-term vision, you work sustainably. It makes you patient with the process of rising into your excellence.
Another clear sign you’ve found your purpose is that you’re against the trends, opinions, and expectations. Because you follow your heart and can’t ignore it, your purpose makes you a trailblazer. It asks you to carve out your own path.
Following the masses brings comfort, but it also stirs you away from your calling. That’s why you have to be okay with walking your own path even if others don’t get it. You don’t come resilient.
You learn to face your fears of being judged and misunderstood. You learn to hold the discomfort rather than seeking approval. Your purpose inevitably turns you into a person of substance. Someone who walks in their own integrity, devoted to their path.
You live from your heart, not the loud world.
This sign of your life purpose is more important than you may think at first. It helps you understand whether you’re just living within your purpose or if it’s actually your purpose. Your true purpose allows you the space to evolve with it.
A true life purpose is an umbrella under which you can express yourself through other-related channels that tie back and strengthen your big overarching purpose. Therefore, your purpose feels liberating and freeing, and it allows you to grow with it as you deepen your understanding.
People sometimes get caught up in how to express their calling as if the expression is the calling itself. They ask, should I write books, should I become a coach, should I do this or the other?
The truth is that it doesn’t matter. It’s the underlying energy and intention behind those individual expressions that is your purpose. You can express it in myriad ways, and these can change over time, and they can still be an expression of one purpose.
If your purpose is too niche and doesn’t let you, it may just be one expression of your actual purpose, and you need to zoom out to see the big picture.
The uncomfortable truth is that if it’s actually your life purpose, you don’t struggle, you don’t need motivation or ideas. You don’t run out of things to do either. You don’t need AI to write your captions. You don’t need to do things the way others do. Nor do you create what sells or what you think people want.
Your purpose and ideas come solely from within. Actually, you have more ideas than time to express them. It feels like your heart is fully lit on and you can’t wait to achieve your purpose every day.
Because your purpose is within you; it’s who you are, your purpose is ultimately an expression of your soul in the world of matter.
This is the only sign of your life purpose that you only see later. And still, it’s an essential sign. Your life purpose will create something unique, something that only you could bring to the world. But this only happens after you’ve fully devoted yourself and your life to your purpose, at least ten years in.
As you devote yourself to it entirely and step into your excellence, you receive revelations and unique ideas that will eventually create a distinctive body of work. You may not see it at first, but everything will add up to something greater than you had imagined. And then it will live beyond you. You create a legacy that you never saw coming until it was right there.
Like a sculptor revealing the statue locked away in a chunk of marble, your legacy reveals itself through your incessant devotion to it.
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