I am heading into a very revealing phase of my life. I think I may be heading to the discovery of that holy grail…the true purpose of my life.

The journey of self discovery is being helped along by a couple of successful bloggers, Steve Pavlina and Tina Su. I’m a way off yet but a few articles on their blogs are giving me a lot to think about.

Finding a mission and a purpose

Tina’s entry on Think Simple Now titled Life on Purpose: 15 Questions to Discover Your Personal Mission gives a 15 question guide on how to discover your own mission.

Steve’s entry on StevePavlina.com, How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes, is the one I’m really interested in though.

Steve says it’s as easy as heading up a page with the words “What is my true purpose in life?” and then writing. Writing sentences, words, short answers to that question until you find one that makes you cry.
I haven’t got there yet. There have been mini-surges (as Steve calls them) but no crying.
But Steve has something to say to all the people that doubt the merits of the exercise

The exercise is fairly pointless if you don’t take it to completion. You can debate the possible merits of it until you’re blue in the face, but you can’t really gauge what the water is like until you’ve gone for a swim.

I encourage you to go read the post and give it a try. Please let me know how you get on

Do something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life

That’s going to be a whole let easier to manifest once I’ve realised my purpose, but for now Tina has this advice:

• Have a clear vision of the result you want and why you want it
  It has to be measurable
• Write it down and date it
• Plan the steps
• Take action

Tina has just left her high paying job at Amazon to run her blogs fulltime so I know it CAN work.

Setting my own goals

I would like to be doing something I love, fulltime, that doesn’t feel like work (like blogging) within 2 years time. I’m going to start with a date of June 2009 for the first steps, and as a time for re-evaluation. I have a tendency to get bored with projects after about 6 months, so if I’m still going strong then I will have found myself a winner.

In that time I need to find a niche or purpose to focus on. I’ll need to move from a free blogging platform to something I can wholly own. I will need to monitise and I’ll need to get my name out.

Wish me luck :D