I feel that purpose is something that gets banded around a lot, especially in spiritual or wellbeing spaces. And while I think the idea of having a singular purpose for our life is very noble, I’m increasingly not sure how practical it is. It can feel (to me at least) that any grand purpose we have is so far away and I have often found that I will easily get discouraged in that kind of instance.
More recently, I have been working with the idea of having a purpose for a season. Specifically I am trying to break things down into 3-month blocks, and think about what is my purpose for the next 3 months. For me this feels much more tangible and that I can easily see where I am doing what I want to be the person I want to be and where I might have a bit more room to push or grow. In this first set of 3 months I have had a different purposes - to get a bit fitter, to build up the business a bit more and to meet some new people. All things that I can measure quite easily and don’t feel that daunting to me.
It is still early days for me but I do feel that this idea of breaking purpose down into smaller components is a rich one. How do you think about purpose? And what could (or will!) the purpose of your next 3 months be?
