Adam Leipzig How To Know Your Life Purpose In 5 Minutes

On the last night of my 25th college reunion there was a party in a tent, there was dancing, music and noise, so much noise that many of us started leaving the tent so we could hear each other talk and catch up with classmates. We hadn't seen each other in over two decades I talked to my friends I made a surprising discovery 80 percent of them weren't happy with their lives I feel like I've wasted my

life

and I'm halfway there They said no I don't

know

why This is what my

life

is about now. I had the privilege of going to Yale and we were standing on a summer afternoon in the middle of the old Yale campus and the people I was talking to were privileged, highly educated and financially well off in positions. of power and they had the first house and the second house and they had the first spouse and the second spouse foreigners of them they were dissatisfied with their lives who was happy the 20 percent well we had studied literature and rhetoric of the Renaissance and we were theater people and History geeks, we had studied classes for the joy of learning, not because we thought they were going to direct us to a specific job, we still got jobs, we lived our lives expansively with the ups and downs of life and we didn't feel like we had lost a Just a minute and as I talked to the 20, the happiest 20 percent, I discovered that each of them knew something about the

purpose

of their life because they knew five things: who they were, what they did, who they did it for, what they wanted or needed those things for. people. and what they got out of it, how they changed as a result, does it sound difficult?, it is not, it is actually very simple, in fact, it is so simple that you can learn the

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of

your

life now, you will

know

the purpose of

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life now , in the next. five

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would you like to know the purpose of your knife in the next five

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So can I share something else with you? If you are like many of us, you have been wondering and worrying about your life's purpose for a long time and there are books and magazines, workshops and seminars about it, in fact, Amazon lists 151,928 books that address how you can learn your life well. purpose of life. I know some people who have spent their entire lives trying to learn their life purpose and we can all agree that the unexamined Life is not worth living, but if all you do is examine, you are not living, so Let's discover together the purpose of life right now, who you are, what you do, who you do it, what those people want and need for and how they change.

As a result, will we do well? What are you doing? What do you love to do? You love writing cooking designing creating iOS apps writing number codes speaking teaching what you love to do and if there are a lot of things that come up for you, focus on asking yourself this one question, what do you feel extremely qualified to teach right now? to other people? Think of that in a word, wait, don't let go yet on the count of five. you do one two great that's what you're doing now think about who you're doing it for imagine them in your mind get ready to say it on the count of five wait don't let it go yet what's good who you're doing it for come on See it again louder, a little longer loud please about the people in the store, who do they do it together for?

Thank you, that is the spirit we need. Okay, now, what do those people want or need? What do they want or need? who have come to you so you can give them this, what they want or need in just one or two words, hold on, don't let go yet and, on the count of five, one, two, three, four, five, fantastic, now, this is the best how they change how they change or transform as a result of what you give them on the count of five how they change or transform as a result of what you give them one two three four five fantastic now let's put this all together in a kind of prayer, okay, all together, stronger than the people in the store, who you are, what you do, who you do it, what they want or need it for, how they change as a result, fantastic, you have it all.

I just did something that people who went to Yale couldn't figure out for 25 years. All those five things you need to know to know what your life's purpose is. Only two are about you and the other three are about other people. Who are they? what they want or need and how they change as a result. That formulation forces you to look outward, and all the happiest people I met outside the store on that warm New Haven night were looking outward, not looking in, they knew it. very clearly. who they served, what those people needed and how those people changed as a result and you may have already intuited this: the most successful people in any field always focus more on the people they serve than on humming how they are served. themselves.

The happiest people do it. It is important to make other people happy and do things that make them feel well cared for and safe, if you make other people happy, life teaches us that we will be taken care of too, so since you all did so well, we have time to only a little. A little extra credit. One of the hardest things that happens when you meet people for the first time is that they ask you this question. Then what do you do? If you're like some of us, that's a really challenging question at some point, especially if you're in these moments where you're between things or you feel vulnerable or you're undefined or what you seem to do is not what you actually do or what you do.

What you get paid to do is how you define yourself, so when people ask you this question, then what do you do? and you also have this monologue like why is he asking me, so what do I do? because it's that transactional thing where it's like he wants to know if he should really spend time talking to me or is it that other thing so he can tell me what he does because he's sure it's way better than what I do well, so when someone asks you that question, this is what you do, you just say the last thing you said. how what you do changes the people you do it for, for example, you could say I give children wonderful dreams if your life's purpose is to write books for children so they can sleep at night and have wonderful dreams or You could say I help people look and feel better if their life purpose is.

I design clothing for men and women who need affordable options so they can look and feel their best or you could say I help people get a great job in the world if their life purpose is me. empowers entrepreneurs and creative people to take decisive action so they can bring their best work to the world. That little bit you just said becomes your personal speech and will always start the conversation because the person you were talking to has to ask. You have a question: How do you give kids big dreams? How do you help people look and feel better?

Can people really do their best work in the world and then you can tell them and share your life's purpose and share it? how can they come to learn theirs too foreign