We are not all motivated by the same things or in the same ways. Being clear about your own motivations and drives will enable you to generate natural enthusiasm for any endeavour thereby maximising your effectiveness.

Identifying your purpose and setting clear goals turns motivation into inspiration. Purpose is to a person what fuel is to an engine – without it we end up going nowhere.

Everyone can find a sense of purpose for his or her life. When we live with purpose, we find our passion, our power, our flow, and it feels as if life is working with us. When we are not on purpose, or off track, our power to create is dissipated and every last chore seems to drag.

To be ‘on purpose’, you must first find or know your purpose – you must discover ‘that thing that makes your heart sing’ the thing that you are passionate about. This is one of the great lessons of life, for when you find your purpose you also find your power.

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover you are a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
Patanjali 1st-3rd Century BC

A sense of purpose

We are all born with an automatic motivation programme that urges us to move towards pleasure and away from pain. Identifying a sense of purpose that we feel genuinely passionate about will help us lead life from our right brain towards pleasure, while the left brain works through natural fear to warn us of any potential danger. Once again it is the balance between the two achieved through goal setting that helps us be at our best.

Purpose is like an on-going journey of adventure: it doesn’t have a defined finish date. Goals do. A purpose is an on-going endeavour, a long-term mission, or life-vision. Purpose is like the path you tread; goals are the significant milestones along the way; motivation is your reason for making the journey.

People who live with a sense of purpose feel inspired – and from that inspiration bubbles natural motivation.

Being on purpose is one of the seven principles of Goal Mapping. If you need a little help to define and articulate what your purpose is, why not join at one of our Goal Mapping events?

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