your life has meaning if you give it
meaning if you define what your what it
is that you're doing what it is that's
important to you purpose is one of these
terms that gets thrown around a lot and
people think about it oftentimes in a
religious way or in somebody it's a
little larger philosophical ways I don't
believe that purpose comes from above it
comes from you and one activity that I
recommend that people do especially
around new years and also a mid year is
to write down what values are important
to you every six months you sit down and
you think you you really take the time
and you write out what are your top
three values what are the things that
are most important to you and you can
use them to craft a statement of purpose
which is very simple it's 100 words or
less which just says what is important
to me right now and how am I going to
use my activities and my time on this
earth to to live out my values and if
you can do that every six months it
actually really is it's a very helpful
activity because it often cuts out
activities that you're like do I really
want to be doing that it's almost like
it's almost like making a budget when
you sit down and you look at what you're
spending your money on and you look at
you know all the different things you're
actually putting cold hard numbers on
things that you value and most of the
time when you look at people who do a
budget they tend to cut out things that
are actually less important to them it's
it's really an activity of consciousness
so when we look at what we value that
it's very clear it can be very clear how
to make your purpose and to say okay
well this is what I'm living for for now
and it actually helps to direct your
activity directs your life and people
that live with a sense of purpose are
generally happier and more hopeful for
the future