Prior to feeling perplexed about not having a purpose, I deliberated on why l required to have a purpose in my life, in the first place!

 What is a purpose? Could unearthing my purpose lead me to my dreams?

Certainly, I learned that It’s all mutually dependent seemingly. Let me illustrate.

Even though, on the outset, my life looked well set. Happily married, professional job and a semi (not by the sea lol ) near the sea blah blah blah!

The sacrifice of sustaining all this, was remaining in my inflexible, challenging job. Yet frequently, returning from my job, worn out, only to slump at home and resume the day after and so forth. I speculated, is this all there is to life? What l didn’t comprehend, at the time was that, this is what living a life without purpose feels like!

 l yearned to know what my purpose in life is? I prayed and anticipated that God would convey my purpose while sleeping or give me a vision. Unsurprisingly nothing happened!

 Transpires that detecting my purpose necessitates going on a journey to discover myself. It is about understanding ways of adding value to this life.  My contributing to this life, in the same manner that  legends (eg Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King etc) in the past or living have accomplished.

 Sometimes this may not even have anything to do with creating wealth. Although it will eventually assist you to create wealth.  Perhaps helping the needy or fighting for something l or you believe in. Dr Trent observed that it is also about speaking against what breaks your heart!

  Contributing to humanity, chasing something greater than you, precipitates your life to take on a bigger purpose than only being a parent and maintaining a job.  Let’s face it, if this was sufficient we will all be appeased.

 My purpose is concealed in the things that l’m passionate about. My hobbies, experiences that l enjoy exploring, effortless occurrences. The things that are easy peasy, the sort of work that l would enjoy doing even without getting paid! How does this guide me to my dream?

Thereupon I started to desire to do better with my life and l was on a quest to find out how? Friends, l began actively looking for ways of how to change my life, l needed to figure out how? l came across TED talks (You Tube) and searched for, “ how to be successful ?” and lo and behold, someone was talking about how he had been involved with drugs and alcohol and his life was on a steep downhill path leading to a catastrophic destination.

Strangely enough, one day he looked at his life and felt repulsed. He decided to change his life! How about that!  The first thing he implemented, according to this man, was he read books!  l was infuriated, because you guessed it, he didn’t reveal what books he read?

 Struggling not to give in to my exasperation, l dug my heels in, continued searching and voila, l came across another speaker who was very specific and said if you (l) want to be successful, read successful people’s books, they always explain exactly how they did it. Penny drop moment!

I was pleased my search had yielded results. Since l was already seeking change my brain had directed me onto the next action to implement.

 l embarked on a mission to read successful peoples’ books and the first phenomenon l discovered was that, they’re all pursuing big dreams and they ‘re all conscious of what their purpose in life is!

 I didn’t possess any big dreams and l wasn’t aware of the purpose of my existence?

They say ignorance is bliss and l certainly wasn’t ignorant anymore. How do l know what my purpose is, on this earth and how do l come up with big dreams?  Precisely how do l overcome this new complication, to create the life l want? Suddenly this didn’t seem as easy as it appeared. Bearing in mind that the state of affairs in my life had led me here, giving up wasn’t an option. It was obvious to me what l needed to execute next!