Suppose in your life, you have your very own inner call, your personal Mount Everest to climb. At its pristine peak you might envision your own business, being a great parent, going to Tahiti for a winter, forgiving a spouse, or starting a church. Its nagging sensation is always calling you. You feel it with great passion. There is only one place to begin such a passionate climb -- at the daunting foot of the mountain.

Interview by Janet Grace Riehl -
Eric Maisel: Even before you can make meaning, you must nominate yourself as the meaning-maker in your own life and fashion a central connection with yourself, one that is more aware, active, and purposeful than the connection most people fashion with themselves.

Did you know that you have big things to accomplish in life? And did you know that those big things are getting rather dusty while you pour yourself another cup of coffee, and decide to mull things over rather than do them? Welcome to your Soul Purpose in life - the gift that you, and you alone, are here to give.

By J'Anne Ellsworth, PhD -- "I am hearing the reverberating tones of existential dread now - in my interactions with high school and college students. ... Giftedness may be another element. What if being a gifted youth has a dark side? What if there is a heavy burden to knowing too much, feeling too much?"

Clarifying your life purpose is a team effort between the rational mind and the intuitive mind. The following exercise is an effective way to combine these two powerful resources to help you move forward along the pathway of a "life on purpose."

We object to a universe where meaning has to be made. We object to a universe that is meaningless until we force it to mean. We object to nature pulling this dirty trick and making us a partner to it, giving us exactly two choices, to not look this reality square in the eye and live as a coward, or to see what is required and live as an absurd hero.

Some human beings are born with a wide-angle lens that forces them to include the moon, the stars, and the meaning of life in their sphere of vision. For them, life becomes a constant struggle to live authentically; that is, a constant struggle to live in a way that honors their wide-angle vision.

Did you know that you have a unique purpose in life, and that you won’t be truly happy until you find it – and live it?