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?

Are you spending your life the way you are meant to?

Do you move through life excited and exhilarated because you are using the gifts you were given at birth?

Or are you still waiting for the big instruction book to drop into your lap that will finally explain how to be happy?

If so, you're not alone.

Believe it or not, you've actually got important work to do in this life. You were handed a very specific job on the day you were born, though you probably weren't quite aware of it at the time.

Instead, you got busy, and eventually forgot all about that very special job you are meant to do. And now, you realize something’s missing … yet, you don’t even know how to find your life purpose.

But believe it or not, it's still there. Your special job is patiently waiting for you to listen up and get to work.

I like to think of this as your Soul Purpose in life. Once you know what it is, you can finally make decisions that will feed your soul and make life fulfilling again.

You don’t even have to have a mid-life crisis to get in touch with it.

But first … let me tell you about Lenny.

What a Tearful Advertising Art Director Taught Me About Purpose

Lenny was a wise and wonderful friend I knew when I worked in advertising. And he was a genius … except not at what he did all day long.

You see, Lenny was a highly paid, very skilled art director in our ad agency. But more than that, he was a brilliant cartoonist.

All day long, in meetings, offices, wherever he was, Lenny would doodle away hilarious, gorgeous cartoons. His apartment was filled with them.

Yet, he was also conflicted; rather than try to sell his cartoons and be the New Yorker-level artist that he was, he cranked out ads for money instead.

And so he spent a fair amount of time feeling pretty miserable.

Lenny simply didn’t know that his Soul Purpose was to enlighten and amuse people. Instead, he thought it was to design marketing messages. He got his Soul Purpose wrong … and so he wasted an enormous gift and a whole lot of happiness.

I’d rather you didn’t end up like Lenny, who was last seen pouring out his woes tearfully in a well worn seat at his favorite bar.

Instead, stop agreeing to do things that kill your energy and deaden your vision. Once you know your Soul Purpose, you no longer find yourself automatically saying 'yes' all the time.

Instead, you'll find yourself enthusiastically embarking on things that fit your life purpose, and gently but firmly saying 'no' to the things that don't.

Knowing your Soul Purpose can mean the difference between slogging off to a ho-hum office to do ho-hum work every day, and rising every morning with a fire in your belly, full of happiness and eager to get to work.

What Sets the Truly Successful Apart from the Also-Rans?

Having a true, connected sense of purpose is actually what sets the successful, passionate business person apart from the rest of us.

They know what they're here for, and that's their number one priority!

Now, you may not know how to find your life purpose yet. (Hint: it's probably not the job that leaves you feeling like a truck ran over you at the end of the day.) But not to worry … that's actually one of the reasons I'm here.

But before we get into all that, let me point out one more interesting thing about your Soul Purpose. Once you commit to it, it runs on auto-pilot. All you have to do is get up in the morning, and your Soul Purpose will tell you exactly what to do that day, and the next day, and the next … right up until the last day of your life.

The information is right there in your gut, just waiting to be tapped into.

This is how romance novelist Barbara Cartland wrote a staggering 900 (yes, that's nine hundred) books. She knew her purpose in life, and set about accomplishing it very neatly. The night before she began each new book, she'd ask her soul to get ready to deliver the next book.

Then the next day she'd recline on her couch, arrange a rug over her legs, and begin to dictate the book to her secretary.

It really is that simple... if you know what you're supposed to be doing.

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