Comments on: Finding your purpose in life

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:30:49 +0000

@Anonymous: Thanks for your comment!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:10:46 +0000

I like the comment you make about us subconsciously knowing our purpose in life. I totally agree and this is one of the reasons that I do not think it needs to be so hard to find our purpose in life.

I just think for the most part, people do not actually stop and think about it.

Personally I think that purpose in life is all about making yourself happy and making those around you happy and if everything you do and every decision you make is based around that, then I think you will live your purpose.

Great article. i liked it.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:22:47 +0000

@GreatScot: Even though I can’t do anything with religious “concepts” like the Holy Spirit I think it is a good thing to follow the inner voice.

By: GreatScot

GreatScot — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:59:06 +0000

That special feeling could be the Holy Spirit witnessing that you have discovered a truth. I have learned that following those feelings leads to good things.

By: cakebaker » When programming becomes stale…

cakebaker » When programming becomes stale… — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:27:45 +0000

[...] Over the last few weeks I noticed a growing feeling that programming becomes stale for me. And as a consequence, the motivation to program dropped more and more. Programming just doesn’t feel right anymore. I don’t know exactly why that happened. But I think it has to do with my ignorance of my purpose in life. [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:52:11 +0000

@bob dylan: Thanks for your comment.

> “to engage for the introvert minority”

&gt What does that means? I’ll assume you’re an introvert, and you > strongly identify with that disposition currently.

Well, many people don’t understand introverts and think introversion is something bad. And to change that was what I meant. And yes, I am myself an introvert.

I agree with you (and Steve Pavlina) about the concept of Message and Medium. I think everyone has only one message but multiple mediums to express it.

If you look at the article, you will see that I end up with one purpose for me: “to question and improve things, and to encourage and support others to do the same”.

By: bob dylan

bob dylan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:17:05 +0000

“to engage for the introvert minority”

What does that means? I’ll assume you’re an introvert, and you strongly identify with that disposition currently.

Steve Pavlina had another post, “Medium Vs. Message”. He equates message with purpose and asks, what is the message of your life? By medium he meant how you express that message. A useful dichotomy.

Ex: Message/Purpose = Discover truth and beauty.
Medium/Career = Scientist, writer, thinker etc.

He emphasized that you don’t have to choose just one expression of your message.

He seemed to believe everyone could express themselves through ONE source message/purpose that defined them. Which begs the question, can you have several purposes? Or are you convoluting your answer (confusing medium and message) by not defing one purpose?

By: Jim Muir

Jim Muir — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:12:46 +0000

Landmark Education produces the famous Landmark Forum which helps hundreds of thousands of people worldwide transform. It also sponsers seminars and training programs for transformation and self-expression but is far more comprehensive than I describe here. Just do a Google search on Landmark Education and you will see a new world of opportunities for learning how one can create and transform as opposed to “change”. I know James from a Landmark Seminar on ‘Living Passionately’ and what he says is true. It really works for me.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:34:08 +0000

@James Reedy: Wow, cool to hear that there are companies out there which take such things seriously. In the companies I worked up to now the focus was more on the weaknesses and on how to reduce them…

By: James Reedy

James Reedy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:40:39 +0000

I have been working/studying with Landmark Education, a corporation committed to transforming the world. We are currently creating our own personal charter. A charter has three parts; our purpose, our values, and what we can be counted on for. This work has helped me understand who I am, and what I am here to accomplish. With this exercise I have created a powerful place to stand from which I am launching into the future I am creating.

I encourage everyone to do this type of work. It creates peace and passion I have found nowhere else.