** This post is part of a series called The Alignment Method: 6 Steps to Meaningful Work + a Joyful Life (After Medicine). Find the full series here.
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Step 4: Connect to Your Purpose
What is purpose?
Purpose is the reason you were created. It’s your soul’s mission. NBD 😂
Signs you need to clarify your purpose?
You feel lost, aimless, or unsure of your next steps. There is nothing feels like a full-body yes.
How I can support you:
The Purpose Prequel: A 3 day audio immersion to reorient you to your true path.
Pathway to Purpose: 8 week group coaching program to identify the work you are here to do.
Are you still struggling to land on the direction that feels like a full-body yes?
You have some scattered ideas, maybe you’ve tentatively committed to a new plan — but if you are being honest you still haven’t found the thing that truly feels like a fit. You’re stuck in your head- feeling lost, aimless and second guessing your direction.
In this post you’ll learn:
Exactly what it feels like when you’ve found your purpose- so you can’t miss it
The key to moving from scattered ideas to a clear focused vision
The surprising side effects of connecting to your purpose
What Is Purpose- Really?
It’s not one specific job title or career. It’s not a fleeting passion. It’s not a guaranteed 5 year plan.
Purpose is a concept that is so tricky to describe with words, because it’s really something that needs to be felt and experienced.
More than anything, connecting to your purpose is this energetic shift that happens. Something that clicks into place.
That gives you a feeling of this is my path, this is my thing, this is what I'm gonna do.
It's specific enough to give you a sense of excitement, direction and possibility, but it's not always like a fully mapped out plan.
When you connect to your purpose you have a sense of these 3 things:
What you’re here to do
Who you’re here to be
How you’re here to live
Why you feel stuck without it
If you haven’t connected to your purpose yet, everything feels meh.
You might:
Have scattered interests, but no grounded vision
Feel like you’re going through the motions without excitement
Be mentally “choosing” a direction, but constantly second guessing it
Without purpose, it’s hard to commit.
Hard to get motivated.
Hard to feel anything other than... stuck.
What Happens When You Connect to Your Purpose
When you connect to your purpose it feels like everything clicks into place. Like there is this well of activation energy you tap into.
That’s exactly what happened for me- when I finally gave myself permission to trust my desires of starting an online business and traveling the world.
It wasn’t all in one moment. But over a series of days and weeks, as I started taking action towards this desire- everything changed.
It felt like I had a miraculous recovery from burnout. I went from exhausted, depleted, can barely drag myself out of bed.
→ to staying up late writing blog posts, energized, lit up, completely off Adderall.
There was this bubbling fire inside of me.
I had a direction I was genuinely excited about.
It felt like falling in love with my life again.
Signs You Need to Connect to Your Purpose
If any of this sounds familiar, this is the step for you:
You feel lost, aimless, or unsure what you want to do
You have scattered interests, but no clear direction
You feel like you’ve lost touch with your motivation or fire
You’ve picked a direction- and are taking next steps- but there is no real aliveness to it
These are all signs it is time to come back to your purpose. To come back to yourself.
How I Can Support You
If you're ready to feel that click- that “this is it” moment, here’s where we begin:
The Purpose Prequel: A 3 day audio immersion to reorient you to your true path.
Pathway to Purpose: 8 week group coaching program to identify the work you are here to do.
So if you are still waiting for clarity, still trying to force motivation or just wondering why nothing feels right. Why none of the paths or the scattered ideas feel like this a full body yes.
It's just because you haven't connected to your purpose yet.
Purpose is the ignition. It's this energetic shift I can see and feel in my clients. The moment you really lock into what it is you are here for, your whole system turns back on and you come alive.
