Don’t let the many myths and misconceptions about purpose mess you up!
So many people of all ages struggle to find their life’s purpose.
- Young adults struggle to find their purpose as they figure out what to do with their lives.
- Middle-aged adults struggle with their purpose when they find themselves in jobs that are misaligned with their passions.
- Older adults and retirees struggle with their life’s purpose when they leave the workforce or have a loved one close to them die.
Regardless of their age, many people struggle with their life’s purpose because of the many myths, misunderstandings, and misconceptions when it comes to finding and fulfilling their life’s purpose.
These erroneous, unfair, and misguided myths heap extra pressure on people who are already experiencing purpose anxiety and struggling to find their purpose.
10 Problematic Myths About Finding Your Life’s Purpose
In doing the extensive research for my latest book Find and Fulfill Your Purpose, I’ve discovered the 10 BIGGEST Myths and Misunderstandings when it comes to purpose that tend to trip people up or send them into an existential angst:
There is no purpose to human life – our existence is an accident of nature, completely random, and utterly pointless.- Purpose is only reserved for certain “special” or “chosen” people.
- A purpose must be BIG, GRAND, and EPIC to really matter.
- Purpose is what society says it is – money, prestige, followers, big house, etc.
- Purpose can only be revealed to us in a grand revelation.
- Purpose is located externally, outside of ourself.
- Purpose must be related to our job or career.
- We only have a single purpose for our life.
- Our purpose remains the same and consistent throughout our life.
- If we fail to find, follow, or fulfill our purpose we’re a failure at life.
Which of these 10 have you subscribed to?
Which of these 10 have caused you the most stress?
Disabling and Destroying the 10 Myths of Purpose
These many myths and misconceptions make finding and fulfilling one’s purpose(s) such a daunting, frustrating, and fruitless challenge for so many.
Thus, part of our quest in unraveling our purpose is to critically examine and systematically disable and dispose of these myths as we search for the real truth about purpose.
In piloting the Find and Fulfill Your Purpose book and program with numerous people, we found Myth #3: A purpose must be BIG, GRAND, and EPIC to really matter to be the most problematic for most people. As you’ll discover throughout the book, the little things matter even more so than the BIG things.
The Little Things are the BIG THINGS in God’s eyes!
Fortunately, our Near-Death Experiencer friends disable and destroy this common myth by saying that they learned in Heaven that the little things are the BIG THINGS!
“Today’s society has conditioned us to think that one must do big, wonderful, or grandiose endeavors for it to count or be of any value. Yet I came to realize that it is not what we accomplish here on Earth that promotes us to greatness, rather that greatness abides in any act we do, no matter how trivial, if done with deliberate love. There is no better greatness than this.” Deidre DeWitt-Maltby
“It’s the little things that you do. It’s the little things; the loving things. It’s not these grand, great, big, humongous things that people think they have to do in order to earn your way into Heaven because you can’t earn your way into Heaven no matter what you do. It’s the little things. It’s the smile you gave to someone whose life was really a mess. It’s the hand on the shoulder. It’s the sharing your toys when you were little. It’s the, ‘Here, you lost your sweater and you’re cold so here’s my sweater.’ It’s the little things. Things you don’t think would matter at all. That’s the stuff that matters.” Sharon Milliman
Disable and Destroy All 10 Myths of Purpose
To disable and destroy all 10 problematic myths and discover what REALLY matters in God’s eyes when it comes to finding and fulfilling your life’s purpose, check out our new book Find and Fulfill Your Purpose!