What is my purpose? How do I find my purpose? How do I know I am living up to my potential?

These questions are so common. And daunting…

A google search shows why...everyone is offering tips and tricks to find your purpose.

But what if purpose isn’t something that we find…what if its actually inside of us?

And requires that we grapple with the question “why am I here?”

It requires a spiritual journey. An understanding of why humans exist on this earth.

It doesn’t require that you subscribe to any specific religion/doctrine…

Just that you get in touch with the human experience and “this being human.”

It sounds like a simple task.

But we live in a world plagued with c*pitalism that teaches you to just continue accumulating and that it will never be enough because you can always be more.

When you constantly ask yourself what more can I do, you will never stop, because there is always more.

But life comes to an end.

Yes… life comes to an end.

And with that simple thought, it feels like we have enough.

We can sink into what we have, and invite experiences in that allow us to experience this being human. The good and the bad.

We appreciate the journey, because there is no destination.

If you want to find your purpose in life, you have to find your purpose each day…in each moment.

This passage by Thich Nhat Hahn sums up the concept perfectly

“If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.”

What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.

In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink.

If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either.

While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.”

So where might you start? I personally recommend that people start with the original 8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass Medical Center by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

You will have the chance to go deep. And there is something special about doing this in community.

Mindfulness has become a buzz word and there are thousands of people packaging it in new ways.

Don’t let that dissuade you…

This 8-week course will give you the foundation that you need to then go out and improvise on your own to find something that is authentic to you.

To find your own way to live in alignment with your purpose in each moment.

Best part? There is nothing that you actually need… it’s simply a way of being. Though the c*pitalists will try to make you think otherwise.