What is your purpose?

Have you ever wondered 'what is my purpose'?  It feels like a big question and the answer feels mysterious and unknown. But what if it was so much simpler than we realize? What if your purpose was relatively easy to figure out?   

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast Working on Amazing.

This is a podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I am using that word rebuild, because we're specifically designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

Now, I feel like a lot of different things can lead you to the point where it feels like you're starting over.

For me, that was divorce after a 20-year marriage.

For my sister, it was a very unexpected death of her spouse, and for you, it could be something totally different.

I feel like the common denominator is when all your hopes, all your dreams, all your plans for the future have gone up in smoke.

The rug literally has been pulled out from under your feet.

Your day-to-day life doesn't look like what it used to.

And it does.

It feels like you're starting over.

If that's you from the bottom of my heart, I truly want to say, I'm sorry.

I know how overwhelming and just itchy that feels.

But I'm here to offer hope.

I'm here to encourage you and tell you that it can get so much better.

I promise so many other women have gone through this major life transition in the middle of their life and come out on the other side better for it.

You are not alone.

You're actually in the right place.

So welcome.

I'm so glad you're here.

Now, if you'll remember in the beginning, I said I focused on five areas when I rebuilt my life.

I focused on my spiritual health.

I focused on my mental health.

I focused on my physical health, my financial health, and I focused on growth and goals.

And I said every episode would fall under one of those categories.

Well, today's episode kind of falls under growth and goals, and it kind of falls under mental health, because as with many, many topics that we talk about, it falls under more than one category.

Some of them are easily divided, but some of them bleed into each other.

So today, we're going to talk about purpose.

And I think purpose is this big word, and we're all kind of looking for it, but especially when your life has been turned upside down, and you're in the middle of rebuilding, and everything is kind of topsy-turvy, you're trying to find your footing again in life, it's easy to wonder what the purpose is.

What's your purpose?

What are you supposed to do next?

When we go through a season of change and transition, that question of what is my purpose is really, really common.

And sometimes we struggle to answer it.

And it feels like this big thing, what is my purpose?

And because it's such a big question and a big thing, it's intimidating, and we feel like we don't know the answer.

So let's talk today just a little bit about demystifying it.

Like, let's not make it such a big, huge thing and simplify it and reduce it down.

And when you get it to its smaller components, it's less intimidating, it's less of a curiosity, and it becomes approachable and tangible.

Okay?

So I heard this quote that I absolutely love, and I had to share with you.

And it says that your purpose is found when you use your passion in service of others.

And I thought that makes so much sense because sometimes we make our purpose into like our job or our career.

And if we can't do something purposeful and meaningful with our life, then our life has no meaning.

I'm here to challenge that conce