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How to find your life purpose

How to find your life purpose

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How to find your life purpose

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- How can you find your life purpose? That's quite a big question. Well, I've got six ideas to help you think about this. And the first one is what did you love doing when you were little? What were you drawn to when you were six years old? 'Cause if we're born with a life purpose, it might show itself before our minds get full of all the things that we ought to do and before the media and advertising start to mess with our mind. I remember my daughter, when she was little, she wanted to be one of the Spice Girls, but I suspect the media had put that into her mind, and she probably already had a life purpose before that point. So what do you love doing? What were you drawn to when you were six is the first question. And maybe you can ask your parents about that. They might know. My second idea is to try to discover what your gifts are, to uncover your gifts. So my favorite story about this is Charlie Mingus. And…

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