A sense of purpose leads to happiness
Having a sense of purpose in your life goes a long way to helping you feel
confident, secure and happy. A sense of purpose
can be brought about by
anything in life, it can be related to your career, bringing up a family or doing
voluntary work. It is all about fitting in and feeling you are making a difference
in life, that you are achieving something and getting somewhere.
If you have a sense of purpose in life you have something to look forward to
everyday, a reason for getting up out of bed in the morning with a smile, it
makes you feel good on the outside and so good on the inside. It leads to a
more confident person who is happy with their position in life.
Younger people very often have no problem developing a purpose in life, they
are just starting out and the majority of them have exams to pass, careers to
start building, meeting the opposite sex, dating, marrying and eventually
starting their own families.
The majority of the younger generation has a lot to
look forward to and so have a sense of purpose in life.
However the older we get, uncertainty can set in and we can start wondering
about our purpose in life.
Perhaps the children have grown up and are no
longer dependant on you. Relationships break up or we reach retirement age
and no longer have our work as a purpose in life.
The older generation then has to develop a new sense of purpose in life,
luckily there are many ways you can achieve this, and here are some of the
more common ones.
Take up a new hobby and do something you have always wanted to do
but have never had the time before.
Join a social club, there are many social clubs which let people of the
same age group meet on a regular basis and enjoy coffee and chatting.
A lot of these groups have activities you can take part in and outings to
attend.
Join an exercise group either locally or at a gym, there are various
types of exercise you can take part in without being too strenuous.
Swimming meets are a great idea for the older person.
Take up a sport such a tennis or bowling e.t.c.
Visit family and friends on a regular basis and have them come over for
dinner
Take up some voluntary work for a few hours every day, it gives you a
sense of purpose and gets you out of the house.
Take a part time job that you can adequately cope with for a few hours
per week.
Take a walk in the park and say hello to passers by, very often you will
meet other people who are in the same boat as you; you can make
new friends just about anywhere.
Visit a dating agency and get back into meeting the opposite sex again,
it’s never too late to start a relationship.
Personal Development for Prosperity
Developing yourself spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically can lead
to a happier life, personal development largely depends on mastering a few
basic skills and implementing them into your life.
The basics of personal
development are managing your time more successfully, setting realistic
goals, understanding yourself and building self-worth and self-esteem and
having a purpose in life.
In order to gain personal development it is essential that you know who you
really are, while this might sound silly, very few people realize their true selfworth and what they are capable of achieving. Only by realizing the difference
you make to the world, what holds you back from achieving what you want out
of life and how to fully develop yourself to reach what you want, can you then
begin to develop.
Changes don’t happen overnight
Any changes that you make are going to require time and effort on your part;
they won’t happen overnight simply because you want to change. You must
set your mind to devoting your efforts to what you want to change and
develop and focus on them until you get there.
As mentioned before if you want to develop yourself then you have to have a
solid base from which to work from, you have to be aware of whom you are.
Once you discover this it brings a whole new meaning and purpose to life, by
taking a long deep look at ourselves we discover everything there is to know
and we bring out our creative side more. We open the door to our intuition and
let go of our imagination, which many of us don’t use to its full extent, and we
are able to develop these feelings.
Key points to personal development
The key points to personal development are include: knowing what it is you
want from life and how you will achieve it, breaking free from your beliefs that
you have limits and letting go of thoughts and emotions that have held you
back, becoming more in tune with yourself and letting your intuition and
creative side out, understanding why you make a difference, and successfully
changing your thoughts, feelings and way of thinking so you can continue
expanding.
As young children we don’t hold back or deny ourselves anything as we are
growing, and due to this we continue to grow and develop from a child into an
adult.
We continually learn and adapt and better ourselves. Young children don’t seem to have the fears that we develop as adults, life is so much simpler
and easier to cope with and deal with, a child’s mind is open and they
continually use their imagination and intuition, they are not afraid of what they
can and cannot do. It is only when we reach adulthood we hold ourselves
back and make things complicated, we still use our mind but we use it the
wrong way, we turn it in on ourselves.
