Do you want to live life with a purpose? Obviously, yes.

All of us have come on this earth to live with a purpose, to live for a purpose. But, sometimes, it so happens that we are not able to define our purpose, we are not aware of what is our purpose or what should be our purpose.

It is a fact that many of us are not able to sit down to define specifically what it is that we want, we feel as if we are constantly chasing what we cannot reach.

Sounds confusing?

Yes, that is because if you do not know what we are aiming for, how do we know that we are not there already?

Besides, how do we know if we have hit the bulls-eye if we do not know what the target is?

So many times, we feel like we need to keep burning the midnight oil because we have not made it yet.

Many of us have accomplished far more than the average person, yet we have not given ourselves credit because we did not know our specific target.

Hope, you got some clarity.

“Everyone’s purpose in life depends on their individual beliefs, values, and personal experiences. The journey to find one’s purpose in life takes a lot of time and introspection, which involves exploring things that bring happiness to oneself. People must find the things that truly make them happy.”

How often you have faced this question – What is the Purpose of your life?

This question is very common but makes you think about what you truly want. Answers are usually a variation or combination of the following:

• Success
• Feeling loved
• Having a positive impact on the lives of others.
• To be happy
• Fortunate

Now you are thinking: “I want everything you just said!” Without giving more thought to this question, you might plan out your life to be a successful and rich person with a huge positive impact on the world.

Because that sounds like a good purpose, right?

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Find out who you are. And do it on purpose. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

We need to figure out what could be the best purpose of life.

Let us appropriate some popular and important purposes in life which are quite common like providing for your family, living a successful life, making positive connections with others, building a successful career, educating children, the marriage of children, and travelling the world.

Philosophically, spiritually – what are the 5 purposes of life?

By centring our lives around God (worship), learning to love God’s family (fellowship), cultivating spiritual maturity (discipleship), contributing something back (ministry), and telling others about God’s love (evangelism), we will build the foundation for a successful and satisfying life.

If you want to be happy, you should identify the purpose of your life as it is important to understand that you cannot be on autopilot if you want to be happy.

You must be conscious, aware, intentional, present, and cognizant—whichever term you prefer—regarding your decisions about how you use your time.

To carve out the time to be happy and to live a life with purpose, we must create clarity and learn to care for and use our secret weapon—our brain.

To create clarity, we must implement the following three concepts:

• Capture our priorities
• Identify our targets
• Reflect with power

Now that you have taken the first step towards defining a purpose for your life, figure out what is the key to creating the time to be happy.

Here is a hint: you already possess the most critical tool a person needs to be successful with time management.

It is your brain!

I appreciate that calendars and apps are also effective tools that are being used. However, the most essential accessory is your brain.

Your brain decides what goes on those calendars and what tasks get added to those apps or lists.

Regardless of the one you choose to use to track what you need to do, you put effort into filling them up.

Now that you have identified the purpose of your life, as a second step, you need to identify the targets which you are supposed to achieve in the finalized timeline. Here, effective time management is also very important. For this, you need to wire your brain accordingly. Time is precious as you have it limited. You are not going to live forever…

…Hence, make all decisions in work and life based on your targets.

Targets are the building blocks or measurable steps to attaining your goals or staying true to all the priorities you just set.

Here are a few suggestions for identifying your personal and work-related targets:

• Take out the personal priorities list.
• Use this list to write your top three personal and work targets. Make sure they are measurable.
• View your target list every day.
• Make decisions in your personal life and your work life based on these personal targets.

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” – Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

This way we see that if you live a purposeful life, you will live a happy life.

So, be HappyHo.