Help me define mission or purpose.

BoringAndSucks · 2025-08-20T15:15:07+00:00

Why do you care?

Are you already satisfied and happy about your life and where are every day?

How about making your mission is to be happy and put yourself first until you do the work, betch.

ThreeKingsRP · 2025-08-20T14:09:57+00:00

Your mission and purpose is what you want it to be. Doesn't have to be an exact plan but an idea of what you want out of life for you and whoever you want to bring along should be required so you're not letting life happen to you. Rather than you're choosing how you live your life.

Where do you want to end up in the long run? Making choices day by day? Do you want to travel the world and not have an exact map or route? Do you want to work in a factory with other people who let life happen to them and go home to people who disrespect them and hate that they are in a situation where you're not in control?

Do you want to be trusted with leadership and share your mission with somebody who can further it and accompany you by making things work for you, pitch in ideas and be your first officer?

What do YOU want?

RevolutionaryText815 · 2025-08-20T19:31:05+00:00

Masculine energy requires a mission. Whether it be small or large. A man without purpose is lacking masculine energy. Try to identify the micro. Why are you even working out? Is it to get strong? Be healthy? What’s your why?

Having a mission is just purpose on the macro level. Every day you’re getting closer to death. With that in mind, what do you want out of life?

My favorite thing to do when I feel lost is to sit down, close my eyes, and refuse to open them until I have even the slightest bit of direction. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes, sometimes an hour. Doing this exercise, with enough discipline, has always yielded an answer. Even if that answer was as simple as clean the house, read for an hour, research a topic etc.

A few times, the answer I found was in the action of the exercise. I just needed to take a minute to clear my head of the distortion and find peace in the moment.

SelectAirline · 2025-08-20T16:33:46+00:00

It doesn't have to be about the destination, and in fact I'd say it's better not to be hyperfocused on that. Lots of guys pick some ultimate goal thinking that if they can only attain that, they'll live a happy and problem free life (sound familiar?). That's not how the human brain works.

That said, there has to be some part of the "jouney" that you find preferable to others. Some direction you want your life to be heading. This can even be something as simple as "I don't know exactly what I want yet, but I know that I want a sufficient degree of freedom so that my choices aren't restricted in the future." Then you determine what that means for you; what does "freedom" look like, what are some potential roadblocks, what can I do now to mitigate those if/when they do arise, etc? Most importantly, am I acting in a way right now that is in alignment with that future?

J-VV-R · 2025-08-20T17:11:32+00:00

As a fellow member of the IT space, I'm curious on why you are so attached to your job? Your job is not your identity. Your time in the Service was and is not your identity. How far along are you on your journey at MRP? You sound new. Start with reading the sidebar and putting together a map. No one can answer what your mission or purpose is in life, but it sure is hell is not your career.

NoMoreMrNiceJay · 2025-08-20T18:31:33+00:00

Yes, you're overthinking this. Also none of this works as long as you lie to yourself

Fritz_Frauenraub · 2025-08-23T13:01:55+00:00

Mission: find my mission😾

businessstravel · 2025-08-20T17:08:32+00:00

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Title	Help me define mission or purpose.
Author	KaptainKopterr
Upvotes	3
Comments	11
Date	August 20, 2025 1:59 PM UTC (11 months ago)
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