Life purpose

KidBrody77 · 2020-11-23T18:30:53+00:00

I'm 43 years old. Trust me when I tell you that your purpose can and WILL change many many times over the course of your life. You don't need to find your lifelong purpose....there is no such thing for 99% of men. In fact highly successful alpha men often change their life purpose every few years. Michael Jordan went from basketball to baseball and then to golf. Arnold Schwartznegger went from professional body-building to acting to politics. Elon Musk went e-commerce software to electric vehicles to commercial space flight.

Here's the common theme all of those men have in common.....they didn't make their purpose to "find a purpose". They made their purpose to be the very best at whatever it was they were doing RIGHT NOW and that became their purpose.

I will give you a personal example. After 17 years of marriage, my wife cheated on me and divorced me. She divorced raped me and moved her and our only daughter miles away to a different town. 2 months later I was laid off from my $120,000 salaried job. After years of my life purpose being the best husband, father, and provider I could be I was suddenly without a purpose.

Unable to find work due to COVID, and having been wiped out by the divorce, I was forced to take a job for $20 an hour working construction. I was literally the only white guy on the crew. Everyone else was an illegal alien from Mexico. Instead of focusing on finding my "real" purpose I made my purpose to be the best construction worker I could be. I arrived earlier, stayed later, and worked harder than these Mexicans who were have my age.

It didn't go unnoticed. Within a month the builder promoted to me to Project Manager of 2 home builds. If I do well he told me he will make me a General Contractor of all his builds where I will be making more money than I did before working a job I enjoy 10 times more.

Make your purpose to be the very very best at whatever it is you're doing now and you're purpose will find you.

OrzhovPalatine · 2020-11-23T16:28:14+00:00

All purpose is is something you genuinely like to do and can make a living off of. Really that simple.

If you like to play video games all day, figure out a way to monetize it. If you like to cook, open a food truck.

You go through all your hobbies and stick to the one that makes you live within your means.

That boring job you currently have, that's your foundation while you build towards what you actually want. Still need to pay for regular expenses afterall.

boy_named_su · 2020-11-23T17:29:10+00:00

Do yourself a favor and read Mastery by Greene (he also wrote 48 Laws of Power). It's essentially a field manual on finding your purpose

There's an audio book for it too

funkeysnow · 2020-11-23T21:14:20+00:00

This is subjective but I believe that everyone knows exactly what they want to do in life. The problem is with the fear of actually doing it. We all have big dreams but most of us give up halfway through cus it gets too difficult. If u give up on what u always wanted to do in life, then u're left with husks paying bills and living paycheck to paycheck buying shit they don't need. This is why trp pushes men out their beds and into the fire, because if you're always in your comfort zone you'll never get shit done.

Fat people know what to do to lose weight. Broke people know what to do to get rich. People with no social life know what to do to make friends. It's when we start doing mental gymnastics to find an easier route than the obvious route, that's when we end up not accomplishing anything in our lives. It's like the beta orbiter advising a woman that keeps bitchin about her abusive ex. She can break up with him anytime, but she doesn't do it cus she doesn't want to be single and alone. So instead she finds replacements or she keeps dating the dude. That's a bitch mindset and why most of these women act like kids in their 30s. As a man, if you're not willing to sacrifice and step out of your comfort zone to do what you want to do then you're gonna be wandering the world "finding your purpose".

I graduated high school 5 years ago. Back then, out of 15 people I knew that wanted to be doctors and today only 1 is in med school. 15 wanted to be engineers and only 3 of us are in school studying it. Since we grew up in a military environment, about 50 dudes that I knew wanted to be military officers and only 5 or so are either commissioned or in-training. It's one thing thinking about it, it's another thing actually doing it and most people just won't. It's okay to fail, at least u can learn from your failures and grow from them, but it's even worse to not try as u're probably gonna turn out to be the same pussy that I left behind 5 years ago.

rprookie · 2020-11-24T07:34:07+00:00

I see where your coming from, really you have to know yourself and understand your own personality. What you like and you don’t like, and get closer understand to what you like.

For me, I’m a music producer, with that being said music is on the art section. What does that mean? That means I’ll like anything with art, music, painting, graphics design, fashion etc. that tell me that my personality likes to create things also

Soo find your personality, do you like to be a business man? A person who leads? Etc. find what type of personality you have so that way you can find hobbies that fit within’ you. And you’ll realize you don’t have a problem doing that one thing because it’s apart of your personality.

This is finna sound a little bp but A person who is nice is more then likely to be an accountant or like a school counselor. Etc. you get what I’m saying?

Brilliant_Dust_6218 · 2020-11-26T04:12:34+00:00

I haven’t had a chance to read all the comments yet so maybe this was already said - but I think a big thing we do is we try to find our purpose in the wrong areas.

Often we look for purpose in what we do (career, hobbies, responsibilities, etc). Yes, these things can definitely be fulfilling but our “life’s purpose” is all about why. It’s the answer to the question, “Why do I exist?”

Title	Life purpose
Author	Parkin_Wafer
Upvotes	11
Comments	15
Date	November 23, 2020 4:16 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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