Discover Your Purpose: A Simple Guide to Setting and Reaching Your Goals

By Angelique McTyre

Discover Your Purpose: A Simple Guide to Setting and Reaching Your Goals, is a practical guide that will lead you step-by-step through the goal-setting process. Combines guided journaling with skill-specific exercises to teach competency in personal goal-setting and planning. Takes an action-oriented approach with 9 easy-to-follow exercises, complete with accompanying worksheets. Upon completion of Discover Your Purpose, you'll have mapped out a detailed, personalized plan to reach 10 of your most important goals. Use this book to recognize your potential for success and greater achievement. Uncover your personal values and beliefs, define your personal strengths, talents and abilities, and become an instrument of positive change in your life, and the world around you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257478903

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Preface

Life can be so difficult at times. There are so many choices we can make, and so many roads we can follow. It’s no wonder why many of us find it hard to decide what to do with our lives. How can we be sure we’re on the right path? How do we know we’re making the right decisions? How can we be certain we’re doing what’s best for our lives?

These are just a few of the questions we have about life that seem to go unanswered. It makes us frustrated. Confused. Scared. Angry. Why can’t the answers come more easily? Sometimes, I wonder if maybe we’re just failing to ask the right question. Maybe our certainty in life comes not from knowing which path to take, but from knowing our destination – our end result. Maybe all we need to do is stop and ask ourselves: What am I looking for?

We all want to be happy. We all want to make the most of our lives. To do this, we have to engage ourselves in those specific actions that will lead us toward a desired result. We have to know where we’re going – and plan our actions accordingly. When we do, we increase not only our sense of certainty, but also our chances at finding personal success, lifelong fulfillment, and ultimately, our true happiness.

Goal-setting is a method of planning. It helps you plan your actions according to your desired result. It helps you identify which actions will lead you where you want to go. In Discover Your Purpose, I will introduce to you a goal-setting process that is simple and effective – but also unique. It is based on my personal belief that we are all born with certain, instinctive desires to do the following:

To know and understand ourselves.

To better ourselves.

To express ourselves in our own unique way.

To achieve – by doing what we love and enjoy.

To love, care for, and help each other.

These desires – our principle desires – form the context we must use to define our desired result. When we fail to fulfill these desires, we experience a void, an emptiness in our lives (perhaps you feel it now). This void can not be filled with money,