Finished the life purpose course, still have one problem...

[Sari]

@Leo Gura still actually have about 3 videos but I watched them quickly and watched the 2 FAQ parts but still one question troubling me.

English is not my mother language so please bare with me.

 

taking the life purpose course I found that my life purpose is to share my wisdom with people help them create a better life (still working on articulating it).

I’m studying abroad (in Japan). Came immediately after high school and studied Japanese for 2 years, went to college majoring in civil engineering and this is my second year. the problem im facing is that I knew from the second semester that this is not the right major but couldn’t change until now but I can’t decide what major I should be majoring in which would be aligned with my life purpose.

 

Sharing my wisdon with people could include so many things and I’m not sure yet which specific thing I wanna be sharing my wisdom about and help people with. Or maybe I wanna share my wisdom about everything I could.

The domain of mastery I chose was personal development. this one also have a lot under. I can talk about how to become open-minded, how to grow your consciousness, how to  master your emotions, how to improve your health and diet, etc.

So, which major would be the right one? I honestly feel like It would be easier not to go to college and learn about personal development by myself since there’s no such a major in universities. At least where I’m now.

but the problem is I do need to go to college to have a good starting job since my family can’t support me since they’re the ones who need support. I already missed so many years and changing majors may cost me an additional year. I’m already 23 years old.

 

so I could major in many different majors but all of them would be just a facet of my life purpose. I’m afraid I’ll be choosing something that I will regret later. I won’t be able to change majors again since I would be unable to afford it.  Besides, I’ll be waisted too many years on college. So I feel like this is my last chance and it’s scaring me. I really feel stuck and can’t decide.

 

I would really really really appreciate any kind of advice.

 

thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by Sari

[Hello from Russia]

Something philosophy-psychology related?

[St Clair]

Hey Sari,

I would say to definitely pursue your own investigations and studies regarding personal development. Gain your wisdom from direct experience and actually doing the personal development yourself. If you go about it this way, your insights will be original and from your own heart. Your own uniqueness and approach to the matter is the most powerful thing. It will set you apart from all of the others who are pursuing a similar career path.

As for your college, I'd say look into studying something that is more pertaining to a medium that you can drive the personal development through. For example, if you enjoy film making, study film making, and then you can make films about personal development. And whatever it is you choose to study, also make sure to do your own efforts and investigations into it as well. If you focus on mastery and develop up your skills, then you are setting yourself up for later. If it turns out that the college major ends up being obsolete in regards to where you want to take your life purpose, it will be okay because you have the training/skills and not just some models/ideas/some words on a paper that 'qualify' you. I'd say mastery is a WAY better qualification.

And also, just to give you a bit of insight into making the right choice on your major, I would recommend digging deep into your past. In my case, I took Leo's life purpose course and it was incredibly helpful. But it took me only 70% of the way. The other 30% was a case of me really digging into my childhood self, and seeing what he was doing. He was a writer, a musician, a boy scout and a kung fu martial artist. I took these things and synthesised them into my life purpose. Essentially, my mediums for my life purpose are writing and music, and I use boy scout (Adventure) and kung fu (Warrior) as a means of life mastery, to generate my own wisdom/insights, and empower my work in writing and music. So look into your past and you might get more clarity as to how to proceed both with your life purpose and with the major you will choose.

I hope I helped you with your life purpose journey. All the best!

 

[Joseph Maynor]

You just gotta jump in there and start working.  Maybe practice here on the Forum like I did.  That's what I did.  You need to take 100% responsibility to just jump in there and start working.  You're not gonna know what to do up front.  What you do is just start working hard on your Life Purpose Work every day -- it should come natural to you if that's your Life Purpose.  Start doing personal development bigtime on yourself.  Start teaching personal development as you have insights.  Start writing about personal development.  And then stuff will start to emerge for you as to what you should do.  You're not gonna know much in advance.  Life Purpose Work is a life-long project -- it's the main project of your life.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Sari]

@St Clair Thank you so much for the detailed thorough advice!! It was really helpful. Appreciate it.

To understand your example better, would you tell me what is it your life purpose and domain of mastery? 

Because you said you used boy scout and kung fu as a means of life mastery. Does that mean that those are what you’re spending 10,000 hour mastering them in life? 

And your work writing and music is the medium to drive what kind of life purpose? 

Thanks again.

 

[Sari]

@Hello from Russia I thought about that, majoring in something like that will be me spending time on what I’m supposed to be spending time on. Which is my domain of mastery.

 

thanks for the advice! 

[Sari]

@Joseph Maynor that’s true. But I need to start somewhere. I already bought a lot of books and courses and I’m in the process of learning them. Besides all the YouTube videos I watch. Trying to embody everything I learn.

thanks for the advice!

[St Clair]

2 hours ago, Sari said:

@St Clair Thank you so much for the detailed thorough advice!! It was really helpful. Appreciate it.

To understand your example better, would you tell me what is it your life purpose and domain of mastery? 

Because you said you used boy scout and kung fu as a means of life mastery. Does that mean that those are what you’re spending 10,000 hour mastering them in life? 

And your work writing and music is the medium to drive what kind of life purpose? 

Thanks again.

 

Yep, gladly! My life purpose states: "To master the art of living, and create art that inspires other people to do the same"

My overarching domain of mastery is story-telling, and that splits equally into writing mastery and piano mastery. I spend most of my day practicing these crafts and creating and sharing art out of them. I compose tunes and make Youtube videos to share them. I write stories from my own experience and share them on my blog. For the long term, I'm working on novels to publish as well. 

The essence of my life purpose is to live a rich and fulfilling life, and tell my story through art. My blog is basically just my auto-biography as I live, and is where I can share all my deepest insights and wisdom. My music is the trojan horse for the ordinary people - the idea is to become a jazz piano master. I just want to show the ordinary people that following the heart is how one can become brilliant at what they do and is where true innovation happens.

As for the boy scouts and the kung fu, these are just huge pillars of my past that help me understand and cultivate my true character. Kung fu is all about being a warrior, following the heart and fighting for good. Scouts is all about adventure. 

If you are interested in getting more details, I discuss all these ideas in my blog. I'm actually just up to the part in the story where I had just discovered and launched my life purpose, but it was a big failure, because I still had 6 months of college classes to attend - college classes which I was absolutely not interested in. 

https://joshuastclair.blogspot.com/2018/08/chapter-2-warrior-adventurer-artist.html

I'd love to hear about your progress with your life purpose. All the best!

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by St Clair

[exhale]

Sari, 

I imagine my opinion will be in the minority; nevertheless, consider it with as much thought as the alternative recommendations. 

Engineering may, or may not be aligned with your life purpose.  Saying that, you also provided information that you are responsible for your own finances etc.  You need to recognize that the vast majority of careers that focus on helping others in their personal development journey are very difficult to make a comfortable living on.  

Saying that, I wouldn't recommend that you dismiss this notion of focusing on personal development, because that would probably be disingenuous.

What about the idea of finishing your engineering degree, so you can have the financial capabilities to focus on your personal development, and creating a personal development career on the side.  Or even better yet, how could you integrate the concepts of personal development and engineering?  Perhaps you could develop a niche of being a wellness advocate within the engineering field--I know in my profession, every major conference has someone speaking on meditation, yoga, stress reduction, wellness, etc.  You would have mega credibility given you are one of them, and you are there to help them. Or, you could create a mentorship program for young engineers to implement wellness into their lifestyle; this would be a legit business model!

Some would say that an enlightened person can find great satisfaction in whatever they are doing, no matter how basic, or uninteresting.  What about reconnecting with the components of your career-choice that you loved.  Reignite your passion in learning, building, growing social networks.  Do not give up on your career so easily--you may be able to rekindle your love for it, or at minimum, you can learn to be satisfied with it, and use it strategically to get where you want to go.

A satisfied professional that is helping others improve their life holds A TON MORE WATER than a dissatisfied non-professional that is helping others improve their lives.  

Although I understand the logic of "not having a back-up plan" and "diving with both feet into the pool" into being a life coach, etc.  But, I personally (and maybe this is a limiting belief of mine) feel that many people are not being strategic, nor pragmatic about their career decisions.