You have a purpose, and it’s up to you to find it. Living a life of purpose doesn’t happen by chance. It happens by design. The My Purpose framework is a proven method to discovering, designing, and living a life of purpose. It has been designed to empower you on your journey of self-discovery, purpose, and personal growth. Your purpose is calling, and the My Purpose framework is your opportunity to answer.
Your unique combination of talents, interests, strengths, and personality uniquely qualify you for your own purpose that you both discover and define for yourself. You find and understand your purpose through understanding what makes you feel alive and working your own personal goals. You do this through journaling, planning, and doing the work.
The Framework
The proven My Purpose framework will help you to discover and live a life of purpose. You’ll discover and explore your vision and personal values, set goals in alignment with your vision and values, measure your progress through objectives, be present and aware through journaling and discovering strategies that will help you, make room for the things that matter most to you, and then take action.
The My Purpose framework is based on a proven framework to accomplish your goals. At a high level, the framework looks like this:
- Set goals that act as directions in key areas of your life that are in alignment with your vision and values.
- Create measurable objectives for your goals, so that you can track your progression.
- Design strategies as ideas to achieve your objectives.
- List and take specific actions and create habits that will accomplish your strategies.
This framework, applied to the key areas of your life, will provide you with the clarity that you need to discover and live your purpose and to take intentional action to help you achieve your goals. You will also be able to maintain a life of balance as you take care of these different areas of your life, without spreading yourself too thin.
The Key Areas
Depending on your phase in life, you’ll have different areas of your life that require focus. For this reason, there are two approaches to the My Purpose framework. Each approach has different key areas to focus on. Because different stages of life require different approaches, the “Discovery” approach is designed for young adults, and the “Journey” approach is designed for adults.
The different editions of the My Purpose journals reflect each of these approaches.
Discovery
The Discovery approach focuses on young adults. This approach utilizes the following 4 key areas:
- Spiritual
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Social
These key areas are applicable to the lives of young adults. By focusing on these key areas, young adults are able to better focus on their needs at this stage in their lives.
Journey
The Journey approach focuses on adults, and focuses on the following key areas that are relevant to this stage in life:
- Physical & Emotional Health
- Love & Relationships
- Spirituality
- Professional Significance
- Finances
- Setting
- Play
These key areas are more applicable to the lives of adults, as they move into a life that requires focus on areas such as career, finances, and relationships. Adults also tend to lose sight of the element of play, so it’s included to remind adults that they still need to make sure to incorporate fun into life.