20 minutes to your life purpose

am going to wander off here in a moment and do this activity, will report back results within the hour. if you choose to play may the epiphanies roll out and create clarity and bliss!

Blogger Steve Pavlina says that you can discover your life’s purpose in as little as twenty minutes. To do so, complete the following four steps:

1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type.
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
4. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

Steve writes that “usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is” and that you should expect to generate some repeats or similar answers. All this is fine so long as you keep on writing, even if your answers begin to resemble variations on “I don’t have a purpose” or “Life is meaningless”.

Also, it’s not enough to react emotionally to an answer, according to Pavlina. You need to keep going until the emotion brings forth tears. If you feel the urge to quit, take a two minute break and then resume. According to the post, around 80-90 percent of those who try this method will reach their answer in less than an hour.

so what did I learn?

I learned that I can fill an entire 12x18 piece of paper FULL of things in 25 minutes.

That I did not cry as the above said I might, but I believe that is mainly because I have done various forms of this exercise for the past 10 years and that I have cried about a billion tears over this so maybe I am less emotive.

I learned that when I follow the pull--that is where juicy things come up to be moved

Here are the top 5 that pulled me, made me stop after writing them and almost evoked tears:

to feel

to believe in impossible things and delight and celebrate their arrival into the world

to love deeply with my whole being and allow myself to be loved that deeply

to be a faerie on earth

to overcome money as a limitation

nightime questions

did you ever have the feeling you are living totally two (or more) totally different lives?

just contemplating randomness as i am not sleeping and decided to babble about it. but not really babble just pose the question. sometimes aspects of my life and personality seem do disparate from each other that there's no way i'm not leading several lives.

i think i should shut up and sleep now...

markings

last night i dreamed of a tattoo

i have never wanted something permanent lingering on my body. yet last night i dreamed of a tattoo, my tattoo. twining across my back igniting a fire within.

i understand the idea of claiming and marking rights of passage or claiming of ranks. this went beyond and embraced it all. i love other peoples markings and the visual artist within loves the idea of color and contrast on skin, just never wanted one of my own.

we'll see if i can reclaim the visual image and translate it into 2 dimensions. i'm not sure it's that important. i'm already marked, i can feel the shift, so the idea of actually marking is secondary.

I have been dreaming. Weird sometimes violent dreams, all of them disturbing. To find meaning in the chaotic visions I have been reading and discovering that once again I am purging stories that keep me small.

Today I was wandering through Eckhart Tolle's New Earth and felt compelled to write about the Death card.

I believe we have very compelling stories about the lives we are all living and I believe those stories keep us safe and sane. But sometimes those stories are keeping us from our potential and they need to be re-written or die.


The death card symbolizes an ending. Transformation is occurring or is about to ride into town and shake things up. Death is usually never about a literal physical death but about a small Ego death.

The problem with Ego death is that it can often be worse than a literal death. After all you won't be around to have to clean up the messes involved in a actual death, you get to depart and therefore any risks you take or promises you break or vial words- well that won't catch up to you until the next incarnation. An Ego death can be messy, brutal and more frightening then jumping out of an airplane.

The joy of Ego death is that you are growing beyond the confines and limiting aspects of the story you have written yourself into. And from personal experience of at least 10 minor and major Ego deaths, most of them are quiet easy transitions once you decide to take the leap.

So when Death come knocking in a reading, you can bet I am eagerly scanning the cards around it for helpful suggestions, things to watch out for, and ways to make the ending and subsequent beginning more easy.

From New Earth:
"All it means is that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."
and
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because it is the experience you are having at the moment."

And if nothing else can convince you to embrace the joys of death remember that the French call an orgasm "La petite mort" the little death. Here's to an abundance of little deaths!