Finding Meaning & Purpose in your Life - The 7 Step Plan

Too often in life, we just go through the motions as the years pass by. We do things because we have always done them and we don’t know what provides us with energy, joy and contentment in our lives. One day, we wake up and wonder what life has been about.

To address this, I have created a 7-step plan aimed at enabling you to understand yourself better so that you can discover your life’s meaning & purpose. You can also understand how to be(come) the “best you that you can be”.

This week’s blog gives you an overview of the 7-step plan. Each step will be covered in detail in future blogs. You can subscribe to my website or Facebook page to ensure you don’t miss them!

Overview of the 7 Step Plan

1. Telling your Life Story

Using an exercise, you will plot your “lifeline” and identify the pivotal moments in your life’s journey that has shaped the person that you are today. You will explore how your lifeline influences how to think, feel and behave.

2. Embracing your Strengths

Using the renowned Clifton Strengthsfinder online assessment, you will identify your strengths learning how to “name, claim & aim” them to be(come) your best self in any chosen activity. You will also explore how strengths taken to excess or used mindlessly can hamper your effectiveness.

3. Identifying your Beliefs, Values and Drivers

Using a “sifting” exercise, you will identify your key beliefs, values and drivers. You will reflect on how these serve you. You will also reflect on how they could hinder you from “being your best self”.

4. Writing your Personal “User Manual”

When you buy a new car, there is an instruction manual telling how the car works and how to get the best out of it. This stage of the 7-step plan draws together much of the work done in the previous steps allowing for deeper reflection. You will pull your reflections together into one comprehensive “User Manual” using the guide provided.

5. Ask Yourself the Question “How Well Do I Really Know Myself?”

This is an exercise to identify what you know about yourself that others also know. More importantly you will also consider those things that you know about yourself but do not share with others. There is also an exercise to discover your “blind spots”. These are the things that others know about you but about which you are not aware. You will be encouraged to explore how best to increase your knowledge of yourself.

6. Composing your Statement of Purpose

You are now ready to look at what provides you with fulfilment across all the important aspects of your life. We use a future-focused technique to define what really matters in all aspects of your life.

7. Committing to a Plan to Living Life on Purpose

Having identified your Purpose across multiple dimensions of your life, you will assess your current satisfaction level with each aspect and commit to plans over 1, 3, 6 & 12 month time horizons to move towards your life’s purpose.

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Next week, I will cover in detail Step 1, however if you want to learn more about “living your life on purpose” through 1x1 coaching with me, please drop me an e-mail to ad@annemariedurbin.com or via my website https://www.annemariedurbin.com/contact-annemarie