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Your Life’s Purpose is More Obvious Than You Think
It all starts with these three questions
With slippery hands gently clutched around my knees, back curled over ninety-degrees, face looking down into the scalding cement pavement, I focused on catching my breath and wiping off the ovular drops of sweat that were relay-racing from the top of my forehead down into my eyes and congregating just above my top lip.
I straightened out, put my hands over my head to give my lungs some expansion room, let out a booming exhale and turned up the volume on the little voice that was offering words of wisdom inside my ears.
That’s when I heard a phrase that completely shook my perception of all the work I had been doing in my own life and the lives of others. Stop trying to find your passion.
I took my phone out of my damp pocket, wiped off the screen with the one remaining dry spot on my shirt, and I pressed the fifteen second rewind button to ensure my ears did not deceive me. But I heard it again.
Stop trying to find your passion.
The Starving Artist
These words were spoken by Elizabeth Gilbert, acclaimed author of Eat, Pray, Love, during a session of Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations at UCLA.
