Self-Reflection

If you ask someone what is your purpose, you're in effect asking them why are you here? Why do you exist? That's what that question means. NLP trained people, which I am not, will tell you that the brain does very bad things when you ask it why questions. It creates this like vapor lock. Being able to answer the question, why are you here? and articulately is actually fairly rare because the brain doesn't produce useful information when you ask the person that question. In my world, in my system at the True Purpose Institute, we actually deal with four different types of purpose statements. To me, purpose is the answer to the question, why are you here? Why do you exist? That's what purpose means. But there's more than one way of answering that question. We actually teach four different ways. One type of purpose statement is a mission. The other three begin with the one that is repeatable, which is something called a blessing. Number three is something called essence, and that's the being state of your purpose. The fourth is message, which is what you were sent to tell the rest of us.