To achieve true success, happiness and contentment it is vital that you follow your own calling, as compared to what your parents, family, colleagues, friends or society believes is the best for you. We each have unique skills and our own special calling, and no one but yourself can determine what is the best path for you. Walk your own path, not one laid down by someone else.
Advice from Masters: Quotes & Tips on Finding the Right Path
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paul Coelho – Author – The Alchemist
It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you.
Tony Robbins – Author, Motivational Coach – Unlimited Power / Awaken the Giant Within / Money – Master the Game
Key Questions That Can Help You Start Thinking About What is The Right Path For You.
Discovering the right path can be confusing. We have put together some questions that can help you start thinking in the right direction. These questions are only a guide, but should help you start to think.
- What was your favorite thing to do growing up?
- When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up?
- What is your favorite topic to talk about?
- What do you like doing so much that you lose track of time?
- Whose life do you envy the most and why?
- What would you do differently with your education if you got a chance to start over?
- If you had 5 minutes and the whole world was forced to listen, what would you say?
- What would you do with your life if you had no fear?
- What would you do with your life if you had a guarantee of success?
- What would you do with your life if money wasn’t an issue?
Top 7 Books to Help you Discover your Life Purpose
What is the meaning of your life? What are you meant to do? While these are answers that only you can answer for yourself, these 7 books are invaluable guides that can help you in this most important quest.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
Authors: Eckhart Tolle,
A New Earth is a legendary book that holds the solution for all the chaos around the world. Tolle reveals the toxic power of the ego, and proves that overcoming it will result in a personal spiritual upliftment. Eventually, it will make way for world peace as well. Uncover this revolutionary concept of a stronger spiritual state of mind and make your life more purposeful and fulfilling.
Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Authors: Michael Hyatt,Daniel Harkavy
Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy will show you how you can maximize on the gift of life and become the creator of your destiny rather than its slave. Discover your purpose in this world, the strategies that will make you fulfil it and how you can go to bed everyone with contentment in your heart.
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms
Authors: Vishen Lakhiani,
Almost everyone lives based on what they’ve grown up watching. Whether it’s our careers or the way we handle our relationships, we choose the conventional approach to life. Lakhiani shows you how you can break free from this, and customize a life that suits exactly who you are.
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
Authors: Barbara Sher,Barbara Smith
Barbara Sher shows you how you can achieve the goals in your life, even the ones you’ve already given up on! Not only does she inspire you to change, she also helps you overcome the struggles you will face in the process. This book holds the solution to life’s many problems such as negativity and the fear of failure and provides practical solutions to them.
The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Authors: Chris Guillebeau,
Chris Guillebeau unravels how you can live a life with meaning. He interviewed people from various careers all around the world, and discovered the secret to their undying pursuit of life. What he shares in The Happiness of Pursuit will help you overcome all the everyday-challenges and make the most of every second of your life.
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Authors: Florence Scovel Shinn,
Florence Shinn gives you a profound, yet practical book that will make you realize what life is really about. She discloses the real art of success, and claims it isn’t always about the battles we win in life. She proves to you that life is more about what you give, because that is what will find its way back to you eventually.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Authors: Alan W. Watts,
You are an independent being, but not so independent that your deeds won’t have an effect on the world around you. Realizing this will change how you’ve been living life. It will make you a better citizen, a better caretaker of Mother Nature, and a better human being overall. Alan Watts shows you how you to start this quiet revolution.
Other concepts on Life Purpose
Resignation to Life
We have large, ambitious and exotic dreams when we are young, but as the years go by we let go of these dreams and settle for a more normal, mundane and day-to-day existence. This is the unfortunate truth for the vast majority, but not for everyone – and it does not need to be your truth either.
No Purpose
A radical, yet widely accepted belief amongst those with a strong spiritual bent, is that life has no external or material purpose. Society has brainwashed us to believe that we need to achieve so-and-so, making us all scurry around in a never-ending cycle of ‘doing’, instead of being able to just enjoy life and be in the present.
The Right Road
We often get so caught up in doing, that we forget to check if what we are doing is really helping us proceed to our desired goals or destinations. While action is important, it is critical that the action is something that it taking you closer to (and not further away) from your desired goals. Are you on the right road?