Why A True Purpose Only Has 4 Aspects

In our Level 2 workshop, we help people find a true purpose that focuses on the four essential needs of the mind.

There's actually seven centres of the mind, but three of those centers are self-governing emotional centres and kinda take care of themselves — gut, heart, intuition.

Your gut feeling lets you know if your decisions and actions are right for you, and if they are, you feel a Desire to do them. Your intuition lets you know if your expressions and understanding are right for you, and if they are, you feel Inspired. And your heart sings when both of those centers are aligned, and you feel true happiness.

But desire, inspiration, and happiness are not things you can find — only feed. And it's the four main centres of the mind that feed them — decisions, actions, expressions, and understanding. So when it comes to finding your true purpose, those are the four things you need to focus on, and the highest version of them is Adventure, Talent, Passion, and Optimism:

• Adventurous decisions

• Talented actions

• Passionate expressions

• Optimistic understanding

That keeps things really simple — there are only four things you need to do to live the perfect life.

For example, if you’re excited by what you do (Adventure), and you're good at it (Talent)— you'll really want to do it (Desire). And if you’re doing what suits you as a person (Passion), and you understand it really well (Optimism), you’ll know exactly what to do (Inspiration). Combine that all together, and you will feel true lasting happiness.

Compare that to dreading what you do (Dread), and you kinda suck at doing it (Mediocrity), you won’t feel much desire to do it at all (Apathy). And if you're doing what others expect (Conformity), and you don't understand it and hence don't believe it's possible (Pessimism), you're not going to know how to do it (Uncertainty). Combine that all together, and you'll never be happy.

In short, when it comes to finding your true purpose in life, you don’t need to identify your Desires, Inspirations, or Happiness. They'll come to you naturally from living the most Adventurous, Talented, Passionate, and Optimistic version of it you can. There are ways to better manage those three centres when you live it — which we cover in Level 3 and Level 4 — but not when you go find it in Level 2.