Why You Can't Find Alignment With Your Purpose
The life you are living might not be your true purpose. 😮
The signs have been there for a while now, and seem to grow more intense with age. For most, this inner sense begins around age 40.
During the earlier decades of your life, you’ve followed a compass towards what you thought was true north success. It was based on definitions of success that came from your parents, role models, and culture.
You were surrounded by your peers, friends, and colleagues… all sharing a similar compass. Any time you doubted the compass, you were quick to correct yourself by comparison with others.
That compass pointed towards getting the education. Landing better jobs. The promotions. The marriage, children, a 401K… just like everyone else. Checking all the boxes.
But something feels off. There’s a restlessness inside you. You try buying fancy things, ala midlife crisis, while some choose to sedate themselves with prescriptions or alcohol.
You’ve competed and won in several areas of life, followed the success compass of society, but by middle age you start to wonder if all of that sacrifice you’ve made was worth the false security that is sold to us.
You used to feel ambitious and driven in your youth, but now things feel stagnant and stuck in a routine. You wonder if something is wrong with you, as you observe others still grinding.
Here’s the real truth. Nothing is wrong with you. It’s just that you’ve begun to awaken and have now started paying attention to your inner psyche.
You’ve gone down a very long path ignoring who you should have become, tolerating things as society dictated to you. Taking advice only from those stuck in the same routine, just a little further ahead of you.
At some point, you’ll realize that the life you’ve been living isn’t in alignment with who you are. Maybe you’ve reached that realization, already.
The question then becomes; What will you do about it?
The vast majority will ignore this moment, and choose to remain where they are. Their greatest fear is the unknown, as evidenced by decades of taking the safe, predictable options in life choices.
The courageous few will choose to take on the challenge to get back on alignment with who they truly are. They recognize it won’t be easy, it won’t be fast, and that they’ll have to unlearn many things as they will have to learn new things.
I can tell you this. Building a life that perfectly aligns with you is highly rewarding. Once you choose to awaken, you’ll never look at the world the same. You won’t hear words the same. You’ll see in vivid colors that you used to ignore.
Hopefully I’ll see you on the other side.
-Tony
