Finding Your Purpose: Coaching Mental Models for Clarity

Purpose Coaching

This article is about how to approach Finding your Purpose.

As a coach, I’ve been helping now dozens of people with this challenge, and I can assure you with full confidence — clarity can be attained. There is a method to the madness.

There is a certain methodology and specific tools of thinking that you can apply to gain clarity on what your purpose in life may be.

The approach we are applying here involves deploying several systems of thinking, but really, essentially what we do here falls into the category of self-coaching.

Throughout this article I want you to think about this question: ✍️ How can I be my own coach?

You can become your own coach by asking deep, intelligent questions and use the tools that I am sharing with you to navigate your mind and find the answers that are already hidden within it.

Let’s begin.

Understand the Nature of Purpose

First, we need to start by just meditating on the very concept of purpose itself.

Entertain this thought for a second: the purpose can only exist within the context of others. If there are no others, there is no purpose.

Imagine you are Will Smith in the movie “I Am Legend”. A deadly virus devours the whole planet and you are the lone survivor who just happens to have the immunity. Everyone is gone. You are the last human on earth. What purpose do you have?

The only purpose you have at that point is to go through life watching the world go by. That’s the only thing you have.

Probably the most disturbing part of your new existence would be hope — that hopeful thought that maybe there are some other survivors out there will be slowly eating your mind from the inside. So you will be wandering the earth searching for people like you and maybe that would become your purpose.

But what if you knew that there are no other people? You’re completely and entirely alone.

You see. Any conversation about the purpose becomes nonsensical at this point.