Start Training to Live Your Life’s Purpose

By James M. Rink

Start training to live your life’s Purpose.  

“Finding your Purpose” is more than just a cliché or a dream that will never be fulfilled. It’s actually a strategic and competitive tool for a better, happier, healthier and more profitable way of life that most people never use.  

Living your Purpose is foundational to Strengthening your Emotional Intelligence.  Your Emotional Intelligence has enormous value in today’s competitive business world.  

Consider this…

In the Industrial Age we hired for Muscles.  To build railroads, factories and manufacturing.  

In the Computer Age we hired for Brains or Intelligence.  To build technology, communication and medical systems.

Now, we have built technology far more superior than the human brain. However, Technology and Artificial Intelligence LACK the POWER of emotion or feelings.  So today, we are hiring Hearts or Emotional Intelligence to build leaders and technology. 

Today, training yourself to live your life’s Purpose will strengthen your Emotional Intelligence and empower you to better jobs TOMORROW.  

Here are three steps to help:

Step One: Strengthen Your Feeling Words

Neurologist António Damásio says,

“We are NOT THINKING machines.  We are FEELING machines that THINK”.

Data shows that humans make decisions not from our intellect but rather by how we feel. 

Your brain’s limbic is where you feel your feelings.  However, the limbic has no language capabilities, just feelings.  Language is in your Neocortex, the outer casing of your brain. 

Strengthening your internal communication between these two very different parts of your brain, your feelings and your words, is essential to understanding the power of your feelings.  

You are not a thinking machine. You are a feeling machine that thinks.  Ponder this concept.  How does this insight make you feel?  

Step Two: Your Core Feelings  

Your core feelings are the feelings you carve to feel and organically love to give to others.  

When you think of the people who loved you, who have helped you, become the person you are today, how did these people make you feel?  

Additionally, what feelings do you love to give the people in your life?  Make a short list of your 3 core feelings from this list…

Love, Joy, Happy, Safe, Secure, Free, Peace, Patient, Hope, Gratitude, Passion, Compassion, Protected, Alive, Care, Serenity, Inspire, Fascination or Pride.

Michael recently attended my Purpose of You Workshop thru his employer where he works in human resources at a large corporation.  Before taking the job, Michael was a comedic actor.  After getting married and starting his family he needed the stability of a paycheck.  Thus, his current job.

I asked Michael the same questions I am asking you.  What feelings do you love to give the people in your life?  I asked Michael, ‘do you find yourself going to great lengths to make your children laugh or surprised?’  “Yes!”, Michael said. He then he told the group a few funny stories about going to great lengths just to hear his children laugh.  

I do the same thing to my son, James.

I said, Michael, your core feelings are ‘joy and happiness’.  You love giving the feelings of joy and happiness to people.

Step three: Organically Give Your Core Feelings to People

I further encouraged Michael to see the pattern of comedy, joy and laughter in his life.  As an actor in comedy.  As a father using comedy to make his children laugh and now as an HR executive.  For Michael to bring his Purpose to work is anchored in bringing laughter and joy to the people he connects with at work.  It is no wonder Michael works for a company with the Purpose of making people smile.  

Today, train yourself to intentionally give your core feelings to the people in your world. Your Purpose is to give your core feelings to people.  Use My Purpose of You formula to help… 

Feelings + Actions + People = Purpose

If this blog speaks to you, I believe it is because your Purpose is calling you to something greater.  You can discover more at PurposeOfYou.com.  

Cheryl DeSantis - Chief People Officer at SmileDirectClub calls Purpose of You is THE team development opportunity for our times.  

I invite you to Join our Movement on Purpose.

Connect with me at JamesMRink on social media.  Please share this blog with People you care about.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.