Is Your Inner Child Proud of You?

October 23, 2007

So often we spend all of our lives asking ourselves questions about our purpose in life. We talk about finding our passion, about discovering why we are here on this Earth. We want to know why we are here and what we are supposed to be doing, but deep down inside there is a little voice that already knows the answers to all of these questions. In fact, this little voice inside has known all along. This little voice has never been distracted by the rest of the world. It’s never picked profits over happiness. It’s never given a second thought to whether what it wanted was worthwhile in the long run. That little voice is you inner child and it can’t believe what you’ve let yourself become.

How to Find Your Passion and Your Purpose

I’ve already written about the fact that I find a ?life’s purpose? to be a pretty dubious idea, but that won’t stop me from helping you find yours if you really feel you need it. In fact, it’s the easiest thing in the world to find. We like to make finding our purpose hard on ourselves to make it seem more grand and ostentatious. We think that because it’s suppose to encompass our whole life, our purpose must be something massive and worthy. In reality it’s so much simpler than that. Your life’s purpose, you passion, lie inside that little voice we’ve talked about.

When you sit in the office and stare longingly out the window. That’s your inner child wondering how in the hell it ever let you get where you are today. You inner child is regretting ever letting you take a job you didn’t want just for something you called ?security,? which is a myth considering you could be fired at any time. That feeling of a gentle pull in your gut that makes you want to go do something creative, that’s your inner child wondering what the hell went wrong.

What Did You Want to Do As a Kid?

That’s the big question. What did you always want to do. When you were a kid you did the things you wanted to do because you wanted to do them. It didn’t matter if you cared about the same things two weeks down the road, you just did them now for the sake of doing them now. You didn’t get stuck in analysis paralysis. If you had to decide between three different games you wanted to play, hell, you just picked them all! It wasn’t a big deal back then to say, ?I want it all.? Why? Because you weren’t concerned with pleasing other people. All you had to do was keep yourself happy and entertained and you were gold.

Want to find what you’re passionate about in life? Go ask your inner child.

We All Have Our Bills to Pay, but What Does it Matter if You Aren’t Happy?

You can pursue the money or you can pursue happiness and God love you if you’ve found a way to do both. Most of us in end up chasing after jobs we think we want, or jobs that will keep our heads above water for a little while longer. We promise ourselves that it’s just temporary, we’ll pursue our dreams in another year or two, once we’ve saved up enough, or settled in enough. But somewhere along the way we get sidetracked and things just move on without us. One day we find ourselves staring longingly out the window with an inner child that just wonders where it all went so wrong.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

We tell ourselves that it does have to be this way. We say that we must have money to live. We tell ourselves that we can’t just quit our jobs and pursue some career we’ve never tried. We tell ourselves that, but the truth is just the opposite. We’ve grown out of believing that everything works out for the best. Somewhere along the way we just stopped believing in a good and just world, or in miracles. We stopped believing that things worked out for the best every time, with out fail.

If You Believe That You Create Your World Around You, Then You Cannot Believe in an Unsatisfactory Ending.

Most people out there who claim to be ?growth oriented? are really just fooling themselves. They talk about the ?law of attraction? and read all the books they can get their hands on, but somehow their life always stays exactly where it has always stayed. They claim to believe that they create their reality as they wish it to be, but somehow they always remain so unhappy. Why? Because they refuse to accept that risk is the catalyst for change.

Your inner child never shied away from risk. You always climbed to the top of the tree, even though falling could mean a serious injury. That didn’t bother you back then because it wasn’t a possibility that existed for you. You just didn’t think about it. When you were a kid you loved to explore. Sure it may have only been in the thick growth of bushes in your back yard, but to you that was as awe inspiring as the rain forest. Now we think about all of the bad things that could happen to us if our risk doesn’t go as planned. Our inner child only knows what he wants, not what could come to pass. It doesn’t know failure.

Want to Find Passion? Want to Find Your Purpose?

From Now On, Ask Yourself These Three Questions:

1.What would I love to do right now?
2.What have I become?
3.What am I becoming?

If you want to get what you’ve always gotten, just continue to do what you’ve always done. If you’d like something new, you know what must be done.

Stop disappointing your inner child. Live your life like you’re glad to be here.

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