As Millennial's deal with adulting, they ask themselves, What is my purpose? What is the reason for my existence?
Today on the "Transform your Mind with Coach Myrna Podcast", I interview the Author of "The Millenial's Playbook to Adulting", Arika L. Pierce
The first step is to find your passion. This is where you find that
you can be in it all day long and you don't feel tired and you don't feel
bored and you're just illuminated and just joyful and and it's a great way
to live your life. You know when you live
a passionless life just because you're making money does not mean that you are living with passion.
Let me share a personal story. My daughter always felt that she was supposed to be a
Psychologist, getting her degree and everything. Along that journey
she read Nelson's Mandela's book "A long walk to freedom" and decided that
she needed to become a political advocate and she just switched right
away. She applied and got into American University,
the top political science university with no background in politics.
Today she's working for a company right next door
to the White House, and doing some great great work at Common Cause.
I didn't even think about that until right now and that's what I like about
the Holy Spirit or of my Higher Self
things pop into my head. It is also an example of leaning your ladder up against the wrong
building! My next question is a follow-up to the first and it is do you agree that
we're all meant to do a certain thing on this earth? And what is your advice
to Millennial's to find out their purpose? How Can Millennial's Find Their Purpose?
Let's say using my daughter story that she didn't know what
her purpose was. She went to school and maybe felt
psychology is a job that can make her money that's where a lot of Millennial's
Park right, so what advice do you give them?
To answer your first question in terms of do I think we're
all here to do something, yes I definitely believe that we individually
are all here to bring some value or offer something back to the
world. I believe some of us it takes longer than others
but; I do believe we are all here to accomplish something and I think we
probably give different weight to what we accomplish. Just because what you believe it is something small it can be
transformational to somebody else. In terms of what I believe Millennial's can
do in terms of finding their purpose, I actually think it starts with a very
simple concept and that is honestly taking time to think and to plan and I
think when we sit back and you when you look at your life if you plan it with
the level of detail that you plan for example a vacation you'd be surprised
about you know how much how differently you might view things.
I recommend taking one hour a week to evaluate where you are and where you want to go.
The timeline might be where I want to go this week, it might be where I want to go
in the next year, in the next two years or five years from now. Whatever time
period I feel I need to think about it and plan for at that time for example if you're thinking
I hate my job, it's not fulfilling this is
not my purpose. Then you know think about what would make you feel more
purposeful? What are the types of positions or jobs that you would like to
be in?