What is your soul purpose?

Your soul purpose is to experience your magnificent self, your highest energy or qualities, while going through the context of life.

In other words, your soul’s purpose is to come here to enjoy the adventure of life by going through the ups and downs, but being untouched by the circumstances.

It’s like a champion tennis player on the court—they just enjoy the beauty of the game. It’s like they’re playing on their own, there’s no crowd. And suddenly it’s announced, “Championship point Roger Federer! Game, set, match.” He wins the point and the game is over. For him, it’s just a joy.

So, we’re meant to go through life like that. To go through the ups and downs and the confrontation and the rudeness. We’re here to face the physical problems and the people screaming at us and financial loss and relationship break-up. That’s the challenge aspect of life, but life is more than that.

There’s also the glory of seeing a newborn; or seeing black cockatoos flying across the sky, making that beautiful, historic sound; seeing the beautiful ocean and hearing the sound of the waves; and feeling the warmth of the sun at the end of Winter, when it’s still a little bit cold—that’s Divine!

Being unaffected by life’s ups and downs

We’re here to go through all of that and to feel unaffected by it, particularly while we’re facing the challenges. So if someone is rude to us we can feel joy.

When Roger Federer is losing by one point, 5-6 down, and it’s his second serve, will he feel nervous? No, he’ll compose. Then, bang—he serves an ace! The score is back to deuce.

We can feel peace and joy in the moment that someone screams at us. And compassion and understanding, because there’s a reason why someone screams at us. The person has their own issues, handed down from many generations, bottled up inside them. So they’re just releasing that tension. They’re asking you to take a little of their burden, because they are in pain. So you say, “Yeah, no worries mate, my truck is big, I can take a bit of your load.”

That is how our life is meant to go.

Your soul purpose and your work

When you understand your soul purpose as that, you can see it’s got nothing to do with your job. When you’re living that soul purpose, it doesn’t matter where you are or what your work is.

You could have no job at all and feel, “Ah, beautiful!” Or you could have a job where your boss is rude and they give a promotion to someone else that doesn’t really deserve it, but it doesn’t worry you. Because the joy is inside you.

You might work in a factory, like the people in the past that put the bottle tops on the bottles. That’s literally what they did all day. And if you are living your soul purpose, you don’t feel “Oh, my God, I can’t wait until I get a better job that’s a bit more respectable.” You feel, “Oh, what a beautiful job! It’s so simple and so peaceful. I get paid for being at peace. I love it!”

Living your soul purpose under pressure

When you’re living your soul purpose, and you’re under pressure with deadlines in your job, nothing happens to you. You know you perform much better when you’re calm and peaceful than when you’re stressed. So you don’t buy into that outside circumstance of pressure and deadlines. You’re just relaxed and calm and confident.

When you’re at work, you might pretend you’re a little stressed, because if you’re very calm and peaceful the boss is going to think you need more work!

So you might have to act 3% to pretend that you’re a little bit stressed, because they’re paying you. But inside, you’re not stressed at all. You’re not wasting time – you’re working hard and you’re getting things done, no problem. And you feel good because the company benefits and you benefit. But when you’re living your soul purpose, the pressure doesn’t get to you.

Summary

Your soul’s purpose is to enjoy the adventure of life by going through the ups and downs, but being unaffected by the circumstances—remaining peaceful, calm and understanding.

This is an attitude that can be applied to any job at all. So don’t worry about trying to align your work with your soul purpose. Firstly work at yourself, because when you are living that soul purpose then you enjoy every job and any job, or no job at all.