Finding your life's purpose

Map My Life Now believes in people following their dreams.

We offer career counseling as a service.

One of the things I like to point out in career counseling is that you can choose to follow the dreams you have AND be smart about choosing a career.

Now I know that from our society we hear to be smart about choosing a career as though it's about dollars and cents. The focus becomes on being a "good citizen and member of society". Which often can be perceived as - be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, policeman, firefighter or business owner. The impression we get from what we hear from our parents, we are told you can be whatever you want to be, but as we get older, we receive different messages like the undercurrent of "but whatever it is it needs to pay your bills and not in a way that would embarrass us". So does that mean starting a rock band falls in the good member of society or things that would embarrass our parents? Shouldn't there be some things in the middle of those two? Like, can't we ask a person- What things make you happy?

When I work with someone, I like to ask a lot of questions to see who s/he is and what s/he can identify about himself/ herself that give indications of what a fulfilling and joyous life might be like for that individual. For instance, the questions below:

1. What do you enjoy doing that you're good at?

2. What do you dream about becoming?

3. What comes easy to you that you could do often?

4. What is hard for you but is so worth it?

5. What do you want your daily life to look like?

6. What environment do you want to live in?

7. What things do you imagine spending discretionary money on regularly throughout your life?

8. Describe how your life would change if these things were going to begin being your life next month? next year?

9. How would the relationships that you have now change?

10. What if this could be your life for the next 5-10 years and then you went back to the life you have now? Would that be enough for you to feel fulfilled?

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