Post 7 - Examples

Examples of the Discovery Method

          Early in this blog, I promised to give examples of people finding their purpose by using the ‘discovery’ method.

          Example # 1 is me.  You have already read my experience that tells how I discovered my purpose.

          Example # 2 is the story in the book, and the fictitious characters in it.  They are all real people, they are me.  Each character represents a problem that was troubling me as I tried to cope with the unexpected loss of my job and my purpose.  At the beginning of the story, Kelli was suffering anxiety because she was in danger of not accomplishing her chosen purpose.  She was blaming someone else, but the story tells that she eventually realized the problem was within her, she was following the wrong purpose.

Does that sound familiar?  That is what happened to me.  My purpose had become to own and operate a business, but I did not have the natural ability to do that.  This is an example of a character in the story representing a problem I was experiencing.  Several of the characters represent other problems, and they all find their purpose by using the ‘discovery’ method.

          Example # 3 is Virginia, my wife.  She discovered her purpose early, she wanted to help sick and elderly people.  She trained to become a nurse and she began following the signposts.  She is now 75 years old, has changed jobs many times but has never changed her purpose.  She still works two days a week, teaching younger nurses how to care for elderly patients.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

          Example # 4 is my daughter.  She is much like me, she changed jobs several times before she found an ability she did not realize she had.  She learned a new computer technology by working for a company that was developing it, loved it, then followed the signposts to her current job as a computer software engineer.  She has installed complex computer systems all over the United States, Canada and Europe.  As I write this, she will soon travel to Asia to install a new computer system for the second largest internet provider in the world.  She has found her purpose, and she loves it.

Example # 5 is my son, his experience is much like Virginia.  He discovered his ability early, trained for it, then followed the signposts that led him from one company to another until an important international customer told him that if he opened his own engineering company, they would give him a contract.  He has found his purpose, loves it, and his contract should last longer than he cares to continue working. 

Each of these examples is different, but each person discovered an ability, loved using it, then followed the signposts that led them along their path of purpose.

The ‘discovery’ method I describe in this blog is more than a religious theory, it is practical and it works.  I didn’t invent this method, I merely recognized it.  People have been using it for thousands of years. 

If you are searching for a purpose, give it a try.