What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth. Eventually, we each have to answer one glorious question: What am I really here to do? Your job in life is to find your job, which might involve something as simple as becoming an uplifting boss or an honorable friend. Regardless, once you discover exactly how you were meant to use your life and then spend your energy in service to that calling, real joy can’t help but follow. . .Your life’s work is to find your life’s work–and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it.” –Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2001
I love this quote from Oprah. I think she very clearly states what our job is on this planet and in our lifetime. I love how she calls being connected with your purpose “living your truth;” that really is very beautifully stated. My point would be that living your truth can mean many things. For some, it involves working to strip away the un-truths acquired over time and working through the issues that keep you stuck in the past. This is the letting go process. For others, the remnants of not-self have settled and we now are patiently tending our spirit, waiting for our passions and purpose to reveal themselves. This is the discovery process. Others still have already identified their purpose and are working hard to live in service to that calling each and every day.
Living your truth is about doing your life’s work; it’s about jumping in wherever you are in the evolutionary process and working towards knowing your purpose and living in service to it. Living your truth is a process and even working through the hard stuff feels good because in the bigger picture, you know it is in service to finding your higher self and connecting to your life’s purpose. You are joyful, because you are being authentic, because you are taking responsibility for your life and because you are in service to something greater than your self. When you are living your truth, you are growing, you are empowered and you are a light to others.
Check in with yourself from time to time. Be sure that you are living your truth. Make this life count!
So very beautiful, Jodi; thank you for sharing it! I frequently love O’s “What I Know For Sure” segment. She has a way of saying what most of us either feel or need to hear. And she says it poignantly.
Make this life count, indeed!
Jodi,
Living our life’s work – our life purpose – is essential for a fulfilling life. That quote from Oprah is one of my favorites because she identifies what life purpose is AND makes it crystal clear that it takes work (action) and tenacity (faith) to make it happen.
I love how you stated ” When you are living your truth, your are growing, you are empowered and you are a light to others.” Can I quote you?!
Hi Miki, Thank you for reading my blog and for your comment! You are welcome to quote me! Thank you, Jodi