Are you living your "purpose"?

In the past, when I've been faced with this question, it used to send a punch of fear and a spike of pressure that made me want to run for the hills.  

Without a clear answer to that question, it left me thinking:

• Does that mean I should know exactly what my one thing is?
• And if I don’t, does that mean I’m not living my purpose, am I missing it?
• And jeez, if I pick my one thing, but I’m wrong? 
• Does it make me a hypocrite if I change my mind and my purpose path changes with it? 

I think the reference to “purpose” as being the one thing that we were put on this earth to do, is limiting, not all that helpful, and can harm our progress to living it.  I want to offer a different perspective.  

"Purpose" -  the lived expression of our values and our gifts.

I believe that the experience of living with purpose is one that takes shape over time. It's not as simple as an all-in, YES or NO, PASS or FAIL, DOING IT or NOT DOING IT.  

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