Exploring your life purpose

Whether you’re exploring a new career path or redefining your current role, connecting your gifts, passions, and values can guide you toward a more fulfilling life. Remember, you do matter, and finding purpose is an evolving journey that can bring deeper meaning at every stage.

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Image with a "What gets you up in the Morning" Practice. The practice is as follows "As you begin to explore or reexamine your rense or purpose, begin by asking yourself this simple question: What gets you up in the morning?"

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Start your exploration by asking yourself this simple question: What gets you up in the morning?

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Try these strategies to create more flow in your life and more deeply experience purpose and meaning.

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Developing a purpose statement is one way to discover your calling

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Purpose in Times of Uncertainty Webinar with Richard Leider
Guided meditation: Connecting with Values A study by researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that a meditation practice increases one’s sense of life purpose. (Jacobs, et al., 2011)

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This website is brought to you by the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, with contributions from our friends at the University Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Wellbeing and Burnout-Prevention Program, and Hennepin Healthcare Services / Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute.

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