I've been desperately searching for my life's purpose for many years. ne

Question:ok, i've read all the books--"48 days to the work you love," "the purpose-driven life," etc. etc. i still have not found what i need to do with my life. my career has been somewhat lucrative, but very unsatisfying, boring, etc. here's my problem--i'm highly creative, yet highly analytical. i'm entreprenuerial, yet academically driven. i'm intellectually curious and easily bored. i need a challenge and am a hard worker, but must have autonomy--(i've always been self-employed and would have a hard time going back to employee status). maybe i'm just a hopeless case of someone who wants too much out of life and work...i'm just tired of settling and would love to live out the rest of my life doing something that i enjoy that brings something to others....(i've been a fitness expert 20 years/loved it but no money)...(i've been in sales 15 years--don't like it, but there is money)...(i've been a radio talk show host/loved it, but no money)...(accepted to 4 law schools, changed my mind

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ok, i've read all the books--"48 days to the work you love," "the purpose-driven life," etc. etc. i still have not found what i need to do with my life. my career has been somewhat lucrative, but very unsatisfying, boring, etc. here's my problem--i'm highly creative, yet highly analytical. i'm entreprenuerial, yet academically driven. i'm intellectually curious and easily bored. i need a challenge and am a hard worker, but must have autonomy--(i've always been self-employed and would have a hard time going back to employee status). maybe i'm just a hopeless case of someone who wants too much out of life and work...i'm just tired of settling and would love to live out the rest of my life doing something that i enjoy that brings something to others....(i've been a fitness expert 20 years/loved it but no money)...(i've been in sales 15 years--don't like it, but there is money)...(i've been a radio talk show host/loved it, but no money)...(accepted to 4 law schools, changed my mind

...have you asked your maker why He made you this
way ?...perhaps it was to learn all you have learned thus far in your quest...nothing is ever for "not" after all...it's not always one specific "blinders-on" goal...it sounds as though you were made to be versatile...I don't know your faith, but if you believe in a higher power, then meditate and pray...you won't remain in the dark...even if it's just to have the path before you lit, it is a path that will blend into a bigger picture...I'm 54 yrs old and I've worn many hats

i guess, u r just too choosy. but hey, dats life. i've always wanted to be in medical school before, and here i am now, a medical student who really wanna quit my study.

Try a program based on principals,not personalities. Certification in a substance abuse program has made my life worth living. i help people to get their life back on track and am paid well for it.

One person's is no different from the next, and that is to find love.

Who gives a dang how much money you have? If you concern past your mate, your priorities are jumbled.

Stop trying so hard, the point of life is to live.

Stop wasting your time trying to find it in books and find it by getting out there and DOING something. Nothing against reading, but the purpose of life is simple: actively get out there and help as many people as you can. Right now you appear to be focused on yourself: your career, your self-characteristics, your autonomy... you need to throw all that away and start focusing on others. Get involved. Volunteer. Do charity work. Find a job that helps other people. That is the purpose of life- regardless of religion, creed, or career.

Wow, you sound a lot like me. I can relate. I've done almost, not quite, but just about everything in the world and it's hard to narrow it down. After all you can only keep doing everything.
I've realised after trying so many things that my 'purpose' is to try everything. It took a long time to realise that 'doing everything' is a thing to do in itself. An end in itself not a means.
Underneath all that I found a common thread of creativity that I indulge along the way.

Here are just a few things I've done in the last few years:

Army
Fruit shop
Pathology: Phlebotomy certificate.
Mechanic
Laboratory
Office Machine Repairer
Labourer
Motorcycle shop
furniture maker
Cook Berlin, Germany
Homeless in Netherlands
Editing for biggest agency in the world
Advertising
Art buying for largest ad agency in the world
University: English and Linguistics
Post graduate work in Applied linguistics
Started a million dollar business
Renovated a 150 year old building
Acting school – NIDA

and heaps more!!!

Perhaps you need to find someone who is the exact opposite of you and see if both of you can work something out together. I don't mean romantically but business or social wise. I think the Yin And Yang principle might work out best for you.

Best of luck to you. Later.

I Understand...I don't think we are supposed to ask on that one...I mean ask all you want...But, bottom line, I think it's up to each of us to figure out our own...Good Luck ...let me know if you get there first... :)

So why not...read a book ;)

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, may permit you to realize happiness as you climb the ladders of success.

Just one more... ;)

You can make money in any way you need to in order to live the life you desire, this is evident. What you seek, therefore, shall not be considered in relation to that.

Perhaps you stand at the precipice...looking down into a dark abyss. The darkness is alluring, yet also enigmatic. You now find yourself on the verge of that which is the only truly amazing construct mankind has ever erected.

Let me be the first to welcome you into the fold...

Your life, henceforth, will never be the same...

Thirty-five years and you don't know yet? How can you expect complete strangers to give direction when you've already spent more than three decades on the hunt?
If you are looking for a purpose for you life I would suggest you go to God. Strange as that may seem to you, it is a good start to find where you belong.
The only valid source I know of in finding Him and who He is would be the holy bible. All sixty-six books of the old testament and the new testament. It is a hard study but if you are as intelligent as you lead us to believe I think that you'll find you really need to use your brain to understand what is going on in that collection of books. I mean you really have to think! There are laws in those books that are put in there for a reason. What's the reason, and I'm asking you for the "real reason".
You say that you've been accepted to four law schools, well I would invite you to read a lawyers work on purpose. Her name is Constance Cumbey.
She has a lot to say about the "new age" and it's relationship to God.
If you really want to find a purpose then study that bible. You will find it. It isn't an entertaining read like a "Robert Jordan" series, but a study that really will occupy the rest of your life.
You aren't going to lose anything trying it.
All the best to you in your search.

the search will come to you.