Finding Your Soul's Purpose - A Common Mistake

Gil Sim • June 29, 2022

I often get people coming to me and saying...


'I know there is something I need to do!'

'There is something more I need to be doing!'

'Please tell me what it is!'


And it is at this point that I need to tell them:  It is a big misconception that soul purpose involves you DOING something. Creating something. Helping someone. Etc.


Recently, I did a reading for someone who's soul purpose was quite literally the opposite of doing stuff. In fact, this person had a pattern of being so generous and giving in multiple lifetimes that one of his soul's purposes for this lifetime was to understand that everything he'd done was already good enough and and to learn to relax in this knowledge! 


I also saw that because this was part of his soul's purpose, he would manifest people in his life who would help him by telling him that everything he'd already done was good enough.


Cool yeah? Your soul purpose can literally be to learn to relax and not try to do more!


Rather than thinking of your soul's purpose as some kind of secret mission, I find it more useful to think of soul purpose as something for you to EXPERIENCE.


Typically, your soul has a number of things it wants to go through in a single lifetime. This could include:


  • Performing certain set tasks 
  • Completing unfinished business with people from previous lifetimes
  • Remedying regrets from previous lifetimes
  • Experiencing certain types of joy
  • Embodying and sharing gifts and useful qualities with the world
  • Modelling positive behaviors for others
  • Giving wisdom to others
  • Learning lessons
  • Healing soul wounds
  • ...And more


As you can see from this list, performing soul missions (i.e. doing things) is really only one of many things in your soul's purpose. So, when you focus on 'What do I need to do?', you may miss out on all the other rich aspects of your soul's purpose.


You might miss out on fully understanding why your life has organized itself the way it has and why you have attracted the types of experiences you have manifested!


A more holistic view of your soul's purpose as an experience your soul wants to experience will help you better put two-and-two together on things like....


  • Why you have the personality that you do
  • Why you are good at certain things
  • Why certain types of challenges keep appearing in your life
  • Why certain types of people keep showing up in your life
  • Why you don't seem to be able to 'get on' with your mission (the doing part of your soul's purpose)
  • Things you may be missing out on seeing about your soul's purpose that have nothing at all to do with completing tasks, or helping others, or creating things
  • Why people around you tend to approach you for certain types of things (e.g. advice, counsel, conversation)


i.e. When you know your soul's purpose in its rich entirety, your entire life will make sense in a way that did not occur to you before. I am talking not just about making sense of the 'doing' mission-oriented parts of your life, but of literally EVERY SINGLE THING you experience in each aspect of your life suddenly weaving together into a beautiful tapestry centered around the unique Being called YOU.


And my job... is to Behold YOU.

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