What You're Meant to BE

<p>I'd love to offer you something to consider: I don’t think you were “meant” to be a coach or a teacher or actress or painter. You weren’t meant to guide psychedelic journeys or catch babies. Or be a mom or dad or any kind of parent. You weren’t meant to do any specific career or type of work.</p><p><br /> </p><p>I know this can seem counter to what you may hear about “life purpose.”  And a lot of people’s <i>raison dêtre</i> (their most important reason or purpose for existing) focuses on their career. This is especially common in modern industrialized societies.</p><p> </p><p>However, this focus on career or work as our purpose can cause a lot of problems, especially existential ones.</p><p> </p><p>This is particularly true when that career doesn’t go as we hoped, and even if everything is going really well, it can still create a problem because we are putting our Soul Purpose into the hands of external circumstances. And last I checked – we don’t have control over those things. </p><p><br /> </p><p>As you know, at Rebel Buddhist we are all about freedom. If we think we’re meant to be here for a specific career, we end up putting our purpose into something outside of us, dependent on other people, or the economy, or whether people will pay us or agree that they need what we think they do. </p><p> </p><p>That’s really freaking stressful – and while we have our moments where we have to disappoint others to stay true to ourselves, our Soul Purpose is not supposed to be stressful to embody all the time.</p><p><br /> </p><p>And trust me, your soul purpose for landing on <strong>this </strong>planet Earth in <strong>this </strong>body at <strong>this </strong>time was not so you could DO something that was stressful as heck to figure out how to embody for the rest of your life.</p><p><br /> </p><p>I DO believe that we are all here in this life for a very specific reason. And I DO think work is love in action. AND I also feel that work is just one delivery system of <i>many </i>through which we can express our gifts