It's easy to be useful. When you're useful, you receive external validation that you are worth something to someone else. When you seek purpose, you are striving to be something for yourself.
In the grand scheme of things, would you rather serve others or serve yourself? If you answered yourself, congratulations. You want a sense of purpose. In order to find it, begin evaluating where you are useful to others. When you have a list of those scenarios, play out what it would mean for you to swap out those acts of usefulness for acts that fulfill you and only you.
The goal is to establish actions that cultivate you feeling good for yourself before you step into a space of being of use to someone else.
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Non-FictionThis book is designed for you to read any chapter you want, when it suits you. The chapters are intentionally brief so you only read what you need. It's a culmination of takeaways from therapy both as a practicing MHC-LP and as a client of therapy.
