Is There a Point to Your Life?

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Published by Rachelle Disbennett-Lee
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
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When you look at your life, can you see the point? Everyone's life has a point. The point of your life can change as you change. The point in one phase of your life might be to raise your family. As you move to another phase the point may be to discover what is most important to you. It is important to identify the point of your life and if that is what you want your life to be about. If you can't find the point of where you are in life, it might be useful to give yourself some time to discover the point.

It is okay from time to time to be pointless. That can actually be the point. There are times when we all need to just be. In that time of pointlessness, we often discover the point of the next phase of our lives.

Coaching

Knowing the point of your life can be a powerful way to discover what direction you should be heading. If you are not going in that direction, it can mean several things. You might be off course and need to adjust or you might have changed points. Life evolves and as we evolve the point of life changes. Our lives take on different phases at different times and those phases bring a different point. It helps to understand the phase we are in so that we can understand what point our life has at this time.

Coaching Question

What is the point of your life?

Coaching Challenge

Take time today to journal about the point of you life. Write down what is most important to you right now and how that affects the point of your life. If you are having difficulty discovering the point, ask a good friend or trusted confidant to support you in articulating the point.

Daily Success

Phase of life + What is most important now = Your point for life

Quotes

"You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go, and you can change the road you're on at any time." Jinger Heath

"There is a point to every life." Coach Lee