Demartini on Purpose, Self-Worth and Time Management

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Dr John Demartini answers your questions about purpose, self-worth, time management, and knowing when to quit.

Q: Do you believe that everyone has a specific purpose to live for? How can people go about finding their purpose?

Dr Demartini: Everyone lives with and by a unique set of priorities or values, or things they feel are most to least important to their lives. Whatever is highest priority on their list of values – the top one – has been termed for centuries the “telos”, or the “end in mind”. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich called it the “chief aim.” Teleology, the study of meaning and purpose is derived from studying this highest value, or telos. So everyone’s highest value is the foundation of their present life purpose. As everyone’s set of values evolves through their stages of life, so too their individual purposes gradually evolve.

By determining your highest value, by following the Demartini Value Determination Process (see www.drdemartini.com – left menu – Demartini Value Determination) you can become aware of what your life demonstrates as truly most important to you, and you can then compose a statement of purpose that revolves around it. Your purpose is an expression of your highest value. It is the most efficient and effective pathway to fulfilling it. It is what you are spontaneously inspired from within to fulfill, and through which to be of service. It is the service you love providing, that you cannot wait to get up in the morning to do.

Q: There is so much I want to accomplish during the day but cannot seem to make it. How can I raise my energy levels throughout the day and better manage my time?

Read the full Q&A in the digital magazine, Issue 13, pages 9 and 10.