How To Find Your Life’s Purpose

How To Find Your Life’s Purpose

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The Lantern Bearer

In a vast desert, there was a village surrounded by darkness.

At night, people would get lost in the dunes and never return.

The elders said:

“If someone could build a path of lanterns stretching to the next town, no one would ever be lost again.”

They elders hired men, the strongest in the lands…

These men carried dozens of lanterns at once, but the weight exhausted them before they reached even a mile.

They hired the smartest men around, who mapped perfect routes, but quit after one night when the sandstorms erased their progress.

Then came a man who had lost his brother to the darkness.

He was one single man, with skinny arms and not the brightest.

The elders ignored him,

“We’re not paying you! If the strongest and the smartest could not do it, you have no chance.”

But the man didn’t want gold. For him, it was the thing he could not live without doing.

He began by taking one lantern. He walked to the first dune. Placed it. Walked home.

The elders laughed.

“One lantern does nothing.”

But the next night, he placed another.

And another.

And another.

He did not rush. He did not complain. He smiled, because every lantern meant one less person would be lost like his brother.

After weeks, children joined him. Then families. Then travellers.

Not because the task was exciting, but because they felt what he felt.

They understood why it mattered.

Months later, a glowing road stretched across the desert and no one was lost again.

When people asked how he did what the strongest and smartest could not, he said:

“They tried to finish the path for themselves.

I built it to help others.”

Lesson:
Purpose is not motivation.
Purpose is your reason.
Purpose is pain transformed into direction.

Skill makes people admire you.
Purpose makes people follow you.

And when people follow you, you can achieve what no corporation can.

FIND YOUR PURPOSE (IN 10 MINUTES)

Most people feel “stuck” because they’re asking the wrong question.

Stop asking yourself - “What job should I do?” And instead - “What problem do I want to solve?”

That one shift in self analyses can be the difference between spending the rest of your life doing something meaningful and something not.

Here’s how you can find your purpose and live a life you love:

1. Remove Money From The Equation

If your brain is worried about money, you can’t think freely.
So we temporarily trick the brain into freedom.

Exercise (3 minutes):
Imagine you just received £5,000,000.
You took the holiday, you bought the house, you bought the car.

Now ask yourself:

Write down the first 5 things that come to mind.

Don’t overthink. Whatever comes up is a signal.

2. List What You’d Do For Free

Your purpose is always tied to something you already enjoy.

Exercise (2 minutes):
Write 5 things you enjoy doing, even if no one paid you for it.

Examples: Teaching, designing, cooking, talking, building, writing, video games.

It can be anything. These are the fuel of your purpose.

3. Identify Your Pain

Your deepest purpose comes from the thing that hurt you or frustrated you.

Why?

Because pain creates persistence. The ability to continue when it’s hard.

Exercise (3 minutes):
Answer this honestly:

It could be anything, no matter how big or small. From bullying to climate change to not having comfortable clothes.

That’s your mission origin point.

4. Connect the Three

Purpose =
Your Pain → The Problem You Want to Solve
Your Enjoyments → How You Solve It

Example:

• Pain: “School didn’t prepare me for real life.”

• Enjoyment: Teaching + storytelling

• Purpose: Fix education by teaching real, practical life skills.

And even if you don’t think it links:

• Pain: “Climate Change”

• Enjoyment: Video Games

• Purpose: Create a video game that shows the impact of climate change OR stream video games and pledge 50% of donations to fight climate change (make this your brand)

5. Turn It Into A First Step

Purpose isn’t revealed and then completed.
You begin small.

Your next action:
Create something tiny that helps one person with the problem you identified.

Examples:

• Post one piece of advice on TikTok.

• Teach one person for free.

• Create a mini resource in Google Docs.

• Send one DM offering help.

Climate Change Gamer Example:

• Start a TikTok series where every time you die in the video game you donate $10 to fight climate change.

Your Homework (5 minutes max)

Reply to this email and answer these three sentences:

1. If I had £5,000,000, I would spend my time…

2. One problem that really bothers me is…

3. I love helping people by…

I’ll reply to a few with feedback.

@simonsquibb

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YOU made his dream come true.

Last week, I shared Soy’s dream and you blew it up with support.

Over 35 million views, and with millions of people tagging Nike…

They had no choice but to pay attention.

We can now officially confirm that Soy is in contact with Nike, and they’ve agreed to help him with his dream.

Everyone who supported this should be incredibly proud. Even just watching the video helped change Soy’s life.

We are making a real difference. I get messages every day from people saying this content has inspired them to follow their dreams.

Together, we are impacting lives. Thank you for being part of this.

See you next week!

- Simon Squibb