Finding Your Purpose: How to Discover Your Soul's Mission

By Nicole, Founder of Mystic Ryst

Your purpose is not something you find—it's something you remember. It's already within you, waiting to be uncovered. Your soul chose this life with specific gifts to share, lessons to learn, and a unique contribution to make. Finding your purpose is about listening to your soul, following your joy, and aligning with what makes you come alive.

What Is Purpose

Purpose is your reason for being—what you're here to do, create, or become. It's the intersection of your gifts, passions, values, and what the world needs. It's what makes you feel alive and fulfilled.

Purpose vs. Career

Your purpose isn't necessarily your job. It's how you show up in the world, what you contribute, how you serve. You can live your purpose through any career or life path.

Signs You're Living Your Purpose

Time flies when you're doing it. You feel energized, not drained. It feels meaningful. You're using your natural gifts. You're making a difference. You feel aligned and fulfilled. There's a sense of "this is what I'm meant to do."

Signs You're Not Aligned

Feeling unfulfilled or empty. Chronic boredom or restlessness. Sense something's missing. Envy of others living their purpose. Feeling like you're wasting your life. Depression or lack of motivation.

How to Find Your Purpose

1. What Lights You Up?

What makes you lose track of time? What would you do for free? What excites you? Follow your joy—it's your soul's compass.

2. What Are Your Natural Gifts?

What comes easily to you? What do people ask for your help with? Your gifts are clues to your purpose.

3. What Breaks Your Heart?

What injustice or suffering moves you? What do you want to change in the world? Your purpose often involves healing what hurt you.

4. What Would You Do If You Couldn't Fail?

Remove fear and limitation. What would you do? That's your soul speaking.

5. What Did You Love as a Child?

Before conditioning, what called to you? Your childhood passions hold clues.

Purpose Discovery Questions

If money wasn't an issue, what would I do? What would I regret not doing? What impact do I want to make? How do I want to be remembered? What feels meaningful to me? What am I here to learn or teach?

Your Purpose Might Be...

Creating beauty. Healing others. Teaching and inspiring. Building and innovating. Connecting people. Protecting the vulnerable. Bringing joy. Seeking truth. Serving and helping. Being a parent. Living authentically. There's no one right purpose.

Living Your Purpose

Start Where You Are

You don't need to quit your job tomorrow. Start small. Incorporate purpose into current life. Take steps toward alignment.

Follow the Breadcrumbs

You don't need to see the whole path. Just take the next step. Trust the unfolding.

Use Your Gifts

However you can, wherever you are. Share your gifts. That's living your purpose.

Serve Others

Purpose involves contribution. How can you help, heal, or serve? That's where purpose lives.

When Purpose Isn't Clear

That's okay. Purpose unfolds over time. Keep exploring. Try things. Notice what resonates. Your purpose will reveal itself when you're ready. Trust the journey.

Multiple Purposes

You can have more than one purpose. Purpose can evolve. What's true now may shift. That's growth. Honor each season.

Purpose Affirmations

I am living my purpose. My gifts are needed. I trust my path. I am exactly where I need to be. My purpose is unfolding perfectly. I follow my joy. I make a difference. I am aligned with my soul's mission.

Final Thoughts

Your purpose is not out there waiting to be found—it's within you waiting to be remembered and expressed. You don't have to have it all figured out. Just follow what lights you up, use your gifts, serve others, and trust that you're exactly where you need to be. Your purpose is calling. Listen. Follow. Live it.