Dr. Dorothea Kress - How to Explore Your Life Purpose

This book does not replace a medical or therapeutic treatment.

The book “How To Explore Your Life Purpose” is the first of a series of New Life Tools. New Life Tools are designed to support people in periods of change and personal development in finding new orientation.

New Life Tools invite you to look at situations and your patterns of thinking and behavior. By exploring your experiences you will learn about your passion, heart's desires, abilities and talents in a playful way.

I often observed that people read many self-help books, but they are not able to implement those advices in their daily life. Reading clever books did not make much difference in the end. Therefore, I decided to choose another way.

What makes New Life Tools so special? It is a different approach and a different point of view: the starting point is you. You and your experiences are from the very beginning in the centre of attention.

What do you really know about yourself? This simple question cannot be answered easily, because 95 % of our thinking and perception are unconscious or subconscious. Thus, we have to find smart ways to discover our innermost desires and thoughts.

With questions you start a process of reflective observations. You take a close look at yourself through 7 days with 7 questions. This self-knowledge is the groundwork for everything else. What sounds so natural is quite new for a lot of people.

A provocative thesis:

Most people are not aware of themselves and are not living in the present moment most of the time. They are bowed down with sorrow, worried about job issues, family problems and their minds tend to drift off into the past or dwell in the future. Often they are stuck in routines and run their daily life on autopilot.

It sounds crazy, but being able to be fully yourself and attentive to each moment is a rare talent.

3 Questions To Get Started

Take 5 minutes and write down everything that comes to your mind, no matter what it is!

1. Imagine your life goes on as it is for the next 10 years. What does this vision trigger in you?

2. What would your life look like, if you would live your true heart's desires?

3. How would you realize that you have found meaning and fulfillment in your life?

Option # 1

You think about that question very seriously and read a lot of relevant literature about it.

Option # 2

You ask a clairvoyant what your purpose in life might be.

Option # 3

You join a church in the hope that a priest will tell you what God wants from you.

Option # 4

You travel to India and stay in an ashram for a long time, daily meditating on your question.

Option # 5

You ask friends what they think about your purpose.

Option # 6

You ask your mum what you wanted to do when you were a little child.

Option # 7

You want to find out by yourself and need appropriate tools.

This book is written for option # 7 .

Why should anybody know more about you than yourself?

This book guides you through a process of self-reflection. It is written especially for people, who ...

- want to stop to meet expectations or to please others,

- want to bring back joy and enthusiasm to their life,

- are looking for clarity about themselves,

- want to find out what makes them thrive and prosper,

- are ready for deep introspection,

- want to grow and evolve.

This book will be useless for people, who …

- want to optimize their life into a “bigger-higher-faster-better” version,

- want to achieve and perform more and more,

- expect to get ready-made answers from other people.

In this book I will introduce you to learning methods of self-discovery. The goal is to get in touch with your talents, abilities, desires and visions and to find out what really matters in your life. The method is based on an explorative and creative process, which guides you step-by-step to gain self-knowledge and understanding.

Two important points:

First, the basis for everything are your talents, desires and abilities and not a specified goal or ideas. This approach makes the tool more profound than many others.

Second, exercise comes first. You will apply the tool to investigate yourself before you may go deeper into background information and concepts in chapter 3.

The book is divided into three main chapters:

Chapter 1 – The 7-Day Adventure

After a short briefing, you are faced with a 7-day challenge. I highly recommend you to put the book aside and focus on the questions during this time.

When you hold the questions in your head for a while, then your subconscious starts sending you information. It is best to be relaxed and open minded.

Chapter 2 – Interpretation

Thereafter, you will learn how to gain further and deeper insights from your answers.

As in any other creative process nobody can tell you, when the breakthrough and the eye-opening moments will happen. It might be that deep understanding occurs only after a certain period of immersion. There is a rule of thumb among artists: “90 % transpiration and 10 % inspiration”.

Chapter 3 – Background

Finally, I will explain the concept of the tool. I will tell you more about purpose seeking and the historical changes we are going through. We are encouraged to learn new ways of thinking and to build a new mindset. New Life Tools want to support you in these transformation processes.

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