Your: gifts + passion + values = purpose.

• Your gifts are not just your skills and talents, but what you love to do.

• Your passion is something for which you feel a deep curiosity and interest.  

• Your values include your beliefs and what you consider to be most important.

When you can identify those three aspects of your identity, you will have a better sense of how you can maximize your sense of purpose in order to improve your health and sense of wellbeing.  

An exercise

Find a time when you can sit down, without distraction, and write honestly. Ask yourself the following questions: 

• Who am I?
• What do I have to contribute to the world?
• If I only had one year left, how would I spend it?
• What are my core beliefs, morals, and principles?
• In what moments in the past week have I found myself completely engaged in and focused on what I'm doing, without stress or distraction?