How to Increase Your Chances of Finding Your Purpose in Life

These five measures will help you

Apr 26, 2025

Is what you do at work your life’s purpose? A test for this is the question “Would you do what you do if you weren’t paid for it?”. Austrian actor Roland Düringer posed this question to his audience. Two out of 500 people responded. In the following, I get to the bottom of the purpose of life and discuss simple measures that will help you find and live your purpose.

The purpose of life is also denoted a calling because “something” calls you to fulfill it. This happens through encounters, accidents, illnesses, etc, ie through co-incidences in the genuine sense of the word.

„If it is your calling, it will keep calling you.”
(unknown)

If you follow your calling, you will experience the highest possible fulfillment; some call it bliss. Otherwise, you will experience a longing that keeps you searching. Many then end up in substitute satisfactions such as food, possessions, sex, information, or drugs.

To understand where the purpose of life comes from and what it means, let’s first look at your body. It comprises 35 trillion cells, each of which has a task as part of the body – its purpose of life. This purpose has a general and a special part. Its general purpose is survival – because that is the general purpose of every cell. You can recognize its specific purpose by its place in the body. If it is part of the liver, its special purpose is to be a liver cell.

This applies to everything and everyone. Everything and everyone is part of the universe and has a place and a purpose, which has a general and a special part. For example, the special purpose of a lion is to be a lion. Lions are important for the balance of the biosphere – as is every species. Without lions, gazelles would become rampant.

Behind all this is an order that connects all things and directs them; such as all the cells of your body; all the birds in a flock; all the life forms in a biosphere; all things in the universe. This universal order is denoted cosmos, because that is the Greek word for order. The laws of physics are a tiny part of it. The cosmos urges everything and everyone to fulfill their task as part of the whole, ie their purpose in life. I explain the universal order in my forthcoming article “God and Cosmos.”

All living beings are connected to this order through their intuition. Cells, plants, and animals follow their intuition without restriction and, therefore, fulfill their purpose ... unless they were reprogrammed by humans. If someone catches a lion and trains it, the lion will no longer function according to its life purpose. For example, it would naturally and intuitively flee from fire. As a circus lion, it might jump through a hoop of flames every evening. Cells can also be reprogrammed by human intervention. For example, this can happen through radiation or toxins that change the genetic code. The cells then still function, but no longer within the natural order. The result can be disease.

I describe the connection of a life form to the cosmos in my article “Intuition is Much More Than Just a Sixth Sense.”

We are the only known life form on this planet that can choose not to function. We can spontaneously act differently; because we have a mind with which we can create knowings and, therefore, behavior. I describe this tool in my article “This is the Difference Between Humans and Animals.”

Because we can create, we can transcend nature. Nature represents the know-how of survival that evolved over billions of years and is, therefore, tried and tested. In a fraction of this time, we have created an artificial un-nature comprising countless unnatural materials, tools, habitats, and ways of life – without knowing which of these will prove successful in the long term. I say this without judgment, because a creation can be useful or harmful, nature-friendly or nature-hostile, constructive or destructive. We have also manipulated nature and are doing so with increasingly aggressive methods, such as genetic manipulation. This is pushing back pure nature more and more. The dangerous thing is that nature is the basis of our existence.

We not only program other life forms, but also ourselves. Over thousands of years, social programming has created an idea of what a human is, what potential a human has, and how humans should live. There are cultural, religious, regional, and other variations. I describe the human program in my article “Why the Question ‘What Am I?’ is Important and Magical.”

Through social programming, we have become more and more distanced from our cosmic connection. An impressive example is the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which claimed the lives of many people, while almost all the animals in danger intuitively fled in time. I analyze this event in my article “Why 230,000 People Died in the Tsunami – but Almost No Animals.”

Your life’s purpose also comprises a general and a specific part. You can grasp your general purpose intellectually: it is mental growth. It does not happen by collecting information, such as by reading; it comes about through experience, insight, understanding, and creative expression. I explain this in my article “How to Find Your Purpose in Life.”

You cannot intellectually grasp your specific life purpose. Intuition is the only access to it. But the more unnaturally you live, the weaker your intuition works and the less chance you have of finding your specific purpose. There are three measures you can take to strengthen your intuition:

In nature, everything follows intuition. In un-nature, everything follows human programs that can block intuition – like a trained lion. Reduce the un-nature in your life and strengthen nature. Spend a lot of time in untouched nature; without a cell phone; preferably alone, so that your entire attention is on nature. Observe plants and animals; sit by a body of water and watch the waves. Live as naturally as possible: exercise a lot, preferably in nature; eat natural or near-natural foods and avoid industrially processed foods.
Following your intuition means being in the flow. To be in the flow, you must surrender. You can train this through sports such as surfing and dancing. When surfing, you surrender to the waves; when dancing, you surrender to the music.
Intuition is your cosmic connection to everything and everyone. You are part of several communities, such as family, circle of friends, neighborhood, etc. The cosmos directs every community, just as a conductor directs an orchestra or a coach directs a team. A community needs team players, not egoists. A strong ego-consciousness blocks intuition; a we-consciousness supports it. Cultivate a we-consciousness for every community you belong to. This does not only mean human communities; you are also part of nature, because despite all the un-nature in your life, nature is still the basis of your existence: every cell of you is nature. Include animals, plants, and microbes in your we-consciousness. Team sports are an excellent training opportunity for a we-consciousness.

You can also increase your chances of finding your special purpose in life by taking two further measures:

If you consciously live your general life purpose, ie you integrate mental growth into your life, you tune into your life purpose. This supports finding your specific purpose.
Free yourself from social programs because they block your intuition. You can achieve this through self-exploration. You observe yourself and explore where your actions and thoughts come from. The goal is to find the programs and make them ineffective. I describe the method in my article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps” and in my book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box.”

We have created un-nature, but we have not left the universal order; that is not possible. The cosmos holds everything together; nothing and no one can escape the order. The universal order also applies in un-nature. Everyone has a purpose within the framework of what is; even in un-nature, whereby this purpose has something to do with “back to truthfulness.” The cosmos wants to dance with you – it is up to you whether you dance along.

Further reading:

Article “God and Cosmos” (forthcoming)

Article “Intuition is Much More Than Just a Sixth Sense”

Article “This is the Difference Between Humans and Animals”

Article “Why the Question ‘What Am I?’ is Important and Magical”

Article “Why 230,000 People Died in the Tsunami – but Almost No Animals”

Article “How to Find Your Purpose in Life”

Article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps”

Book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box”

See also:

Article “Do We Have Free Will?”

Article “Knowledge is Not the Same as Truth”