What is your purpose in life? What were you put here to do? What are you unbelievably passionate about?

These are questions I’ve asked myself a gazillion times over the years, and I am happy to say that I now (finally!) have the answer!

Knowing your purpose or identifying your passion isn’t always something that comes easy to many people. I know I searched for my purpose in life for a very long time before I finally worked out exactly what it was and what it meant to me.

So once you’ve worked out what your passion or purpose in life is, then what? And why is it so important???

From now on I’ll use “purpose” as my reference to both purpose and passion because I really do think they are very similar or the same in many aspects.

Ok…. when you live without a purpose, you are literally heading nowhere. You’re just living day to day with no clear direction, and I can bet that you’re not feeling too great about yourself either, right? You probably feel lost, wondering why you’re here and why you even bother sometimes.

If you’re in a relationship, it’s likely that without a purpose, you’re totally focused on your man – not on yourself and what you want to do in life, because you really don’t know what you want to do! Without your own purpose, it’s very difficult to have your own interests outside of your relationships too – this is not healthy!

On the other hand, having a purpose gives you the following benefits:

• Your life has a clear direction
• You have a great reason for getting out of bed every day!
• You feel fulfilled and happy because you’re doing what you know you were put on the planet to do!
• Your relationships improve because you’re not solely focused on your partner.
• Finding the motivation to achieve your goals isn’t difficult when they’re in line with your purpose.
• You feel a great sense of satisfaction when your life is congruent to your values and purpose.

These are just some of the many benefits of identifying and living in line with your purpose, and I can assure you that once you’ve identified what your purpose is, you’re going to completely change your perspective on life! In fact, I guarantee it!

Ok, so it’s all well and good to know that identifying your purpose is a great thing, but what if you’re like I was, and you don’t have a CLUE what that is?

I recently read a book which specifically outlines, step by step, how to identify your passions so you can live your life by them, and I can’t recommend this book enough (see below for link). I had the pleasure of meeting one of the Authors recently, and she is the perfect example of somebody who’s truly living their purpose! She’s just so… HAPPY!

So take a look at this book – I definitely recommend it to anybody who’s struggling to identify their true passions in life.

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When you’re in a bad situation it’s easy to get caught up in how terrible things are, and you find you’re focusing on all of the negatives about your situation.

What you’re probably not realising is that by focusing on the negatives, you’re only attracting more negatives into your life, so today I’m going to give you a tool to help you change your focus.

I’m currently reading a book titled Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t by Michael J Losier, and it talks about how you attract into your life what you think about.

So for example, if you’re in a bad relationship, you’re feeling really bad about yourself or your career is going nowhere, and this is all you think about, then chances are that things are not going to improve for you anytime soon.

All is not lost however.  Here is how you can turn this around, and in many cases, in a very short space of time.

The first thing you need to do is work out what it is you DO want.  Do you want a better relationship, do you want to feel good about yourself and do you want to boost your career prospects?

Once you’ve worked out what you want in your life, focus on these wants – and forgot about the “don’t wants”.  The less you think of them, the smaller they will become!   And the more you focus on what you do want, the more of what you want you will attract into your life.

Just by changing our outlook from negative to positive will create some significant changes for you.

Try it for a week and see what you notice has changed…!

2011 is almost upon us, and if you’re anything like me you’re looking back at the year that’s gone and contemplating the year ahead.

I’ve had a very tough and challenging year where I made some drastic life changes, but I don’t regret making these changes and I’m excited about the year ahead.  I believe that 2011 is going to be an amazing year and I can’t wait to welcome the new year in!

If you’ve not done so already, now would be the perfect time to start thinking about how you want 2011 to look.  What goals do you want to achieve?  If you’ve not done so already, grab your free goals and priorities diary – see http://selfconfidence101.com/tools/the-goals-and-priorities-diary-free/ for more info.

I’m excited to say that next year I plan to visit some other parts of the world – including Egypt!  I’ve wanted to see the pyramids of Egypt since FOREVER and am now making plans to get there later in the year.  How exciting!!

Another goal of mine is to significantly improve my ability to save.  I started a savings plan earlier this year, and so far it’s working well!  I save 10% of every cent I earn, and it actually feels REALLY good!  Yay me!

And finally, my biggest goal of all is to make Self Confidence 101 the best it can be!  My goal for 2011 is to help women in particular who are suffering with low self esteem in the best way I can.  I want to provide the best tools and information to help women all over the world to change their lives dramatically for the better.  I want there to be a LOT more happy people out there in 2011 and I want to help make that happen!

Now, one last thing I want to suggest to you is that all achievements should be rewarded in some way.  I rewarded myself this year with the most amazing trip to Los Angels with a close friend of mine.  We had a blast!  We stayed with her brother in the Hollywood Hills, we attended a movie premier, and I finally got to see for myself just how big food portion sizes are over there!  OMG!   Sooo soooo soooo much fun!

Have you rewarded yourself for your achievements in 2010?  It doesn’t have to cost anything – even allowing yourself a day to relax and do absolutely nothing is reward enough!  How will you reward yourself in 2011?  Give yourself a good incentive to succeed!

I’ll sign off now and would like to thank you for your support over the last year or more and I look forward to helping you to make 2011 the most amazing year it can be!