Sometimes thoughts arise in your head about your place in the world, about the right job chosen or abandoned, whether it is worth getting a pet and what kind, what is family for you, what is important, what prevents you from achieving a promotion, or why you have few friends.
These disjointed thoughts form one unified picture of your life. Many interpret this as fate, but in essence, the path of life is your choice, the daily decisions that lead you forward.
It is not a goal you are striving for, but rather your priorities, character, choices and aspirations. This raises the question, how to choose a life path?
Why is it needed?
Why is it even needed, this life path? Is it so important to think about or make decisions, to decide who to be, how and when? Yes, this is important, and not because the world needs good or bad people, which you must become, but because a person has one life.
What happens next should not worry you, first deal with what you were given and what you already have. The irony is that one way or another, you still have a path in life, even if you didn't choose it. After all, you are always doing something, even if your choice of watching TV all day long is also a way of life.
It may not lead you to long-forgotten dreams of visiting New York or learning Japanese, but it will still lead you to something good or bad - winning a game show or a migraine, loneliness or friendship with a neighbor who stops by to ask. you have sugar.
But this is just an example. The path of life always leads a person to something, and having brought it, it continues again to lead you somewhere again.
Self-realization
How to find your path in life? You need to do what you do best. Or something that you’ve always wanted to try yourself at. At the same time, all doubts must be cast aside. Many people bury their dreams and desires precisely because of them. But in vain. What to lose? It’s not for nothing that they say - it’s better to do it and regret it than to regret not doing it. Even if it doesn’t work out, the person will know that he tried.
After all, it is very important to realize your potential. This is a basic need for every person. Even Abraham Harold Maslow included self-actualization in his famous pyramid of needs. And Aristotle said that happiness can only be achieved by realizing your potential.
But for this a person needs to get rid of the word “must”. Almost every second person will say: “Yes, I would like to do music/choreography/sports/art/tourism, but work takes up all my time. I need to earn money to live." Yes, this is the reality. Need money. But changes in life are also necessary! You can find another job that takes less time. Or even start your own business. A job that does not bring joy and satisfaction is an excellent reason to quit and subsequently start a business. And this, in turn, is not only a useful business and a personal source of income, but also a way of self-realization.
Your choice is your responsibility
The path of life does not always lead you to what you dream of. Some people are simply not given the opportunity to succeed in certain professions or areas of life, there’s nothing you can do about it. But choose the right path, or at least try to do it within your power.
There are a few simple rules here:
- Don't aim for peaks if you don't like heights;
- Be clear about who you are in this world: tastes, interests;
- Set your priorities;
- Determine life principles;
- Don't give in to the problems around you. If you want to go on vacation, then just go, and don’t think that it’s difficult, you’ll throw away a lot of money, and now there’s a crisis and you need to save, it seems.
Rules to remember
How to find the right path in life? You need to follow simple recommendations:
- Remember that it is never too late to change your life for the better.
- Don't forget that everyone has problems.
- Perceive failures and troubles as an opportunity to gain experience.
- Regularly experience (provoke) new sensations.
- Do what you love.
- Forget yourself in the past and love your “I” in the present.
- Pay attention to your skills, self-development and hobbies.
- Set a goal and never give up on it.
And the most important thing is to remember that life is a series of efforts. Having found the goal, you will be able to see the road. And this will put an end to wandering and give strength to confidently move towards it.
Which life path to choose
There are things that determine the vector of our life, that is, part of the life path is determined already at the time of a person’s birth. Well, at least in what family he was born: rich, poor, loving, indifferent, oppressive, perhaps the child will end up in an orphanage or orphanage.
And this happens, but this does not mean that a person can be branded. It all depends on aspirations and character. Things like choosing a life path depend not on where you were born, but on who you want to be.
There is even an opinion that a difficult childhood pushes a person forward, to achieve his happiness, and a happy one, on the contrary, weakens the soul, as a result of which there are no desires or aspirations.
When determining your direction, think through all the options, identify your strengths and where you can implement them, where they will help you and where they will harm you. For example, if a person does not like pies, he will never be able to learn how to cook them perfectly and incredibly tasty, simply because he will not try them.
Don’t forget about your character, whether you are able to change, whether you can rebuild or adapt to different life situations.
You must understand that, in principle, a person can achieve anything, but not everyone wants to follow such a thorny path, and in order not to regret and waste half your life, calculate your strength without embarrassment, selfishness and narcissism.
Auxiliary numerology – destiny number
An excellent additional help in the matter of destiny is the number of fate in numerology. Feel free to use it to clarify your mission.
How to calculate fate number by date of birth:
- Add each digit of the day of birth until you get a single or double digit number. Example: 12/09/1990 = 0+9+1+2+1+9+9+0 = 31.
- If you get a two-digit number, add its digits to a single-digit number. Example: 12/09/1990 = 0+9+1+2+1+9+9+0 = 31 = 3+1 = 4.
- If in point 1 you get the number 11 or 22, skip the second point.
The result obtained will be the life path number. According to numerology, it determines the purpose of the owner. What he is most predisposed to. How should he develop himself or where should he go.
The interpretation of the number of fate is the subject of a separate article on the site, where you can learn in detail about the different missions. But for a general idea, you can find out about yourself right now by looking at the desired date.
Unit
A sign of leadership, independence, strength, generosity. You only need to achieve everything yourself. Brakes to success: errors of self-esteem, arrogance, intolerance.
Deuce
Achieving success depends on proper interaction with the world. The goal is to make perfect connections. Weaknesses: immaturity, cowardice.
Troika
The gift of bringing knowledge and enlightenment to people. Talent for communication, the ability to master literally everything. The ability to bring joy. Our mission is to revive the taste for life. Doing what you love will bring harmony.
Four
You shouldn’t wait for luck, you need to make your way everywhere with your strength. The number of difficult fate, where nothing is given for nothing. But if you take matters into your own hands, the results will be stunning in any area.
Five
Activities related to travel and constant movement are the vocation of these people. Good artistic skills. The ability to always remain “innocent” and make connections. The path to success lies through communication with people.
Six
Number of harmony, family, prosperity. Great potential to give, this is where his success lies. He has broad talents and can cope in any position, especially in public ones.
Seven
A craving for the mysteries of existence, high intuition, love of solitude and knowledge. High results in the fields of religion, esotericism, and science.
Eight
Only what can be used is real - the motto of eights. Sentiment is not for them. Strong will, courage, perseverance. Down to earth. Good financiers and organizers.
Nine
The main mission is to learn to sincerely serve people without expecting immediate gratitude. Ample opportunities by nature are interspersed with high demands on oneself. Life is a path of self-improvement.
Eleven
This combination speaks of the chosenness of the individual. The purpose is to lead people to something new, to reveal the unknown, to create something useful for everyone. Conductors of information from above, psychics and intuitives. With a negative sign - talented, charismatic slackers.
Twenty two
Where 11 comes up with new ideas, 22 brings them to life. The number of gifted people in all directions who can literally change the lives of others. Grandiose leaders, great masters, investors. However, if you consider 22 as a double two or four, life should be devoted to the development of your soul.
Finding your true place in life for many means feeling needed and gifted. Aimless existence destroys nature.
However, you should not necessarily look for your mission in distant countries and unexplored areas. True purpose is often right in front of your nose.
How to stay on track
Having decided on your path in life, setting priorities, removing everything unnecessary and focusing on what is important to you, you move forward, sweeping away obstacles from the path. You don’t like to lie, but a friend asks you to help him in one important matter, where you just need to lie a little.
You agree, but as a result, it turns out that you have to lie all the time, and this carousel of deception will never end, which ruins your nerves, your life, and perhaps even your career and marriage, depending on where exactly you had to lie.
In this case, if you have strong principles of living without deception, learn tricks. They will help you avoid such situations. The point of all this is that when choosing a life path, you should not write specific names and events into it.
They may not happen, but it is precisely what a person imagines that most often leads him astray from the path of life, which is why problems appear. Set a horizon, but don’t set a specific date for when you should reach it, because life is unpredictable, everything can change tomorrow.
Focus on knowledge and capabilities
It will be easier for a person to find the beginning of a path in life if he analyzes himself as a source of useful resources for his passage. What can he do? What actions is he capable of? How far can one go in pursuit of the meaning of life? Abilities play an important role in the process of passing through life. After all, they are personal properties that determine the successful implementation of one or another type of activity.
Abilities are our internal mental regulators that determine the possibility of acquiring skills, abilities and knowledge. Some of them determine the success of education and training, as well as the formation of personal qualities. Others are responsible for the production of new ideas and discoveries. Abilities are human resources that he must use in order to achieve his goals. Knowledge of their presence often helps to find the path to spiritual life. You just need to ask yourself one question: “What am I capable of?” and give answers to it. Perhaps the meaning of life will be hidden in one of them.
What's the outcome
And what is the result? What does life's path lead to? There is no final stop, because you are constantly moving forward. If you decide to become an animal defender, then after saving a couple of puppies, will you stop doing it, thinking that the goal has been achieved?
No, you will continue to save animals, take care of them, and with the path of life, you outline a general plan: to become a historian, a climber, a family man, an animal lover or a hunter, or maybe both!
The path lasts your entire life, it is something like the definition of a person, who he is, his aspirations, which direction he wants to go in life and what kind of person to be. The people and circumstances around you can influence your decisions, but the main choice is still yours.
Second phase
It usually starts at the age of 16-20 and lasts until 25-30. During this rather long period of youth, a person begins to try himself in various fields of activity, form connections with other people, and even look for a mate. At this stage, self-determination begins.
This is a person’s affirmation of individual positions in various situations, the formation of a worldview and values, as well as setting a guideline for self-organization. Most often, there are hopes behind it. Which in this case are associated with sketches of possible paths of life.
