Dicovering Your Mission in Life

There are 'Grand' Missions

and there are Important Missions

– The search for a mission requires you to ask: among all the problems facing humanity, what are the ones that properly interest me? Be alive to the small-scale but authentic concerns.

– Having focused on a problem of humanity that feels right for you, you then need to take an honest look at your own aptitutes. What truly are your talents? What can you contribute? That may require a lot of introspection, career counselling and experimentation.

– Then, where your skills and aptitudes intersect with the needs of the world, that is your distinctive zone: that’s where your mission lies.

– A mission isn’t a mission because it is grand, but because it is precise. Examples of modest but crucial missions might be:

– a mission to improve the care that the elderly receive at the end of their lives

– or a mission to teach children music in an engaging way

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