This document presents a webinar by Mike Bundrant on understanding and building a life purpose. Key elements include the definition of life purpose, its importance in achieving fulfillment and well-being, and practical exercises to help participants identify their true purpose. It emphasizes the need for self-awareness and alignment with personal values in formulating a meaningful life purpose statement.

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The Essential
Ingredients
for a Life of
Purpose
With Mike Bundrant

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In this webinar:
● What is a life purpose
● Elements of a life purpose
● How to build a life purpose (scenic route)
● Life purpose shortcut exercise

3. The cave scenario:
You’re trapped in an unstable cave with a large group of
peers. Only a few of you will make it out alive before the cave
collapses. Those at the very front of the line will make it. The
rest will be crushed and die. Now, as we go around the circle, I
want each of you to explain why you need to get out alive.
Tell us why you should be at the front of the line.

4. Why know your life purpose?

5. If you search, you will find that people
who know their purpose:
Live longer
Have more mental stamina
Make more money
Are more fulfilled
Have better health outcomes
Experience less anxiety and depression
Enjoy greater academic success

6. What is a Life Purpose?
Purpose: the reason for which something is done or
created or for which something exists.
Life Purpose:
● the reason (why) you do what you do
● the reason you were created or exist

7. Elements of a
Well-Founded Life
Purpose
● Involves something you enjoy and find
meaningful.
● Highlights your natural talents,
passion, and curiosity.
● Facilitates sacrifice of distractions
(commitment)
● Surpasses ego and approval needs
● Expresses life values
● Contributes to others

8. What is the function of a life purpose?
Your life purpose is the unifying theme or idea
that exemplifies and expresses your key values in
life; a theme that is often evident from your
earliest years.

9. Life Values:
Growth • Learning • Health • Belief
• Clarity • Alignment
Life Purpose:
To reach my full potential and help
others do the same.
Life Values:
Education • Community • Service
• Family • Choice
Life Purpose:
To help parents be involved and
practice compassion toward their
children.

10. Simple, yet based on substantive understanding
Why is life purpose elusive?
Because a foundation of self-awareness
needs to be in place before arriving at such
a grand summation!
A life purpose statement is a simple
sentence. Yet, a meaningful, motivating
statement of life purpose is a triumph of
self-understanding that can take time to
achieve.

11. Formula for
Building
a Life
Purpose
1 Learn your life values.
2 Develop a statement of purpose
that expresses those values,
according to the elements of a
meaningful life purpose checklist.

12. Life Purpose Shortcut Exercise
1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type.
Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
2. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a
complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
3. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.