The Practice of Listening to Find Purpose

Take a moment to ask yourself what really matters to you, so you can actually do it

Sometimes it's only in a quiet moment of reflection that we can see what we truly want and how to bring it about. goodluz/Shutterstock

Very often, our lives are so filled with busyness and distraction that we have no space to actually listen to what life is calling us to do.

Think about your day so far, and your day yesterday: how much of it was spent in busywork and distraction? Messaging, social media, videos and news, reading favorite websites, answering emails and doing errands—replying and reacting.