---
title: "Searching to find purpose in your life? These two questions could finally give you the answer you've been looking for"
url: 'https://tonypiper.coach/articles/searching-to-find-purpose-in-your-life-these-two-questions-could-finally-give-you-the-answer-youve-been-looking-for'
date: '2023-01-17'
updated: '2024-12-04'
author: 'Tony Piper'
description: 'Stop searching for purpose and discover it within. Two powerful questions reveal your natural self and show that purpose is about being, not doing.'
tags:
  - 'Presence and Clarity'
  - 'Ship 30 for 30 2023'
  - 'Personal Growth'
---



# Searching to find purpose in your life? These two questions could finally give you the answer you've been looking for

By Tony Piper,  January 17, 2023 •  [Presence and Clarity](https://tonypiper.coach/tags/presence-and-clarity) [Ship 30 for 30 2023](https://tonypiper.coach/tags/ship-30-for-30-2023) [Personal Growth](https://tonypiper.coach/tags/personal-growth) 

Searching to find purpose in your life? These two questions could finally give you the answer you've been looking for.

I used to spend a lot of time thinking about the notion of "purpose". I (like many others) believed I was put on this earth to do something specific and that I wouldn't find fulfilment until I found and achieved whatever it was.

But the more I searched for my purpose, the less I saw and the more frustrated I became.

It was a bit like the kind of frustration you might feel if you kept looking for the sunrise while facing west.

Eventually I realised that no amount of facing west was going to show me what I wanted to see.

And then I heard the questions I wrote about on Day 3 being whispered in my ear:

**When was the last time you felt the way you would like to feel for the rest of your life? What was that feeling?**

For me it was a time when I felt curious, creative, playful, connected.

And then it hit me:

**If this is my natural self, this who and how I was born to be.**

And then I realised:

**My purpose is simply to *be* my natural self as much as I can be.**

And when I'm being *that*, everything I do will be fully aligned with my purpose.