For those of you in search of purpose, look no further than within yourselves. Here are 8 questions (that only you can answer) which can help you create a purpose statement for your life. Your purpose is not a destination; it is more of a guiding compass that helps you make decisions. Our ultimate destination will be determined by the small decisions we make every day, therefore, it is important to make sure that our choices are in line with where we want to go. Take a moment to answer these questions for yourself and see what you come up with.

Part 1: Where am I?
1. Principles: What do I value? What beliefs govern my life?
2. Passions: What do I love doing and why?
3. Problems & Pain: What social, scientific, technical, and/or personal question or pain do I want to solve?
4. People & Place: Who do I want to serve and where?

Part 2: Where am I going?
5. Picture: What's my vision for myself and the world?
6. Pioneers: Who are my models? Mentors? Guides?
7. Positioning & Potential: What do I want to master? What do I want to be #1 in the world at? And why do I believe that I can do it? Why am I the one?
8. Possibility: How will people experience life differently because of me?

You can read other people's responses below and/or
submit your responses here & scroll down

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Purposefinder #13

Stage of Purpose
1. Inquiring 2. Investigating 3. Invoking 4. Investing 5. Inspiring
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Part 1: Where am I?

1. Principles:
What do I value? What beliefs govern my life?

I want to make the most relatable, uplifting, and moving movies ever.

2. Passions:
What do I love doing and why?

Getting into writing, storyboarding stories that I create, reading/watching well written stories

3. Problems & Pain:
What social, scientific, technical, and/or personal question or pain do I want to solve?

I'd like to get over my own problems by immersing myself into someone's story, one that I create. In the process I hope others will be able torelate and feel themselves in the situations I create.

4. People & Place:
Who do I want to serve and where?

Any one, any age, that is going through unbearable pain. Everywhere people have a chance to see my films.
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Part 2: Where am I going?

5. Picture:
What's my vision for myself and the world?

I want my films to be rich enough such that people don't just watch once, but watch multiple times the way they play a good song over and over.

6. Pioneers:
Who are my models? Mentors? Guides?

Steve Conrad (Weather Man and Pursuit of Happyness writer) and Ki-duk Kim (3-Iron director)

7. Positioning & Potential:
What do I want to master? What do I want to be #1 in the world at? And why do I believe that I can do it? Why am I the one?

I want to be #1 director of uplifting and realistic dramas.

8. Possibility:
How will people experience life differently because of me?

By breaking old barriers of film storytelling (The Matrix, 3-Iron(all silent drama)) and creating the most visually riveting films/TV shows that drive people to tears, I believe I can move people through moving stories and characters that they can relate to and hopefully heal through.
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Part 3: How do I get there?

This PurposeFinder is looking for advice, ideas, feedback, questions, resources, and contacts that will help them advance in their pursuit of purpose. Some ways that may help him:
  1. Send this to other filmmakers by clicking on the envelope below
  2. Recommend some movies that moved you to tears and action
  3. Give advice on how to invest in one's own vision instead of always investing in other's
Comment below or participate by taking the anonymous survey here.
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