Articles
- What Is My Purpose in Life?:
- Steps to figure out your purpose in life, can be done with a mentor or on their own. Author gives his own story to show that this works.
- 5 Questions to Help You Find Your Sense Of Purpose:
- Gives five out of the box questions to help you discover what’s most important to you and how you should be spending your time.
- Look Here If You’re Missing A Sense Of Purpose:
- 5 questions that make you think about how you like to spend your time.
- Emerging Adulthood:
- Essay arguing that during ages 18-25 that, emerging adulthood, is neither adolescence nor young adulthood but is theoretically and empirically distinct from them both.
- Volunteering and its surprising benefits:
- Volunteering has four main benefits: connecting you to others, improving your mind and body, advancing your career, and bringing fun and fulfillment to your life.
- If you want to change your life, change your environment:
- “Real growth happens when we understand whom and what best supports what we want, and then align ourselves with those people and places that do.”
- How to Find Your Purpose in Life:
- Article discussing how to find your purpose in life by overcoming the feeling of being isolated from other people.
- Six Ways To Discover Your Life Purpose:
- List of six easy activities to discover your life purpose.
- Getting over the post-grad blues: Identifying your purpose after graduation:
- Relatable article about losing your sense of purpose after college and describes the best ways to find purpose again.
On Campus Resources
- Counseling Center: (540) 568-6552 | SSC Suite 3100
- Offers assistance for students with background of depression or anxiety, students in a bad situation, students who feel lost at JMU.
- Career and Academic Planning: (540) 568-6555 | SSC 3210
- Career and Academic Planning can help with choosing a major and learning about possible career options. If you’re applying for a job, internship, or graduate school they can help you with the process.
Other Resources
- PODCASTS:
- Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Facebook are all places you can find interesting podcasts in varying topics.
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