For Mentors: Purpose in Life

Resources to Use for Purpose of Life

Articles

• 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose:
  • Very real and up-front questions to ask a teen/college student in relation to figuring out what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

• 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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