5 minute uplifting read: Trying to find your purpose? Start right here…

These days it feels like you can’t move without someone uttering the P word but maybe it’s time to see what checking in with yours could do for you

Which way is your life headed? Point to P and find out…

What’s my purpose? It’s a question that’s been on my mind lately, brought about by a slight feeling of uncertainty about where I am in life right now, or indeed where I’m going. And as with anything, once you start to think about something, you begin to see it or notice it everywhere. Just last night I was watching Quilters on Netflix, a life-affirming documentary following men in a maximum-security prison in Missouri who create beautiful, personalised quilts for foster children. We’re talking murderers, men who’ve committed terrible acts of violence, putting their hearts and souls into creating items of such beauty from thousands of individually stitched fabric panels, helping and encouraging each other along the way. Many had been in prison for decades, with one describing how this reformative justice programme has helped him atone for his crimes and feel a sense of redemption, while another explained how it had finally given his life purpose.