If you define what it is that you're doing, what it is that's important to you.

如果你去定義你正在做的這件事情，還有對你來說什麼是重要的。

[A psychologist reveals the way to find your purpose in life.]

「一位心理學家揭露了能找出人生目的的方法。」

Purpose is one of these terms that gets thrown around a lot.

「目的」這個詞常常被大家濫用。

And people think about it often times in a religious way or in some of these little larger field, philosophical ways.

人們通常會把它和宗教信仰做連結，或者是與更大的方面，像是哲學去做連結。

I don't believe that purpose comes from above, it comes from you.

我個人不相信目的是上天給予的，它應該是你「自己」決定的。

And one activity that I recommend people do, especially around New Years and also mid year, is to write down what values are important to you.

有一個活動我很推薦大家去做，尤其是在新年或者年中之際，就是寫下什麼樣的價值對你來說是重要的。

Every six months, you sit down and you think.

每六個月，好好坐下並深思。

You really take the time and you write out what are your top three values, what are the things that are most important to you.

真的花一些時間寫出三個對你來說最重要的價值，什麼東西對你來說是最重要的。

And you can use them to craft a statement of purpose which is very simple.

之後，你就可以利用那三個你認為重要的價值去設立一個目標，這將變得非常簡單。

A hundred words or less which just says "what is important to me right now?"

大約一百字或更少，寫下「目前對我來說最重要的事」。

"How am I gonna use my activities and my time on this earth to live out my values."

「我需要哪些行動，或者我要如何安排時間去實踐我認為重要的價值」。

And if you can do that every six months and actually really... it's a very helpful activity because it often cuts out activities that you are like…"um, do I really wanna be doing that?"

如果你每六個月就做一次這件事，然後真的...這會是一個對你非常有幫助的活動，因為它能讓你排除掉會讓你覺得「我真的要去做嗎？」的事情。

It's almost like making a budget.

這就跟編列預算一樣。

When you sit down and look at what you're spending your money on and you look at... you know, all the different things, you're actually putting cold hard numbers on things that you value.

當你坐下來仔細思量你要把錢花在哪裡時，你知道的，這麽多不同的事物，你會把價錢標示在你認為是重要的事。

And most of the time when you look at people who do a budget, they tend to cut out things that are actually less important to them.

而當你去注意那些會做預算編列的人，他們大部分都會把較不重要的事情刪掉。

It's really an activity of consciousness.

這正是一項和「自覺」有關的活動。

So when we look at what we value that is very clear...it can be very clear how to make your purpose and say, "OK, well, this is what I'm living for, for now."

所以當我們看著那些我們認為重要的事物時，你可以非常清楚...非常清楚知道如何設定你的目標，並說：「好，這就是目前對我來說最重要的目標。」

And it actually helps to direct your activity, direct your life.

這會指引你方向，並引導你的人生。

And people that live with a sense of purpose are generally happier and more hopeful for the future.

而這些活在目標中的人，通常都比較快樂，而且對未來懷有更多希望。