{"id":47250,"date":"2023-11-12T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47250"},"modified":"2023-11-12T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:31:04","slug":"your-basic-purpose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47250","title":{"rendered":"Your Basic Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote from Rabindranath Tagore: &#8220;I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If your service is not joy then chances are what you are doing is not on your basic purpose. I have written an article to help you work out your basic purpose if you don&#8217;t yet know it. Please, take advantage of it. Your future self will thank you enormously for the time you invest in finding it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lpTZ0fjXuJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862\">How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life&#8221; &#8212; Tom&#039;s Blog on Life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=37862&#038;embed=true#?secret=psUrkZdPnM#?secret=lpTZ0fjXuJ\" data-secret=\"lpTZ0fjXuJ\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote from Rabindranath Tagore: &#8220;I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.&#8221; If your service is not joy then chances are what you are doing is not on your basic purpose. I have written an article to help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Basic Purpose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47252,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47250\/revisions\/47252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}