Are you looking for purpose in your life? Don’t wait until you figure out what it is, or you may never find it. Doing things that help others will give purpose to your life, and more often than not, these projects will lead you to your specific purpose. You may ask, “How can I help others?” Here are some answers that we have compiled.
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Help Feed the Hungry
It doesn’t have to take up all your time. You can volunteer one day or evening per month or two or three days per week. You can cook or deliver or both. These non-profit organizations can always use your help. If nothing else, they can always use food donations. Feeding hungry people is quite fulfilling.
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Work with other Addicts
Carry the message to others that recovery works. You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Life will take on new meaning. To watch people, recover, to see them recover, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends — this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Sharing your experience and working with other addicts will also help you stay sober and clean as a result of working with others.
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Pay Someone’s Bill
It doesn’t have to be a meal at a restaurant. It could be at an office supply store, a department store, or a coffee shop. Do it to brighten someone’s day. It encourages people when other people are kind to them. Their outlook changes. Knowing you were a part of that change could improve your outlook, as well. Your outlook has improved, and you are doing well on your road to recovery!
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Teach a Class for the Elderly
Many cities and towns have programs for the elderly that need volunteers. What do you like to do? What do you know how to do? Teach it to the elderly. You could even host a reading club for them. The point is to spend time with them and give them something to do. It keeps them going.
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Create and Leave Gift Baskets for Long-Term Patients
There are people in the hospital suffering long-term with many types of diseases. Not just hospitals, either, but nursing homes — these people live there, and some of them never receive a visitor. A gift basket would be a ray of sunshine in their day. You’re sober: You’re in the sunshine business!
You have purpose, whether you know it or not. Just do something for someone else — almost anything will make a positive difference. If you feel like you have no purpose, attend a 12-step support meeting where you can find people who care about how you feel. You can do this — one day at a time!
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