What Kind of Life Am I Being Called to Create?

A short guided exercise in imagining, discerning and beginning to create your ideal life and self.

Sometimes we become so occupied with managing the life we already have that we stop asking what we actually want to create. We forget that our soul has agency and in that agency lies our freedom to co-create our future.

This short companion exercise gives you space to step outside the practicalities for a moment and imagine your life three years from now.

You will:

• imagine an ordinary day in a life that feels deeply right to you
• identify the qualities and desires underneath that vision
• notice the beliefs and constraints that may be standing between where you are and where you want to go
• experiment with a 30-day practice of imagination, action and spiritual trust

This is not about pretending there are no limits to our circumstances or that we can control everything that happens to us.

It is an invitation to participate more consciously in the creation of your life, while remaining open to possibilities beyond what you can presently see.

This means holding together agency and surrender: acting where we can, discerning what is ours to do, and trusting that we do not have to engineer the entire path ourselves.

This may be useful if you:

• feel clear about what is no longer working but less clear about what you want instead;
• have spent a long time responding to responsibilities and circumstances and want to create more intentionally;
• feel a pull towards a different way of living, working or contributing;
• want to give yourself permission to imagine beyond what currently seems practical.

Downloadable PDF · Self-guided reflection

This exercise can be used on its own or as a companion to the What Is My Life Actually Organised Around? Spiritual Integrity Field Guide.

About the Author

Dr Kat Eghdamian is a writer, sociologist and educator whose work explores spiritual integrity: how we bring what we believe, how we live and how we contribute into greater coherence.

Informed by her spiritual convictions, academic training and lived experience, she explores the life of the soul, what our experiences teach us, and the social conditions that shape our choices. Her work connects spiritual understanding with the everyday questions of work, relationships, ambition, responsibility and service.

She holds a PhD from UCL and an MPhil from Oxford, and shares her work through essays, speaking and individual mentoring.