Six Initial Steps to Find Purpose in Your Life
The only way out is in: The tension lies in the fact that to find your true self and purpose, you must turn inward and reject the external markers of success that you’ve spent decades pursuing.
The counterintuitive truth is that clarity, confidence, and purpose emerge not from achievement or identity in the outer world, but through surrendering to your soul-driven personality and letting go of conditioned, ego-based patterns.
You’ve been on purpose for decades in the corporate world. Today your priorities have shifted, and you’re moving into the self-help arena… How you individuate these gifts to bring about your life purpose is directed by your soul self.” — Click here if you need clarity call – Nina Zapala
The Big Idea: Purpose For New Earth Founders
Purpose is not a destination, job title, or achievement, but the joyful, authentic unfolding of your soul in everyday life. For visionary women, makers, creatives, spiritual healers, and New Earth founders the time has come to reject old school paradigms and discover a purpose that is fluid, divinely inspired, and uniquely yours. It’s about radical self-acceptance, characteristically authentic, self-identity, and serving others from your truth, your true self..
There are billions of people on the planet do you believe just one message will reach everyone.” I had a huge ah-ha moment. Neal Donald Walsch, author Conversations with God.
Problems That Limit Purpose
- Disconnected from True Self: “Who You Really Are?” Feeling at odds with the masks you wear and you’re unclear how to move forward fully… doing what matters.
- Confused about Branding and Purpose: Overwhelmed by advice, trends, AI mania and struggling to distinguish your soul’s voice from the noise. You know authenticity is key, but you don’t even know what that really means?
- Stuck in Patriarchal Paradigms: Burned out, tired of performance KPI’s, approval, and craving a path that aligns with your inner wisdom, intuition, and flow.
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.” — Author Mark Nepo
What Purpose Looks Like
Imagine embodying joy, authenticity, and passion—guided by your Divine intuition. You are finally free to live as your truest self, impacting your community and the world not by striving, but by being.
One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide.” — Brené Brown
Your Purpose May Be Closer Than You Think
- Turning Mess into Message: After a decade-long life tsunami, your greatest struggles become the very stories that guide and inspire others.
- Soul Journaling Over Goal-Setting: Instead of chasing generic goals, you commit to a spiritual practice (journaling, meditative walks, creative rituals) that tunes you into your truest desires.
- Community Over Career: Rather than tying your identity to a job, purpose is discovered through daily acts of service, community care, or environmental stewardship.
Struggling With Your Purpose Path …
- “But what if I have no idea who my true self is? I feel totally lost after years of living by others’ expectations.”
- I walked in your shoes, it’s why I wrote my book Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide. It’s a shifting perspective to help you understand your 5 senses (1950’s personality typing) is the 101 of self understanding, you will need to go within, and connect with your higher conscious self; the multidimensional you found in your pure energy, frequencies and Divine intuition
- “What if going inward just makes me feel more confused?”
- It will at first as we’ve been conditioned to seek answers to life’s questions externally, but the answers are always found within, through subtle whispers, synchronicities, and symbols. What you must do is take time for stillness, prayer, meditation… my favorite walking meditation.
- “I’ve tried spiritual practices before and nothing changed—what makes this different?”
- This isn’t just a practice, it’s Jung aligned Myers-Briggs, which acts as a cheat-sheet, indicating how you make choices, gather information, how you show up in the world, and your life attitudes; easy-peasy or structured. As you study your type it illustrates your strengths and weaknesses showing you what needs further exploration, and where you genius lies.
Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.” — Esther Hicks
Challenge. Revelations. Transcendence.
- Challenge: Life’s upheavals (job loss, divorce, burnout) shatter your old identity and ignite doubts about your worth and path.
- Revelation: Through inner work (soul journaling, spiritual practices, embracing intuition), you uncover your authentic self—messiness and all.
- Transcendence: Purpose becomes a daily expression of joy, service, and divine intuition. You embody your true calling in community and creativity, not as a fixed end, but as a living practice.
Finding your true self leads to your highest potential, allowing your purpose to unfold seamlessly. Believe me; your life will change dramatically. — Nina Zapala
Six Initial Steps to Find Purpose in Your Life
- Read daily: Feed your mind with spiritually nourishing books and thought leaders to shift perspective.
- Soul journal: Write 1–3 pages each day, not about goals, but about feelings, intuition, and authentic longings.
- Flip your mess: Reflect on your greatest struggles. What lessons or messages are hidden within them?
- Stop comparing: Notice where you compete or compare, and instead turn inward to celebrate your unique journey.
- Daily spiritual practice: Start your day with gratitude, gentle movement, or meditation—whatever grounds and centers you.
- Serve your community: Seek small, meaningful ways to contribute—through acts of kindness, creative projects, or environmental care.
Bonus: Stay open: Release the need to “figure it out” immediately. Trust that purpose unfolds as you show up for yourself with love and curiosity.
This is a new era for women visionaries. The only way out is in. Will you answer the call?
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Travel A Tonic for Self-Discovery
Can you see why I staunchly believe that travel is a tonic for the soul? Travel offers a real-time opportunity to observe your personality type in action. It’s an enriching environment—a living classroom for self-discovery—that exposes you to diverse experiences. This encourages self-reflection, fosters personal growth, and provides countless opportunities to step outside your comfort zone.
This post offers a sneak peek into my book, Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide. It’s part memoir (my story of self-discovery through travel), part introduction to Spiritual Personality Typing℠—a reimagining of Myers-Briggs (MBTI) through the lens of spiritual alignment—and part personalized travel guidebook. The idea is that all of these roads lead to self-discovery.
Please know that I curate these posts to be both meaningful and educational, designed to help you navigate the needs of your sacred personality type on the road, in business, and in life. If you’re interested in exploring your unique travel personality type, feel free to contact me me for a one-on-one travel session.
Only 1 in 10 Truly Know Who They Are. Be the Exception
You’re not here to settle. You’re here to remember who you are.
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We’ll uncover the patterns keeping you stuck, break self-sabotaging loops, and illuminate what actually moves you—in life and in motion.
This is radical self-awareness. Sacred strategy. Identity work for the soul-led.
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More About Spiritual Personality Typing℠
My work reframes how you see MBTI® personality typing—no more boxed-in stereotypes or cute quizzes. Your type isn’t a label. It’s sacred language. Your persona? Just a mask.
Spiritual Personality Typing℠ invites you to see your archetype as a divine blueprint—an activation of your truest self, not a simplification.
But here’s the truth: this isn’t passive work. Transformation doesn’t come from scrolling—it comes from devotion. When you engage with your type as a daily spiritual practice, something shifts. Your soul self and your rational self stop competing—and start collaborating.
That’s when awakening happens. That’s when you stop performing a life… and start living one.
Whether you’re navigating travel, relationships, your calling, or your next creative leap—you’ll stop showing up as a role, and start showing up as you.
And isn’t that what soul-led living is really about?
Want to Dive Deeper? I Got You
If this speaks to you even a little bit, check out my podcast interview on Reinvention Rebels with host Wendy Battles
🎧 Reinvention at 66: Nina Zapala’s Journey to Embrace Imperfection and Ignite Her Purpose
👉 Listen here.
Thank you, Wendy, for believing in me — and allowing me to share my journey 🩵
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🔖 7 Simple How-To Joy Habits For Your Spiritual Personality Type, click here.
🔖How To Better Understand Yourself: 10 Insightful Journal Prompts, click here for the link.
📚 Or grab a copy of my debut book: Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide
Who Is Nina Zapala?
Hey, I’m Nina Zapala—creator of Spiritual Personality Typing℠, a new way to connect your mind and spirit so you can actually show up as your real self. My mission? Plant seeds for a fresh kind of thinking—where self-expression isn’t just allowed, it’s unstoppable.
I’m also the mind behind the (un)Brand: a soul-first, zero-cookie-cutter approach for founders who are done with branding clichés and performance games. No more approval-chasing. No more shrinking to fit in. The (un)Brand helps you show up fully—characteristically authentic, unapologetic, and 100% you.
With decades in branding, community, and cause marketing (and 300+ articles to prove it), I help women take back their identity and purpose. My book, Unpack Your Personality Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide., is your invite to trust your gut and journey inward.
Let’s be real—someone rocks blue hair or pitches a bold idea, and most people roll their eyes or back away. My work? Burns old scripts. Instead we light up what makes you exquisitely different.
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Updated 10.24
