Purpose, Curiosity and Abundance: When Life Forces You to Rewrite the Flight Plan

There are moments in life when everything changes.

What if I told you that catastofic change can help you rewrite your story from not knowing what to do next to Purpose, curating a curious mind and ultimatly a new abundant life? I know you just switched off with anger and said “your a dreamer, F@&! off and let me be, my story is differant, what would you know!” Thats OK, and I totally get it. Just hear me out and come a little further with some curiousity in toe. We are not talking about the kind of change you plan for with a vision board or a New Year’s resolution. I’m talking about the kind of change that arrives uninvited. The death of someone you love that flips the script on everything. The loss of a job you thought was secure, a relationship ending that you thought would last forever. A health scare, or a catastrophic business failure. A moment the shakes your world so much that you can no longer see the future you once imagined through battling the emotional turbulance that goes with it. All this will lead to rewriting the flightplan of your life. Lets get into it.

I’ve experienced a few of these moments myself over the past few years years loosing my parents, and through my life, feeling helpless, guilt, and a tone of grief that sometimes is not delt and can leave you in a heap and then ultimately deepdiving on the meaning of life. Let me tell you nothing can prepare you for this journey. Looking back, I can see that every major turning point in my life started with some form of loss. At the time it felt painful, confusing and unfair or scary to take a huge risk and going in a direction you have know idea how to even start. Yet every one of those moments ultimately pushed me towards a life that was more aligned with who I really was.

The challenge is that when you’re standing in the middle of the storm, it’s hard to see the opportunity. All you can see is what you’ve lost. But what if the thing falling apart isn’t your life? What if it’s the version of your life that no longer fits?

The Search for Truth

When something significant ends, something else begins. You Start asking questions. Lots of questions.

Who am I now?

What actually matters to me?

What do I want my life to look like?

Am I living someone else’s version of success?

These questions can be uncomfortable because they force us to examine the values we’ve been operating from. Many of us spend years climbing ladders only to discover the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Sometimes losing a job isn’t really about losing a job. It’s about losing an identity.

Sometimes a relationship ending isn’t really about the relationship. It’s about being given the space to discover yourself again. The older (going on 56 this year!) I get, the more I realise that life’s biggest disruptions often become invitations to seek a deeper truth about who we are and why we’re here.

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Curiosity Saved Me More Than Confidence Ever Did

People often talk about confidence as if it’s the secret ingredient to building a new life. I don’t think it is. For me, curiosity has always been far more powerful. When everything feels uncertain, curiosity allows you to ask a different question.

Instead of asking:

“Why is this happening to me?”

You start asking:

“I wonder where this could lead?”

That small shift changes everything. Curiosity is what led me to travel when staying put felt safer. It’s what led me to start new projects when I had no guarantee they would work.

my curiousity is what helped me meet people, build businesses, travel the world, create communities and discover opportunities that I never could have planned for.

Peter Diamandis (from the Podcast Moonshots) often speaks about curiosity as one of the most important traits for navigating a rapidly changing world. He believes curiosity drives us to keep learning, exploring and adapting. In many ways, curiosity becomes the bridge between where you are and where you’re meant to go. (Business Insider)

Following Curiosity to Discover Your Purpose

Purpose often isn’t something you sit down and figure out—it’s something you uncover by staying curious and stepping into new experiences. When you follow what genuinely interests you, even if it feels small or uncertain, you start to notice patterns: what energizes you, what drains you, and what feels meaningful. New adventures pull you out of routine and introduce you to different perspectives, helping you better understand who you are and what matters to you. Instead of waiting for clarity, you create it through exploration. And that’s where the pressure lifts—because, as Peter Crone reminds us, “Who said you have only one purpose in life?” Purpose isn’t fixed; it evolves as you do, revealing itself through the paths you choose to explore.

How to Find Your Purpose Through Curiosity and Adventure

Pay attention to what sparks your interest (coming from a problem solving perspective not nessessarily a passion focus)
Notice what naturally draws your attention—ideas, topics, or activities you feel excited about. Curiosity is your starting point.
Follow those small interests
Don’t wait for a big, perfect passion. Act on what interests you now, even if it feels minor or unclear.
Say yes to new experiences
Try things that are outside your routine—travel, learn a skill, meet new people. New environments reveal new sides of you.
Reflect on what you feel
After each experience, ask yourself: Did this energize me? Did it feel meaningful? This helps you spot patterns.
Let go of the idea of one “true” purpose
Allow your path to evolve. What feels right today may grow into something different tomorrow.
Keep exploring without pressure
Purpose comes from movement, not overthinking. The more you explore, the clearer things become.
Create purpose as you grow
Remember, you’re not searching for something fixed—you’re shaping it through your choices.

As Peter Crone says, “Who said you have only one purpose in life?”

Why You Need a New Adventure

One thing I’ve learned is that healing doesn’t always happen sitting on the sofa thinking about your future. Sometimes healing happens while you’re creating that new adventure. When life knocks you off course, I have found that being curious about taking a new unknown path is the very thing that presents the new future for you. Not because the adventure itself will solve all your problems. But because it creates proof points and gives you confidence. Proof that you can start again. Proof that you can learn something new. Proof that you can survive uncertainty. Proof that there is still magic left in life. Which helps you recogise your true purpose

Every adventure becomes a reference point for the next one. I often tell people that confidence isn’t something you find. It’s something you build. One small act of courage at a time. It might look like simple things like your first solo trip. The first business idea that you take action on creating it and jumping into a problem you solve for others that is needed. Or maybe it is the first workshop. Anything you have not done before that gives you new information no matter how it turns out!

The first time you say ‘yes’ to something that scares you. I call them “bumb clenching moments” you discover a strenth in you that you did’nt know you had. Each experience creates evidence that you are capable of more than you think. And that evidence becomes the foundation for your next chapter.

The Power of Belief and Trust When You Can’t See the Destination

If you’ve ever flown through thick cloud, you’ll know there are moments when the pilot can’t see what’s ahead. They trust the instruments. They trust their training and they trust the process. Life is often the same. There have been so many times in my life when I had no idea how things were going to work out. The numbers didn’t make sense and the plan wasn’t clear. The future was unknown but I believed I was not alone and I was guided by my Angels. That’s where faith, spirituality and belief become incredibly important.Not because they give you all the answers. But because they help you keep moving when the answers haven’t arrived yet. For me, spirituality has never been about certainty. It’s been about trust. Trusting that life is happening for me rather than to me. Trusting that every ending creates space for a beginning. Trusting that even when I cannot see the runway, I am still being guided toward it. The present moment becomes incredibly important during these times.

Because the future is built from what we do today, not from what we worry about tomorrow. It’s built of your belief and trust in taking a risk, trusting yourself.

Captain or Pirate?

One of the images that often comes to mind when I think about personal transformation is Star Trek or Star Wars ship.

A galactic storm arrives. The route changes. The destination changes. The conditions become unpredictable.

At that moment you have a choice. You have You can need to take charge and become the captain. Or you can become the pirate.

The captain accepts responsibility for navigating the journey. The captain adjusts course. Draws on experience and starts trouble shooting and learns new skills. Reads the conditions. Makes decisions. Keeps moving.

The pirate steals from others hard work, Looking for shortcuts and spends their time blaming the weather. Blaming the ocean. and blaming other ships and continues fighting battles that don’t matter.

One creates a future.

The other reacts to circumstances.

The truth is that both voices exist inside all of us. The question is which one gets control of the wheel.

Choosing Abundance Over Scarcity

One of my favourite Peter Diamandis quotes is:

“Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of possibility.” (Goodreads)

That idea has stayed with me for years.

Because abundance isn’t just about money. It’s about possibility. It’s believing there are opportunities you haven’t discovered yet. It’s believing that one setback doesn’t define your future. It’s definately about believing that life can still surprise you in beautiful ways.

An abundance mindset doesn’t mean ignoring challenges. It means refusing to let challenges become your identity. And abundance does’nt stand alone, it like a map, you have to have curiousity to start and purpose to go and abundance happens as and outcome naturally.

As Diamandis explains, people with an abundance mindset don’t fear the future. They see missed opportunities as part of a much bigger landscape of possibilities still waiting to be explored. (diamandis.com)

And that mindset matters. Because whatever story you tell yourself about your future eventually becomes the lens through which you see your opportunities.

Your Next Chapter Starts Before You Feel Ready

If you’re standing in the middle of a life transition right now, I want you to know something.

You don’t need all the answers.

You don’t need a perfect plan.

You don’t need certainty.

What you need is curiosity.

A willingness to take the next step.

A willingness to trust yourself.

A willingness to create a new adventure.

Sometimes losing your way is exactly what allows you to find your purpose.

Sometimes the job loss leads to the business.

The heartbreak leads to self-discovery.

The setback leads to freedom.

The detour becomes the destination.

So if life has recently rewritten your flight plan, don’t spend all your energy trying to return to the old route.

Perhaps this new course is exactly where you’re supposed to be heading. Keep your eyes on the horizon. Trust the process.

Stay curious. Choose to push away the fear and choose abundance by knowing that what ever happened to you happend for you not to you. However painful it might have been you will look back and learn that it was a gift in discise. And most importantly, make sure you’re the captain holding the wheel of your destiny and watch your purpose show up along the way. And its full of bumb clenching moments, taking risks and learning along the way.

SO what are you waiting for get going, take some courage to say yes to a new adventure and I know you can do it. Pack you curiousity, and start discovering who you really are and what you are capable of. Adventure on!

Lovingly created by Linda A. McCall and my human brain together with the help of Chat GTP for structure and Perplexity for reserching quotes and ideation & Copliot pictures