How I discovered my purpose
Written by Lord Shu
The main reason I started blogging was because I always think to myself that I’m not good enough to guide someone in making decisions. The actions do better than wasting my precious breath directing someone. I am going to briefly breakdown the actions I took as a child, teenager, and young adult to find my purpose.
Lord Shu as a child
I am going to be very honest with you. I knew my purpose for my entire life. Infancy until about 5 years old, I had my life figured out. I wanted to be a polymath like Kanye West, Leonardo DaVinci, and Michelangelo. I started my journey very young by expanding on those ideas that swirled around in my young mind. In your own life, take into consideration what interested you as a child. Preferably, before you were influenced by other people. The Arts & Sciences chose me very early. Before I started Kindergarten, I was fluent in singing, math, and cursive. I would get in trouble because I would write everything in cursive which I still do.
Reminder, I already knew my purpose in life but that doesn’t mean that I never forgot. I let public school take away my genius and was left questioning myself. Eventually, I stopped caring about educating myself and focused more on relationships. Can you imagine, the school system tried to tell me I had a learning disability. I have always been headstrong but even teachers pushed me away from my natural curiosity. I took all their tests and outscored most of my peers. The lesson here is to stand on your principles.
I joined a choir on a whim to see if I could do it and was recruited into the Honor Choir. I was building relationships traveling all over Georgia and singing. The start of facing many fears in my life. I joined Boy Scouts to be a survivalist because as a young boy, I knew I was a leader. Awareness of self is probably the most important thing in knowing your purpose.
Lord Shu as a teenager
I spent most of my time as a teenager in my basement in Germany. I was building intercoms, homemade telegraphs, city models, robots, videos games, and creating podcasts before they existed. I learned how to make music on Fruity Loops (now FL Studio) and started producing instrumentals for emcees in my High School. I took drama, was in tech club, yearbook club, and even tried out for track. I was not very popular in Europe but I did not care. I was so intent on facing my fears that popularity didn’t matter. I wasn’t a cool kid but everyone knew who I was because I stood by my principles.
It was in High School; I remembered my gift for writing and speaking. A gift I had lost from being afraid. In drama class, I was writing scripts and acting them out. This healed people by creating heartfelt and serious stories. I remembered my gift for wanting to heal people. I always love humans. I acted on that love very often and sometimes to my own detriment. You learn how to be better at your purpose, by making sacrifices. I was my sacrifice to helping humanity grow. I showed up everyday and made that sacrifice.
Lord Shu as an adult
Now, here we are a little under 20 years later I am an emcee/producer and at one point owned a record label. I now own a fashion house and mentor people to live a life from the heart. I designed a magazine called Hybrid Manual and manage a podcast called After5ive Da Podcast. I design apps and websites for myself and heal people through Ayurveda, the science of life. I stood by my principles and never switched up. My life is not perfect but you can take away that I am happy. I chose what I wanted my life to be like and obsessively studied everything that piqued my interest. Your purpose isn’t in your happiness. It is in who you are everyday when you show up from the Heart.
If you would like more help you can download SLR's magazine Hybrid Manual here or watch the video below about how to organize your goals using four simple steps