We often talk about finding our purpose, when in fact it may be more accurate to say that we create it. Our purpose is something we create, out of our beliefs, values, talents, and satisfactions.
When you focus on your deepest beliefs, your core values, your talents, and what you love to do, you create a structure of motivations and goals that facilitate the full development of your unique abilities and capacities, allowing you to achieve your highest potential, happiness, and dreams in life.
Your purpose in life creates a dynamic context for your decisions, priorities, and goals, that will enable you to experience your life with direction, positivity, and enthusiasm, and to overcome obstacles and threats of negativity.
When you can create a purpose for your life, you will fortify your qualities of mind and character that will encourage you to choose to become the best person that you can become. Then your thoughts and actions can attain their highest form of expression, like a good seed that fulfills its potential when it transforms into a blossom.
Getting Personal
Personally, do you think of yourself as currently having a purpose in life? If so, what would you describe it as?
If not, do you experience this absence of having a definable purpose as a problem? Why or why not?
“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.” (Hannah Senesh, Hungarian poet, anti-Nazi activist)
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” (John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president)
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**** Top of post image (Choose Your Way), from single-writer-mama.com, 2015/02/12
