Discovering Your Life's Purpose
DISCOVERING
YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE
"to give life a meaning,
one must have purpose larger than
oneself"
( will Durant )
One key factor to achieving
greatness, fulfilling your dreams and aspirations, and accomplishing great
things is to fully discover your life's purpose and how to use it as tool for
success. Every human being is endowed with unique potentials channeled towards
his or her life calling.
Now watch this two children, they
have a purpose of been to this place
"Great minds have purposes,
others have wishes" (
washington living )
In the beginning, God created all things
by giving commands. He said, "Let there be light", and there was
light, But when it was time to create man, God said "Let us make man in
our own image and likeness". Thus, God made man in his own image, breathed
life into him and man became a 'living soul',
Man
was placed over all creation. This therefore accounts to man's uniqueness and
complexity among other creations. Man is built up of potentials channeled towards
achieving a particular purpose in life. The greatest challenge in life is your
ability to identify your life's purpose. How to get to your life's purpose
and
how to use it as tool for success. Here is a person's life story.
His desire to address this problem and
come up with a solution stems from his personal experience. Although he knew
his long and short term goals at various points in life; it took him many years
to fully discover his life purpose and how to use it as a tool for success.
From his childhood, he knew that he must love his work,
but
as the years rolled by, he found himself unable to identify just what that he
would be. Although he went to college after high school, he dropped out after
two years
Owing
to financial constraints. For two years, he drifted from job to job. Then, by
what turned out to be a stroke of good luck, he came across a job advert
requesting for the service of a clerk in a manufacturing company.
He
applied and was hired. However, the nature of his job allowed him to move
closely to discovering his life's purpose. Working as a clerk in the warehouse,
he developed management skills and was eventually put in charge of the
warehouse operation. To his surprise, he found himself working creatively with
groups of people and learning
That
leader does not need to be authoritarian. Before he knew it, he was discovering
values-driven leadership. He was however always commended for his
industriousness and creativity. He not only rose in position but also completed
his college degree.
Although he enjoyed his work with the
company, he felt something was missing. While searching for new ideas, he
started working for a master's degree in education administration.
Unfortunately, during that time, his company filed for bankruptcy, thus
shedding its workers. He spent some months looking for job which he also
Thought
would be his life's work.
Some months later, he landed a job as a
teacher in a collage. He not only taught students, but also trained other
instructors to teach. Now, he was getting closer to what he really wanted to
do. For the first time he saw that classroom learning could be made relevant to
the workplace. He later continued with his educational pursuits' In the
university.
As
he read and reflected, he gradually came to realize that he had found his
life's purpose; it would be to help other people find theirs. Most people
haven't thought much about what they love to do. As a result they find
themselves doing jobs that they dislike. However, it is almost always possible,
if you start early in life, to
Combine
what you love to do with making a living. Many philosophers and other great
thinkers believe that a person's life calling is usually whatever creates the
highest level of joy. It's quite unfortunate that many people live their whole
lives without ever finding their life's purpose. These people go to their
graves with their dreams and aspirations unfulfilled
Sometimes you need to ask yourself;
what is the true purpose of life? “Now
watch”
Every human have in God-given natural
inborn talents-unique potentials for creative expression. At birth, we have all
we need to become all we can be. To achieve success, there is need for us to
figure out how to make a living using our uniqueness, and how to connect who we
are with what we do.
"Success is a potential
failure well managed and
Failure is a
potential success badly handled"
( Broda Martins )
This diagram can tell you more on
how to discover your life purpose:
Point To Consider
1. Try to identify what matters to you; it will
help your life's purpose.
2. You need to have a clear vision of your
life's purpose.
3. You need to have a sense of direction
4. Your life's purpose must be properly defined
5. You need not
worry about competition when you are living your life's purpose ( Thomas Herold )
6.
Give zero tolerance to all impediments to your life's purpose.
Category: Motivation
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