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Discovering Your Personal Purpose
Like most stepparents, you also have a career outside the home. But you must first discover your personal purpose to know the true measure of your professional success, regardless of your current chosen career. There are tests to determine your aptitude for a given profession, though I want you to consider only the core word "apt" which means exactly suitable. Discover the purpose that is exactly suitable for you.
First, ASSESS where you are now. You may decide that you are EXACTLY where you want to be, doing EXACTLY what you want to be doing. If that is you, count your blessings and continue happily along the yellow brick road to your destiny.
But some of you won't be comfortable with what this momentary hiatus reveals—this break from the hustle and bustle of busily careening down the fast track. Some of you just might let your imagination wander to what you would do "if you had a choice." As long as you are still breathing, you ALWAYS have a choice.
PRIORITIZE is the second step to fulfilling your destiny. Once you have assessed where you are, you must decide what is important to you and the order of that importance. Life is full of choices. Sometimes, in order to have one thing, you have to leave something else behind.
The third step is to TEST those priorities against that intuitive compass I call your subconscious, which includes your distinct personality traits, likes, dislikes, abilities, quirks, etc. It's the calm that confirms you are WHERE you should be, with WHOM you should be, WHEN you should be, doing WHAT you should be. That inner peace is the plum line by which all attempts at discovering your personal purpose must be measured.
One of my favorite motivational speakers and a forerunner in his field was Earl Nightingale. Although he has long since passed on, I can still hear his deep, melodic voice advising that purpose, passion, and financial gain could all be found in service to others. If you wanted to succeed in life,according to Earl, then find something to make others lives better and do it excellently.
A few years ago, Rick Warren swept the country with his blockbuster book, "The Purpose Driven Life." In it, he says that purpose will always produce passion and that nothing energizes like a clear purpose. He goes on to say that passion dissipates when you lack a purpose and he concludes that it is usually MEANINGLESS work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.
Regardless where you are on your journey, your destiny is only three simple steps away. Assess, Prioritize, Test, to discover your APT—exactly suitable—personal purpose.
First, ASSESS where you are now. You may decide that you are EXACTLY where you want to be, doing EXACTLY what you want to be doing. If that is you, count your blessings and continue happily along the yellow brick road to your destiny.
But some of you won't be comfortable with what this momentary hiatus reveals—this break from the hustle and bustle of busily careening down the fast track. Some of you just might let your imagination wander to what you would do "if you had a choice." As long as you are still breathing, you ALWAYS have a choice.
PRIORITIZE is the second step to fulfilling your destiny. Once you have assessed where you are, you must decide what is important to you and the order of that importance. Life is full of choices. Sometimes, in order to have one thing, you have to leave something else behind.
The third step is to TEST those priorities against that intuitive compass I call your subconscious, which includes your distinct personality traits, likes, dislikes, abilities, quirks, etc. It's the calm that confirms you are WHERE you should be, with WHOM you should be, WHEN you should be, doing WHAT you should be. That inner peace is the plum line by which all attempts at discovering your personal purpose must be measured.
One of my favorite motivational speakers and a forerunner in his field was Earl Nightingale. Although he has long since passed on, I can still hear his deep, melodic voice advising that purpose, passion, and financial gain could all be found in service to others. If you wanted to succeed in life,according to Earl, then find something to make others lives better and do it excellently.
A few years ago, Rick Warren swept the country with his blockbuster book, "The Purpose Driven Life." In it, he says that purpose will always produce passion and that nothing energizes like a clear purpose. He goes on to say that passion dissipates when you lack a purpose and he concludes that it is usually MEANINGLESS work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.
Regardless where you are on your journey, your destiny is only three simple steps away. Assess, Prioritize, Test, to discover your APT—exactly suitable—personal purpose.
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