Purpose Driven Life

Ok, well here comes post three for all those who are reading this blog.  Last time I talked about having a purpose in life, and my friend, Matt Riggins, posted a comment about when he goes to work, he has a sign saying, "All it takes for evil to succeed, is for good men to do nothing."  That is so true. When we walk the path of apathy, we allow evil to succeed by not standing up and stopping it in its tracks.  So how do we stop evil from happening, we lead a purpose driven life.

A purpose driven life is not easy and is not always fun, but it is rich, fulfilling, and you can change, not only your life, but life of your children and your grandchildren, by treating them to live life doing what you do best and how to best benefit all people everywhere.  Just because you are in your 20s and 30s, and you aren't doing what you feel is a purpose driven life, doesn't mean you are a failure or that its too late to change your stars.  Abraham Lincoln was a failure at business, law, and had a failed run for senator, before he was elected President.  Dr. Albert Schweitzer was still helping in Africa with diseases well into his 80s.  Albert Einstein failed 8th grade, and yet was able to express the theory of relativity.  Michael Jordan was cut from his sophomore basketball team, yet is one of the most prolific players in NBA history.

This purpose of those examples is to show that setbacks aren't the end of a journey, but the thing to make you push and want it more.  I'm not advocating quitting your job, and pursuing your dream because it will probably lead to disaster.  You must be prepared to achieve your dream.  First, you must find out what it is that makes you jump up and happy to do for everyday forever, and something that you would do for free.  The reason I say that, is   because if you are willing to give your time away to do something, just for the joy of doing it, then you are on the right track to chasing your dream into a career that you will want to do forever and love doing.  The average worker will have over 20 jobs and each job will last only about 2.1 years.  That doesn't sound like the average person is living a purpose driven life.  In fact, it sounds like the average worker is lost and is aimlessly searching for some meaning in life.  So you must find what you love to do, and what you would do for free.  This is how you start to find the purpose that drives your life.

So start with things that bring joy to your life and start to form a plan of how to get to a career on that line of work.  Start small, and do it on your terms.  Don't compromise or make little of your dream.  Try things out and take it step by step.  If you don't like something, or the outcome is not what you were expecting, change your dream little by little, until you achieve the vision and goal that brings you true happiness.  As you dream grows, it turns into a vision, then a goal.  Don't get overwhelmed by this.  State to yourself what you want, and how you want to achieve your goal, and what it will look like when you have reached that goal, and stick to it.  While it was ideal to start this 5, 10, or even 20 years ago, don't let another day go by without making it mean something.  Start today.  As Chaucer said in a Knight's Tale, " Days like these are for to rare to cheapen with heavy handed words."  So go out find your dream, form a plan, chase it, and live a purpose driven life.  Don't let setbacks stop you and don't let average people bring you down.  Raise above and change your stars.