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Ramblings of a Rich Man
What is your purpose?
Write it down; now. Go ahead, what are you waiting for? For
many, we simply don’t know what our purpose is and we’re waiting for the hand
of God to have a plane (or now a Droid, perhaps) write it out in sky writing
for us to see when we look up. You won’t see it there. And, you won’t see it
anywhere “outside” of you. Oh, you may find clues outside yourself which
confirm your inner thoughts but you and you alone know your purpose.
Have you written it down yet? There is something about
writing things down with our own hand and then looking at it (several times;
actually maybe thousands of times) with our own eyes that makes something more
real and nothing is more “real” than our purpose, that is when we know it.
Before you leave this next paragraph, please write down your
purpose. OK, I’ve purposely stressed this to you only to impress upon you how
important this is and I won’t leave you without a lesson.
For years I never knew what my purpose was, or better what
God’s purpose was for my life. I wasn’t looking for skywriting but not writing
something down and continually tweaking it until I knew what my purpose was just
as absurd.
One’s purpose is discovered, revealed and developed.
To find out what your purpose is and to know what your
purpose is, simply do this. First “think about it” and then write something down on paper. Then revisit
what you’ve written after you’ve lived a few days or a few months. Did you
“live” your purpose during that time? Did you live anything “close” to what
you’ve written? Now ask yourself how you feel about how you’ve “lived”
according to your purpose; what was good and not good? Tweak it a little and
experiment; live it for a while longer and keep coming back to it and eventually
you will know your purpose. You may forget it sometimes (so keep it as a
reminder on a 3 x 5 card in your wallet or a poster on your wall) but you will
eventually be able to tell someone your purpose “in your sleep” but more
importantly you will truly know your purpose and it will “show” in how you live
your life.
Those who refuse to take the time to find out, know and live
their purpose have a harder time making decisions and taking directions and
usually end up where they don’t want to go in life or it takes them much longer
to live a happy and fulfilled life. They are what many have called the
“wondering generalities”. Now that you
know what your purpose is, you can
live it. Don’t worry at all, if you wrote something down and you find out that
this is not your purpose, you will know what many others, who will not, will
never know and that is what your purpose is “not”! You see it’s all beneficial.
When you work on this part of “who you are” you will know what your purpose is
what it isn’t and can move forward in your life’s journey accordingly!
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