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Today I wish to chat a bit about “purpose”. Some of what I share today will challenge your beliefs or awaken your beliefs as it should.
When we don’t know our purpose we are what I remember Zig Ziglar telling me, are “wondering generalities”. Not knowing one’s purpose results in people accepting the wrong job, partner, house, location to live; everything in one’s life is the result of living one’s purpose; or not.
When you don’t know what your purpose is, you become overwhelmed because you choose things that aren’t “you”, which were never were meant to be and never will be you. As one example, you find yourself doing things for money first, instead of living your purpose and having money, lots of money following; even chasing you. So you choose a job which is kind of like you, but not fully you.
Let’s go down the list of what I call the Major 8™.
M8/1 Health. You don’t know your own purpose so you try to please others to the point of damaging your own health.
M8/2 Enjoyment of Food. Not knowing your own purpose, you may feel guilty or “not good enough” so you over eat or under eat, eat to fast or not the right food or even pleasure yourself by eating out occasionally.
M8/3 Restful Sleep. You don’t sleep well because of the poor choices you’ve made and how it created the situation you are in and it dampens your dreams; those when you are sleeping and the type you should have for your successful life.
M8/4 Money; to have enough to share and spare. As I’ve already mentioned, when you don’t know your purpose you chase money instead of having it chase you. Proverbs tells us “Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle”. What this tells me is that money is not any more important than anything else in this world; but it is indeed, important. When you know your purpose, you’ll understand how to use money in the most important way within your life’s purpose; you’ll be able to be wiser with your money.
M8/5 Life and Legacy; live your life and leave a legacy. To me this is all about living abundantly in balance; to start each day knowing what your purpose is so you can ask yourself what can I do today to live my life and leave a legacy, and at night ask if I did so.
M8/6 Sexual Gratification. This may surprise some, but this is not all about the sexual act; but also the results of the sexual act. I won’t get into this here (as I’ve also only touched on the others of the Major 8™), but I’m sure you’ll agree that when you know your life purpose, you’ll certainly make better choices in this area!
M8/7 Wellbeing of Family and Friends. When you are living your purpose, on purpose you’ll be in a better position to help family and friends.
M8/8 The Feeling of Importance and Respect. Rodney Dangerfield had the famous line, “I don’t get no respect”. I think many people believe the same of themselves, that they don’t get no respect, but here’s the truth, you do not get respect from anyone; you give yourself respect and others will respect that.
Of course the Major 8™ is my exclusive platform I developed to coach my clients to create “balanced abundance” and it goes so much deeper than what I’ve shared here. My point is to present to you that your purpose, or lack of living your purpose, affects every area of your life (The Major 8™).
I used to ask, “What is God’s purpose for my life?”
when I should have asked,
“What is my purpose for my life?”
When I determined my purpose,
I found God’s purpose.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
My experience is that when I was in my youth and considering big decisions like girls, college, college and girls, career, marriage, career and marriage; you get the idea, I thought it was up to God to reveal His plan for my life. Looking back I now see that though I was sincere (sincerely ignorant) about this, that I was actually “copping out” on this; I wasn’t taking responsibility and I was leaving it all in God’s hands.
Now I know that some people would disagree with me on this and continue to think that “He’s got the whole world in his hands” like the hymn tells us but I will share with you what I wish someone had shared with me back in my younger days, “God’s busy. God put some things in my hands and it is my responsibility to find out what He put in my hands and then to do His will”. And, that God’s will, is in my hands.
All I had to do was use the mind that God gave me and I would see that the Robin knows her purpose and the Dandelions know theirs. The Robin doesn’t have to ask God or anyone to know that her days are to be filled with finding worms and singing. The Dandelion’s purpose is to fill my yard and reflect the glory of God with their yellow triumph over the green lawn. And, both the Robin and Dandelion is here to put on a show for me as part of my purpose, but that is for another subject.
All creatures and creation know their purpose. Man (and woman) must determine purpose.
You don’t find your purpose;
you determine your purpose.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
Jack Canfield told me a story about how he learned to “dis-cover” his purpose and now helps others “uncover” theirs. Do your own research to hear Jack tell about the “Golden Buddha” which was once known as the “Clay Buddha” until a monk “uncovered” the gold which was beneath. Knowing your purpose is definitely about uncovering your own gold which God placed inside you. You already have “purpose” within you; you only must “uncover” it. If someone had only told me how to determine my purpose years ago, I may be further along my own purpose path; without as many trials; but who knows? I do know that while we uncover our purpose, doing so is a continual “revealing” and though we now see dimly that later all things will be made clear.
The word, “determine” has within it two other words which are “in” and “mine”. We must look inside ourselves to discover our purpose. Then as we reveal it, we live it and living it directs our choices along our life’s path. You have your purpose and I have mine. You cannot do my push ups and I cannot do yours. You cannot live my dream or purpose and I cannot live yours.
You have many choices but only one purpose.
Determine your purpose and you’ll be clearer on your choices.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
All creatures and all creation know its purpose and they do not try to do anything else. That is why they are not stressed or overwhelmed. An acorn knows it is to become a tree and to reach its certain height. An Eagle knows it is to fly, or it falls.
You can have it all; you should have it all.
To do less, to be less and to have less is a sin.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
Only Man has the mind to make choices. When we make the right choice, based on our purpose we fly. When we choose unwisely we fall. When we are not clear about what our purpose is, we may fly but not as high as our potential. To not have lived one’s full potential is to not have accepted God’s gift of life totally and not to have accepted God’s gift is a sin.
Please don’t leave this earth with your music still in you; don’t find your purpose, determine your purpose. You cannot determine your purpose “incorrectly”. That would be like saying a flower would determine wrongly that it should be beautiful. Trust that what you determine is who and what your purpose should and must be.
Most of the time when I ask God questions,
He doesn’t “tell” me; he “shows” me.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
I realize that I’m talking a lot about “God” here, and if you would rather substitute the word “Creator” where I mention “God” feel free to do so; that is until you do feel comfortable using God, as He of course is the Creator.
Earlier I mentioned how I put all of finding out what my purpose was in God’s lap, expecting perhaps what Brendon Burchard refers to a “Purpose Piano” falling on my head and maybe that would tell me something as to what I’m supposed to do. When I ask God something (which is quite often during the day) there isn’t “hand writing on the wall” but as I’ve mentioned, I see purpose in Robins, Dandelions and other things such as sun rises, sunsets, and the noon time smile of a child eating his lunch. God usually doesn’t tell me anything; it is up to me to open my eyes and to be more aware.
God “shows” me through what Man has made
from what He has made,
or I can also see the “original”.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
I can also marvel in what Man has made like the tall buildings and the tall advances in technology but I must also get in nature and see the original. I can see the wooden chair or pencil or I can go to nature and see the natural original. Either way, I see that the chair has purpose, the tree has purpose and I have purpose.
God is ALL. God is LOVE.
LOVE is ALL you need.
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
You can have it all and having it all is not being selfish; it is being all that your purpose is meant to be. When you determine your purpose, you make right choices and you live rightly. When you live rightly, things go easier and everything in the Major 8™ come to you easily, frequently and abundantly. Others who don’t realize what purpose is and how it “works” may see you living abundantly as on purpose as that of the Dandelion which tries to overtake “the world”, they may think that you are greedy, selfish or come to some other wrong conclusion. It is not true, and you know it is not true. You’ve only come to the true realization that you will no longer be a wondering generality and that you will determine your path and choose opportunities which enhance what you are meant to do. Can a Robin fail? Can a Dandelion fail? Can any creature fail? When you are living your purpose there is absolutely no way you can fail. You may falter at times but you will never fail.
In the future I’ll share more about how to discover your purpose but for now I trust you believe that you do have a purpose and it is up to you to determine and live what it is.
Until then,
Make it a great day!
Ter Scott! Life & Legacy Coach™
Later, I’ll explain how to “refine” this list making it more
specific and easier to execute but for now I want you to list just do a few
things in just two areas. 
