Purpose - what's yours?

 
This is not an easy thing to discover - some spend their whole lives looking for it and others never find it.  I remember when I worked in a nursing home, the halls and rooms were filled with people who didn't have a purpose.  Not that none of them had a purpose, but many of them didn't.  As a Recreation Therapist, part of my job was to help find something for the residents to do, but that was just temporary.  Purpose is something you have to find on your own.

I've been learning and thinking a lot about purpose and what mine is.  I think, as my life evolves, so will my purpose.  I have some inklings as to what I'm intended to do while I'm here, but I'm not quite sure how and when these things will happen.  Good thing I'm a work in progress.  I love listening to Robert Allen each day when he says, "When I'm the me I was meant to be, I'm awesome."  That's a very non-threatening way of inspiring us to live up to our potential.

Above is an AMAZING book that may help you with figuring out your purpose - if you choose to accept it.
I try to live my life on purpose everyday, but I often find myself getting distracted by so many things.  I know that focus is one of the keys to success, so why do I let myself get distracted by things that aren't related to my purpose?  I don't know, but I'm daily trying to master focus.

You are AWESOME!

Restructuring

Haiti Flag - read below

So, things are a little different in my life today.  My husband and I had a talk -an accounting on the goal we made 6 months ago.  For me, it didn't go well.  I hoped it wouldn't come down to that, but it did. 


Because things went the way they did, it got me to thinking about why my business hasn't been as profitable as I had hoped, and I realized that there are things I know I need to do that I haven't been doing.  Over and over again, I keep hearing that I need to do the same things.  It just takes time and I was hoping for something to happen quicker. 


I also realized that in addition to not doing the right things, maybe I simply didn't work hard enough.  I recently watched a movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, where the main character wanted two hunting dogs so badly.  He said that when you have a goal this big and ask God to help you, you do all the work and He provides the strength and opportunity.  I don't know how true that is since I haven't achieved my big goal yet, but maybe it is, and maybe I was relying on Him too much to perform the miracle, but I wasn't working hard enough.  I feel like I was working hard enough, but apparently not.


I also realize that I maybe wasn't reading enough inspirational books and listening to enough motivational CDs.  I was so focused (at times) on acheiving my goal that I didn't take time to "sharpen the saw" as Stephen R. Covey would say.  With exercise, eating healthy, taking care of my baby, working on my business, reading, listening, serving (where I can), etc. - there's just WAY too much to do that I thought I could cut that out, but I guess that wasn't the best idea.


I've also heard, time and time again, about Napolean Hill's way to make any goal (mainly financial, however): Write it down, be specific, put a date on it and write a positive statement with all the previous components in a positive statement and read it out loud with passion twice a day.  I do it sometimes, but I'm not very consistent.  I need to become more consistent - starting today, once I figure out my next goal.


I know it's the beginning of the year, the time when people start thinking about goals.  I just found out an interesting fact, sortof related and sortof not: It has been one year as of today since the calamities that occurred in Haiti.  Their flag is the picture above.  It's clear to see, I'm not the only one restructuring.

You are AWESOME!