What is Your Purpose?

Upon starting this blog one main goal was to provide practical, informational and educational direction for those who wish to gain more success in their lives and business. Of course we will continue on that endeavor. Since we have started covering those functional and a few idealogical purposes it dawned on me that we should spend some time on a philosophical aspect of success.

Everything that we have discussed thus far should be refreshed in your mind as you proceed with this reading. It is the choice to be successful, the value of good leadership, the value of good employees, what does it mean to be a good employee, the goal setting process, that I would like you to reflect on as we move on.

What is your purpose? This is obviously a question wrought with self-reflection and a lot of hmms… From my perspective you have two possible purposes or one depending on your personal belief system. This will make sense momentarily. For those of you that practice religion or a spiritual belief system, then you probably believe that there is a higher power that has a plan or a purpose for you during your lifetime. And as part of that divine plan you have to discover what that purpose is and then move with it. The other possible purpose is the self-directed purpose. This one has two functions: 1. it can work in conjunction with your divine purpose and 2. It can be set by your personal desires that drive you to success.

Starting early in my life I knew that 2 of my purposes in life were music and education. Maybe that thought process came to be because I was surrounded by it. I wasn't pressured to follow those purposes but I became intoxicated by them. They very quickly became part of my life's purpose. And even though now I am not in a classroom full time per say, I am still educating and will continue to do so. But now the world is my classroom and I am free to teach wherever and whenever without being confined to four walls in a classroom.

We have talked about the success process including setting and achieving goals. Let's think about the goal setting process and incorporate that into the topic of purpose. The functional purpose serves as stepping stones for a means to an end. In order to get to point c, I must start at point a, then move to point b and then to point c. We think of the end result first so that we know our direction but how does the end result of success and our goal setting process reflect our purpose?

The mind is a mysterious entity. As we formulate thoughts and develop a passion for said thoughts we start to make the conscious choice about whether we want these thoughts to become reality or exist only in the realm of imagination. What drives the thoughts that come into our minds? I would speculate that a large percentage comes from our daily observations of life happening around us but it is that smaller percentage that really matters most. It is our purpose that is generating thoughts. As we explore that purpose and move towards fulfilling it then we generate other thoughts on how to do it. What do we need to do? How are we going to do it? What resources do we need? How do we become educated in that subject? These are the practical questions that turn into goals. We now know what we want to achieve so we set up a series of goals that ultimately will lead us to that end result. Now that end result might not be our final purpose but it could be a stepping stone that will lead us to the next success that we must achieve to head towards our purpose.

This is just the start of addressing the topic of purpose. As you begin to ponder your purpose in life, I would like to leave you with this thought 

"Success is the sense of self-worth and value that is gained from wanting what we get and getting what we want." Frank Taylor

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