Your First Purpose Is... Identifying Your Goals!
What if you were to identify your life purpose...then, you could achieve all of your goals and dreams? Goals are there to identify the actions you must take to fulfill your purpose. Purpose is the driving force behind you setting the goals you want to achieve. Goals are merely a reflection of your overall purpose. But, as Dan Miller says in his book, 48 Days To The Work You Love, "A goal is a dream with a time frame of action attached."
Perhaps some of you read this article because you are you feeling confused, depressed, even hopeless about your direction. Others of you may be brimming with enthusiasm yet seeking a system to record and live out positive changes you desire to make. However, some may be curious as to how knowing your life purpose could make any difference?
What you need to know is that your life purpose is about knowing who you are and what energizes you. Also, it is about realizing your natural talents as well as the contribution that is made to the world when you are utilizing your gifts. Your purpose gives you a new framework of value that begins to shape every action, decision, choice and moment of your life...especially when the flow of situations try to throw you off course. So, whether you are experiencing a crisis, elation moment, or you are faced with a transformational opportunity, it is important to stop and self reflect in order to identify your purpose. ALL goal setting revolves around your core purpose.
To identify this purpose, it is important to explore four primary questions:
1. What are your ASSETS/STRENGTHS (they energize you)?
2. What are your EXCITEMENTS and ENTHUSIASMS (they energize you)?
3. What do you REQUIRE TO BE STIMULATED?
4. What is your PRIMARY LIFE ASSIGNMENT?
For every new opportunity that comes along, I now ask myself how it aligns with my purpose. Regardless of how much money I could acquire, if the activity does not align with my primary life assignment, which is the core of my personal mission statement, then I do not pursue it. Here is my primary life assignment: "To stimulate, orchestrate, and implement initiatives that transform people, organizations and communities while in the process bringing intrinsic value fiscally and personally ".
So go ahead!... discover your real purpose in life? I'm not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you're here - the very reason you exist!
What you need to know is that your life purpose is about knowing who you are and what energizes you. Also, it is about realizing your natural talents as well as the contribution that is made to the world when you are utilizing your gifts. Your purpose gives you a new framework of value that begins to shape every action, decision, choice and moment of your life...especially when the flow of situations try to throw you off course. So, whether you are experiencing a crisis, elation moment, or you are faced with a transformational opportunity, it is important to stop and self reflect in order to identify your purpose. ALL goal setting revolves around your core purpose.
To identify this purpose, it is important to explore four primary questions:
1. What are your ASSETS/STRENGTHS (they energize you)?
2. What are your EXCITEMENTS and ENTHUSIASMS (they energize you)?
3. What do you REQUIRE TO BE STIMULATED?
4. What is your PRIMARY LIFE ASSIGNMENT?
For every new opportunity that comes along, I now ask myself how it aligns with my purpose. Regardless of how much money I could acquire, if the activity does not align with my primary life assignment, which is the core of my personal mission statement, then I do not pursue it. Here is my primary life assignment: "To stimulate, orchestrate, and implement initiatives that transform people, organizations and communities while in the process bringing intrinsic value fiscally and personally ".
So go ahead!... discover your real purpose in life? I'm not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you're here - the very reason you exist!
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