Purpose in Life

Not everyone needs to understand your mission.

Do you have a mission?

Do you have a purpose for today?

Do you have a goal today?

Or are you just trying to skate by like today doesn’t matter?

I’m currently 46. Let’s say I live until I’m 80 if I’m really lucky. That’s 34 years left of days, hours, and seconds wasted or lived. The choice is mine.

Do I want to live those 34 years with purpose? Of course I do. But am I committed to make that a reality?

How do we commit?

Do we create a plan? Set goals?

Do we log our actions and inactions? Journal?

Do we review our progress?

We know everything that we need to do.

Its all about execution.

If I offered you $10,000,000 if you went a year following a plan without fail. I bet everything that you would execute on it without fail.

Funny how that works. Money is a higher motivation than a purpose driven life. Sad really.

Maybe your mission is to;
Find your purpose.
Find your why.
Be healthy.
Be aware, awake, enlightened at all times.
Be helpful.
Be of service.
Be a great example.
Be successful.
Be a monk.

Who knows? Maybe it isn’t any of the above. Maybe it is to find meaning in the phrases above.

I’ll share a little well kept secret in this world of ours. We’re all a bit broken, lost, and on the border or spectrum of insanity. Some of us are way past a little or on the spectrum. The thing is that there’s no good way to test this because in many ways although we’re all the same, we are so freaking different.

One of the most important aspects of life that I can teach my son’s is their relationship with failure. Why? Because in life we do so much of it and it is extremely necessary to fail, deal with it, and overcome it in order to succeed at anything. We have never been taught to deal with failure rather not to fail. Not to fail is impossible.

Many of us walk this earth just waiting to die. That’s our destination after all. Yet we wonder why are we so unfulfilled.

In my journey I literally wrote down the kind of man I would like to be by writing characteristics on a piece of paper. Then everyday I pretended to be the kind of man who possessed those qualities. Eventually I noticed I no longer was pretending. I quite literally conditioned myself into the vision I created.

My plan might have not been state of the art. It may not be the best. It may cause some problems along the way. And it is guaranteed to be criticized by many. Nevertheless, it worked.

Create a plan. Create goals, dreams, wishes. Then create an action plan to execute in order to achieve them. Do it by yourself or get help from a coach, therapist, friend, anyone qualified.

Not everyone needs to know your mission. But you should have a mission in life in order to live a more fulfilling life.