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How Do You Know If You Are Living On Purpose?

March 8th, 2010
How do you know whether you are living on purpose according to your life purpose statement?



Living On Purpose


If you don’t know what your life purpose is, how can you possible be living on purpose? So either way it isn’t easy to work out how your life is going.


Let’s try some questions. If you answer NO to any one, or possibly even all of these questions, you might not be living on purpose.

  • Do you wake up in the morning excited to start the day, every day, not just week-ends or on your days off?
  • Do you love your work and is it a career for you or a burden?
  • Do you often read a book or article online because it is interesting and will enrich your life and could possibly increase your knowledge for your work?



Here are a few that you might want to answer YES to and realize you are not living on purpose.

  • Do you often find yourself eating because it makes you feel good, and it helps you cope better with the day?
  • Do you look forward to your drink in the evening because it’s the only time during the day you can feel relaxed and happy?
  • Are you constantly looking to make more money so that you can do something else, although you have no idea what you might want to do?
  • Are you and your credit card best buddies? Do you binge shop regularly and have a cupboard full of clothes which you have only worn once, if at all?
  • Do you long to go on a romantic cruise because it could let you meet up with the man of your dreams?
  • You’re in a loving relationship but you like to look at good looking people and speculate what it would be like to have an affair with them because there’s no harm in having some fantasies?
  • When you go on holiday to another city and especially if traveling outside your country do you wish you could live there because things could be so much more exciting, or settled, or interesting, or lucrative?
  • You would love to buy a new car because you know it will make you feel great to be able to show off to other people that you’ve made it.
  • You live in the wrong suburb. If you could move to the one on the other side of the park it would be so much nicer. And the houses are much bigger.



So how did you make out with all of the questions? Some might have made you laugh, some might have got you thinking a little. In each case there could have been some discomfort in you that made you realise that you are striving at all the wrong things in life in order to make yourself feel happier. These would be external things to make the internal happier however most of them just don’t work.


Remember none of the above questions show that you are doing anything wrong. That’s not the point of the exercise. It was just for you to reflect on whether there are things in your life that you are doing that might give you instant gratification but are not what truly makes you happy.


In other words you are not living on purpose.

Living On Purpose

Living on purpose is about making choices everyday that are in line with what drives you, what is truly important to you It is about first finding out what your passions are in life. It is about following your heart and doing what you love to do most.


People who know their purpose and are living it, know who they are and why they are here. They live true to their core values as they serve themselves and others through the expression of their life purpose.


Living on purpose is living a life filled with blessings and having no doubt about the blessings life has to offer, knowing that there is an God that is working in your favor.


Life is a gift.. and every breath we take is a gift from God. We all have the power to make the decision to either live life a 100% or just to float along, allowing influences to control our lives.


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.


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Declutter Your Life With Smart Goals

March 2nd, 2010

Declutter your life and make a place for those smart goals in your life.


Declutter your life with smart goals


What is a smart goal you may ask?


Smart goals is an acrostic to help people remember the important points that make personal goal setting effective. Smart stands for;


Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely


To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions: Who, What, Where, When, Which, and Why.


To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as……How much? How many? How will I know when it is accomplished?


Attainable – When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them.


To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be.


Last but not least, a goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency.


These are all critical components of smart goal setting that will motivate you to achieve the goals you set for yourself. First, you want to make your goal as specific as possible. You want to ensure your goal is detailed and describes exactly what you want.


However, what if you want to further your career by taking an online course. Take a look at your life and see how much time do you actually have available.


Will a new smart goal fit into your life if you are already rushing every day to complete the tasks you have to do in terms of your commitments to work, your relationships, the new hobby you have, your volunteer work, and never mind keeping in touch with your friends?


Where in the busy schedule would a online course fit? Not very likely. But you sign up for it anyway. Within the first month you find yourself not attending the conference calls and not doing what is required. You just don’t have time.


You need to make way for that smart goal if you are serious about achieving it. University Business Schools know all about the fall off rate of students who sign up for MBA’s or Management Advancement Programs.


The drop out rate is something like 40% within the first term of the course and only about 70% or so finish. And yet at sign up time every student is informed as to how much time they will need to free up for this course.


Somehow in our minds the time available to us has an elasticity that has no limit. Of course this is not the case and many times we set ourselves up for failure by not decluttering our lives sufficiently to make time to achieve a smart goal we have set.


Review your day and see where you spend your time. What part of your time is being wasted on non-essential activities? Which of those activities can be let go and which activities have to be kept?


How To Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter


Declutter Your Life



Declutter your life and get rid of the clutter that keeps you frantically busy but that gets you absolutely nowhere.


We all have mountains of clutter around. This could be physical clutter that means that every time we are looking for something it takes twice the time to find. It could be tasks that we have taken on ourselves such as doing all the housework while our partner watches TV that easily eliminate our free time.


Or it could just be too many repetitive activities such as scanning our email several times a day instead of once a day, or finding a quicker route to work, or using an easier shop close by for the daily grocery requirements. All it needs is a closer look at what you fill your day with and with some clever planning you could free substantial time for all sorts of great achievements.


Review everything you do in a regular day whether this needs doing or whether it can be dumped to the trash can of bad habits. You will be surprised how much time you spend on aimless tasks that add no value to your life.


Just by doing this one thing alone by canceling some of the time spent in front of the TV could help you find the time needed to achieve a wonderful goal such as learning how to have financial freedom in your life.


Smart goals is a great way to stay motivated throughout the year and being organized is not a personality trait. It’s a skill anybody can learn.

Three Rules of Work:

Out of clutter find simplicity;

From discord find harmony;

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein




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You Grow – We Grow – A Personal Development Plan That Works

February 5th, 2010

A personal development plan is a road map of your self growth journey. It is basically a goal setting exercise, but specific for the area of personal development. It is planning for your dreams in regards to personal development.


Personal Development Plan


“Without good direction, people lose their way;
the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.”



The bible says that if people don’t have a vision they will perish. What is your vision? What is your personal development plan? Who would you like to become?

Don’t Make A Small Personal Development Plan!



I hope you have a dream or a vision in your heart for something greater than what you have now. God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. If we are not thinking, hoping or asking for anything, we are cheating ourselves. We need to think big thoughts, hope for big things and ask for big things.


I know the economy looks bleak however with God nothing is impossible.


However, it is only an unwise person who only thinks, dreams and asks big but fails to realize that an enterprise is build by wise planning.


When I first started with my home based business the first thing my partner asked me to do was to focus on my goals, my why for doing the business. I remember thinking what does this have to do with business? What I later discovered is that it has everything to do with business. If you don’t know why your doing something, when the day comes when life gets tough, you will quit if your why isn’t big enough.


My why is being able to work from home and not have to work outside of the home? I have had horrific experiences in my jobs of being mistreated. It never seemed to matter how well I did my job which was part of the problem. I did my job so well that jealousy began to uproot its ugly head from either my employer or an employee.


Creating a personal development plan and dreams for the future are possibilities, but not what I call “positivelies.” In other words, they are possible, but they will not positively occur unless we do our part.


All of us have potential and many of us want a manifestation of it, but too often we are not willing to wait, be determined and work hard at developing that potential. We have a lot of “wish bone,” but not much “back bone.”


Far too many people take the “quick fix” method for everything. They only want what makes them feel good right now. They are not willing to invest for the future.


“Don’t just enter the race for the fun of being in it – run to win!”



There is a gold mine hidden in every life, but we have to dig to get to it. We must be willing to dig deep and go beyond how we feel or what is convenient. If we dig down deep into the spirit, we will find strength we never knew we had.

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However, if you’re like most people, you have grown up with the “weakness prevention” model. You’ve been told that to become strong, successful, or truly serve God and the world, you must “fix” your weaknesses.


That thinking is just plain wrong.


In Gallup’s research into human potential over the past 30 years – including interviews with more than 2 million people – the evidence is overwhelming: You will be most successful in whatever you do by building your life around your greatest natural abilities rather that your weaknesses. Your talents should be your primary focus! The problem is that most people don’t even know what their greatest talents are or how to go about discovering them.


When I discovered my talents I felt exhilarated. It gave me hope because now I could build on the strengths that I had been blessed with rather than try to fix my weaknesses that never seemed to get better no matter how hard I tried.


What I discovered is that I had been given a unique combination of talents and when I discovered my talents, I began to discover my calling, my purpose in life.


Like everyone, you have been blessed with a deep reservoir of untapped potential. That potential is your talent, waiting to be discovered and put to use in your life. It’s time for you to unleash the power of that potential and begin to discover your unique talents.


Start by taking Gallup’s Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths [With Access Code] [STRENGTHS FINDER 20]


Then get ready to embark on an adventure sure to change your life.


My strengths are;

Achiever

Belief

Responsibility

Strategic

Woo


I would love to hear what your strengths are.









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