Successful Living With Purpose
“Natural Yearning”?
Ever heard of it?
Do you think it’s accurate to say that a “natural yearning” is the primal instinct of what drives people.
One challenge of success is actually changing behavior. A natural yearning can be the catalyst to that change.
What is it that you could get excited about and see yourself doing for the rest of your life?
Is it to earn a ton of money? Is it to serve your people in a very unique way? Is it to love your family as much as humanly possible – to take care of them like no one else can?
What is the Natural Yearning of the Human Spirit?
All of the above probing questions can be answered by this one fact.
Make a list of people who have made “automatic transformations” in their lives. Then look deeper and compare the common factors. One of the first things you’ll see is a sense of purpose.
Purpose is a driving force that propels an individual to stay up late and get up early.
Purpose is the food that feeds the natural yearning of the human spirit.
TheFreeDictionary.com says purpose is “Determination; resolution”. Purpose generates a deep thirst for an individual’s accomplishment.
Not only for accomplishment but for meaning – a meaning that seems to pull, push, guide and lift one out of any situation or circumstance that is inconsistent with the definition his goals and, more importantly, who he is not.
If you don’t have a purpose written out for your life, you’re missing out on a very key tool for living success.
Writing down your life purpose is a great way to review why you’re doing what you’re doing. There’s also something about writing it down that keeps you consistently stay focused.
Your Purpose should be written with positive potential, and positioned as a predictable probability.
In other words:
1. Spend at least 20 minutes in a quiet place relaxed and focus on what YOUR purpose is.
2. Write your purpose.
3. Don’t try and make it grammatically perfect.
4. Do make it a concrete purpose.
5. Make your purpose strong with principles you believe in.
6. Take at least 1 step each day to reinforce your written purpose.
Remember, this is your life. This is what you’re about. There is no other person that can or will realize your purpose like you will.
Your purpose can and probably will change in some degree each year. Do an annual audit and see if your written purpose needs a revision. It may. That’s okay… as long as you stay true to who you are.
Spend time writing your purpose. Focus in a quiet place for at least 20 minutes before writing anything. This is important.
Also, when writing your purpose, it can be as long or as short as you want it.
The main thing is to actually write it down and don’t adopt someone else’s ideas as your own.
Note: Review your purpose on a daily basis for the first 3 weeks after writing it. Beyond that, review it once a week.
Enjoy your newly acquired purposeful life!
Until next time keep looking and living forward.
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