Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective. It's human nature to get distracted by minor issues. We play trivial pursuit with our lives. Many people are like gyroscopes, spinning around at a frantic pace but never going anywhere. Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals - hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.
You think, may be this time it will be different, but it doesn't solve your real problem - a lack of focus and purpose. The Bible says, "Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly, Make sure you understand what the Master wants." The power of focusing can be seen in light. Diffused light has little power or impact, but you can concentrate its energy by focusing it. With a magnifying glass, the rays of the sun can be focused to set grass or paper in fire. When light is focused even more as a laser beam, it can cut through steel.
There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose. The men and women who have made the greatest difference in history were the most focused. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but is there any point?
Philippians 3:15 let's us know - Therefore, let those of us who are mature be of this mental attitude, and if you are mentally inclined otherwise in any respect, God will reveal the above attitude to you.
To be continued...
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Thank you very much. I appreciate it a lot @randowhale and thank you @christian-trail
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You're are very welcome my friend :-)
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The Purpose Driven Life(6) By：Rick Warren
Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what’s important. You become effective by being selective. @randowhale
It’s human nature to get distracted by minor issues. We play Trivial Pursuit with our lives. Henry David Thoreau observed that people live lives of “quiet desperation,” but today a better description is aimless distraction. Many people are like gyroscopes, spinning around at a frantic pace but never going anywhere.
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How can you know your purpose in life? Just try to live in a way that makes you happy, that's all that matters.
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What makes you happy?
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Good question, and I think too many environmental factors play a role in this. But for me, my search for true happiness will begin as soon when I have no more need to think about my financial situation. Currently most people 'work to live', and we tend to say 'seek a job that makes you happy', but I regard this as BS. Not everybody can do a job they 'love', as some jobs just pay shit and will give you financial stress. Therefore I believe absolute true happiness can be found as soon as somebody has covered his/her financial plan. Because you have no more mandatory jobs to do, and you can literally search for whatever makes you happy.
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I admire your thoughts my friend @timsnaj and I appreciate your response.
Work is not entertainment...work is work...and financial problems can never end...always wants grows...we got to figure out our own limit..
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Exactly, work is mandatory. I consider everything that is mandatory in itself not fun, we (humans) can make our best effort in trying to enjoy it, but it is not what makes us truelly happy. True financial indepence is the way to go, I believe.
Figuring out your own limit, in the context you're giving it, is basically accepting your fate to work forever? Well, that is not my plan. :)
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Our faith will hold us right. The Bible says, Ecclesiastes 9:10 - 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave
How true is that even when we want we have limited choices. Further, Psalm 62:9 sets clear - The sons of men are a mere breath, The sons of mankind are a delusion. When laid together on the scales, they are lighter than a mere breath.
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Haha well, if you let faith decide your future, nothing good will come from it. It's all about working hard man :) But to each their own, I'm just not so fond on religion ^.^
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