Finding Our Path.

Finding our Path.

  • With today’s pressure to conform, whether to protect ourselves or fit in, finding our individuality and purpose falls on our priority lists. But to stand out and succeed, we have to know who we are and where our strengths lie.
  • Life offers more when the destination is the focus. The beginning of any plan is the time to reset our inner compass, clear our path of distractions and disruptions, and correct places where we have veered off course. 
  • Our divine purpose manoeuvres us past challenges, pains, and shortcuts. On deeper reflection, we understand our trials and failures as valuable lessons, the catalysts that shift us toward authentic self-identity, greater exposure, and bold life adventures.
  • By following our interests, finding our path becomes more interesting. When we identify our passions and begin to understand, this is where I am gifted. It creates energy when we do it and lights our eyes up when we go about it. Finding our path puts us on the road to destiny.

Purpose.

  • Purpose gives precision to life and provides vision which in turn produces goals. Goals determine the necessary steps towards the desired end. It dictates companions, decisions, choices, priorities and a measure for progress.
  • A deep craving of our mind is to find a sense of significance and relevance. Our purpose is the master of commitment. It gives birth to hope and instils the passion for action. It is the key to life. Without purpose, life has no meaning.
  • The purpose is the original intent for the creation of a thing, and the reason for existence. It is the end for which a thing exists and the need for being. It is the why that explains the reason for existence.
  • It transforms mistakes into miracles and disappointment into testimonies, and it has no substitute. It dictates performances, which in turn influences satisfaction. It is the key to personal and corporate fulfilment, which allows us to be ourselves.
  • It is unique for everyone, and what we identify as our path may be different from others. It can shift and change throughout life in response to the evolving priorities and fluctuations of our own experiences.
  • It is about recognising our gifts and using them to contribute to the world, whether those gifts are playing beautiful music for others to enjoy, helping friends solve problems, or simply bringing more joy into the lives of those around us.
  • Doing good doesn’t always equal doing right, just like how knowledge without understanding gives a false sense of security. Possession, fame, status and power can never be substituted for a personal sense of purpose and significance.

Skill Sharing.

  • Give someone a fish, and we feed them for a day, but if we teach them how to fish, they will be fed him for a lifetime. Love only grows by sharing. We can only have more for ourselves by giving it away to others.
  • Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
  • We all have innate or inborn skills that are simply waiting to be unleashed. Usually, most successful people in the world, regardless of whether they’re rich or just ordinary folk, use these innate skills. That’s what makes them happy. The pursuit of money doesn’t figure on top of their priorities.
  • A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for us. When we have possessed a book with mind and spirit, we are enriched. But when we pass it on we are enriched many times over.
  • Blogging is yet another way to help others by sharing our skills. The beauty of blogging is that it is not limited to our professional knowledge. The more we teach positive ideas to others, the better we learn them ourselves.
  • When we share with others, it helps deepen our knowledge and engrains what we know. When we share our skills, we empower people to become better versions of themselves. In return, we become better people too.

Setting Intentions.

  • An intention is an idea that we plan or intend to carry out. If we mean something, it’s an intention. Our goal, purpose, or aim is our intention. It’s something we mean to do, whether we pull it off or not.
  • Identifying our desire is the first step in the intention-setting process. It can be big or small, something specific like buying a new car, or more general like living in the moment. Once we have identified the feeling, we put language to it and write out the intention.
  • A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. We create our thoughts, our thoughts create our intentions, and our intentions create our reality.
  • Setting intentions empowers us to decide what we want and how we want to experience life. Sure, life is unpredictable and will likely still throw us some curveballs. But ultimately, we are the ones writing the masterpiece that is our lives, and intention setting help us do that.
  • Deciding and living with intentions is like setting a specific spot of destination on a map. This map guides us to the perfect path that is our destination or goal. It comes from visualising our preferences and affirming them.
  • Intentions are an opportunity to design and take ownership of our lived experience. It’s like setting the GPS for our lives, and it allows us to shift from an experience that happens to us to true vision-hood.
  • Goals are about doing, and intentions are about being. For example, if our goal is to write a book, intentions that could support us could be our intention to make our creativity a priority or to see ourselves as capable and strong.
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Passion.

  • Passion is what motivates us to do the things we love. It is that strong desire that allows us to create something extraordinary. The fuel that keeps the fire burning. Being passionate about something gives us a sense of purpose.
  • It is born when we catch a glimpse of our true potential. Our mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.
  • The only way to overcome resistance is to have passion for our vision. Persistence will keep us moving forward, yet we need passion to feed our persistence.
  • If we can stop what we are doing and still be happy, we are not passionate about it. If we can be discouraged by someone telling us NO, the bank refusing us money, then we don’t have passion. Passion meets every problem.
  • Passion is an intense feeling towards something or someone. A feeling that gives us endless energy and enthusiasm when it comes to an activity or interest. 
  • When we’re passionate about something, nothing that has to do with it will ever become boring or tiring. We’ll always think about all the positive outcomes that certain activity brings us, so getting over some of its “not so great” parts will never exhaust us.
  • It can push us through difficult times because we don’t care what it takes to become better. We all can create whatever kind of life we want. The secret to living the dream is hidden in our passions and what we do because of them.

Along the path of trials, we’ll go on wrong turns, screw up and realise that these dead ends aren’t for us. But it’s only by doing that, that we become more clear which path might work for us.

Finding our path reminds us of what’s important. It forces us to stop and take a look at how we’re moving through this life of ours and see if we’re living every moment in a way that fulfils us.