Living For A Purpose: Sense Of Mission

A lot of people go through the day without having a sense of motion and no purpose at all, just going through motions and flowing with the tide. The truth is that, everyone has a particular unique function to perform and a purpose to fulfil. As a matter of fact, if you do not have what to live for, then you will not know if you are fulfilling your purpose or you are just filling space. You are not here in this life as just a matter - to occupy space, but with specific purpose, without which, a void will be created in the world.

There is something to keep you motivated and make you to still putting up the best of your abilities - that is called "purpose." Without having the knowledge of your predefined purpose, you may likely be made to assume someone else's purpose. Just like, if a purpose of something is not know, that particular thing will be inevitably abused. In the same way in life, without discovering your purpose, you will not live life to its fullest. There is a reason why you will wake up each morning from your bed and move out to do something worthwhile - in order to fulfill a purpose.

A student without a purpose will not take their studies seriously. Imagine being in school without even knowing what is being done in school and without having an academic goal to fulfill, there will be nothing to motivate you to study. If you have ever played a football match (maybe a street soccer) without goalposts, you will understand what life without purpose means - because the players will run around, expend energy, get exhausted, but without making any scores because there is no goalpost. Similarly, not having a purpose in life and not knowing what you want to do, will make you to progress in futility.

There are a number of things or pointers that can put you in the right direction towards discovering your purpose, so as to give you a sense of mission. Firstly, you need to look inwards to know what you have the ability to do so well that you can do it even without much practice. This might give you an insight as to what your purpose is. When we were growing up, there was a particular friend of mine that had a knack for public speaking. When we went for an event, he would always want to speak and engage others in public speaking.

At that point, he was just doing it because it was part of him and not because he was remunerated for it. At a point, we nicknamed him "Chris Talker," after an actor. He discovered early in life about his fantasy for talking, even though he did not study anything relating to public speaking, but even right at the university, he was hosting talk shows, MC, events, etc. By the time he graduated from university and applied for work but it was not forthcoming, he realized that he has something to help himself with - talking. He started doing event hosting for people and getting money from it. At the moment, he now hosts a radio show and doing very well. All these were possible because he looked inwards to discover what he could do effortlessly, and it help him to discover his purpose.

Another pointer that could help one towards the discovery of one's purpose is to care to find out what other people's honest opinion about you is. More often than not, which people (especially a lot of people) have said honestly about you, there may be truism in it. People's honest opinions about you may not just be mere words, they may already be seeing something that will point you to the discovery of your purpose which you might not even see. For example, people may look at you and say "hey, you're so funny." When it becomes repeatedly said by a lot of people, then it is not just a compliment. Maybe you might be meant to be in the entertainment industry - comedy, etc. So each time someone compliments you and when people keep saying the same thing about you, it may be your strong point that you should look into.

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