I have come across many people who don’t have a purpose for their lives. It is possible to be alive and accomplish almost nothing in your entire life. One has to seek to know what he needs to do in his life. A leading issue is getting to know your vision in life. For a long time I also had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and I just sort of went along wherever life was taking me but this approach had me discontent and frustrated with my situation. I had to set myself what I needed to accomplish in the remaining period of my life. I now Impart knowledge and skills and Impact people’s lives.
These principles have impacted my life:
1. Be Yourself or simply be you
Most of us live lives that are not ours. We imitate other people’s ways of living. This doesn’t help us at all. We need to realize that we are uniquely created. All of us have different abilities and one needs to find his own abilities. There is so much that you can accomplish in your life. Simply be you and do not allow anyone to belittle you.
Psalm 139:13-16 ; For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
2. Taking responsibility in all that you do
Don’t blame anyone. If you want anything to change in your life, you need to stop with the excuses and make it happen. Most of us are stuck in the role of the victim, blaming everything and everyone but ourselves for what is and what is not happening for us.
Our life is the result of the person that we have become. If we refuse to accept that and keep blaming our background, our parents, our teachers, our bosses, the economy and the society for everything that’s negative in our lives nothing is going to change.
3. Doing your best is your greatest good
The greatest thing you can do in your life is to achieve your best. You have the potential to achieve all that you ever desired to achieve. Always put in performances that you can be proud of. If you can do this in one area of your life, soon it will spill over to others. Consider yourself a person who always does your best and start acting like it.
Also, remember that doing your best doesn’t mean pushing yourself too hard. At times doing your best means the ability to say no and to be able to learn from situations where you feel like you didn’t give your best performance, forgive yourself and improve for next time.
4. Living your life with honesty
One of the major issues affecting people is not being honest with themselves and even with others. Trust has greatly been eroded. It is very easy to erode trust but extremely difficult to build it. Lets learn to say ‘NO’ if it means a no and ‘YES’ if it means a yes. Live a life worth your vocation. Lots of friendships and even marriages and relationships are destroyed by dishonesty.
Don’t lie to yourself. Always be in tune with what’s going on inside you. Let happy things make you happy and sad things make you sad. Don’t suppress thoughts and feelings that are trying to tell you something. If you feel like something’s wrong, don’t ignore it. Even if it’s something you don’t know how to deal with. If possible seek for advice.
As you start being honest with yourself it’ll also become easier to be honest with the people around you. When approaching others in this way, coming from an honest and sincere place, you’ll find that people will do the same for you. This way you’ll form deep and more meaningful relationships.
5. Don’t be static; Try many things in life
The more things you try, the better. Instead of getting through the day, learn to take from the day.
It’s your mission to make life as much fun and enjoyable as you can. Be dedicated in finding out what you want to do with your life and how to fill your days with the good stuff that gets you excited.
6. Be a learner always
Be a serious student of life. Get curious about the world. Follow your excitement. If something has you intrigued, don’t let it slip. If you find something you are interested in, immerse yourself in it. It might just be your passion uncovering or something that will lead you to it. At the end of each day, make sure that you’ve learned something new.
7. Go an extra mile
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