Your Personal Purpose

Thursday October 3, 2013 #564

 

“If you know your personal purpose, you’ll have plenty of energy to do what you want to do.”

 

~Thomas Wilson

 

If you find yourself fatigued and uninspired as you go about your work or normal activities, pause for a moment and ask yourself if you work or your activity is in alignment with your vision for your life.  Don’t be one of those people who live their whole lives and then look back knowing they spent that life doing work or activities that were someone else’s vision and not their own.  Take the time to determine what is truly important to you, your values, and ultimately what brings you joy.  Begin to take action to ensure your work and activities align to what you truly aspire to.

Difficult Choices

Tuesday October 1, 2013 #563

“Even when people are more successful than they had imagined, nothing is ever achieved without giving something up.”

 

~Judith M. Bardwick

Success is about choices.  Achievement comes not only from focusing on those actions necessary for success, but perhaps more importantly by intentionally saying “no” to those things, activities, and even people who do not add value to your quest.  These choices can be very difficult. You may have to say “no” to pleasures, to enjoyable activities and relationships.  Knowing you will have to give things up to get what you strive for, be careful what you decide you want.  The spoils of victory must outweigh the cost of what is lost.