I talk with a lot of folks and try to listen to their heart and passion. I enjoy understanding where people find joy, motivation and achievement. Depending on who I’m with, I will sometimes just dig right to the point and ask my friend if they are Purpose Driven?
Of course, not everyone understands what I’m really asking so I have to go into a conversation on what I believe it means to seek purpose in life. It is usually a great eye-opener for folks and sparks some great dialogue.Passionate people who have a tendency to be humanitarian and serving in nature often tend to not have to ask the concern of whether or not they are purpose driven. As an example, I know someone who served for over 11 years with a lady who had actually known all of her life that she desired to assist pets. Her desire also drove her to raise and collect funds, in whatever way she could, in order to be the founder of a a farm ranch shelter to be used as a pet rescue facility. She worked all day, every day, as a humane officer and did everything that she could, no matter the climate, no issue the day, no matter the vacation (holidays such as Christmas or New Year’s Day) did she stop her work. There is no way that this woman would have been confused about herself (and certainly no one that knew her would have had to ask her) whether or not she was purpose driven. Her passion and purpose was obvious and fueled her every breath.
She simply really did not have time to ask herself that question because she was also active being proactively driven in her selected purpose, which was to help as many animals to live far better lives as she could. The factor of that being that usually talking, people that are committed in an intrinsic method to a cause that they feel they have nothing else alternative however to seek, are by definition “purpose driven.”
As a verb, words “purpose” is defined as “to set as an intention or goal for oneself,” which can easily be associated to the noun variation of words as defined over. There are various kinds of people in the world, nevertheless, everyone who went to college knows that there exists a huge selection of pupils that are “unsure” and also that struggle with deciding what their major and also succeeding occupation in life is going to be. They have yet to discover their purpose.
Being “purpose driven” indicates having a passion in life or having something that you greatly, literally, and also devotedly can not refrain from doing, something similar to the relationship that musicians have with their chosen instruments, or a selfless cause that a so called “do-gooder” simply can not help themselves from seeking, no matter the implications that the pursuit of their chosen interest would develop.
This writer’s point of view on whether or not one is purpose driven can be stemmed from describing an individual experience in which I went to Waveland, Mississippi throughout the after-effects of Storm Katrina with 5 other individuals and also 3 vehicle and horse trailers filled with materials with the specific intent of saving pets, assisting people, and doing the most “excellent” that we could potentially do.
And, we did.
Our factors for doing it were never doubted in our minds at all, it was simply something that the 6 of us really felt a visceral need to do when we learned of the expensive requirement that existed in that part of our country at that certain time, for both animals as well as people alike.
Being purpose driven means not questioning your motivations for doing something, rather it suggests never questioning that you are doing what it is that you were created to do. And likely, since you were created to accomplish a purpose, within you are the gifts and abilities to carry out the purpose.
