Living Life On Purpose
Living life with a purpose and on purpose can really help you be more successful throughout the entirety of your life. One thing that is crucial to achieving a purpose filled life is making sure that you take steps towards the things which you would like to achieve. We need to do things like create a plan, and in order to do this you must have goals. Begin to look for what special talents you have been gifted with, and think about how you can use those throughout the course of your life and career. You need to also evaluate where you are in life and see how important the decisions are that we make in our current standing point in life. You can also evaluate choices you make which could affect your health and over all well being in the future.
Being a young guy I am in the midst of living with the decisions I made in high school. I wasn’t a very great student, not because a lack of intelligence, but because of a lack of motivation. I partied, and made some choices that I regret all the way to this day. I was so focused upon what I was doing right then and there that I didn’t take anytime to think about where I would be in the next five to ten years. If you want to take charge of your future the most important time to do this is between the ages of fifteen and twenty. This is where you will get your driver’s license, choose to graduate High School or not, and you will begin going to college, join the military, or attend a trade school. This time in your life is so important, and you possess all the potential to make it one of the most positively influential times in your life as well.
All you need to do is begin to set goals. Make it a goal to graduate, and not just a requirement. Decide what your standards are going to be when it comes to dating and having romantic relationships. Decide what kind of person you are going to be, and make it a goal to be that person everyday of your life.
Sometimes it isn’t as easy as it sounds though. There are many negative influences out there which make it seem like there are things so great that you would want to compromise your stance on certain issues. Mainly what I am talking about here is your choice to save any sort of sexual expression until marriage. This is a choice that many people make, but it is not so clearly shown by the media. At any moment in time you can turn on television stations like MTV or VH1 and find tons of references to sexuality. It is also possible to find sexual influences in the books we read, the music we listen to, the friends we surround ourselves with, along with many other ways. So it is important, if you choose to set the goal of saving any form of sexual expression until you get married, to make sure that you take a stance and remember that it is a goal, and the only way you can accomplish that goal is by staying strong and remembering all the other goals which you have set as well.
So I want to leave you with this affirmation which is provide by the workbook we are going through Aspire: I will live my life with a sense of purpose.
