Start The Year in the Direction of Your Purpose: PDL INSIGHTS (PART 20)
Start The Year in the Direction of
Your Purpose: PDL INSIGHTS (PART 20)
A vision that cannot start now will
never materialize.
Have
you ever wondered how it would be like if there was no day and night and our days would be
the same every minute of our lives but still living out the standard 24-hour
day intervals? Imagine what it would be like after a very bad day and you had nothing
that marks your time so that you can rest, reflect and recuperate. Life would
be difficult and frustrating. The thought of such a scenario will make you appreciate
the wisdom of the creator who made times and seasons.
How many times have you finished a day on the low side
and you went to rest and woke up the following day revived and ready to go
irrespective of the way you were feeling the previous day? The same is
true for weeks. Several times the start of a new week has a positive
psychological impact that helps us to refocus. In God’s original calendar, the
seventh day was set aside as a day of rest before one would restart another
week. The calendar that is in use now has two days which are identified as the weekend
and most weekly activities start on Mondays, so the idea and concept of refocus
and regathering is still in application.
This reality applies for months and also for years.
There is a general release of new energy as one year comes to an end and we
start another. It is very important to take advantage of this new energy and
use it to our advantage. This energy that comes with the turn
of seasons is always there for a very short time and not strong enough to turn
lives and fortunes on its own. It is usually enough to get people excited and
get them going but not enough to bring success. It is therefore wise to see how
we can maximize on it. The starting of a new year is a good period to set your
life on a different course, make major changes in life and make decisions that
can forever transform our lives and destinies.
I
hope in this period at the beginning of the year we have had time to reflect on
the just ended year. Look at the high moments, the low moments, the wise
decisions and the less wiser decisions. I hope we have reflected on how much
the just ended year has brought in our lives. How much progress have you made
on your Purpose Driven Life Journey? What daily actions have brought you to where
you are? Is this how you would want your 2019 to end?
I
know we are all hoping for significant changes at the end of 2019 but some
might be looking at the economic situation and already beginning to lose hope. The good news is that we can start today to
make decisions and actions that will help us to live better and more fruitful
lives irrespective of what is happening around us. This is possible if you take
your personal power that we discussed in previous insights and use it for your
good. This is taking the personal power in terms of assuming full
responsibility of how and where your year will end.
The
wrong philosophy that we have that makes our hopes and big dreams that we start
the year with to crush is a philosophy that expects life to change in major and
giant leaps from one place to another. We are the so called Microwave generation
that expects things to happen very fast. We want lives to change in big leaps.
We expect bigger financial leaps. We are waiting for this big amount of money
coming to us in an instant to start something. Some are waiting for this loud
voice to speak to them from God to start something or to walk in the purposes
that they desire. We are waiting for the big opportunity that will push us to
start working on something. This is a wrong philosophy and will also not work
on The Purpose Driven Life (PDL) journey as it does not work in every other
aspect of life except in the movies.
Big
changes may not come as we would desire but we can make the changes that we
would desire by making small consistent effort towards clear and specific goals
especially that are related to our purposes. This does not have to start
someday because someday never comes. A vision that cannot start now will never materialize.
I therefore encourage you to begin to envision where you would want to be at
the end of 2019 in line with living a PDL.
One
way that you can set your journey in The Purpose Driven Life (PDL) in motion is
asking the right questions, making the right decisions and taking the right small
changes that can be taken with the little energy that we have since it’s the beginning
of a new year. It is the progress that is made in the little steps that keeps
the energy to continue in us and create a momentum enabling us to take bigger
and better steps. A car, train, plane or any vehicle starts from rest with slow
movements but picks up momentum until the friction and gravitational pull can
no longer resist the progress that the vehicle intends to make. The momentum
created from the small steps also in the long run will make it easier to make
turns when needed. You cannot turn a car that it is at rest, you can turn the
wheels but not the whole vehicle. This is true for the PDL journey. It is
important that you start somewhere and start small as we start the new year.
This way we will be using the energy that we have because of the coming of a
new year and to some, the energy generated by various prophetic declarations
and themes for the new year.
A
story is told about a research that was made on what little progress coming consistently
does to a person working towards certain goals. There was a timber farm where
men would cut trees with axes a long time ago in the Amazon Basin. The workmen
would chop the trees and be given a certain amount of money every day. For the
research, the workmen were offered double their daily wages but would cut trees
using blunt axes. They were not expected to cut as many trees as they had been cutting
but to work as many hours as they used to. The research was to discover if they
would work as many hours as they used to with little progress. The guys
struggled to do the work, they wouldn’t finish a day of work. They were then asked
why they could not do the work even though the wages had been doubled and one
of them answered, “when we would see the chips flying in the air and falling
off the trees slowly but steadily, that would give us more energy to keep going”.
This
story has so much explanation on why we quickly lose the energy that we start
with at the beginning of the year. The expected big rewards sometimes are not
enough motivation to carry us to the end. Sometimes we know very much that committing
to the process will give us fulfilling results at the end but we burnout when
we are not realizing the small progress that comes is small steps as
illustrated in the story above.
The
most important question that you have to ask yourself to get yourself going in
the right direction towards your purpose and maintain the energy is below. Your
response to this question and the follow up actions you will take is the secret
towards your 2019 progress in realizing and fulfilling your dreams.
What one skill if developed more in
your life would increase your influence and make you better positioned to
express your inner values and convictions and do what you love to do that makes
a difference in the life of others?
Take
your time to ponder and think deeply about this question. When you have thought
about this one skill, begin to think about what you can do to develop and
sharpen this skill more and more. Make a plan and commitment to daily develop
this skill. Do not spend a day without doing something that adds value to your
skill and anything related to your purpose. Use every opportunity that you can
find to use your skill. At the beginning no one may be ready to pay you but
continue looking for opportunities to use this skill and serve. This simple
decision and small action will make a big difference in the long run. Any
progress that you make in the direction of your inner values and convictions
will increase your energy levels and self-esteem and begin to create momentum
to a fruitful, progressive and fulfilling life. This is the secret that people
who make the greatest differences through their lives have applied whether
consciously or unconsciously.
Other questions
that can help you get your PDL journey going are below. Just get started and
stay on the path.
What would you want to be doing at the
end of the year?
What would you want to have to be
effective in making a difference?
Where would you want to be (place) to
make a great difference with your life?
Who do you need to be alongside in
your purpose?
What can you
begin to do in small and consistent steps towards the realization of the ends
that are captured in the questions above. Find a way to begin to do something
daily towards those ends. You can do something about the answers that you get
to the above questions. This is how you can start the year in the direction of
your purpose and also keep the energy and excitement of the new year with you
for a greater part of the year to the realization of your purpose, the growth
of your business or the establishment of your vision and the building of those
important relationships. Take your personal power, assume full responsibility
of how and where 2019 will end for you. I wish you a
Purpose Drivel 2019!!!
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