Human Psychology

WHAT WERE YOU PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO?
I discovered long ago what I was put on this earth to do. I determined my true
purpose in life, my “right livelihood.” I discovered how to inject passion and
determination into every activity I undertake. And I learned how purpose can
bring an aspect of fun and fulfillment to virtually everything I do.
Now I’d like to help uncover the same secret for you.
You see, without a purpose in life, it’s easy to get sidetracked on your life’s
journey. It’s easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little.
But with a purpose, everything in life seems to fall into place. To  be “on
purpose” means you’re doing what you love to do, doing what you’re good at
and accomplishing what’s important to you.  When you truly are on purpose,
the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward
you. The world  benefits, too,  because when you act in alignment with your
true life purpose, all of your actions automatically serve others.
To humbly serve the Lord by being a loving, playful, powerful, and
passionate example of the absolute joy that is available to us the
moment we rejoice in God’s gifts and sincerely love and serve all of
his creations.
 
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To leave the world a better place than I found it, for horses and for
people, too
 
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To create and inspire one million millionaires who each give $1 million to their church or charity
 
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To educate and inspire people to live their highest self based in
courage, purpose, and joy, versus fear, need, and obligation
 
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize
all your activities around it.
BRIAN TR ACY
One of America’s leading authorities on the development
of human potential and personal effectiveness
1. Robert Allen, coauthor of The One Minute Millionaire.
2. D.C. Cordova, cofounder of the Excellerated Business School.
3. Anthony Robbins, author of Personal Power and Get the Edge, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
4. Monty Roberts, author of The Man Who Listens to Horses.
5. Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul
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series.
6. T. Harv Eker, CEO of Peak Potentials and creator of the “Millionaire Mind” seminar.
Once you know what your life purpose is, you can organize all of your activities around it. Everything you do should be an expression of your purpose. If
an activity doesn’t fit that formula, you wouldn’t work on it. Period.
WHAT’S THE “WHY ” BEHIND EVERYTHING YOU DO?
Without purpose as the compass to guide you, your goals and action plans
may not ultimately fulfill you. You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder
only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.
When Julie Laipply was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, all she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. You’re going to be a great vet. That’s what you should do.” So when she got to Ohio
State University, she took biology, anatomy, and chemistry, and started
studying to be a vet. A Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship allowed her to
spend her senior year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from
the family and faculty pressures back home, she found herself one dreary day
sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window,
when it suddenly hit her: You know what? I’m totally miserable. Why am I so miserable? What am I doing? I don’t want to be a vet!
Julie then asked herself, What is a job I would love so much that I’d do it for free
but that I could actually get paid for? It’s not being a vet. That’s not the right job. Then
she thought back over all the things she’d done in her life and what had made
her the most happy. And then it hit her—it was all of the youth leadership
conferences that she had volunteered at, and the communications and leadership courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. How could I
have been so ignorant? Here I am at my fourth year at school and just finally realizing
I’m on the wrong path and not doing the right thing. But it’s been here in front of me the
whole time. I just never took the time to acknowledge it until now.
Buoyed by her new insight, Julie spent the rest of her year in England
taking courses in communications and media performance. When she returned to Ohio State, she was eventually able to convince the administration
to let her create her own program in “leadership studies,” and while it took
her 2 years longer to finally graduate, she went on to become a senior management consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon.
She also won the Miss Virginia USA contest, which allowed her to spend
much of 2002 speaking to kids all across Virginia, and more recently she has
created the Role Models and Mentors for Youth Foundation, which teaches
kids how to be better role models for one another. By the way, Julie is only 26
years old—a testament to the power that clarity of purpose can create in your
life.
The good news is that you don’t have to go all the way to England for a year
abroad to get away from the daily pressures of your life long enough to create
the space to discover what you are really here to do. You can simply take the
time to complete two simple exercises that will help you clarify your purpose.
YOUR INNER GUIDANCE SYSTEM IS YOUR JOY
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon
itself to its master passion.
DAME REBECCA W EST
Best-selling author
You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on
or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that
bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. To begin to
home in on your purpose, make a list of the times you have felt most joyful
and alive. What are the common elements of these experiences? Can you figure out a way to make a living doing these things?
Pat Williams is the senior vice-president of the Orlando Magic basketball
team. He has also written 36 books and is a professional speaker. When I
asked him what he felt the greatest secret to success was, he replied, “Figure
out what you love to do as young as you can, and then organize your life
around figuring out how to make a living at it.” For young Pat, it was sports—
more specifically, baseball. When his father took him to his first baseball
game in Philadelphia, he fell in love with the game. He learned to read by
reading the sports section of the New York Times. He knew he wanted to grow
up and have a career in sports. He devoted almost every waking moment to
it. He collected baseball cards, played sports, and wrote a sports column for
the school newspaper.
Pat went on to have a career in the front office of the Philadelphia Phillies
baseball team, then with the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. When the
NBA considered granting an expansion team franchise to Orlando, Pat was
there to lead the fight. Now in his sixties, Pat has enjoyed 40-plus years doing
what he loves, and he has enjoyed every minute of it. Once you are clear
about what brings you the greatest joy, you will have a major insight into your
purpose.

STAYING ON PURPOSE
Once you have determined and written down your life purpose, read it every
day, preferably in the morning. If you are artistic or strongly visual by nature,
you may want to draw or paint a symbol or picture that represents your life
purpose and then hang it somewhere (on the refrigerator, opposite your desk,
near your bed) where you will see it every day. This will keep you focused on
your purpose.
As you move forward in the next few chapters to define your vision and
your goals, make sure they are aligned with and serve to fulfill your purpose.
Another approach to clarifying your purpose is to set aside some time for
quiet reflection—time for a period of meditation. (See Principle 47, “Inquire
Within”). After you become relaxed and enter into a state of deep self-love
and peacefulness, ask yourself, What is my purpose for living? or What is my
unique role in the universe? Allow the answer to simply come to you. Let it be as
expansive as you can imagine. The words that come need not be flowery or
poetic; what is important is how inspired the words make you feel.

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