When purpose guides your actions, all the other junk falls away. You become focused, driven, efficient, and resilient. A strong purpose is crucial to overcoming adversity and prospering through any experience.
When purpose guides your actions, all the other junk falls away. You become focused, driven, efficient, and resilient. A strong purpose is crucial to overcoming adversity and prospering through any experience.
It usually starts about the time we loosen our belts after Thanksgiving dinner. Our thoughts jump to overeating, being uncomfortable, and losing weight. Before long we have made the entire mental journey through the number of New Year’s resolutions we’re going to make to really get our lives on track.
When we have a purpose going into an endeavor, our chances of receiving a sense of fulfillment from the endeavor increase dramatically. Without a purpose, we give up all power to influence the outcome.
With industrial and cultural advances, we became less concerned with survival and had more time to consider the important questions of today like, “What do you want to do this weekend?” It’s only recently that we’ve begun to ask, “Would you like to sit and talk?”… only to discover that we can’t!
In the 1,000’s of years that women and men have existed together in civil environments, you’d think we would understand each other by now. Instead, the conflict is more pronounced than ever and the battle lines are drawn by our differences. The battle objective? Fix what is wrong with the other!
Our children are the most important and influential responsibility in our lives. They cannot be separated from our professions, health, social relationships, or any other area because those areas influence how we care for and treat them.
One of the blessings and challenges of parenting is that kids don’t stay still. Our parenting has to grow with them.
