Purpose Unleashed: Gen X Faith & Reinvention

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Purpose Unleashed: Gen X Faith & Reinvention

_Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 28:8)_

You know, if we are really honest with ourselves, we would admit that success is much, much, more than monetary gains, grand titles, and educational degrees.

And because success means different things for different people, it is important to plan for success by mapping out all the aspects of your life that you wish to be impacted, in powerful ways.

If you were planning a hiking trip into the mountains, you would definitely plan where you wanted to go on your trek, and what tools were necessary for a successful expedition right?

Well, the same principle applies as you work to engineer your success. For you to map out what you consider to be a success in your own life, you need to clearly define a few details in the process.

These details are origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route.

Let’s begin with…

**1. Your Starting Point: Figuring Out Who You Currently Are?**

Any map or journey has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now.

Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Don and I am a 27-year old, bank teller.” But the thing is, the statement tells you nothing about who Don is; it only tells you his present preoccupation – and most of us are guilty of defining ourselves by our occupation.

To gain insights about yourself, you need to look closely at your beliefs, values, and principles aside from your economic, professional, cultural, and civil status.

Moreover, you can also reflect on your experiences to give you insights into your good and not-so-good traits, skills, knowledge, strengths, and weaknesses.

Upon introspection, Don realized that he was highly motivated, generous, service-oriented, but impatient. His inclination was in the legal field. Furthermore, he believed that life must serve a purpose and that wars were destructive to human dignity.

**2. Your Destination: Figuring Out A Clear Vision Of Who You Want To Be**

“Who do want to be?” this is your vision.

Now it is important that you know yourself so that you would have a clearer idea of who you want to be; and the things you want to change whether they are attitudes, habits, or points of view.

If you hardly know yourself, then your vision and targets for the future would also be unclear. Your destination should cover all the aspects of your being: the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.

Continuing Don’s story, after he defined his beliefs, values, and principles in life, he decided that he wanted to have a life dedicated to serving his fellowmen through the justice system.

**3. Your Vehicle: Figuring Out How You Will Get To Your Destination**

A vehicle is the means by which you can reach your destination. It can be important to your mission or vocation in life. To a great extent, your mission would depend on what you know about yourself.

Based on Don’s personal assessment, he decided that he was suited to become a lawyer and that he wanted to become one. His chosen vocation was a Lawyer. Describing his vision-mission fully: it was to live a life dedicated to serving her fellow man as a lawyer prosecuting criminals.

**4. Your Travel Bag: Figuring Out What You Need For The Journey**

Food, drinks, medicines, and other traveling necessities are contained in a bag. Applying this concept to your life mapping process, you also bring with you certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These determine your competence and help you in attaining your vision.

Given such, there is a need for you to assess what knowledge, skills, and attitudes you have at present, and what you need to gain along the way.

This two-fold assignment will give you insights into your landmarks or measures of success.

Don realized that he needed to gain professional knowledge and skills in law so that he could become a lawyer. He knew that he always had a hard time focusing while reading on any subject, so he realized that this was something he wanted to change because researching, reading, and interpreting what was read is important to any legal professional.

**5. Your Landmarks and Route: Figuring Out Your S.M.A.R.T. objectives**

Landmarks confirm if you are on the right track while the route determines the travel time. So, in planning out your life, you also need to have landmarks and a route. These landmarks are your measures of success. These measures must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound.

So, you cannot set two major landmarks such as earning a master’s degree and a doctorate degree within a period of three years, since the minimum number of years to complete a master’s degree is two years.

Going back to Don as an example, he identified the following landmarks in his life map: completing a bachelor’s degree in law by the age of 30; earning her specialization in criminal law by the age of 33; getting deployed in local prosecutor’s office of his city by the age of 34, and serving as a lawyer in crime-infested areas by the age of 36.

**6. Your Anticipated Turns, Detours, and Potholes: Figuring Out How To Get Around Obstacles**

The purpose of your life map is to minimize hasty and spur-of-the-moment decisions that can make you lose your way. But oftentimes, our plans are modified along the way due to some inconveniences, delays, and other situations beyond our control.

Like in any path, there are turns, detours, and potholes thus; so you must anticipate them and adjust accordingly

4 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 1

Purpose Unleashed: Gen X Faith & Reinvention

Let’s start by talking about picking your dream destination.

5 years ago | [YT] | 0

Purpose Unleashed: Gen X Faith & Reinvention

If you have ever read the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, an interesting scene unfolds when Alice comes to a junction in the road that leads in different directions.

She asks the Cheshire Cat, "Cheshire-Cat...would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?"

The Cat replies,  "That depends a good deal on where you want to go to," Alice shakes her head and says, "I don't much care where I’m going",

The Cat smiles and responds,  "Then it doesn't matter which way you go". 

And that’s exactly how most people live their lives - without any clear sense of destination; and because they haven’t decided on where they want to go, they often end exactly where they really don’t want to be - and that is just a stupid way to live.

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