How many of you have become CONTENT? When I ask this question, I am not using the word, content, as positive. I mean, we have settled and stopped reaching for the stars. If we’re not careful, this will happen to all of us. Think back over your life and try to figure out WHEN this happened. For most, it’s a slow fade and will be quite difficult to really pinpoint when this happened. But, the point is, it happened. This is NOT how we are intended to live this life. This life should be filled with adventure and excitement; learning and changing; healthy risk-taking and being vulnerable. Why does this happen to some of us and not others?
Tell Me Why
Life has a way of beating us down if we let it. A lot of folks settle and start going through the motions after they’ve lost someone close to them. Death is a part of life and of course, it is difficult to deal with and we should experience great pain, depression and loneliness. But, it still remains a choice what we do with the rest of our life. I would suggest that the person we lost would WANT us to move on and use their memory as a catalyst to keep dreaming and making a difference in the world in honor of them.
Another reason why is because we lose our passion. What do you love to do? When’s the last time you did it? Some of us are fortunate that the job we have serves as our passion – you are truly blessed if you find yourself in this situation – be grateful. But for most of us, our passions are separate and we must make time for them. If you can match your passion with helping others, then I really want to encourage you to pursue this. There’s nothing better than impacting someone else’s life.
There are many more reasons, but the last one to write about today is that the vast majority of people do not feel like they know what their purpose is in life. This doesn’t have to be something HUGE, but I would suggest it needs to do with LOVE. We are here to love other people. Love is the most powerful thing in the universe and we get a life time to figure out how to become more loving. People need you and you need them. How can you keep becoming more loving from year to year? This will help you realize a great purpose.
Keep Dreaming And Changing
Think back to when you were a child and think about all the dreams you had. Yes, we have more responsibilities now as adults, but this doesn’t mean we can’t continue to dream. Use your imagination and shoot to do the impossible. What is it that you’d love to do if you knew you couldn’t fail? Answering this question and then following through takes courage, but you can do it! What’s one thing you want to change in your life? We should always be making a change because none of us are perfect (regardless of what your kids tell ya) – young kids. Making changes in our lives should become a healthy practice that we look forward to even though change is often painful. The more we do it, the more we understand how to make changes and then it becomes something we feel very good about.
Shoot to do the impossible!
