The Power of Purpose | The Better Than Rich Show Ep. 17
The Power of Purpose
A person’s purpose is the foundation of who they are. It isn’t something that is simple, a job, or a life’s mission. Whatever a person’s purpose is, it serves themselves and others and is bigger than materialistic goods.
Purpose brings meaning to life, it’s the root of who a person is, wants to be, and expects to become. We should know it like the back of our hand because we should be living it.
Personal growth and development is a trial and error process. So to find our purpose it’s okay to decide on one thing and then decide it needs to be changed completely to align better with what we want our purpose to be.
Does Life Have A Purpose?
If we have a purpose then everything should have a purpose.
It is easy to fall into a feeling that nothing matters. Because we are here today and gone tomorrow, so why does what we do matter?
Everyone has a purpose, even if that purpose is just providing a better situation for themselves and others and they don’t even know it. If life did not have a purpose we wouldn’t care to take care of others. We find purpose by finding what we want to maximize. What do we need more of, and what needs to be minimized to receive the maximized outcome.
What in the past was lacking and would be a positive addition to our future selves? Purpose should serve our past, and future selves by solving a past problem to benefit the future.
Purpose is deeper than a position or a job, positions are goals, not a person’s purpose, though a position can be a vehicle to help us progress our purpose.
What Are Our Strengths?
Once we know what we care deeply about and want changes we want to begin making, we need to ensure we are qualified to make a change.
The best way to find ways to move forward on our purpose is by applying our strengths to our purpose. We all have strengths and weaknesses, no one expects a college professor to get us to Mars. Similarly, no one is expecting us to do it all, but knowing what we are capable of allows us to progress in pursuing our purpose. Using our strengths for our purpose creates confidence and allows us to find the gifts that pursuing one’s purpose has to offer.
Finding small gifts within pursuing our purpose are the keys to becoming Better Than Rich. The small things in life like holding the door for someone, or having a loving conversation with one’s spouse. Being able to be grateful for the small gifts purpose provides is how we view life beyond the riches. Gratitude leads to further alignment with an individual’s purpose.
Connecting With Mentors
Connecting with people who can provide help finding a person’s purpose can be extraordinarily helpful. A mentor can help draw out the talent that is already within us and ensures we are consistently learning.
These people have already walked the walk and talked the talk and can give great advice, open doors, and introduce us to new ideas.
Mentors are also fantastic to have during times of low energy or the winter season. Most times periods of pain are where we grow the most. Those times should be analyzed, learned from, accepted, and let go. If we are still holding onto past pain from over eighteen months ago, we haven’t yet learned the lessons that pain was attempting to teach us.
Mentors can help us see the gift in pain, which can be hard to find when healing or during but it is always there. Once we see those gifts and find further purpose through pain, we are equipped to truly find the power in purpose.