“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles R. Swindoll
Each of us is born with a PURPOSE! No matter who tells us otherwise, we are made up of certain characteristics that define what we are set out to do in life. Finding it is the difference that makes up those successful and those who are not.
Once finding the purpose that you are made to have, the rest is history, well not literally, but, things begin to happen. I personally thought that I had been made out to be a professional baseball player. Having pitched since the time I could remember, and when we as children start pitching from the mound, I was dead set on doing so throughout school, and as an adult.
My dream was to play for the Cincinnati Reds and live close to where I had grown up. However, the years of constant throwing and using my arm more than it probably should have been used, took away the dream. It wasn’t until a tryout for a semi-professional team that it took me to realize I simply could not do it. Now as said before in Cut the Excuses, don’t make up excuses for your failures, or for things that you want to do, but never do. This injury was simply career ending. As of today it still continues to act up. But what I am saying, is that the dream of mine had been made clear shortly after this understanding.
It was time to move on and figure out what it is that I TRULY was made for. As of now, I love inspiring others. The realization had never dawned on me before when it came to such visuals of talking in front of people, publicly or even holding online courses to teach others.
Once finding yourself and what your PURPOSE IS, things will begin to gravitate toward you, such as resources, opportunities, and even people.
I can recall when I first partially left my law enforcement career to pursue business, it wasn’t until then, people started to come to me and ask what things they should do, how to’s and all other questions that follow, as to what I had been doing and how they could do it too.
Simply put, once you know your purpose you can then align activities catered to the purpose and purpose only.
To help you find out your life purpose and other principals of success, I would suggest you pick up a copy of Jack Canfield’s The Success Principals.
One great way to staying on track and staying on purpose is to write down your life purpose and to keep on writing it down daily.
I hope this quick and simple post has helped you in some way, and you too can start living your dream, and no not baseball, but fulfilling your actual purpose in life and understand things sometimes change without them being up to you!
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1 Comment
Dacia
Chris,
Great post, man. I was really inspired by your story of wanting to play professional baseball. I too wanted to pursue a career in sports but as we both know, that is a very competitive field. However, I decided to stay in sports and I went into coaching. I’m currently a coach at a high school making close to $60,000 a year. (Not the salary a professional basketball player would make, but it’s a living.) Now I’m fielding coaching at small colleges for almost 6 figures.
Moral of the story? Set your sights high and stay in the game. Even if you don’t hit your target, you’ll at least feel fulfilled in your profession.
Anyway, thanks again for the post.