‘Be certain that all members can
clearly state the shared purpose by heart… It is for each individual to find
their personal alignment between group purpose and their life’s purpose… Once
‘cross-purposes’ are released, the energies can flow freely, and Higher Purpose can be accomplished.
(from Higher
Purpose card, available at www.thewisdomwheel.com)
Only 5% of Americans believe they are living out their Higher Purpose. Are you one of them? Imagine working with people who love what they are doing so much they'd do it for free? What difference does it make when you believe you are spending your days doing what you are meant to?
On the Wisdom Wheel, the Law of Right Action balances Higher Purpose, as you can see above. It is easier to know what to do when your sense of deliberate intention informs every one of your Choices. Think of people you know who are living purposeful lives, not in a self-righteous way, but from a place of deep Commitment. What is the cost of not living from a place of deep, abiding purpose?
For the next ten days, make Higher Purpose your watch word. Bring it up in conversation as often as you can. Learn more about how people discover their Higher Purpose. If you knew you only had a year left to live, what would you spend the next 365 days doing? This might hold a clue to your true purpose.
Identify one thing you can do this week about your Higher Purpose, or to help someone else with finding or living by theirs. Don't wait till it's too late.
Here are some nuggets of wisdom about Higher Purpose from others.
This law
says that we have taken physical form to fulfill a purpose. You have a unique
talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do
better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and
unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs
are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that spark creates
affluence.
Deepak
Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws
of Success
Becoming
a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be ‘grand.’
First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively
often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of
a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed,
it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue only ‘great visions.’
Peter
Senge in Presence : An Exploration of Profound Change in
People, Organizations, and Society
A man…who knows the ‘why’ for his
existence will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’ … What
man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and
struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of
tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be
fulfilled by him.
Victor
Frankl, psychologist & concentration camp survivor
Every
life needs a purpose to which it can give the energies of its mind and the
enthusiasm of its heart. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's
possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint
Francis of Assisi
The
Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart
- this you will build your life by, this you will become. Until thought is
linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. They who have
no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears,
troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which
lead, just as surely as deliberately planted seeds, to
failure, unhappiness and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a
power-evolving universe.
James
Allen (1864-1912) British philosophical author of As A Man Thinketh
Creating
a joint venture between head and heart puts a power pack behind your goals.
Getting your head in sync with your heart and harnessing the power of coherence
gives you the energy efficiency you need to achieve changes that haven't been
possible before. The head can notice what things need to change, but the heart
provides the power and direction to actually bring about the
changes.... By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly
which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one
mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart
intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.
Doc
Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
There are
three components to the Law of Dharma…a Sanskrit word that means ‘purpose in
life.’
-The
first says that each of us is here to discover our true Self.
-The
second component is to express our unique talents; the expression of that
talent takes you into timeless awareness.
-The
third component is service to humanity.
When you
combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity,
then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.
Deepak
Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws
of Success
When I chased after money, I never had
enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and
everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Dr. Wayne
Dyer
Chase
your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley
Focusing
your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too
little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Barack
Obama, US President
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short
visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the
standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are
here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate
we are connected by a bond of sympathy.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German American
physicist won 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics
We are
visitors on this planet. We are here for
ninety, a hundred years at the very most.
During that period we must try to do something good, something useful
with our lives. Try to be at peace with
yourself and help others share that peace.
If you contribute to others’ happiness, you will find the true goal, the
meaning of life.
The Dalai Lama,
Tibetan spiritual leader
The sole
purpose of life is to grow... everything in life has purpose. There are no
mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
...The greatest rewards in your whole life will come from opening your heart to
those in need. The greatest blessings always come from helping... It is very
important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go
hungry, you may live in a shabby place but you will totally live. And at the
end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came
here to do.
Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross,(1926- 2004) Swiss born psychiatrist and researcher studied
death and dying and popularized the five stages of the dying process, books
include memoir, The Wheel of Life.
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