Never forget this: you have a purpose!

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When you get up in the morning, what is the first think you think about?  Do you think about the day you had yesterday?  Do you think about the day you will have tomorrow?  Do you think about today?

There are so many people that are fixated on all the things that have happened in the past and  while this can teach us lessons, it can also keep you bound up without the possibility of moving forward in the things that are there for you today.

In those times when you are continuing to re-live the things of the past, there is virtually no way for you to focus on your purpose for being here today.  When you continually focus on the past then you are doing nothing more than existing, and as Jack London says, "Man's purpose is to live."  What I want you to do today is to look at your purpose.  If you haven't figured out what that purpose is just yet, then I am going to encourage you to begin to just think about it.  Everyone has a purpose, everyone has a destiny.  Sadly, there are way too many people who haven't discovered it, let alone began to walk in it.

I've talked with hundreds of people about purpose, about destiny, and without exception, everyone of them has had to discover it for themselves.  You cannot depend on others to discover your destiny for you.  Certainly there will be people along the way who will be instrumental in helping you come to grips with your destiny, but in the end, the only one who is going to discover it is you.  Now I want to make a statement and I really, really need to have you hear what I am about to say.  Your destiny is not just for you.  Your purpose is not simply a function of what you may be doing right now.  Your destiny, your purpose was the driving force behind why you are alive in this moment.  You are not simply here to take up space and see what life has to offer you.  What you do today has the potential to help someone half a world away discover and walk in their destiny.  This life we are living is nothing more then a piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle.  This puzzle is and always will be the universe as a whole, and each of us has a place in the universe, and without our piece of the puzzle then the picture would never be able to be complete.

There are no small or insignificant destinies as it relates to what we have been tasked to do.  We have to get away from what society says is important, grand, or insignificant.  You may be destined to be the best parent in the world, but it is in being that great parent that your offspring will step into their destiny, and their destiny may be to help others discover their destiny.  We as humans think in such narrow spectrum's. We see only what lies directly ahead of us, and for many they do not have the ability to see around the corner, let alone see what is the big picture.  There are people who look at success and continue to measure it against the standards of man.  How big is your bank account, how huge is our house, and is that car you drive the best there is out there?  These are the measuring sticks that society has used to measure our worth, and sadly way too many people have bought into this concept.  I will tell you that the moment you begin to walk in your destiny, then all those measuring sticks of the past will mean nothing to you.  Funny thing however, the moment you begin to walk in your appointed destiny, then all those things begin to follow you not matter where you go or where you end up.

Our purpose is our destiny, our True Destiny.  There is nothing that will bring you satisfaction until such time as you accept your destiny and begin to walk in it.  You may amass a huge fortune, live in a mansion, and drive around in the best car, but there will still be an emptiness inside of you that will never be filled with the trappings of this life.  Trust me, I have lived this, and until now I was empty.  There will come a time in each of your lives when you will have to make the decision.  Will you continue to follow the edicts of man, or will you begin to do the things you were destined to do since the beginning of time?  To live is to know your purpose.  To exist is nothing more then going from day to day, never satisfied, never fully participating in this thing we call life.

The day has come to draw a line in the sand and say no more.  No more will I be tossed about by the expectations of others.  No more will I settle for second best.  No more will I walk away from the one thing that I am destined to do, Or destined to be.  When you get to this point, then you will begin to live, and the life you live will begin to make sense.  There is no doubt that we live in trying times, but the times we live in today are no different from the times that others have lived before us, and there are many people who have accepted their purpose and destiny.  Don't be one of those who simply roll with the times, be the person who sets the pace, who leads the pack, who is what they were always meant to be.  You have a purpose and your purpose is to live the life that is yours to live.