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Living ‘On Purpose’

Guest post by: Jim Stovall

Article Overview: It has been my experience that we spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about the wrong things. The vast majority of our waking hours are focused on schedules, tasks, finances, and other trivial matters that, in the final analysis, have little to do with our happiness, wellness, and quality of life.

Living ‘On Purpose’

It has been my experience that we spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about the wrong things. The vast majority of our waking hours are focused on schedules, tasks, finances, and other trivial matters that, in the final analysis, have little to do with our happiness, wellness, and quality of life. On the other hand, without the prompting of some crisis, we rarely think about our health, our friends, our family, and spiritual matters that truly shape our past, present, and future.

If I could give any piece of advice that I feel would make a difference in people’s lives, it would be to ask yourself, “Does this really matter?”

Before wasting time, effort, and energy on mundane trivialities, instead try to spend some quality time each day asking yourself, “What really matters most to me and will transform who I am and who I want to be?”

Great people down through the ages have demonstrated one consistent trait. That is the ability to focus all energy and their entire being on the elements of their life that they deem to be important. When we do this, we live our lives “on purpose” instead of as a random generality that is subject to every whim of people and circumstance.

Today’s the day!

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