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Living On Purpose

Posted in Life ::: September 16, 2009 1:50 PM

I was fortunate enough today to speak with the empoyees of the Rome office of Par Technology about achieving a balanced life.  This topic and wellness in general, is something I've been focusing a lot of attention on in 2009.  What I spoke of today had a lot to do with a term I've heard (I'm not sure where I first heard it), that being "living on purpose".  I like that.  To me, that means sitting down and visualizing where you want your life to be and how that feels.  Then, the next step is to actually map it out and write it down.  When you write something down, it becomes real.  Then you actively take steps to implement that vision into reality.  You identify the things that are keeping you from achieving that reality and you map out ways to overcome those obstacles.  It could be deleting them from your life entirely or delegating the task of dealing with them.  If you cannot do either of those things, then you find the next best soluton, implement it and move on to the next obstacle.  You do this until you have eliminated/solved the things that are keeping you from achieving your vision.  It's living on purpose - going through life with identified goals and tailoring your activities towards those goals.  Living on purpose versus living by accident, i.e., allowing life to simply carry you along and then one day you look around and say "How did I get here?".   There was much more covered as I essentially crammed six hours of material into one hour long session but this was one of the main points.  Here's to all of us, llving our lives on purpose versus by accident.   Enjoy the ride.

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