Why did you get up this morning?
Why did you get up this morning?
I'd like to be able to hear everyone's answer to that question - really! The reason it is so important is because one of the essential ingredients to a long and happy life is having a purpose to be alive.
This may seem obvious or irrelevant. It is easy to just be so caught up in surviving the day and all its demands that something like a purpose can feel like a luxury. Yet study after study shows when people have a purpose they live better, healthier and happier lives.
We all have the stock answer ready - go to work, make money so my family can eat or following a dream. But what is your soul purpose? What purpose gives you passion or hope or a fire? What purpose do you hold that inspires you to move mountains?
I have always envied the people who seemed to have a clear and obvious purpose that guided their lives. They just knew. I never thought I did. I seemed to be in a constant state of moving and searching unable to lock on to a concrete and worthy purpose in the world.
Often we define a valid purpose as something that is grand and powerful and obvious. I will be a superstar or successful businessperson or a builder of cities. What is often built into that kind of purpose is the idea we need the world to acknowledge our purpose and we need validation when we feel we have succeeded. The bigger the parade or prize the better.
But what if your purpose isn't exciting or obvious or even visible to anyone but you? Would it still hold value in your eyes? Would you still feel a passion to fulfill it? What if there was never a parade or a prize when you achieved your goal? Would you still feel joyful? Or would there be a let down after all that hard work and no one even knows?
I can't give you your answers but this idea did help me find mine. A little hindsight into my own life's journey has made it pretty clear what my driving purpose has been all along. As you look back over your own life, what do you see as the purpose that has been driving you?
Why did you get up this morning? I hope you will let me and everyone here know your answer. If you're not sure take some time to think about it and let us know tomorrow. It will be a new day and have a new purpose!
Jill
I'd like to be able to hear everyone's answer to that question - really! The reason it is so important is because one of the essential ingredients to a long and happy life is having a purpose to be alive.
This may seem obvious or irrelevant. It is easy to just be so caught up in surviving the day and all its demands that something like a purpose can feel like a luxury. Yet study after study shows when people have a purpose they live better, healthier and happier lives.
We all have the stock answer ready - go to work, make money so my family can eat or following a dream. But what is your soul purpose? What purpose gives you passion or hope or a fire? What purpose do you hold that inspires you to move mountains?
I have always envied the people who seemed to have a clear and obvious purpose that guided their lives. They just knew. I never thought I did. I seemed to be in a constant state of moving and searching unable to lock on to a concrete and worthy purpose in the world.
Often we define a valid purpose as something that is grand and powerful and obvious. I will be a superstar or successful businessperson or a builder of cities. What is often built into that kind of purpose is the idea we need the world to acknowledge our purpose and we need validation when we feel we have succeeded. The bigger the parade or prize the better.
But what if your purpose isn't exciting or obvious or even visible to anyone but you? Would it still hold value in your eyes? Would you still feel a passion to fulfill it? What if there was never a parade or a prize when you achieved your goal? Would you still feel joyful? Or would there be a let down after all that hard work and no one even knows?
I can't give you your answers but this idea did help me find mine. A little hindsight into my own life's journey has made it pretty clear what my driving purpose has been all along. As you look back over your own life, what do you see as the purpose that has been driving you?
Why did you get up this morning? I hope you will let me and everyone here know your answer. If you're not sure take some time to think about it and let us know tomorrow. It will be a new day and have a new purpose!
Jill
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Permalink Reply by Lori L Smith on -
You are right it is a journey to find the purpose sometimes... and I used to be envious of the people who seemed to just know. But I am glad I took this journey and I am in a perfect place now.
for me...
Impact at least one person positively each day, having fun and enjoying my life along the way.
Short Version: Aspire to Inspire!
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Permalink Reply by SuzyQ on -
Why did I get up this morning? Or yesterday morning? Because I always do, slug it through another day in the hopes that tomorrow will be better. Just as my parents, and my grandparents did. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on POV) I have no husband or kids to drag me out of bed - just me and my cats. I'm unemployed today - have been since September. While I have applied for a couple of jobs, had a couple of interviews - in general they're for jobs that don't intice/excite me. Little does in this region, and I'm not willing to pull up roots and move to an overcrowded, overpriced city. Do I have to create my own job in order to find something to spark me? At this point I feel I don't have the guts or the drive/ambition to do just that. I think all the effort & stress of my last job caused a bit of a burn out. I don't have to rush and get a job tomorrow - I have no debt, there's some money in the bank and I haven't touched EI yet. Still, there's this lingering stress in the back of my mind - apply now for anything open in my field (accounting/office assistant), take anything offered to you, the economy is depressed and won't recover for at least a year, no job is written in stone. I know part of this is unrealistic ego fear - it's a small battle every day to find motivation to do anything other than sit on the couch and veg.
Suzette
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Permalink Reply by MysticPaige on -
I got up this morning to say my morning prayers to my divine presence and ask him to take away anything that offends him/her/it. I want to be a better person. I then feed the cats, and rabbit. I make my coffee and then get ready to get onto the computer to run my community. My service is the love that I bring to my community. It is not so much my community but every member that is there. I want to me more than I can be alone to every member and members from other places that I belong.
Today that is the way it was anyway, most days are like this, but there are exceptions.
I love mornings but I am usually the last to get up time zone wise. LOL! Hugs, Paige
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