Do it on Purpose

I think many of us get caught up in doing things for the sake of achievement or an accolade or we just do it because it is a chore and we need to get it done. I’ve written ad nauseum about how we need to do the things that bring us joy and that by doing a chore just to do a chore we aren’t getting better and we aren’t developing our skills.

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Today I am going to talk about an extension of that idea and that we need to be purposeful with our actions. Whatever we chose to do, whatever the outcome do it with a purpose. If you fail at something, fail knowing with the conviction that you fully showed up and the result is just a learning opportunity.

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So many of us think in black and white. We fail or we succeed. And success leads to achievement or accolades or promotion or more success. And we see failure as struggle, as not getting what we want or believe that we are entitled to. The truth is that failure is just learning about ourselves.

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If you fail at enough things, if you we take the lessons learned from each misstep and stumble and continue to put them together. If we continue to do things with purpose, the wins don’t just stack up. No, something more powerful occurs, we start living an intentional, authentic, deliberate life. When we put purpose into everyone of our actions, regardless of the outcome that occurs we truly start to live that purpose on a daily basis.

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I’ve touched on this topic before and mentioned that we need to exude and embody what we want to be. This takes a certain level of authenticity that is rare for most people to express. Additionally, it requires us to be intentional and deliberate with our actions. We can’t just say we want to experience something and then not show it in our life. If we want to experience Joy we need to exude and embody Joy in what we do. We can’t just expect to experience this feeling if we don’t live it ourselves. If we want to be a curious person and don’t be curious about the world around you, what you are doing, exploring your interests, then you aren’t embodying that feeling.

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That embodiment is the first step towards authenticity, and it starts with a purposeful action that you will be that way. Passively waiting for the right moment isn’t how we get there, as I’ve mentioned a couple times before. Actively living and knowing what we want to experience and feel will start the chain reaction for that feeling to continuously show up in our life. Once you consciously make the decision to exude and embody a certain feeling it keeps showing up and allows you to better achieve the goals and desires you have laid out in front of yourself.

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Live with purpose. Choose our actions and interactions with Purpose. Be deliberate, authentic, and intentional with what we do and watch your life before full of the purpose that you want.