SURVIVING YOUR PURPOSE

Often motivational speakers and advocates encourage people with cliché statements like, “Be keen for your purpose”, “Know your purpose”, or a top favorite…”Walk in your purpose”. These are indisputably statements meant to empower growth, action,and movement to the hearer. However, there are some missing components that allow these statements to speak life into the intended for promotion of purpose.

So, purpose is the “ reason something exists… the objective and intent”. It’s the intentional answer to the question, WHY? So many have lost themselves both personally and professionally by not understanding the “WHY?”. This is a question that must be answered before progress can begin to occur. The struggle of answering that question gets complicated with the input of others, situations that fog our initial determinations, and the strategic entities that issue boundaries you accept. I definitely can attest to all of the above named struggles in my personal plight to find MY PURPOSE. What I learned is that my purpose was already clearly built into my makeup. I allowed things, people, and situations to challenge me to my worth in accepting my unique and rightful purpose. This created a stagnation that only halted my progress, happiness, and ability to know where I should go. I felt helpless and hopeless even in the shadows of what others felt were successful moves. I became emotionally driven and involved in toxic situations both personally and professionally. I became a mad and negative shell of a person.

With some of the current troubles in this world I’ve noticed that some of us are finding solitude and purpose through being mad and reactive. These tragic and disheartening things are meant to hurt. They are undoubtedly meant to steer us of course. They are done with the intention to make us mad. Being mad is a heightened emotional state that often makes us maneuver in a crazed state of unwise unthought decisions. Being mad is generally a short lived emotion. To stay in a state of madness would alter you physically and mentally in a way that’s not easily recovered from. Many times we use the term mad synonymously with angry. Although both can be elicited from the same action, anger is the catalyst in change. Anger isn’t short lived. It isn’t reactive or ignorant of consequence. It’s the brain and heart integrating to produce solutions, commitments, and unshakable standards that allow rediscovery of purpose.

I’ve now become committed to my purpose. I’m happy although all days aren’t “good” I’m staunch in being who I was created to be unapologetically. Your purpose is not mine. It’s uniquely been assigned to you. I can’t fill or meet the need you do but collectively we can meet many needs. A flower needs a multitude of things to grow from sunlight and water to nurturing and pulling the weeds. It’s a matter of survival. At times you may question your purpose due to not knowing how to fully grasp it. Maybe you are in fear of truly trusting it or are fighting for the right to fit into the mold others have assigned to you. Yes, there is struggle in the purpose but it’s not the struggle that matters. One of my mothers sayings that will stick with me indefinitely is “It’s not the journey but the end of a matter that counts.”

Survival indicates there were some challenges but I join you in celebration of triumph. You CAN and MUST survive your purpose because if you fail we all do. We need you to bring to the table what you are designed to bring. I’m at the table waiting for you. Do you accept the challenge?

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