BAJAN SUN MAGAZINE
Being purposeless haunts some people. Purposeless people
have few goals, very few concrete plans and can often be
heard bragging that they are “just going with the flow.” Going with the flow or having a bit of spontaneity in one’s personality is great, but even with that, you still need some direction in your life. Being a charismatic person, in the absence of character, is always catastrophic. In other words,
you may have a way with people, you may be the life of the
party, but in the absence of purpose, life goals and a conscious; you are much like a ship without a compass, you
might end up anywhere doing almost anything. We have all
seen it played out too many times. Without a vision for one’s
future, achieving very little becomes relatively easy.
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Vision…No Dreams….No Goals….No Where
DEC 2014
can overcome it. Procrastination often results from being uncertain about what to do, having unclear goals to start with,
having a negative attitude, feeling overwhelmed, waiting until the last minute, or planning but never doing because
you’re waiting for the right time to come along. To combat
procrastination, prioritize the things you need to need, do the
things that contribute to accomplishment of your goals, and
use your time wisely.
Recognizing and embracing one’s divine purpose in life
provides a sense of personal satisfaction that is beyond compare. Identifying this purpose comes easy for some, while for
others deciding what to do with their lives is more difficult.
Regardless, this discovery is one of our most important life
journeys, for an individual without purpose is vulnerable to
opinions, self-doubt and self-sabotage. Listen to the yearnings deep within your spirit, there you will find your life’s
purpose tucked just waiting for you to unleash it.
Bishop T. D. Jakes asks the question in his book, Maximize
the Moment, “What are you doing with your dash?” It is a
simple statement that forces us to accept that our time on
earth is not unlimited and the statement reminds us that we
have no time to waste. We all have a day of birth; we all will
have a day when we are transformed from the physical to the
spiritual; and we all have a period of time, the dash, our dash,
the precious time we must use to live our lives to the fullest.
You are given 86,400 seconds each day, your time is one of
your most precious commodities. If you had that much money to spend each day, with the promise of the same amount
the next day, most of us would quickly construct a strategy to
do just that. Treat your time with the same regard; treat it as
though your life depends upon it, because quite frankly it
does.
The fourth “P,” and this one can be a constant challenge for
even the most ambitious individual, and that is the habit of
waiting for tomorrows that never come, that habit of saying
“I’ll get to it.” This “P” is that old dream crusher who is also
poor time