Fulfilling Your Purpose, Is Done By Financing It With Something You Love, By Being Fearless

The promise to you, is after reading this, you will be able to say, this was more than just a “sappy” and “utopian” thinking load of bull.

Because if there is one thing we try to do, is speak from our hearts and understand, that our hearts should propel the alacrity to learn.
 
It should lead our decisions (while having the checks and balances in relation with our mind).

So, without further ado, the ability to pin down who and what makes you happy is the first key to fulfilling your purpose. Your purpose is the centricity of your roadmap. It ultimately is, what you focus your energy on. Or should focus your energy on.Your purpose is the core of completing your dreams, more so, it will directly take care of the people you associate with in your life.
 
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Speaking at an event once, I got a straightforward question, that quite frankly, was very appropriate. Someone equivocally, trying to fight their own bashfulness, was able to receive the attention from the room.
 
What pursued was a crack in the voice and two coughs. But this brave person build the courage to politely ask, “what about if your purpose requires to live paycheck to paycheck? What about if you are trying to do all the right things in life, but you see wages stagnating but my costs to purchase milk or gas goes up?
 
What about all the student debt that I have, which never appears to fall in principle because of interest expense. And how this restricts me from buying a home? What about the fact that I am educated, have received my masters, have work experience, have tried to hustle and make extra income elsewhere, and all I see is a near zero balance in my savings?
 
And lastly, what about wanting to buy Dunkin Donuts coffee, not even Starbucks, but feel guilty knowing that I could  pay down credit card debt?
 
I paused. For what was only a 5 second hiatus, might as well seemed a perpetual blackhole. I was stumped. What could be said?  My mind was a Formula One Circuit, and I was endlessly driving laps, trying to think how can I help address this? How can I do so, without crashing?
 
I kept thinking, wait. That’s the problem right there.

I too was worried about crashing, that I forgot that I wanted to win the race, let alone finish. So, I now coughed once, using it to gather my thoughts, and began to answer the question, with of course a series of other questions and clichés.

• Who helps envision your possibilities for a brighter future?
• Who helps determine your Eureka moment, as you are trying to determine the depths of your ambition?
• Who helps ensure that when you fly high, you avoid the sun, so your wings keep driving you forward, and not burn off?
• Who is to ensure that once you are in the coal mine of life, that you keep singing like a canary, fruitfully and sustainably?

 
The whole room really got thinking. And then, I began to draw a small circle inside a big circle, on a whiteboard. I was truly trying to react an answer in the room. But it appeared that “my spectacle” was being taken as hypothetical. As I am still “continually driving laps in this circuit”, I needed to find a way to win the audience.
 
So, I just SHOUTED the first thing that came into my mind.

Be Fearless. 

Then the floodgates open, and I knew I was going to go on a roll (which I did).

• Your purpose needs to be fearless, because life is a coalmine (couldn’t believe I said that, but once it was out, I had to continue with it).​

 

• You talked about debt, wages, expenses, social issues, and a myriad of external factors that come at us. So, what do we need to do so we don’t suffocate in the mines? Don’t let these factors haunt you, and BE FEARLESS.​

 

• You are exceptional at something. Maybe it is not necessarily digging in the coalmines, but everyone knows something. The key to life and being paid for it, is the utility of providing gains, in a collaborative manner, to help provide future benefits.​

 

• So duh, life is short and we need to live it to the fullest. 100% agree. But you need to finance that, so let us not be naïve. Therefore, fulfilling your purpose, is done by financing it, with something you love, by being fearless. 

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• So, find your purpose, then find a means to financing it in perpetuity. Be fearless and allow yourself to fail, so you can succeed. Be so GREAT at something, that you CANNOT be ignored. ​​

 

• That you require the attention, and therefore, progress to your ambitions.  And target goals. In the hierarchy of your purpose, your purpose is a function of the aggregation of your ambitions, goals, wants, needs, and desires.

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• And you would NEVER go broke, if you align yourself with people who share in your purpose, and want to see you succeed. Don’t be afraid to love yourself, your family, and don’t be afraid to explore and find people that can share in your love.

 
Someone raises their hand. I had to brake this metaphorical formula one car. I was sincerely horrified that I crashed (as we continue to push through that Formula One metaphor) and that my words were just taken as fluff.
 
But I was pleasantly surprise.

The student jumps up and says, “You know what, you are right. My purpose is to build the greatest buildings humankind has ever seen, so they themselves can live in them. And hold the largest and highest quality portfolio of these buildings”.
 
I was quiet. Then people began to popcorn.

• My purpose is to cook delicious meals, and make sure one less person goes hungry everyday. And then travel the world and have restaurants in every corner that inspires me, so I can inspire others.
• My purpose is to make at the minimum one animal feel sheltered every day, because I understand animals. I understand the love that they need. And with that, I will create a chaine of sustainable land  to scale my dream.
• My purpose is to write to help people share ideas, because I still remember my first sentence in my journal. It is to write with a purpose, to keep on inspiring dreams.
• My purpose is to connect the world, technologically, because I am great at writing code. I will use it to make globalization a feeling of neighborhoods.
• My purpose is to be the greatest athlete who ever lived, because I have been playing since I was three.
• My purpose is to educate, to help facilitate the path for our future trailblazers, because I love to read, write, and engage.

 
I now knew I finished the race. I did not crash. They got it.
 
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What is my purpose:

• Is simply, to live honestly and courageously, and inspire others to live according to their own truth.
• It is to aspire for greatness, by inspiring humility.
• Is trying to educate, a minimum of a person a day, that if you have LOVE in this world, you have the shelter and backbone to succeed, and it is LOVE that helps illuminate the centricity of your purpose.

 
How do I do this:

• By knowing a lot of things, to help me empathize with people, and fairly charge for services that mutually benefit many parties.
• Also staying humble, because I know that I do not know a lot of things. And as it was once said, Lady Fortune is drunk, lustful, and blind. For which if we are consumed by it, we too will lose sense with ourselves.
• Not being afraid of failure, and allowing people to use me as support, when it inevitably will happen. And I believe, failure was made for us, and not beasts. It was made for us to succeed.
• I am also there to ensure that failure is limited, and that success is ensured, because too much failure creates beasts.
• Continually working on sport and fitness, so the time we nurture our bodies will help sustain our purpose, because we would be healthy enough to move forward.
• And knowing and sharing how to feed our bodies. For a wise man once said, our food is our medicine. And another wise man said, we cannot go without the governance of our day, without the governance of our stomachs.

 
So What’s The Point To All of This:

• I promised in the beginning, it was not just going to be a sappy post.
• I promised, because this is a version of myself being fearless in sharing my experience.
• It is helping one person, at the minimum today, live according to their own truth.
• It will have inspired humility, so the individual could continue to aspire greatness.
• I will continue to live my purpose, I will continue to share, I will continue to know what I am good at, and what I am not, so I can discover new frontiers.
• And lastly, always remember the overarching reason to your overarching purpose.