Does everything really happen for a purpose?

Whether you think you can do it or you think you cannot do it, you are right. 

The fact is that you create your own reality. 

Everything that you have in your life right now is something that was created by your mind.

Your mind is easily influenced by your surroundings and it's programmed by the repeated exposure to everything that happens in your life. 

What does that have to do with purpose?

Our mind has been programmed to seek REASONS for everything. 

• “Why is this happening?”
• “Why me?”
• “Why now?”

And when we cannot find a purpose that “makes sense” we end up looking to other people to help us make sense of things. 

Think Tarot readers, Palm readers, Members of Clergy, The Bible, you name it… Bottomline, we are looking for a reason to take action, for a reason to exist and for a reason to give what we are doing 100% of our effort and energy. 

“There is no reason why things happen, it's all a coincidence.” An atheist told me with full confidence.

I told this atheist that I believe that everything indeed happens for a reason, we get to choose the reason why it happened.

It's very disempowering to feel like there is no reason for anything that happens. I really do not like playing the victim of circumstance. I would rather be able to feel free to choose my path and create the life of my dreams.

To attach meanings that are inspiring and motivating to everything that happens. When there is a connection, when something is given to me as a gift, when I learn something new, I would rather look at it as a gift from God and cherish it.

That means that I CHOSE the higher power and I decide that it's my gift from the source that I believe in. This is powerful for me. 

We are living with a purpose whether we like it or not. It's either the purpose that we choose or it's the purpose that someone else chose for us. We all have a default purpose, if we do not stand up and create our own.

Even more powerful than having a purpose is living on purpose.

Figuring out what you really desire, knowing what you really want and having the courage to go out and get it.

I'm sure you thought about creating a list of the things you want to do before you die. That bucket list is important because it lists all the experiences, skills and growth that we want to achieve. If you do not write it down, it's hard to remember when you are busy with the day to day.

A life worth living, is a life worth recording and remembering. So write things down. 

Are you living your life with intent? Do you know what you want to accomplish this month, this year, this decade? 

I'm personally thinking about the pandemic and how it changed our lives, how it changed the way people work, live and think globally. 

WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?

HOW CAN I LEARN FROM THIS?

WHAT CAN I DO TO ADD VALUE TO PEOPLE DURING THIS TIME?

Make your life matter with a powerful purpose, make your life meaningful and inspiring by living on purpose.

Living on purpose is different than living with a purpose someone else gave you. I prefer to chose my fate than to allow fate to chose me. 

What about you? Do you live on purpose or do you allow purpose to chose you?

Let me know in the comments below. 

BOOM

Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union