Persisting On-Purpose

Your 2-word purpose calls you to give expression to your highest and noblest nature.?It inspires a vision that stimulates you to action via a mission that is endeavored within ethical values. Yes, the alignment of Purpose, Vision, Mission, and Values to be on-purpose is a high ideal from which it is easy to become derailed and failed.

With the standard being so high, why does persisting to be on-purpose make any sense whatsoever??The answer may surprise you. Consider the alternatives of life without a purpose:

• A vision without a purpose is likely to be a costly distraction or a passing fancy.
• A mission without a purpose is an empty existence — a life of doing but never being.?
• A value without a purpose is just a rule without a moral basis.

Realistically, most people go through life without articulating their life’s purpose.?Or, they mistakenly elevate their vision or mission to replace their purpose. Passionate people are on fire for their work, family, or cause (vision and/or mission) and may earn worldly rewards and recognition, but at the end of the day in their quiet, private moments their emptiness and loneliness remain. They spend their waking hours like Sisyphus pushing their life uphill and never reaching the top as depicted in the accompanying photo.

Purpose fills the soul void and energizes vision, mission, and values. Is it work? Yes. But it is joy because there is arrival, a worthy destination of constant learning and improvement.

Yes, the standard to be on-purpose is high and difficult. Life without knowing one’s purpose, however, is far more arduous and perilous. There’s perpetual striving, but never arriving. There’s action but no satisfaction. There’s motion but no true devotion. Entitled insisting becomes an ugly replacement for persisting.

Persisting on-purpose is made easier by adding meaning to our life equation, enriching what is an otherwise futile existence.?Tough shift events gain a grand context. Glorious events are gifts. As we iterate between “success” and “failure,” our character is chiseled into inner beauty. Persisting, therefore, is the process of being increasingly unconditionally whole with uncluttered peacefulness within. That above any worldly possession is worthy of persisting.

Be On-Purpose!Kevin