You wouldn’t hop in your car without a destination (or at least a general direction) in mind. Try setting your GPS to “somewhere” and you will find yourself driving in circles around the same old obstacles until you run out of gas.
Yet, this is what we do every day when we have no vision, no purpose, no plan. Our life GPS is set on “someday”. It’s a day that is as elusive as the 8th day of the week.
Mapping your life purpose and goals is like a road trip. You need to know where you are starting from and where you are going. Set your mile markers so you don’t get lost along the way.
Finding your purpose, where you fit, when starting over in a new season of life can be challenging. Remember, seasons are cyclical not a straight line or dead end.
We ALL have blind spots: we just don’t see them. The nature of a blind spot is that you can’t see them though others can.
Pablo Picasso says the meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. I believe this is an ongoing process.
On a Saturday afternoon, you decide to finally clean up the stacks of notebooks, journals, and piles of paper on your bookcase. The ones you put there “just for now until I can get to them”.
Mentoring relationships can be formal, such as an apprentice in business, or informal such as a parent.
The pandemic forced us to do things differently. We all found ourselves working from home, and many of us still are. A new and improved home office is now a necessity, not just a luxury.