Chapter 11Purpose
The Purpose of Life Is Purposeful Living
“Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.”
– Theodore Roszak
I believe you can find the person in you who can inspire you to pursue the goals that are most meaningful to you, no matter what others may think of them, or how far away they may seem.
It is time you believe this about you, too.
We can always find lots of reasons, and other people, to blame for why we're where we are in life versus where we want to be.
Do not allow excuse-making to hold you back any longer.
Your dreams are too precious to give anyone or anything the power to keep you from them, including you.
Your dreams are too precious to give anyone or anything the power to keep you from them, including you.
Stop doubting. Stop thinking about all the reasons why not. Break the cycle.
From here on out, it's on you to make change happen.
Harder than making change is recognizing and accepting our need for it. Doing so requires us to acknowledge that so much of what we've been doing has gotten us off course. Deep down, we know that there are ways in which we have not been helping ourselves, or have even been shooting ourselves in the foot. But we silence that voice of awareness. We convince ourselves that we've been making investments in getting to where we want to go, and that the lessons we've learned, ...
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