We want to live more meaningful lives, and we want to make a contribution. But many younger people are disillusioned about their futures and seem to demonstrate little motivation and drive toward building their futures.
- Isn’t one of our greatest obligations to help people find a way to make a contribution by exercising their unique talents and abilities?
The explosion of passion and purpose takes place when unique abilities and needs are met.
- We are each responsible for finding a way to express our unique abilities, But we also have a collection responsibility to create a framework that fives more and more people the opportunity to do so.
Many of the happiest people we know are people who have a sense of mission. They have a joy that nobody can take away from them.
- The joy of their lives is linked not to the worldly scope or scale of the mission but to the belief that they are uniquely suited to that role and the conviction that they have been called to it.
- They have a sense that they are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.
- Their lives make sense to them. They may not make sense to the people around them, even some of the people closest to them.
- Does your life make sense to you? Are you at peace with who you are, where you are, and what you are doing?
Serve a purpose higher than your own gratitude.
- Many times, you don’t choose a mission; you are sent on a mission.
It seems the stronger the sense of mission a person has, the greater his or her capacity for enduring happiness.
- But the actual mission is an external expression of an internal reality.
Re-source: Relevant
closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered
Mission is a meeting between self and service.
- We cannot become our best selves without helping others to do the same. The two are inseparable intertwined. “To leave the world better than I found it.”
- Finding your mission in life is a deeply personal quest, but it is possible only if we are willing to look beyond ourself.
- Mission is not driven by our own desire to do something, be something, ore have something, though certainly that desire may play a role. It is driven by the needs of others and the needs of the world.
The paradox of mission is that it is not about us, but it is the source of our greatest happiness.
- Our mission may change at different times in our lives. It doesn’t have to be lifelong. Many are temporary and usually prepare us, in ways unknown to us at the time, for some future mission.
The worldly scope and scale of your unique mission is irrelevant; what matters is that you embrace the role that is especially suited to you.
- Many people turn their backs on their unique mission because it doesn’t seem spectacular enough to them or because it doesn’t make them enough money. They spend the rest of their lives haunted by the nagging sense that something is wrong or missing.
craving and resource from “Perfectly Yourself” by Mathew Kelly