Earlier this summer I took some time to really think about and write down my personal vision of one perfect day in my life and what I wanted that day to be all about. It was an exercise that required a lot of thinking and creativity and once I had started to write, I found I had so much in me that wanted to come out that in one evening, I wrote for hours and hours and literally couldn't stop!

What I ultimately discovered, through that exercise, is that I was presently doing things that did not necessarily fit with my vision for my life, and ever since I have been questioning and seeking and being open to creating ways that truly fit with my talents, my interests, my gifts, my passions and my overall life vision.

At the end of the summer I ran into this quote that really resonated with me and might for you also:

You'll never achieve real success
unless you like what you're doing.
No one has ever succeeded in a line
of endeavor which they did not like.

Your chances of success are directly proportional
to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.
If you're in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

It's better to be a failure in something you love,
than attempting to be a success in something you don't.
 
Don't set compensation as a goal.
Find the work you love, and the compensation will follow.

The more you love what you are doing,
the more successful it will be for you.
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For so long now I have set compensation as a goal, once I arrived at that goal THEN I could begin doing the things I really enjoy and that use my talents to their greatest effect. I have realized from my vision exercise this summer and the above quote, that I have been starting it all from the wrong end first. I must first find the work I love, that I have been created for and put on this planet to do, and the compensation will follow. 

I am so blessed to be in a position to seek out what that is. And so I am on a journey right now, and the purpose of that journey is to understand and find my life purpose. It will utilize many, if not all, of my God given talents, and it will be something that I enjoy so much that to not do it would be unthinkable. Right now I am opening myself up to the possibilities and testing out a couple of ideas. I am certain that the right way will become obvious, as long as I stay true to myself, my passions and my talents.

How about you? What is your Life Purpose?


Wendy