Category: Purpose

Chase Peace

Work hard, but give time to your love, family and friends. Because nobody will remember presentations, meetings, and degrees upon our death.

— Unknown —

Work hard, but give time to your love, family, and friends. Because nobody will remember presentations, meetings, and degrees upon our death…

Living Fully

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

— Thomas Merton —

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for…

That Place

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose is to give it away.

— Pablo Picaso —

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose is to give it away…

Chase Peace

Work hard, but give time to your love, family and friends. Because nobody will remember presentations, meetings, degrees and overtime on our death.

— Unknown —

Work hard, but give time to your love, family and friends. Because nobody will remember presentations, meetings, degrees and overtime on our death…

Living Fully

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

— Thomas Merton —

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for…

Plowing

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

— Steve Jobs —

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Bearing How With Why

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

— Friedrich Nietzsche —

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

What’s Next?

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Pictures Part 2

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein —

This is a continuation of yesterday’s message… I remember picturing having a loving and solid relationship with my wife and being a great dad to our kids.  I pictured being a good son, son-in-law, brother and friend.  In essence I was picturing everything I had allowed my addiction to steal from me. Then I remember…

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Guiding Principles & Fruit

It is simply with an open mind and heart that serenity naturally encompasses us...without it, you can never be your authentic self...

— Monique Boulet —

My goal over the next several weeks is to help you find your authentic self (see Boulet’s quote above).  And if you already know who you are and why you exist, then my hope is this process will give you even more clarity, focus and peace while you’re on this journey called life. For those…

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