Category: Purpose

Living Fully

Posted April 20, 2017 - Purpose

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

Posted December 30, 2016 - Desire, Faith, Patience, Purpose

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

Posted December 27, 2016 - Purpose

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?

Posted December 26, 2016 - Prioritize-Prepare-Plan, Purpose

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

Posted May 13, 2016 - Dream, Mental Condition, Purpose, Thoughts

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

Posted February 11, 2016 - God, Purpose

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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Purpose is a Process

Posted February 8, 2016 - Focus, Patience, Purpose

Sometimes we need to slow down in order to speed up.

— Unknown —

For those of you who are just starting this process, I advise you to go back to February 1st and read all the posts up to today. I decided to hold off into diving into our guiding principles (what we stand for) for another day.  Building a life of purpose is a process, it is…

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Higher Purpose

Posted February 6, 2016 - God, Purpose

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God’s calling, can matter forever.

— Attributed to Os Guinness —

The EagleLaunch focalPOINT 2016 theme is “Making the most of Ourselves.” Over the next several weeks I will be taking you through a step by step process in creating a Vision (dream with a plan) for your life that is aligned and grounded in your Purpose (what you are here for) and your Principles (what…

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Purpose & Treasure

Posted February 5, 2016 - Purpose

Once a man was asked, ‘what did you gain by regularly praying to God?’ The man replied, ‘nothing…but let me tell you what I lost: Anger, ego, greed, depression, insecurity, and fear of death.’ Sometimes the answer to our prayers is not gaining but losing; which ultimately is the gain.

— Unknown —

  Sometimes the best way to find out who we are is by first identifying who we aren’t or who we don’t want to be. I haven’t memorized many scripture verses over the years but one that I’ve hung onto and continue to cling to is found in the books of Luke and Matthew and…

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Purpose & Spiritual Condition

Posted February 4, 2016 - God, Purpose

The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that’s bigger than they are—that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth.

— Richard Leider —

The EagleLaunch focalPOINT 2016 theme is “Making the most of Ourselves.” Over the next several weeks I will be taking you through a step by step process in creating a Vision (dream with a plan) for your life that is aligned and grounded in your Purpose (what you are here for) and your Principles (what…

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