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THE PURPOSEFUL CORPER INTRODUCTION Why are you serving? Why are you serving in Ebonyi State? Why are you here today? Why did I leave the General Hospital. Onicha today to come here? Why are you alive now? Purpose! Purpose!! Purpose!!! There’s a purpose behind every friendship, activity and enterprise. Your background, education, experiences, talents, skills and innate abilities have been packaged by God with a purpose in mind. What then is Purpose?
What is the relationship between Purpose, Vision and Mission? VISION = a statement about your preferred future. Your vision is based on your purpose. Fulfillment in life comes from fulfilling purpose. MISSED PURPOSE = MISSED FULFILLMENT = FRUSTRATION. Your Purpose gives you your Mission. If you don’t know the purpose of a thing, you will abuse it. FIND YOUR PURPOSE! To understand your Purpose:
God is your manufacturer. He has your operating manual. According to Bertrand Russell, “except you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless”. Find out from Him. If you need to know the objectives and mission of the NYSC scheme, you ask the NYSC management. Don’t act another man’s script. Shakespeare remarked, “life is a stage and we all are actors playing our parts..”
“Youth is a mistake, manhood a struggle; old age a regret”. Life’s stages: infancy – childhood – adolescence – adulthood – old age. Different stages of life have different challenges and issues to be faced. For instance, in early adulthood, the challenges are related to marriage and career. Your choices today have consequences tomorrow. Make choices that move you ahead in life. In your career these positive choices would include, having a multifaceted resume (hard and soft copies, etc); browsing the internet; reading extensively on a wide variety of subject matter; following current trends in your career; keeping in touch with helpful contacts; applying for jobs; studying prototype interview questions as well as GRE and GMAT materials. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “I’ll study and work hard and when my time comes, I’ll be ready”. HOW TO LIVE A PURPOSEFUL LIFE DURING YOUR SERVICE YEAR Accept your posting and make up your mind to stay.
Don’t look at where you are; focus on where you want to be. There’s a tree in every seed and a woman in every little girl. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were two such men who did not look down on themselves. When Yahoo spurned their offer to buy its search engine (Google) for one million dollars, through the help of venture capitalists, they launched Google. Some years ago, both Google founders were listed among forty Americans under the age of forty who were billionaires. Google has now been added to the dictionary (ever heard “have you googled it?”). When it released its IPO some years ago, it made the largest number of people millionaires in the history of IPO’s (within three days of buying into its offer). Greatness comes in little packages. You may be in a bush today, but you can be in a palace tomorrow. Those who moved mountains, started by picking stones.
Be an extra-mile person. Have a cutting edge mentality. To become an extra-miler:
4. Focus on Your Purpose “Life is jealous of scattered energies”. Don’t be a Jack of all trade or a people pleaser. Keep your purpose in view. Thomas Carlyle remarked, “our main business in life is not to see what lies dimly ahead but to do what lies clearly at hand”. Find the one thing you can do better than others in the area of your purpose and go for it. |
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