I speak to a lot of groups of people AND Purpose is something that I’m big on, and it invariably leads to someone asking the question, “I don’t know what I want to do. What should I do?”
Not a question I can answer for them!
But, consider this.
If you are standing at the end of a very long corridor, you can’t see what doors are open and what is through those doors. To see through the doors what do you have to start doing?
Moving forward of course.
That’s like life, we can’t see the opportunities available to us if we are standing still.
So, my advice to people is to take the best guess you can and start moving.
You can always go through a new door, but you’ll never know what’s through the many doors available to you if you’re standing still.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.