Success Defined by Purpose

Monday Motivation: Success Defined by Purpose

At the beginning of a year, a month, a quarter or half a year like this, we are often psychologically pressured to do some assessments, check our score sheets and plan for the next season.
We want to check how we are doing vis a vis what we had planned out doing or the goals we set to achieve in the past season. We believe this marks our progress as we continue to dream and push forward for accomplishments and personal happiness.
Goals are easy to set, dreams are easy to have. Desires are the cheapest things to acquire, visions are easy to conceive by our imaginations. We can always see a better life than what we live presently, we can envision doing something great.

And we can always achieve them. We can always acquire the things we desire too. Our dreams can set us on to achievements. Our imaginations can be pursued to accomplishment. It is possible to achieve things as we can see all around us. Everything we have in this life is someone's achievement, man was made to make things happen on the earth even if against God who made him.

And that's where correct assessment stems from. We have the power to make things happen but these things we make happen may be quite unnecessary. Their achievements may look to us as success. That's a way to describe success. We can acquire things we don't need, yet the acquisition is success to us. We can acquire things that don't last, and hardly do we have things that really lasts, but their acquisition was success to us.

People have cars they don't use, clothes they won't wear, houses they don't live in and that doesn't bring in money, people earned degrees they don't and won't use. They have opportunities they don't need and occupy positions that adds nothing to nobody. Each of these was a result of efforts and was deemed a success. Many of these things have become burdens upon their owners and they haven't brought the joys they promised when first desired.

But we must understand that nothing with divine purpose is ever a waste. Divine purpose establishes the use of a thing. What the thing is needed for is defined by its original purpose. Out of a million and one thing that a person can pursue and achieve, pursuing and achieving divine purpose is what create useful outcomes.

We have so many reasons why we desire what we desire, but not every reason is a right cause. Big things may be desired for their bigness but may not be needed. A big house with many rooms may be needed when young with many children in their teens and early 20s and are still home, but when they leave and aren't thinking of coming back and you'd become older, it becomes a burden awaiting to be discarded. (Of course it will be a good source of finance)

But real success is discovering purpose and pursuing it. When divine purpose becomes the foundation for our desires and pursuits, life becomes better and the joy becomes lasting. Divine purpose isn't a flash in the pan, it is essence of life which dictated the terms and conditions of our creation, it determines our designs, the capabilities and potentials embedded in each of us was carefully sought to ensure we deliver our purposes here in this life.

The true definition of success should therefore be the accomplishment of divine original purpose that informed our design and creation, which informed our passion and drive. It is such that if we lose sight of that purpose, we begin to chase shadows and the wind and the problem here is that we would achieve them, if we pursue them according to the basic rules of pursuits but will they bring satisfaction?

Let's think about this and reexamine our life pursuits if they are towards achieving divine purposes or they are just to create things what won't add to us or to humanity. Let's think towards leaving an eternal impact on everyone we meet and in all we do, it connects us quickly to the purpose for which we were made...

For what purpose is your life's pursuits? If you get what you are pursuing, would you still like it?

Happy new month, the end of this year shall be better than the beginning thereof in Jesus name.
Enjoy the day!

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