For What Purpose

"For what purpose?" Rang through my mind as I was thinking about goals, hopes, dreams, direction, etc. Why do we continue to move forward in our lives. Not to mean that we end up staying stagnant, but to mean that there is a force that drives us. What is that force? And more importantly "for what purpose?" 

As I reflected on the purpose of my goals, and I started thinking about the goals I had written and taped to my kitchen walls, I started to ask myself: For what purpose do I want these to happen? I imagined asking other people this question about their own goals, and it dawned on me that I should probably ask myself this same question. It reminded me of a tool I learned years ago. This tool is not something that I have dropped, instead I think I allowed my subconscious mind to control this tool. However, bringing it to a conscious level has brought me to this pivotal point in my life "For what purpose?" 

Years ago I wrote everything negative I could think of about myself and the roadblocks I envisioned in my life on one side of a one inch thick piece of wood. On the other side I wrote every dream imaginable. I was then asked to break the board in half. I broke through the negative to the positive. Others doing the same drill used the positive side to break the negative side. The point though, is that all of us doing this drill broke those negative thoughts. I now have that board split in two next to my desk. Occasionally I look at it, the wood splintering in the middle where it is broken in half and I look to see where I am now, where I have come from, and become inspired to think of the places I still have to go. Some of the goals, dreams, and hopes have changed, while some are being more prioritized. 

So here I am thinking to myself, "For what purpose?" In a Values drill that I can write about later, I ask this question to the recipient over and over and over again until we reach the ultimate value for why our goals are important. In 2012 my values were: God, Family, Friends, Career, Health. In that order. Typically there is a Top 10, and the Top 5 are always the Top 5 but maybe in a different order depending on the state of the individual. 

Tonight I narrowed it down to one value: LOVE 

Keep it bright. Keep it Positive. 

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