Dream Bigger To Find Your Higher Purpose

Many of us feel like we are in a ‘rat race.’  We endure the daily grind until the weekend when we maybe have a little time off.   If we are honest with ourselves we really aren’t happy and haven’t learned to really be happy.  Ask yourself, when do you really get to LIVE fully?

About 10 years ago, I learned how to get away from that ‘rat race’ mentality.  I learned that I could work and do what I love in a meaningful way and be paid for my gifts, strengths and talents.  I know a way you can fully LIVE every day of your life!!  This is liberation, joy, peace and REAL happiness.

Many personal development gurus such as Stephen Covey tells us to have the end in mind.  The best end in mind, as I discovered, is to live your Higher Purpose.  This higher purpose is actually a more divine and nobler purpose than the usual life purposes we set for ourselves.  The usual purposes or the ‘whys’ we give ourselves are often temporary or material goals such as:

• Get a house, car, boat etc.
• Pay for my kids’ college
• Pay the bills
• Get out of debt
• Pay for a vacation
• Save for retirement

These things are great and we will achieve these goals faster when we focus on our higher BEYOND-ourselves purpose.  It is interesting isn’t it??  These things will NATURALLY happen on our way to fulfilling our higher purpose.  When we allow ourselves to dream bigger we will find our higher purpose to focus on.

What is our ‘higher purpose?’  Each one of us have the same higher purpose.  It is simply to progress and be more like Divine Source–God.  We do this by blessing humanity in our unique ways. 

Think about what legacy you want to leave for your family and friends.  Look for ways to serve and bless humanity with your special unique gifts!  There are too many gifts to list!  The strengths from the Strength Finder can help you identify the different gifts you possess to bless the world with.

It is more empowering and easy to strengthen strengths (gifts) instead of pushing to overcome weaknesses.  Those strengths and talents are god-given and should be honored.  The parable of the talents is a great example to me of magnifying what you’ve been given. (Matt 25:14-30)

Deep down everyone is consciously or subconsciously searching for more substance and meaning for their existence.  This peaceful feeling of having meaning to life only comes when we honor our true selves, dig deeper into our heart space and be honest about who we are.  Have you thought about how and in what ways you fit in the big scheme of things?

If you choose NOT to dig deep and find some answers you will live life in the dark, you will be selfish, be blinded and caught up your own problems, you will self sabotage and find that you are unhappy–even depressed.   We can end this self-abuse and reverse the energy to bless the world with what we’ve been given.  Once you’ve learned how to allow energy to flow through you.

You can bless the world in infinite ways.  Of course the obvious ways are the entertainers, artists and intellectuals.  There are not so obvious ways too.  Some people bless the world with their compassion, cooking skills, organizational skills, listening skills, communication skills etc.

We all can bless humanity.  The difference is we all take different vehicles to do that.

Why Focus On Your Purpose?

The answer to that question is simple.  It helps us be happier!   When you’re ‘happy meter’ or heart is unhappy, it indicates you are not aligned with your purpose.

• Be more happy and peaceful
• Be filled with life, power, health and vitality
• Helps you stay focus (not get distracted and overwhelmed)
• Helps you be naturally selfless and connected to God and people
• Learn who you really are and create and manifest.  You will have daily downloads from the divine power source.
• Feel more free to make mistakes
• Endure and overcome difficult times easier
• Develop greater love and empathy for others

I truly believe that everyone has come to earth with all that they need to succeed.  A loving God or Heavenly Father would never send His children off to fend for themselves without carefully and intelligently preparing for that child’s ultimate success.  Our job is to CHOOSE to identify and use those gifts within to find peace, happiness and fulfillment.  No matter what is happening in life, when we are not at peace and unhappy that is a ‘clue’ that we are not aligned with who we are and what our purpose is.

The Purpose of Life Is to Discover Your Gift. The Meaning of Life Is to Give Your Gift Away -Pablo Picasso

Let’s Identify Your Gift & Talents

When you’ve identified your gifts and talents, you need to magnify it.  Magnifying it is a way you show gratitude and faith.  I like the Bible story of the Parable of the Talents found in Matt. 25:14–29.

To summarize: Before a master went away, he left he called three of his servants to him.  He gave one 5 talents, another 2 talents, and another 1 talent.  While he was gone, the servants with the 5 and 2 talents doubled their talents.  To both, the lord said unto them, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’  On the other hand, the servant with the one talent didn’t do anything but bury his talent in fear.  Then the master said to him ‘Thou wicked and slothful servant’.  He then took one talent and gave it to the servant who had 10.”

Definition of Talent: An ancient measure of weight or sum of money that was of great worth.  It also serves as a symbol for something of great value.

How to Identify Your Gift & Talent?

How to identify your gift and talent?  One way is to take the StrengthFinder test( Which I highly recommend.)

The other way is to answer some of these questions for yourself.

1. If money and time weren’t an issue, what would I want to do with my time that would give me life without money constraints??  (This is asking about what excites you?   What are your passions?  Don’t worry about if it makes money or not.)
2. What are some things I can easily do that I wish I could do more of all the time? (This is what you would magnify if you had the chance.  The more you do this activity, the more joy and energy you get.  It gives you more life!)
3. What are all the things that bring me joy and happiness? What does your ideal life look like?  Go into details.

Myth of Weaknesses

Should Michael Jordan be sad simply because he isn’t good at golf like Tiger Woods?  No, of course not.  Michael should stick with what he is good at and be happy.  Who says we need to be saddened by our perceived weaknesses?  Some of our weaknesses can be slowly worked on eventually if we need to.  We don’t have to be ‘well rounded’ to be happy either.  We may never be able to turn all weaknesses into strengths in this life.  We can still be happy even if we aren’t good at all things in this lifetime.  We can function and live a fulfilling life by magnifying our strengths and complementing our weaknesses.  Our weaknesses reminds us of our humanity which helps us be humble!  Be patient and tolerant with yourself.  Accept yourself fully as you would a little child learning about the world.  Release yourself and be free to live.  Clear away whatever negative ‘junk’ you have inside but don’t stay focused fixing all the negative things all the time.  What we focus on grows so we don’t want to keep focusing on our weaknesses.  Move into the positive creating mode whenever possible.

>>I am grateful for my weaknesses which reminds me to always connect to God

Start Now with ‘Active Faith’ 

Let’s take action!  Once you’ve identified your purpose and it is burning inside of you, it is time to allow that fire to create and manifest the life you are meant to live!  You will never be given all the instructions at once.  You only need to know what the next step or two is and that’s good enough.

Active Faith means you simply act intuitively on your heart’s or gut’s impressions and allow the ‘mind’ to follow with understanding and reasoning afterwards.

Sometimes we think we’ve got the purpose down and yet we still can’t seem to move forward as fast as we would like, it may be that we need to clear out some fears and false beliefs that block us from moving forward.  Here are some tips and suggested essential oils to use as you push through fears and inhibitions.

1) Vision/Calling Board

Our mind thinks in pictures.  Find pictures of things to represent your purpose and calling.  Place these pictures on a poster or cork board.  This is your vision board, a representation of your vision (or in this case a purpose and calling board).  Put your vision board somewhere you can see often.  Keep adding to it as you clarify what it is that you would like to do with your gift and talents.  Be clear on what you want. Take away all the limits.  Allow yourself to be inspired and imagine.

2) Choose to be Proactive & Empowered

Activate your power to choice.  Release the need to blame people and situations.  Blame gives away your power.  As an adult, it’s time to ‘grow up’ now.  Decide to be a problem solver.  If you need to vent, do it quickly, sensibly and thoroughly by writing it down or talking to yourself aloud.  If you have a positive strong friend who can just listen, that might help.  When you are done, don’t be tempted to complain again.  Make sure your initial responses to things is positive and filled with solutions. Your children and friends will learn to do the same as you as you set the good example.  Believe that you can and have the power within to do that your heart desires.  Because it is your calling, you will have solutions given to you.  As a business leader, I love to help others, but I don’t want to rob people of their power by doing it all for them.

Fennel: Rub on tummy, take internally and inhale. “I accept full responsibility for my thoughts, actions and life.” Don’t compare yourself with others.  You are unique.

Ginger: Dilute and rub on tummy, take internally and inhale. “I release all resistance to feeling strong and powerful.” 

Spikenard: Rub on big toes and inhale.  “I am grateful for challenges.  I see them as opportunities for growth and change.”

Geranium: Release need to control the outcome or be willful. The “How” is God’s job.  Your part is to discover the “what” and maybe some of the whys.  Tell the universe what you want and let go of the control.  God will take care of the details.  “I trust the universe/God.  Let it happen in the right time for me and my higher good.”

Wild Orange & Balance(Grounding Blend):  Be humble & happy by being grounded.  Humility is about being willing to change the way God sees fit.  It involves love and trust in God. “I easily allow God to bless me with plenty of money, time, friends, joy, pleasure into come into your life.”

Check your happy meter often.  When you are happy, you are focused on your noble purpose.   When you are not happy, you are distracted, prideful, fearful etc. Here is your chance to change that.  The more you do this the easier it is to stay happy longer and live a fulfilling life always focusing on your noble purpose!

Here is a link to our dōTERRA Magazine article.

3) Love yourself

Love yourself like God loves you (do your best to anyways).  You need to be kind to this child of God as much as you are kind to other children of God.  You are never too broken or messed up to discover your value to the world.  You deny the world of gifts by holding yourself back.  You’ve read this haven’t you?

Allow yourself to be a conduit of love and abundance.  Let go of all the garbage you believe about yourself.  Allow yourself to fail as much as you need to on your journey forward.  You will be guided to personal development books and programs as you live in alignment.  Choosing your dream is choosing YOU.

Conclusion

We are all born with special strengths.  The package is already there. You are perfectly packaged already.  You are enough.  We will be filled with fresh energy and bless the world with our talents.  You have a responsibility to discover and polish your purpose.

It will take a lifetime to discover all of your gifts and talents.  Start now.  You already know who you are.  Go after your dream.  You already have the courage.  Believe you are created for special purposes.  You will keep growing and dreaming bigger.  The whole world will be bless because you lived in alignment of yourself.  Whatever you focus on will grow.  Focus on what you want and more of that will be manifested.

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