Living My Life Purpose in Wikondiek, Kenya
As I talk to people every day I ask one simple question…………… “If you could be doing anything you want - with no limitations! – what would that be?”
What would you be doing?
Ninety-seven percent of people say they would do something different!
Statistically 73% of people are unhappy in their jobs.
Henry Thoreau said, “The mass of all men live lives of quiet desperation.”
Have we all resigned ourselves to second choices, second best and second class lives?! Have we settled for something short of our dreams? Have dreams, hopes and aspirations become like water through our hands……………we feel it, see it, but we can’t grasp it! WHERE AND WHEN DID WE LEARN TO SETTLE FOR SO MUCH LESS?????????????
Here is what I have come to believe…………..all of us want life to mean more than just material comforts.
We want to feel needed.
We want to feel we are making a contribution to the world.
We want to feel we make a difference.
We want to feel we have a life purpose.
We can feel and do all those things when we are true to ourselves and give our true service. If we combine those two points we are truly letting our lives speak. This is our life gift. There are other people waiting for you to share your experience, wisdom, help, heart and soul. They are going through what you have already gone through. Your job is now to help them. You are an expert in your gift!
You are needed! You are important! You are necessary! You are the hope! You are the difference!
I remember standing in a classroom built with mud & cow dung walls in Kenya. The floor was dirt. There were windows, no glass only metal bars. There were sixty students in the room. They had all lost their parents to aids or malaria. They had one set of clothes, some didn’t have shoes. Most got one meal a day. They had no electricity or running water. THEY LITERALY HAD NOTHING!!
What they DID have was themselves! Each student stood in front of the class and said, “Here I am world send me!” Each shared how they would make a difference in their village, country and world. The room sat in silence as sixty young people spoke their hearts. They had so little…………..yet they had so much to give.
I often wonder why we have so much and give so little…..
The world awaits your gift. There is one person waiting for you to reach out, to push past your fears, to stop making excuses why you can’t. There is one person waiting for you to say……………………. “Here I am, send me………….. here I am, USE ME!”
Mother Teresa said, “Become the change you seek.”
Barak Obama declared, “You are the change the world has been waiting for!”
Find your life purpose! Share your life gift! Let your life speak! Practice remarkability! Say, “Here I am world send me………..here I am USE ME!”
I DARE YOU!
~Bart
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