DO YOU HAVE A PURPOSE IN LIFE?

Do you have a mission or life plan? Then how can you plan for success for yourself. Just like a company plans their success in life so do you have to plan your success. As a child in school each year you have a set of classes to take and pass. You set your goal in how high you want your grade point average to be. In the Individual Disability Education Act (IDEA) parents sit down with their childs' teacher and write out an Individual Education Plan (IEP)--together they write down a set of goals for the student to achieve. Sometimes they need to be adjusted depending on the ability of the student.

Just like a business has to state a mission or plan for success so do we. If you do not plan for success than how can you succeed. When you write down a plan then you look at what it will take to reach that goal step-by-step. If you don't then you don't know what you need to do to reach that goal. You are just guessing at what you need to do.

It is often prudent to sit down with someone else to brainstorm what you need to do to reach a goal and then put it in order. Sometimes we may want to jump ahead or skip a step. That is one way to set yourself up for failure. Something we often like to do if we lack self-esteem and want to sabotage our succeess because it is easier to fail then prove someone wrong by reaching the goal you set for yourself.

We have to decide for ourselves what our purpose or mission in life is. We can not let someone else decide it for us. That is often a disaster waiting to happen. You know yourself better than they do. Plus, they do not have your best interest at heart. No one wants to see someone else to be more successful then they are. So, only you can determine what your purpose in life is. Go forward, and find your purpose and place in life.