I guess I found some hot buttons last week eh? Thanks for a week full of real good feedback.That being case I’d like to follow along with last weeks theme of Living your purpose. Getting into one of key elements to doing just that.
Living with Courage.
I believe living a life of Purpose begins and ends with Courage. It takes courage to open up and face your truth, to be honest with yourself.
Clearly, there are many hindrances and roadblocks along path of purposeful living. In my own life biggest has been fear. The fear of showing vulnerability. The fear of being judged. The fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of being alone, fear of unknown and uncertainty. There was fear everywhere I turned. Until one day I just got sick and tired of living in fear.
In a conversation about some of worlds great revolutions with a friend who grew up in Russia point was made that one of conclusions an oppressed people must come to is they "just can’t live this way anymore." This is point at which pain of being oppressed becomes greater than pain of facing fear. Fear is an oppressive bully and thief. The way to conquer it is to face up to it with confidence and courage. The feeling comes over you that something has got to change and it has to change now! Perhaps you’ve known this feeling.
I have come to conclusion (and of course you must arrive at your own) that no one, no situation, no experience, is going to deter me from living rest of my life on what I believe is course of my PURPOSE. Eventually, one way or another I will die. But, in process of living, I am one responsible for identifying, connecting to and living my own purposeful life. To live any other way would be to not live fully.