Purpose and what it says about your life!

Someone asked me what the purpose of my life has been for thirty years. It is a daunting question. Each step I took was dotted with process and then goals. Training, learning and reading were the overseers that triggered most of my life as a Mother,  an Administrator and Educator. Did my life have purpose? From the time that I was a young girl, from a small town in Massachusetts, I knew that my family had my back. But, when I became an adult, moved away from my secure support system, for a time I had to depend on my own support system, build new relationships and take on responsibilities that required serious decisions. Those were the years when I quickly learned that not everyone you meet has your back. My purpose then was to carefully take care of myself, my young family and my husband. Soon my naïveté was transformed into the harshness of reality.

Dennis Waitly said that "Purpose is the engine that triggers your life". Looking at your life and your accomplishments, can you honestly say that you have always had a genuine purpose? The answer to that question is a huge, NO. We change locations, jobs, and relationships. All this keeps us developing and adjusting and acclimating. We cannot say that we are the same person today that we were over the years.

Today, we need to be humble enough to know that we can define our ego, not by constant praise but by servicing others. Some of us will live out our lives in the circumference of a small circle and some of us will expand our circle to include those less fortunate than ourselves. That is what I call having a real purpose in life.

To the point, perhaps there is a need to have less naive belief in what a company's mission is if it does not have a firm, moral view. Recently, I had lunch with an experienced administrator who was aghast at the changes of a major insurance company. As I processed this information, it was obvious that these changes, in the positive,  should have been made many months ago. It will affect a whole program that has existed without proper monitoring.

There is something more important than the tragic events of the present. To lead your life with the knowledge that everything is destroyed, will you feed on the blind information that is brainwashing your daily lives? Will you take a more positive stance and foresee the plans that may move us forward? The latter, in my view, is your purpose and you might want to focus on it.

Your life is very important and so are your young, upcoming sons and daughters. Give them the voices that could be different than yours, but listen to their concerns. Forget your influence and give them the freedom they deserve.
Purpose is defined as a target, an aim, a goal. What is your purpose in life? This is not the time to be quiet and simply go on day-by-day without a purpose.

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Gloria M. Reiske is an MSW, LCSW with more than thirty years experience in education, administration, social work, and coaching. She has authored many articles and is published in local media, having written a men and grief manual for training purposes throughout Virginia and an article for children and grief. Email her at gloriareiske@blogspot.com and check out this article on Facebook.