by Janeen J. Detrick
Your process of personal development is like undertaking an exciting journey: the journey of becoming the ultimate you. Embarking upon a journey without a predetermined destination is similar to playing the game of life as if it were a game of bumper pool—bouncing from one obstacle to the next with no charted destination and being bruised along the way! Have you ever felt like your life is a game of bumper pool?
The reason so many people go through life as if it’s a game of bumper pool is that they don’t have a clear vision of what they really want. They don’t know what their life should to look like, what they want their life to be, what their existence is destined to accomplish. In other words, they wonder, what is my purpose in life? This vision of one’s future is often referred to as their life mission. One’s life mission is the destination of their journey. It’s where they’re going. It is their long-term goal.
When you plan a road trip, you mark the destination and then you plan the route. One’s life mission is the destination, and the stops along the way are their short-term goals. It’s necessary to know first where you’re going, and then planning the route becomes clear. You then head in that direction, and take the first step! After that, the next step will manifest itself to you, and the next step after that, and the next step after that, and so forth! As you move in the direction of your mission—taking each step that manifests itself to you—you will head towards your mission, until it is accomplished!
Now, spend some time and imagine what you would feel if you have everything you’d ever wanted! Can you see yourself in that success? Can you feel yourself in that success? This, my friends, is the first step to knowing and accomplishing your life’s mission, your long-term goal. Imagine it! Take time to think this through and then feel it. It will catapult you forward in an amazing way towards making it happen!
Next, write it down. Put your mission on paper; and then write how great it feels! I love the mission statement builder located at Nightingale-Conant (http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx). At their site, a mission statement is defined as being ”…only a paragraph long, but it has specific, measurable outcomes and a deadline for accomplishing that outcome.” This is a great tool to help you begin to write your mission statement. There is amazing power in putting it in writing, as your subconscious mind will memorize it! The vibrational frequency of the feeling you receive, when you read your mission statement, may trigger the release of chemicals in your brain that may cause a feeling of euphoria and bring with it energy to accomplish it!
Then, a principle that works very much like muscle memory (referred to as energy imprinting) may cause your brain to remember the energy of the action and work to bring it about! If you’re familiar with the science of weight management, this principle is called a “set point,” where your metabolism tries to maintain your weight at a predetermined set point. So, the more often you read your mission statement and feel it, the greater the strength of the memorized energy imprint and brain chemistry that will help you bring it to pass! It’s like being stuck in a very beneficial rut!
As you ponder your life’s mission, consider these questions:
• What are some of my positive characteristics?
• What are some of the actions I take that express these positive characteristics?
• What things do I love to do?
• Why do I love doing these things?
• Do these things benefit only me, or do they benefit others as well?
• Who do I desire to be of benefit to?
• What are some things I would love to affect, or positively influence, in the world?
There is another question, related to that last one that needs a bit of explanation before I reveal it. Some people take on a life’s mission that is birthed out of their victimhood. An example of this might be the woman who desires to be rich so she can build and run orphanages because she had such a horrible experience as an orphan—she she doesn’t want any child to go through what she did! Certainly, this appears to be a worthy mission! However, if her motivation is one of hatred and resentment regarding her upbringing, rather than love for children and the desire to bless them, the negative energy may in fact work against her. It may also indicate that this is not here true mission but rather her revenge, her coping mechanism!
Now, I’ll tell you the next question, so you can ponder it to help you ascertain your life’s mission. The next question asks, when I have all the money, all the freedom, and all the time in the world, what cause or causes would I like to undertake? In other words, what will I do with all that money and time?
But how you can tell the difference between your true mission and victimhood? To determine if your purpose is birthed out of your victimhood, or is your life’s mission, ask yourself this very telling question: If I had had the perfect childhood, with the perfect parents, the perfect upbringing, and the perfect life, would my cause still motivate me? Imagine yourself in that perfect life. Are you still passionate about your cause? If not, what are you passionate about? What would you really love to do, if you had that perfect life?
If the answer is yes, my cause is still my passion, then not only is it your true life’s mission, but all of your past experiences, even if they seem bad, were actually serving to bring you to your life’s mission! Isn’t that wonderful! In fact, nothing really bad happened! But all those experiences served to bring you to the fulfillment of finding your life’s purpose: your mission!
We have a mutual friend of whom this is true: our own Dr. Joe Vitale. Once homeless, he lit upon his mission to end homelessness! Thank you Joe for going through that, so all of humanity can reap the benefits of what you learned. Thank you!
What, my friend, is your life’s mission?
Ponder it. Find it. Feel it. Then, write it down and feel it again! Smile and enjoy it. Please note that your mission may include more than one worthy goal. Societal evolution will be brought closer to all worthy goals by your unity with your mission. The whole world will rejoice and be the better for your having accomplished it. We will all be better off for it!
Thank you for being here now. Thank you for furthering my own mission by being in my life and by furthering your own!
Blessings are forthcoming!
Janeen
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