Find Your Purpose
Welcome to the second half of the year.
Yup, folks, it is July, 2008– which means the year is half way over. What have you done?
Honestly.
At work you may be starting your mid-year evaluation. Re-evaluating objectives, duties, tactics. While this is important for professional development and planning, why not create a mid-year evaluation for your personal self? Perhaps by evaluating your personal self and striving to meet personalized goals- in the same way you try to meet your professional goals-may make you more productive.
When I let myself “float along,” simply living each day without a bigger goal or purpose, I feel undirected. Of course I always strive to “try my hardest”- but when this is not defined I let myself slide. For me, this means defining my passions-even planning my social and family time or writing down specific personal objectives.
The good thing is our purposes are dynamic. They change with time, relationships and responsibilities.
I’m not sure what my purpose(s) is, but by defining what I want to include and exclude in my life, I have narrowed my ideas on how I spend my time so I can become the person I want to be.
Here are some general ideas about what I want and like to do, and how I made them more purposeful:
-Exercising. Entered in a race in July.
-Spending more time with my family. Going home more often to spend time with family, calling home once a day.
-Caring for the surroundings-people, planet. Volunteering, mindful of recycling/greener options.
-Keeping up with friends. Call, send formal email (instead of casual facebook messages).
What is your purpose(s)? Think about it. Then define it. Then do it.
-Carla
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