Is Purpose Overrated?

“I don’t want to wake up!”

I would hit the snooze button.

Ring! Ring! The torture would increase.

Hit the snooze button again!

I remember how depressing my thoughts were. I had to drag myself out of my bed every morning, uninspired, tired, and worn out.

Have you ever seen a dead fish floating down a river?

That was me!

My life was boring. My life lacked direction. I didn’t have anywhere to go — I was going with the ‘flow’ to wherever the ‘river’ of life, took me.

The ‘river’ controlled me. I didn’t swim, I didn’t have the energy or even make an effort to fight against its strong currents.

“Why swim if there’s no reason to…”

I was dead on the inside.

That was my life without a purpose. Life was happening to me; I wasn’t directing or shaping my life.

Today, in contrast, I don’t want the day to end. I feel like a salmon swimming upstream.

I jump out of my bed every morning. I know exactly what I’m doing. I’m so passionate about my life that I struggle sleeping at night. I feel unstoppable.

What happened to me?

I found purpose.

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Why do people seem to have a crisis of purpose these days?

This is not a crisis of purpose —this is a crisis of character.

Millions are pursuing the “Instagram life.” Everyone’s living in a ‘virtual reality’ that doesn’t exist. Everyone is tremendously unsatisfied with their lives and their reality

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We’re all exposed to a wild ‘river’ of unreasonable expectations, expectations so out of reach that no rational mind is willing to ‘swim’ to get it. Those who try, sooner or later, burn out and give up.

It’s irrational! So why fight for it?

Social media is now like a ‘river’ full of dead fish going downstream. A river of broken dreams.

Character is like the backbone of who we are. Character is knowing what you stand for. Character is differentiating your dreams from others.

Purpose is having the character and the FREEDOM to be yourself and find the courage to ‘swim’ to that destination.

Can you identify your destination?

You need to step out of the ‘river’ and watch it from a new perspective. Can you see all the dead fish flowing downstream?

Forget about the river and focus on you!

What do you want?

Again, it’s NOT what they want… I asked what do YOU want?

If you can’t answer this question; most likely you’re lacking the freedom to accept who you are.

You need freedom to be yourself. It’s impossible to find purpose without freedom.

              -Hector Quintanilla