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The Path to a Purpose Driven Life

Copyright © 2012 Joy Obihara

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One of the greatest challenges in life is about sorting the direction you're heading for at any point in time.

Now, direction here doesn't mean East, West, North or South, we could soon organized a map, a navigator, or as in the old days, the sailors used their compass.

Our Mind is a very vital tool for navigation and helps us organise our direction in life.

How important then it is to channel your mind, so as to direct your path of action towards your lifestyle desires.

The key point here is to start focusing your mind on one major objective at a time, and not too many objectives with no clear direction. So you let your awesome Mind Power work for you to create your true desire.

Now, you may class a major objective as something which requires your undivided attention and focus, something that you really desire on a deeper level and you're happy to put the required effort into achieving it.

You decide that this is a major objective for you, so that all others become secondary. Only you by inquiring from within would decide how major and important this is to you.

A friend of mine was once set on opening a Retail Store on the high Street and in the meantime as he was finalizing his arrangements, he had a very good opportunity to launch a training program in partnership with some of his other acquaintances.

Now he was faced with the decision on which one to choose and concentrate on, but both his retail store venture and the training program seemed viable to him. Only he had to make the decision on which one to progress with and complete, because both needed some effort and focus within the same period.

So what did he do? Well, he decided to complete his retail store objective because that was really major to him, and delegated the tasks of the training program project to others. At the time he was really keen on the retail store and so allowing others to progress the training program gave him more time to focus his mind power and resources on his major objective.

You see when you first start practicing this Conscious Mind Focus and Direction towards a purpose driven life, you'll probably find that your mind would want to point you to a thousand other things that require your attention as well. Don't be too concerned about this, because as you prioritise and focus on your target with determination, knowing that you are working on your very own major objective, you'll gradually begin to get used to it, and so the wondering propensity of the mind would gradually and eventually stop.

The practice and experience of giving your mind a purpose driven direction will liberate you to become Master of your Life and your Environment, instead of being controlled by circumstances around you. You become the Master and take control, regardless of circumstances with Mind Power driven action steps.

You would have learned that focusing your mind on too many goals in different directions, brings confusion with a destination to go everywhere and get nowhere.

So quite simply, what you need to do is to set your mind to work by:

1] Choosing your major intention carefully, making sure that this is what you really want.

2] Focusing on that intention, with a positive attitude to all the challenges that will come your away.

3] Putting your "willpower" at work with determination and perseverance so that if you get carried off course at any point, you simply turn around, pick up and review any learning's and then keep heading for your target until you get there.

Success!, you've reached your destination and achieved your Major intention which now leaves you to start on another Purpose Driven Life Desire. This way you'll be living your life's destiny just as you desire it.

Just think of what you really desire that you believe you can achieve, you then drive the necessary action including all the challenges which will eventually get you there. One at a time, without taking your mind off your course.

One great achiever Peter Cohen once said "There is no one giant step that does it, it's a lot of little steps".

As you begin to create your purpose driven life, you'll grow and understand more of your own personal desires and lifestyle choices. This in turn helps you to become Master of your life on a daily basis, and obstacles or challenges become instruments for your growth and experience.

When you focus in on your true desires, you are working on a deeper level and the inner satisfaction it brings makes it all worthwhile.

As Henry Ford once said "obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal". He should know, because he built success upon success by focusing on a purpose driven life of his inner desires and aspirations.

Your Mind Power is your best tool for achieving anything that you truly believe and desire from deep within you.

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