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Success Tweet 4: The mightier your purpose, the more likely you are to succeed. It will give you a strong foundation when the winds of change shift.
Your clarity of purpose and direction provides your foundation. From it, you can build the successful life and career that you want and deserve. The more clear, and the more mighty your purpose and direction, the stronger your foundation. I’m a sixties guy. After all these years, my favorite recording artist is still Bob Dylan. My favorite Dylan song – and maybe my favorite song ever -- is “Forever Young.” He rerecorded and rereleased it recently. Pepsi has picked it up and is using it in its ads that run on NFL games. I used one of the lines from it to introduce my bestselling book, "Straight Talk for Success" – “May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung.” Check out some of the other lyrics…“May your hands always be busy. May your feet always be swift. May have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift.”
By now you may be saying, “Get to the point, Bud.” So I will. You should begin your success journey by clarifying your purpose in life. Why are you on this earth? What are you meant to do? I believe the more mighty your purpose, the more you are likely to succeed. A mighty purpose gives you that strong foundation “when the winds of changes shift” -- which they always do. Brad Swift of the Life on Purpose Institute [www.lifeonpurpose.com] makes a great point about clarity of purpose…
“Taking a bold stand for living on purpose starts by knowing your purpose with crystal clarity -- knowing it so well if someone woke you up at 3:00 in the morning and asked you what your life purpose is, you'd be able to tell them. And if someone who knew you well heard what you said, they'd realize your life was a true, authentic reflection of that purpose.”
There are two common sense points on which I want to focus here. First, your clarity of purpose should be so big, so mighty, so important to you, it is deeply ingrained in your psyche. It has to be part of who you are. Second, you have to live your clarity of purpose 24/7/365. This takes commitment; commitment to determining your life’s purpose, and commitment to living it. If you were to wake me at 3:00 in the morning, shine a light in my face and ask me for my life’s purpose, I’m sure I would say, “Helping people create successful lives and careers.” It’s that much a part of me. My elevator speech begins, “Hi, I’m Bud Bilanich, the Common Sense Guy; I help people create successful lives and careers by applying their common sense.”Tweet | Share |