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Confusing Ambition with Purpose: Re-aligning Our Lives with our Dreams
Our mortality is beautiful. The knowledge that my days in this particular body are limited is what fuels my thirst for a fuller expression of life, the desire to leave my footprint on this world while I am still here.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs
I don’t think it matters whether we believe that we were born with a purpose or not. I believe we all get to define it ourselves and that the meaning of the word has been distorted to imply a certain action or a tangible effect, when a purpose can really be much more subtle than that.
There is no way that any of us can go through life without having an effect on others. Everything in this world is connected and that includes us and our outside environments which we happen to call our reality. Whatever we think is external to us affects us as much as we affect it by our presence and so we are fulfilling a certain purpose regardless.
