I recently upgraded my home security outdoor camera. The prior camera proved to be inconsistent in capturing movement and triggering notifications that would make us aware that something was of potential concern. With the new camera, the functionality was like night and day. It captured movement and provided notification in near real-time!
A key moment that I caught on camera was a squirrel looking for something (I am thinking food). The astonishing thing is not that the camera caught the squirrel; rather, we were able to catch how consistent the squirrel was in coming around the same time, apparently every day in front of our doorstep. The camera caught the squirrel’s consistency.
Which brings me to this question: If your life was being recorded on camera, what would a third party see as the things that you do consistently?
Fulfilling your purpose requires that you be consistent with executing actions that drive you toward it. The truth is that we know this, but why do we tend to be consistently inconsistent? There may be many reasons. I could come up with a lack of discipline, lack of strategy, lack of planning, lack of accountability, lack of passion, lack of focus. This list goes on and on.
But for me, I am learning that the drive to partner with God in writing my purpose story helps me to be consistent in accomplishing my objectives. If you are unclear about your purpose story, then this can be a key contributor to your lack of consistency.
Get Clear and Passionate about Writing Your Purpose Story
What is your purpose story? It is the collection of stories that have shaped you and influenced who you are today and have inspired you to change the narrative of your life for impact both now and in the future. Your passion to create a new story must be greater than the forces that created your back story. What new story are you looking to create?
For me, I know what failure and not achieving feel like. I know what struggling academically, professionally, and financially feels like. These are forces that have come to shape my purpose story. God has used these experiences as catalysts to help me get clear on purpose. The things that happened in my life were not all good, but God helped me to use it for my good (Romans 8:28).
Now, I am convinced that everyone deserves a shot at discovering their purpose and doing great things. I am enamored by the potential that God has put in the DNA of God’s human creation. What fuels me is to be used by God to help others we-write their purpose story! What fuels you so much so that you are inspired to consistently keep doing the same thing every day?
Writing Your Purpose Story must be on the same level as your desire to live.
Motivational Life Coach Eric Thomas is noted for saying, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful” [1] Writing Your Purpose Story is essential to you living. You were designed to live on purpose. Find a story to re-write in your life.
The Apostle Paul chose to re-write his purpose story. In Philippians 3: 4-15, he writes:
4 although myself could boast as having confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he is confident in the flesh, I have more reason: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
7 But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press on if I may also take hold of that or which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do:)forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well; (NASB)
Lock in on your purpose story and let it be the fuel that drives you to be consistent in changing the narrative in the area that God has called you to. Register for my new course entitled, Uncluttered: How to Discover Your Purpose Through Your Life Story.
[1] When You Want To Succeed As Bad As You Want To Breathe, Then You Will Be Successful. (2018, January 18). Fearless Motivation – Motivational Videos & Music. Retrieved December 12, 2021, from https://www.fearlessmotivation.com/2018/01/18/when-you-want-to-succeed-as-bad-as-you-want-to-breathe/