Why many don't discover purpose.

It has been said that only about 5% of people actually discover their purpose. Many are contented with just following the crowd and/or traditional roles laid down for them. They are like the biblical Methusella who lived for 969 years and yet all that was said of him was that he has sons and daughters and he died! In fact, like Adeolu Akinyemi use to say 'they go to school, study a good course, get a good job, live ever after and die. Such people will not leave any imprint on the sand of time. They may not affect anybody, not to talk of their generation positively. If they don't do that, can we be talking of affecting the generations unborn?

My pastor Osime Samuel wrote this on his facebook page a while ago; 'You were not designed for everyone to like you. Stop living your life for compliments. Live for accomplishment'. That comment immediately made me remember what I read from Rick Warren,author of the best selling book 'Purpose Driven Life' recently. According to him, the two commonest things that don't make people discover their purpose are 'Envy' and 'People-pleasing'

Hear him:
"Envy is 'I must be like you to be happy,' I've got to look like you, I've got to have your money, I've got to have your kids, your family, your husband.' That’s envy," he says. "People-pleasing is 'I must be liked by you to be happy. And unless you like me, then I can’t be happy.' So if I have to be like you or I have to be liked by you, those two things will cause you to miss God’s purpose for your life."

So which of these is preventing you to  from discovering your purpose? Break yourself free from all these and move on to discover your purpose and fulfill them. Remember 'you were not designed for everyone to like you. Stop living your life for compliments and live for accomplishments.

To your success.

Kingsley Okonoda

www.doctorokonoda.com

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