Why are you alive? What drives you? How do you fill your life to the full? How do you get yourself up when you are down?
We have all entertained these questions of purpose, meaning
I have discovered that to zoom in and master my priorities, I must first zoom out and grasp the big picture.
This concept is not new. Victor Frankl, Rick Warren, Kris Vallotton, Melinda Gates, Simon Sinet, Ken Costa and Steven Furtick have each asked and answered this question. Yet, why is it that we struggle with why? How do we answer the question in a way that leads to an inspired and sustainable lifestyle?
On a surface level, the daily bombardment of data compounds the challenge to live a life of why. We live in a world of ever increasing, ADD-type access to everything, especially information. According to Vcloudnews.com, “Every day we create 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 (2.5 quintillion bytes of data) – 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.” Obviously, Google hit a
The explosion of information and even knowledge does not equate to the fulfillment of wisdom.
Within the context of this blog, we can go deeper. Perhaps the why is preceded by whom. Who is my God? Am I truly made in His image? How do we communicate? Am I truly in love with Him or the knowledge of Him? What is my assignment?
MyWhy can be best summed up in a single bible verse. To provide perspective here, Jesus is at the end of His three-year assignment to redeem humanity back to God the Father. With profound gravitas, as He stands at the threshold of the cross, glorifying the Father and releasing the Holy Spirit, He nets it all out with the bottom line –
That’s it. My Why – answered – period. All I need to know. Rhema, with a capital R. Relationship, then results. This is my reset, my vision, and my life plan. Eternity actually is hardwired into my heart and above all, I guard my heart. Love is a holy verb spelled out in the pragmatic application of faith. Ultimately, it is not about what I look like, have, or do – it is about knowing Him and completing my assignment via complete life victory.
By the way, the first part of this assignment is to master the internal dashboard of love, joy, peace, perseverance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Beautiful internal and external dashboard integration fuels my complete life victory.
The external dashboard is mastered via the spirit of complete life victory; I radically sanctify my spirit-soul-body while absolutely honoring my wife and children.
Concurrently, while embracing and overcoming the work-life balance myth, I max out the growth of customer delight, associate delight, and profit growth. While working in mainstream environments, I am entrusted to deliver a standard of excellence.
Now what?
Stop the insanity of doing the same thing and wishing for change. Stop being codependent on the latest sermon, conference or blog (I’m talking to myself too). Hearing about it without changing to do it amounts to nothing.
This is a good word! Before you run to the next word, here is a novel concept – implement this one:
Freedom = Discipline
Optimized calling does not work this way – ask Moses, Abraham, Jacob, Leah, Joseph, John, Peter, Martha, Paul etc.
Time to grow up – we know God is a loving Father, we are His children and we have access to unlimited resources. What is the fourth leg of this table? Accountability. We are accountable to learn how to actively partner with Holy Spirit to fulfill a life of the highest why.
Blaise Pascal once said, “I would have written a shorter letter but I did not have the time.” So what about it? Why are we in such a hurry to live an incomplete why? I challenge you to write down your MyWhy and meditate on how to activate it every day. This practice will manifest greater harmony to rise above the struggles and see greatness. Once we truly see greatness, we can truly become greatness.
So, let’s b-
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You are empowered to complete the covenant promise of a loving God Who has your name engraved on the palms of His hands. He will redeem
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Thank you Rick
Wow!! Spot on, well written and inspiring !
Blessings James K
Dicipline for freedoms sake is what breeds the hope that transforms the marketplace.
Ricks legacy, and hard data behind this truth, is found in the hundreds of people he has intentially fathered with this core value, high standard, and the reality that the level of freedom one desires is determined by the level of Dicipline they are willing to embrace.
Thanks for the reminder, Rick! Let’s go!!!
Yes! Very much so, the discipline is the most important thing we must desire to keep us on track, focused and constantly progressing. We all surrender to the higher source that lay down the foundation for our structure. Great ideology!!
Rick fights to live this every day, not because it’s easy, because it works. Discipline, excellence, persistence, and rest convergent on my why, and stick to the plan. That is exactly right.
Really on target, Rick. Thanks for the clear, concise call to reorient.
Thank you!
Holy Spirit led me to Eph 2:10 this morning, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” He also took me to Ps 139: 16 where it says that all my days are written in a book.Then this blog came through and capped off my thoughts with John 17:4.
Wow! I love the way Holy Spirit leads.
Let’s go live out what’s written in our book.