Living a Life of Purpose | Ep. 167

We all desire to leave a lasting legacy, something that will outlive our earthly life. But discovering your purpose is something few find the time to invest their time into. Being willing to do what it takes to throw away your purpose is something few actually desire.

We live in a world prone toward the advancement of your career. It’s all about seeking that next promotion or simply looking to find meaning and fulfillment in life. Whether it’s professional or personal, the results are the same. We never go further than our self-limitations.

For years I’ve taught people how to find their God-given talents, to pursue purpose and discover that which God has created them to do on this earth. It’s something I’ve believed in my whole life; discovering your purpose and destiny is the single most important thing one can learn about themselves. And now, I’m telling you to throw it away?

I listen to a lot of podcasts and on in-particular, “The Cliff Ravenscraft Show” is my favorite. In one episode I listened to back in 218, Cliff talked about a book by Gay Hendricks, “The Big Leap“.  The purpose of this book is to awaken something buried deep within each person’s life, helping people discover their zone of genius.

But what does this have to do with my purpose? I want to take you on a journey of discovery and give you 3 reasons you should throw away your purpose and live the life that God has called you to live.

One of my favorite books entitled, “The Pursuit of Purpose,” by Myles Munroe, he said, “You are designed for your purpose. You are perfect for your purpose.” In other words, your abilities as a person and your outlook on life cannot be separated, because your destiny and purpose are directly tied with your potential and natural abilities.  He goes on to day that if we were ro remove our purpose, we would significantly chane who we are, because our purpose informs and reveals our natural and natural responsibilities.

Our purpose is inherent.

If you were to sit down and ask someone what their dreams are, you’ll get a whole array of things. One person may desire to be a veterinarian but are currently stuck in a day-to-day job of getting the CEO their coffee. Someone else may want to be a writer, but instead of writing their books, they complain about their co-workers at the factory and live their life wishing for something different. Or perhaps you are the CEO and feel unfulfilled in the daily grind wishing you could do something else.

If you begin to buy into your self-limiting beliefs you’ll handicap your life and you not succeed. This is why I say, give up and stop pursuing your dream. We all have something burning deep within our soul but life happens. Maybe you start living your dream, making real progress to pursuing that passion, but when you find a small victory, your self-limiting belief smacks you on the side of the head and you come back to reality.

What is your upper limit problem? We all have one. It’s this self-sabotaging aspect of our life that keep us grounded instead of living within our God-given purpose. The moment we have a small win, we find ourselves sinking back into our comfort zone and our upper limit problem becomes a real thorn in our side.

There are four zones we all live within; the zone of incompetence, the zone of competence, the zone of excellence, the zone of genius. Each of these zones is operated on a continual and daily basis. But, the goal is to discover which areas of our life fall into which category, then make a decision that bests suits our zones of excellence and genius.

The zone of incompetence.

Gay Hendricks says that this zone includes the things we don’t do very well. Have you ever been tasked with something that you don’...