PURPOSE: THE MEANING OF LIFE

Most of us are wondering what really are our purpose. The following will help us to identify our very purpose why we were created by God.

Identify your natural talents

If you meet a cellular phone for the very first time, what's the first question are you going to ask? You would of course wonder what it is for and try to find out its capabilities. And when you discover it, you will then use it for its particular purpose. Same thing with people, to know our purpose is to look for its indication in the things that we are good at. From there, we start to know the very intent of our capabilities. Our given talents were planted in us when God created us. He never made us exactly as we are without a purpose and that's why He equipped us with our capabilities for us to carry out our mission – our life's purpose.

Know your deepest desire

Our mind is powerful but it only helps us in the things that are rational. It's the heart who will guide us to life's purpose and meaning. God planted a particular desire in the deepest part of our heart for us to know our purpose. A desire that will never be quenched when it is not fulfilled and when the creator is not present. The key then is to make God the center of our lives and listen to His whispers in the depths of our hearts. And when our heart knows, our mind will provide us wisdom to know what to do.

Identify the things that you love doing

Our God is a loving God and He meant us to prosper and to enjoy life. And so He assigned us a particular role in our given situation. When it is our purpose, we will find it in our hearts. When we find it in our hearts, it will not become work but an activity that we enjoy doing. It is because it is in line with our heart and our soul. There can never be happiness when it is not vertical with our talents and our heart's desires. So to be certain that we truly have found the desire of our hearts, we must be able to love our work and thus find our purpose.

Find time to refresh your soul

When seeking the depths of your heart for your ultimate desire becomes so hard and frustrating, find time to refresh yourself to do away with all the clutters. You never hear God's voice whispering to you because your heart is very noisy. Take away the fears, loneliness, shame and anxieties that prevent you from finding your happiness and real purpose. Aim for silence and calm and seek your heart in your most serene, confident and trusting state. Have faith that God will allow you to hear His voice and lead you to finding your life's purpose.

Pray for guidance

Anything done excluding God is nothing so be sure to involve God in everything that you do and He will guide you all through your life. And in the end, you will find your life worth living because you have found your purpose and lived it all for His will and glory.

My Birthday Present

It's my 26th birthday! My family took off from tagum very early just to surprise me. And I was indeed surprised :) They were the one's who woke me up with their happy birthday song. I was so touched and felt so special. They brought me food and flowers. What a wonderful way to celebrate birthday. I availed my birthday leave and spent the rest of the day enjoying my family at my rented house. Not only that my sis created a birthday presentation for me. It's quite funny but I love it :)

My Favorite Author

Of the all the novels I’ve ever read, it’s Paulo Coelho’s work that I like most. I came across this author thru reading his work for the first time “By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept” and fell in love with his work instantly. It even got stronger when I got to read my all-time favorite “The Alchemist”. I really love this book. I even got enchanted for weeks after reading it. It inspires you to run and follow your dreams.

One thing that’s really different in Coelho’s work is that, it speaks to the soul. It has something supernatural in it, I mean, something that elevates your perspective in life. It’s very enchanting yet spiritual. He tells a very simple story. In fact very simple and ordinary but the effect is extraordinary. He makes you see things you have never seen before and grasp emotions that lifts you on another dimension, the level of the heart and the soul. I love his ironies too and how he turns simple things into extraordinary, the ugly into glorious, the minute into important, etc. His style on making his sentences are somewhat lyrical.

Other books I’ve read by the same author are the “Veronika Decides to Die”, “The Devil And Miss Pryme”, “The Pilgrimage” and the “Zahir”. They all have the same effect on me. In fact they’re all my favorite. He seemed to have a deeper understanding of life and death, love and hate, passion and suffering. Though sometimes, some of the things in the story gets weird like in “The Pilgrimage” but then again it’s fiction and you get the soul of the story or maybe those things are just imagery or illustrations for an underlying thought and emotion and it’s just that I didn’t get it so I put it on the weird criteria hehe But over all, his work is brilliant and beautiful and I really want to emulate his writing but he seemed too deep to fathom.

Tried but failed?

I made a decision 3 years ago to become financially-free before retiring time comes. So, I went into doing my first ever attempt on business. I started with lending and merchandising having money, cellphones and other goods as my products for credit. On the 1st year, it was doing good so I decided to enter another business on events management with 3 of my friends. It was established in a partnership but registered as sole proprietorship under the name of one of the partners. It was a very hard start with tight money as capital. The business run for a year and was later liquidated together with my lending and merchandising business. It was a tough try but a good one. Tough because I did everything to make it work but really failed. However, it was good because I’ve learned so much from it. I learned what it takes to be an owner-employee. I learned how to take risks, I gained friends and network, I learned to work under my limits (tough times in business bring you to your limits and challenging your ability to troubleshoot hoping that the situation can still be saved), learned to accept disappointments and still look forward for another try. To fail is really painful but it brings you a lot of good things in your character, skills and knowledge. Trying to run a business was the one thing I really can say that I tried my hardest but only failed.

Year-end

year-end... the busiest year for accountants, i can bet on that hehe i can see the loads of work that's goin to fill my days until february 14 of next year (the last submission of the year-end report). i can feel the pressure ryt now. i just came from a very exhilirating and exciting activity that has just concluded - the mindanao film festival. twas my first tym to do a film and i was really thrilled and amazed especially wen we won 6 major awards, not bad for amateurs like us hehe that event has marked my year 2006. twas my major adventure for this year. i earned lots of friends, i experienced sleeping anywer hehe may it be in the hotel lobby, or joy's house stairs, at the van, some people's house wer we do our shooting. i even got into firing without having to plan about it ahead of tym. my hasol powers have come out. Nice experience :)