What is your purpose in life?

It is about getting better...

Myron Golden, a preacher, businessman, motivator, sales trainer says that it is the intersection of your passion and competence.

As is indicated in the scriptures and other religious books, our purpose in life is to find our gifts and use that gift in the service of others.   We live to GIVE.

Our purpose in life is to serve others;  to make others wealthy and rich first.   When we do that we can eventually be rich.

The law of the tide.  When the tide raises other boats, our boats too rise.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything will come unto you.

The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck

It is about getting better...

The reality is that life is hard.   We often practice denial or running away from this.

The book teaches responsibility.   You must accept responsibility.   It does not happen in instant, easy society.  

Oftentimes, some psychiatric problems and crimes happen because of denial, because or escape from reality -  life is hard.  Stealing is resorted to because one does not want to work hard;  one murders because it is hard to understand the other person.   So with psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, catatonia are body's defense vs difficulties in life

Thus we lie as a defense.  

Dale Carnegie mentions that criminals seldom admit to their crimes.   A person can not degrade himself.

Thus the mandate is for us to work hard, even harder.   Just to survive and exist.  

Are we escaping reality?   Are we guilty of Scott Peck's thesis

.... And one last thing - admonition from Steve Jobs to view life differently

It is about getting better...

Rizal Philippines
October 31, 2016

Tomorrow is All Souls day.  As we honor the dead tomorrow, we are reminded how we should live.

Several years ago, I interviewed a scholar whom we sent to a state U on what he would be doing afterwards.  He said, he would raise a family, go to church on Sunday and pay his taxes (no need his company accountant would have done this for him) I was utterly disappointed and devastated after spending 6 figures on his free education.   All the while I thought that he had leadership, and that he would pay his good fortune forward, ie help other people reap the same benefits as he did.

Steve Jobs said he must view life differently.  Avoid being smug  Make a dent in the Universe.

I would facilitate a corporate planning for a family owned food company two weeks from now.  My biggest apprehension is that for the sake of family unity, the top management would not rock the boat nor go against the wishes of the President (the parents)  Or the level of risk taking would be limited.  I learned that the VP before shot down two new products.  The result of this corporate planning can be worthless too.  Steve Jobs was known to have high level of risk taking That is why he failed several times too!