Finding Purpose THROUGH Values #purpose #values #inspiration #eternal

Now let's talk a little bit about how values provide us with purpose. Purpose in our end outcome is essential, but purpose in every action leading to our goals and our mission and our vision is quintessential. Purpose is easy to see in the grand goals and the great gestures and the overarching outcomes, but it's not as easy to see in the small steps, the tiny tasks, the individual increments. As we infuse each step of our process with meaning and purpose, our process, our progress can become much more rewarding and much more effective through the process. But where does this purpose come from? How do we create and instill and infuse purpose into our actions? Purpose, deep and meaningful purpose comes from foundational principles and foundational core values. And these core principles and values are inherent to our own unique individual identity, but also ubiquitous and universal to everyone. It's an interesting juxtaposition to consider. My unique identity is tied to core principles and values that are universal to everyone, but also unique to each individual. Let's dig a little bit into the meaning of core values and principles. One core principles that we all share is that our lives have meaning and purpose both to ourselves and to others. We can provide ourselves, we can improve ourselves, better ourselves through active efforts and through actions we can uplift and improve and support the lives of other people. There are several names, descriptions that we could use to describe this core value. Service, selflessness, charity, etc. etc. We each have a unique blend of the universal core foundational values from which we can draw to develop our own individual mission and purpose. None of us is exactly the same, although we all have the potential to be uniquely individual and to bless the lives of other people. Finding purpose in not only the large visible outcomes and goals, but also in the seemingly invisible and mundane granular creative choices. This purpose will infuse our efforts with energy and continue to elevate our unique endeavors. Now values also help to provide a framework. These universal core foundational values give us a guidebook. This guidebook has all sorts of guides in it. Guides that give us a clue as to our purpose here and how we can have a positive impact on others. Guides that can help us to teach what our strengths might be and what some of our weaknesses could be as well. For many of us these core foundational values give us information that can enlighten us as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going. It's important to connect with our guide as we are endeavoring to become and to be. Without a sense for who we are and what we are here to accomplish, we may be hard pressed to ascertain what our true purpose is and what we can do to affect positive change in our lives and in the lives of those around us. You could refer to this as a connecting to our higher power. My higher power is the Savior Jesus Christ. My personal belief in Jesus Christ as my Savior and Redeemer provides me with a solid and abiding and unyielding framework through which I have a deeper sense of self-identity and self-worth. Not only does this understanding of who I am as a son of heavenly parents and my connection to my eldest brother Jesus Christ provide me with identity and understanding, but this understanding also gives me a framework on and around which I can utilize my individual agency or choice ability to creatively become. For each of us, our individual family, cultural, and religious beliefs may lead us to a different concept of a higher power. Regardless of your own religious or non-religious affiliation, belief, or creed, there is within each of us a sense of the divine, a sense of being part of something that is greater than just our individual life experience. Draw on this sense, this belief, to assist you in creating and to discovering your own values and core foundational beliefs. These values will assist you as you think and refer back to them to develop a framework more like a sandbox, and they will inspire you as you consider what your overarching keystone purpose is here and what particular steps you need to take, what the unique action items are that are necessary to accomplish, and what it is that you are striving to and striving for in your quest for being. The goals we use in our efforts in being and becoming, although not requisite to be hard and fast, necessarily require bounds and limitations. To put it painfully simply, I cannot aspire to be as a human to become an airplane, no matter how much I want to be able to fly. I would love to be an airplane, but because I believe that I have a divine purpose which is likely to become more and search and serve, I have been given a physical body. My transcending my body to become an F-35 is absolutely not something that is appropriate and falls outside the realm of reasonableness. Granted, this is a silly oversimplification, but the consideration is appropriate for our intents and purposes. My current potential has limitations which fall within my eternal identity. I can improve within my own individual sphere to a point. This, however, is not to say that I cannot aspire creatively to become, through a series of disciplined goals, choices, and adaptations, to eventually become a pilot and then utilize the F-35 to fly. Not that I really have any dreams of doing that. The point I'm trying to make is that we, each of us, has a framework within which we must remain. As we remain within this framework, this sandbox, our portion of the sandbox increases as we make appropriate choices to choose our own adventure. I think once we dig deeply into our comparison, the comparison of our individual value systems or worldviews, we will discover that our deeply held values across cultures and personal worldviews are inherently similar to a dramatic degree.