Tag: Purpose

What difference did we make?

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At the end of our journeys, whenever that might be, we will undoubtedly ask ourselves this question ‘what difference did I make?’.

May be some won’t reflect back on their lives, and some will, but might not like the answer.

It has taken me a long time in life to realise that the purpose of life is to make a difference, whether that is large or small, that is not relevant, as success is a personal thing for us to measure ourselves. It is not something for others to set for us.

It is up to us to choose what that ‘difference’ might be.

So I want to be able to reflect on my life and say that I made a positive and lasting impression on the people who mattered in my life. That is all I am aiming to do now for the rest of the journey. I want to help others and I want to create an alternative to the current old school world system. The one based on fear, shaming, judgement and greed. The one that benefits mainly just a tiny, tiny 1%, where the rest of us are just, as Seth Godin put’s it ‘interchangeable cogs’.

This will mean that after I have gone, there will be a positive legacy left in the memories of the people who are still there. Whatever I have created as alternative, big or small, will be what I have created to make my ‘difference’.

Now with this in mind, life is a whole lot less complicated, as the decisions that we have to take, are clearer and easier to make when you know what your purpose is.

So if there is one thing worth finding out, what is your purpose and what difference are you going to make?

It’s all been done before

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Often in today’s world we hear the words ‘it’s all been done before’ or ‘you can’t be unique anymore’ or the common ‘that’s the way it’s always been’.

Then we have to ask ourselves, what is the point of what we do everyday then? Why do we bother? Let’s all surrender to a banal and pointless life now.

If we have now run out of new ideas or a different imagination, then what is the future for humanity? Bleak, in all honesty, if that is the case.

Those phrases I put at the top of the page is what the system propagates, it is what we are told, you ‘can’t’. We are taught not to like change and to embrace routine, it’s easier to create compliance that way.

Well we need to start telling ourselves ‘can’ or ‘imagine’.

Imagination has been dulled to almost non-existence by the industrialised world’s brainwashing.

We need to all try to re-engage with our imaginations, let our minds run wild, think outside of the lines, have crazy thoughts, dream of a different world, dream of freedom in our minds and our lives.

Let’s break the rules, challenge the status quo, let’s rebel together, not to create lawlessness, but to create something new.

The world needs imaginative and creative thinkers to think up what hasn’t already been done, otherwise it’s a life of servitude and with very little meaning.

Imagination is a wonderful gift, that we all need to use more.