Living a life without purpose is like driving a car in a circle. You might be enjoying the ride but it wouldn't take you anywhere. Like i always say, purpose is the reason why you are breathing, the earlier you discover it the more your chances of living. What's the essence of buying a car that doesn't move, or a television set that you can't use to watch your favourite programme. What's the essence of graduating as a medical doctor when you can't give an injection. I will define purpose as the reason behind something.
There is always a purpose for a product, the purpose can either be good or bad but atleast it is a purpose. What makes you smart is not your ability to recognise and take full hold of opportunities but your ability to recognise and take full hold of an opportunity and also to know the reason behind you having the opportunity. Some few years ago, i had an idea of starting a radio programme where i could motivate and teach people to embrace entrepreneurship rather than look for already made jobs. Despite the fact that i had lean resources at my disposal (coming from a very poor family), i was passionate about entrepreneurship, i was passionate about empowering people ( both teenagers, youths, adults and even the old).
I did a feasibility and market study, visited radio stations in Edo state, Nigeria and got the requirements and cost of starting. Some few months later, i sent a business proposal to a state owned radio station where i was given the opportunity to air my programme to more than 1,000,000 (one million) listeners in 6 states in Nigeria (so you can see that i am a big fish. Lol!). My purpose of starting the radio programme was to motivate and encourage people to venture into entrepreneurship and i got the opportunity. But i also discovered later on that there was another purpose by the creator (God) who gave me the opportunity. His purpose was to give me a profile that would open doors for me (as a young motivational speaker just entering into the industry).
The radio broadcast didn't just help me to motivate and encourage people to venture into entrepreneurship, it also added to my curriculum vitae. I discovered that people tend to listen to me when i tell them that i host a radio programme. You need to discover the purpose behind any opportunity or open doors that comes your way, you need to ask yourself these questions; why was i favoured above others, why was i created in the first place, why was i born into this family and not into another, why did i have to experience those bad and good things in my life, why am i richer than some others, why am i here, why am i doing this at this particular time?
There is a reason for everything, you need to discover the reason. I want you to know that living a life without purpose is living a life filled with troubles. A man who has no clue of where he is going is a man who might never get to wherever he is going.
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