Walk in Purpose

Here we are, back again on another beautiful day, another beautiful week. We’re marching through February, and I saw this quote: “A person that walks with purpose doesn’t need a crowd to cheer because they already know where they’re going.”

In society today, social media is probably a detractor, not something that promotes this. I know that some of you have done this. I know I’ve caught myself doing it. You make a post, and then quickly, every five or six minutes or less, you’re looking to see how many people liked it. How many likes did I get today? What are my algorithms? Am I relevant? That just tells me that sometimes we are not necessarily sure if we have purpose.

Do you have purpose in everything that you’re doing? Are you still searching for it? You don’t need a crowd to cheer you. This is not me saying that you shouldn’t give people praise, compliment people, or give a thumbs-up on social media. I’m just saying that to have resolve—like our core value says about not quitting—a person with resolve doesn’t quit because they have a purpose. They have a mission. They know where they’re headed and what they’re doing, and nothing in this world can prevent them from achieving or focusing deeper and digging deeper into their purpose and plan.

If you look at some of the greatest people in our history, they had resolve.

They had purpose. They knew what they were doing, and at all costs, they continued on that path. Sometimes flawed, sometimes they made mistakes, they weren’t perfect people—but they were people of purpose.

I think that’s something we should all strive for. We may not cure cancer. We may not be the first person on Mars—we already know that’s going to be Elon Musk—but to be a person of purpose means that you are not swayed to the right or the left by public opinion. Too many politicians are literally swayed by the public’s opinion of them, and they become puppets instead of men and women of power.

Look at people like Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Corrie Ten Boom. They were not perfect people, but they were people of purpose. We have great men and women in our history who had God-given talents and abilities, or simply a deep focus on what they believed in, and they made a dent in our history because they were people of purpose.

Are you a person of purpose?

Do you know what your purpose is? What is it that you’re trying to do?

I know that’s hard. Guidance counselors aren’t always much help. Everybody wants to steer you into certain college classes, this, that, and the other. We’re graduating 25,000 anthropologists every year, and there are only about 6,000 jobs every decade. What good does that do?

I’m not trying to get political, and I’m not putting down anthropology. If anthropology is something you’re fascinated with, go for it! My point is, be a person of purpose. If you’re going to be an anthropologist, be the best damn anthropologist there is. Be a person of purpose. Find Sasquatch. Be the one who finds the cure for something. Whatever it is, be a person of purpose.

Don’t be swayed or wavered because you didn’t get a clap, a pat on the back every five seconds. People of purpose don’t need that because they are driven by their purpose.

God bless you. Have a wonderful week. I really do pray that God will bless you, that you recognize you are valuable, that nothing less will do, and that you will be a man or woman of purpose as you think through where you’re going and what you want to do.

Talk to you later. See you next week!