I want to assume you are reading this because you feel it may add to your wealth of knowledge and turn helpful in sharpening the quality of man/woman you're becoming. If that's it, good. My assumption costs me virtually nothing. Assumptions aren't always costless though.
I've come to realize that many people, when they have their destinies in their hands and all the cards up to them, they make costly assumptions where they're supposed to take critical decisions followed by calculated actions. More often than not, what we commit to chance takes us aback with unexpected results. I'll take a few of the costliest of assumptions one can ever make.
1. ASSUMPTION OF PURPOSE.
Purpose. It is so much a broad topic to write about, but simply explained, purpose is that which we are where we are to do.
Many a time, as young people, we are tempted to start our aspiration statements with the phrase "I want to be... a doctor, an accountant, a teacher(most rare though.. smiles*), a lawyer, an economist, a pastor etc. Whereas the question that purpose seeks to answer is...'What are you here to do' and not to be alone. So to talk to yourself as a man/woman of purpose is to say "I want to liberate my nation from light out problems, so I will take up a course that will help me be an expert at hydroelectric power engineering".
There's also another temptation to think that what you always want to be is your purpose for life. Or that the path you are walking or the course you are studying in school as a product of chance will lead to what you are destined to do. It certainly may have to do with it, and as a matter of fact, may be a pointer to purpose but it is not the purpose in itself.
Purpose is too big and important a thing to be based on an assumption. To assume is like to be sent on an errand to buy a toothpaste and then you walk all around town, come back sweating profusely with a pack of toothpick in hand. No matter how much the items are related and how much all the sweat amount to, It is a failed mission.
In conclusion, Purpose is not meant to be coined, it is meant to be discovered. We all have a mandate to fulfil before we were born; it could be to liberate the world from malaria infection completely by your medical researches and not just to be a usual doctor. It could be to bring sanity into the world's economy and not just be another regular economist who will only criticize. It could be to save a million kids that think they aren't just smart enough to amount to anything in life, and not just be another teacher always scolding students.
The summary is this: Make Your Life Count! Better the world by your existence. You have been programmed to do so. Not doing so is a minus to the world. So, go ahead and discover your purpose and fulfil it. I know you want to, and I pray you will.
For step by step ways to discover purpose, you can get resourceful books on the subject by renowned authors e.g Rick Warren, Myles Munroe, David Oyedepo and others.
Never assume. You need to be sure so you don't buy toothpick instead of toothpaste.
Have a Fulfilled week.
~ Mayowa Ola Williams
