Happy New Year to you!! I know you’re probably thinking about the rest of 2016 in hopeful anticipation of favor, increase and blessings – which I know you will experience!
Blessings, favor and success are fantastic – but do you think that you’re living in your purpose? Or are you waiting year after year for something new to happen to you?
Everyone desires to be happy and we can get so caught up in ourselves that we forget what being successful truly means. It’s not about you, your success is tied to your purpose and if you’re not living in your purpose then you’re not succeeding. As you’ve probably heard me say before, your purpose is when you are using your natural gifts, talents and abilities to serve a human need.
Your purpose is waiting to be discovered by you and it’s not some sort of event. I challenge you to think about how you can grow in your purpose this year. A great way to start is to ask yourself this question which I heard from Pastor Andy Stanley – what breaks your heart?
What do you see on television or maybe hear on the news or see in your community or read about on social media that breaks your heart? You want to do something and you keep thinking about it but you feel like you can’t do much so you go back to your normal life. Someone else in this world is waiting for you to get up off your butt and use the gifts that you have to serve them.
Don’t confuse what I’m saying and think that you have to become the millennial Mother Teresa. You may hate seeing women feel less beautiful because of their skin troubles and you have the gift of make-up artistry, well part of your purpose may be to start using your expertise to make women feel beautiful and overcome low self-esteem. I hate seeing people allow fears and limited thinking to hold them back from achieving their dreams which is why I teach faith and success principles through my gift of communication.
Instead of complaining about the world around you, how are you going to be a catalyst of change in your life and in the lives of others around you? Who are you going to be a blessing to this year? Who are you going to open a door of opportunity to this year? How are you going to grow in your quality of loving others, your work ethic and your way of thinking in order to successfully achieve your pre-destined purpose?
Essentially, what are you going to do that you have the power to do to successfully live in your purpose?
This year is indeed a year of incredible blessing for you but you have to be willing to give in order to receive. One of the traps of success is that we focus so much on the destination that we forget to grow in our character and purpose during the process.
If you begin to think of yourself as a servant to others with your gifts, you will be led into what your purpose is. Your purpose is not to get up, go to work, check your social media, answer some texts, eat, drink, sleep and do it again. This is your year to get out of the rat race and start to pursue your purpose!
The way you can begin to do that is to take the focus off of yourself for a minute and ask yourself, what am I good at and how can I use it to help the need of someone else? This will empower you to live in your purpose and that’s the essence of your legacy. Your legacy is the impact of your contributions to this world while you are here and it how it outlives you after you are long gone.
Truthfully, you don’t know how much time you have left. You can make a commitment to live in the legacy you want to leave now or you can allow the frustrations of life to continue to stop from entering the destiny that you deserve.
Will you be committed to be a woman of purpose in 2016? You better because it’s time to you don’t have time to waste!
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy