We have a very specific design, although our individual designs are all different. My physical design includes my appearance, the way I prefer to dress (www.pinterest.com/jdthespeaker), how my brain processes and absorbs information, and how my lungs, diaphragm, vocal chords, and tongue turn sound into speech. My design is also intangible. I have life and educational experiences unique to me, related to both nurture and nature, which inform my knowledge base, worldview, and opinions.
My purpose is linked to my design. Because of my design, my purpose is more achievable. With a different appearance, voice quality, or ability to translate thought into speech my specific purpose would either be impossible or different. But that is not so. My purpose is to encourage others. I have coined the phrase, "Be better than you've been, and do more than you've done," to identify the goal of my message.
The message finds an audience based upon more than just design and purpose however. There has to be passion for a thing to drive its pursuit. Without the passion to see men and women become all they are meant to be in this life, my design and purpose would fail. If you have no demonstrable passion for a particular pursuit - any moral and legal one will do - then your design is wasted, and your purpose will go unfulfilled. However those of us who do have a passion are led directly and correctly into a life of destiny.
You see none of us are here by accident. No cosmic coincidence has resulted in this planet's ridiculously amazing and diverse flora and fauna. There is design inherent in all the natural world. I laugh sometimes at the thought of wild animals having a 'fear' of man (we can't out-run them, out-swim them, out-climb them, without weapons defend ourselves, and should by no means, apart from being well-armed, attack them).
But because life on this planet follows that design (our dominion), we are free to discern our purpose, pursue our passion, and live a life of destiny. The destiny of the person who embraces their design, identifies their purpose, and pursues their passion is a journey comprised of learning and living. Consciously or not, with passion in our lives we will work each day to be better than we have been, and to do more than we have done.
I know people whose design and purpose has resulted in passions for hunting, music, making friends, sports, real estate, selling, starting businesses, acting, medicine, law, and on and on. (hint: there's a reason not everyone wants to be a doctor...) We have different designs, purposes to achieve, and passions to propel us. Our destiny awaits!
For more on defining YOUR passion, and living YOUR destiny, read my book, Be Known for Your DEEDS. It's available on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com.
Fearlessly,
JD
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