Jim Collins, the famous and well respected author of Good to Great says this: “The question of mission has become even more important as our world becomes increasingly disruptive and turbulent.”
Collins makes a great point. So let me ask you a question. What is your mission? What were you designed to do?
Each human has unique fingerprints, DNA, voice pattern, etc. There are no duplicates. You and I were designed for a specific purpose and function. What is it?
When engineers design something they always have an end purpose in mind for what they are designing, meaning that they design a product to perform a specific function.
Years ago I worked for a company which made semiconductors, and my job was to write the test programs to for the testers we built to test the devices. Each tester we built and each test program we wrote was specifically designed and written for a particular family of semiconductor. We always had an end objective before we ever started building a tester or writing a program.
What did you Designer create you to do?
Sadly, many people wander through life frustrated and confused as they look for the answer to that question. They try one thing, do it some degree of success, but then lose their enthusiasm for that and wander on to something else. Then they dabble in something else for a while, have some degree of success there, but then again they lose their enthusiasm for that and abandon that. Eventually they settle for a job that simply pays the bills so they can buy food and pay the rent, and they live their lives wishing they could find something really significant to do with their lives.
Why is that? The answer is surprisingly simple. They never settled into doing what their Designer created them to do.
Only when you and I are doing what our Designer created us to do will we find fulfillment, happiness, and satisfaction in life. We may have some degree of success at other things, but we will end up frustrated and bored.
Collins is right. In these increasingly disruptive and turbulent times it is more important than ever that we find our purpose and mission in life.
So what’s your mission? If you don’t know then what are you doing to discover it? Maybe you’re frustrated and looking for answers. If so then drop me a note. Perhaps some of what I’ve learned along the way can help you.
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