Surviving As A Single Parent Blog: Path, Purpose and Parenting
Last week I mentioned something passively in the “predict the future” blog that I wanted to go back and address.
The “thing” I seemingly glossed over was the mention of your path and your purpose.
And while, yes, this blog is about Single Parenting, I wanted to clean up this notion of the path and purpose. Both affect you as a Parent and when they are aligned, it’s amazing...
They are two distinct things, but both very important to talk about.
But before I get too into this, I wanted to mention that the foundation of my original philosophy is that if you aren’t put together, your family will reflect that... This means that it’s important that you pay attention to your health, both physical and mental... and when you have a clear and defined path that you’re on and a distinct purpose for your life, you are like a laser: Unstoppable!
So, your path is what you “do”... Think of your path as being your lot in life, but the WAY that you get to your purpose.
In other words, your path isn’t your job, what kind of clothes you wear or who you hang out with... those are all “external” things that (in a way) relate to your path, but don’t define it.
To be on your path, and keep in mind that there is no PROPER path, only what’s important to YOU, you must know your purpose.
Your Purpose is the reason you do the things you do... Here’s an example:
My purpose in life is helping other’s succeed.
By being the person who knows his purpose, I can define what is important to me and where I put my energy. A good example of knowing my purpose - and if my purpose is helping others - is writing this blog... I have taken the time out of my day to write down my ideas and share them with you...
The negative flip-side to this is taking it on a literal level: Taken out of context this could mean loaning money to people when I don’t have it or pushing myself so hard that if other’s don’t succeed, I consider myself a failure... this is an example of not having a purpose defined properly.
I’ve also observed that when you know your path and your purpose you have a tendency to DRAW people towards you that can assist you... It allows you to be more “in tune” with what you are doing and you automatically focus on the things that really matter.
You see, when you know your path and purpose in life, and you are in alignment with it, you are like an unstoppable machine, both consciously and unconsciously... But I’ll save the “esoteric” stuff for another blog this week!
And you know how it’s kinda “funny” and “scary in a good way” when those little coincidences happen??
Well, literally AS I WAS WRITING this blog I got an email from a wonderful mommy who is subscribed to my Newsletter...
We were talking about how kids do amazing things and how great it was to observe the funny things kids do... And at the end of her mail was the tag line “true happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
First off, that’s a GREAT quote... and applicable to ALL of us on many different levels.
Secondly, it went along perfectly with what I was writing about in today’s blog!
This week I’ll be sharing with you a little more how I found my path and my purpose... and fleshing out those ideas a little more.
So, as your figuring out YOUR path and YOUR purpose in life, remember that we’re in this together, learning lessons along the way!
Talk to you soon,
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