The power of purpose is to live a meaningful existence.

Purpose answers the questions: Why do I exist? What is my calling? How am I called to serve? Discovering one’s purpose and living it can be one of the biggest breakthroughs of life. The pandemic, racial injustice, and #BlackLivesMatter have made my commitment to living my purpose more of a priority than ever before. My purpose is to change lives and businesses for the better.

Regardless if this is the 1,000,000th time or the first time, take this opportunity, during this time, to ask yourself again: What brings you joy in the giving? What interests have you consistently been about since you were a child and why? When you think about the legacy you would like to leave, what comes to mind? What is the highest and best use of you, your time, your attention, and your intention?

Regardless of what it is that you do, like a job, like “the who, what, and where of it,”… the “why” of it will have you touching on your purpose. You are ‘here,’ being who you are for some reason. Some legacy, some unique heartfelt mission, that you are following. There is something now, midst this chaos, that is so important to you that you feel compelled to take action. That is “Your Purpose”. 

Hold it tight. You will be better for it and you will live longer because of it. “Lifelong health is not about defying death – for we all must die at some point – rather it is a means of fulfilling the purpose of life itself. Lifelong health means living the journey fully and completely until it is over.” Source: Sound Mind, Sound Body: A New Model For Lifelong Health by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Center for Research.

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live… I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is not a brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”  George Bernard Shaw

If you would like to have a complimentary conversation with Dr. Joel P. Martin about living purposefully and being in purposeful action, connect with her.