A journey with a purpose
We all exist to walk a personal journey through life with or without a purpose in our minds. Walking your journey through life with or without a purpose is a personal choice and you cannot blame it on anybody. You are created for a purpose and also given the capacity to find it out.
A journey walked with a purpose has a beginning and a destination to walk to. The one without a purpose has a beginning but not a destination to walk to.
A journey without a purpose is worthless and not enjoyable as it takes you to nowhere. This article sheds more light on walking your journey through life with a purpose and guided by your personalized success formula.
Terrain of the journey
The journey through life tends to be rough and is filled with challenges and a lot of frustrating moments that negatively impact your progress toward the destination.
It is only the prepared and determined people that continue and eventually complete the journey. Many abandon the journey along the way. Your chances of success are enhanced if you are prepared and guided by your tailor-made success formula.
I have used and continue to use the following success formula in walking through life to achieve my mission;
The success formula has two parts namely the mission and the good mental habits that help you to confidently walk through life toward your mission. The key ingredients of the success formula are as follows;
- Programming your mindset to the right mode
- Having a mission in life
- Planning the journey to your mission
- Believing that you can
- Developing an action plan
- Reviewing your progress against the plan
The success formula explained
The following are the details of the key ingredients of my success formula that have guided me to walk through life toward my mission;
Programming mindset to the right mode
You live in a world of choices and you have two choices to program or tune your mind in a positive or negative mindset mode. To succeed in life, you have to program your mind to be in a positive mindset mode. With a positive mode, you have an optimistic attitude towards success and life in general.
This is important as you can only achieve success if you have programmed your mind to be positive towards success. Success first comes into the mind before it manifests itself in reality. You cannot succeed in your mission with a negative mindset toward success.
Having a mission in life
You exist in the world to achieve your mission in life and your life will only be fulfilled when you achieve it. Your mission in life is the purpose for your existence in the world.
Do not simply assume that you have a purpose in life which just requires some fine-tuning when you get the right time. The right time for developing your mission in life is now and not tomorrow. Your employer’s, spouse’s, or friend’s mission is not your mission.
You have to take some time off from the disruptions around you to discover and develop your mission in life. You cannot achieve success in your journey unless you have a clear personal mission to undertake it.
Planning the journey to your mission
You must have the capacity to think ahead of your journey to plan for the resources that will be required to achieve the goals you have set up for yourself.
The goals and resources are to a great extent determined by the anticipated future business or otherwise terrain. Planning helps you to answer questions of what, when, how, and by whom to be done.
A good plan will guide you as you walk your journey through life toward your mission and it will ensure resources are available when required. Without a plan, you are most likely doomed to fail.
Believing that you can
You have to believe that you were created to achieve your mission in life before you start walking towards it. You cannot achieve anything in life if you do not believe that you can.
You must be committed to personally walking your journey of life toward your mission as no one else will walk it for you.
Other people can only support you but cannot take on the primary responsibility of walking your journey through life.
This means therefore you cannot delegate your journey through life to anybody. You have to believe that you can successfully walk the journey.
Developing action plan
You have to develop an action plan that spells out the various actions or activities that need to be carried out indicating when, how, and by whom to be carried out to achieve the various spelled-out goals.
The detailed action plan will guide you and your support staff during the implementation of the plan. Without taking action to implement your plan you will never achieve your mission.
Reviewing your progress against the plan
Planned and otherwise progress reviews allow for assessing your actual performance in the journey towards your mission against the plan and also to document the reasons why actual performance is not by the plan.
The review provides an opportunity for feedback and discussion about progress with the team. The review therefore provides a fertile ground for change and improvement for the remaining period.
Conclusion
Your personal success formula should not be cast in stone that anyone can copy and use to succeed in life. There is therefore a need to develop a personalized success formula for your situation. Your chances of success are enhanced when you have a success formula to guide you.
Your success formula should at least have two parts namely the mission and a set of good mental habits to help you confidently walk through life toward your mission.