![]() ![]() ![]() You have some nagging sense that you were made to be an entrepreneur. According to Psalm 139, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” We thrive through purpose because we were created with purpose. It gave them life, even when others were trying to take it away. Purpose-often creative purpose-unlocked something within them. Those who felt some positive sense of purpose were more likely to make it through even the most horrific circumstances. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and what he noticed when observing his fellow survivors was that it was their purpose that kept them alive. Frankl developed a theory called logotherapy during his time in the Nazi concentration camps. Whether that purpose was in their role as a parent, a spouse, a friend, or an entrepreneur, if they could roll back the clock, they would have put more of their hours into what gave their life meaning.Īccording to Victor Frankl, we are all born to pursue meaning and purpose in life. In other words, what they all wished they’d done sooner, faster, and more often was focus on their purpose. ![]() I wish I’d gone into business on my own instead of climbing the corporate ladder. I wish I’d left the desk job and pursued my dreams sooner. I wish I’d been there for my family and friends more often. The answers were always deeper than that. No one said they wished they’d worked longer hours or invested more in stocks. The answers were always interesting, partly because they were always similar. So any time I encountered an older, wealthy individual, I would ask the same question: “If you were twenty-two all over again, what would you do differently?” I figured I could mimic their best habits to achieve a similar kind of success. While I was saving up and scheming for a Big Idea that would allow me to become an entrepreneur, I took advantage of my circumstances to learn all I could from the people I met. When I was younger, I was very interested in hearing the wisdom of older, successful people. If David hadn’t practiced his harp every day, he never could have become the boy with such amazing musical skill he used to ease the troubled mind of Saul. Something was driving him to play-something divine. But something compelled him to keep playing all the same. He couldn’t make a single dollar off of his talent. You can imagine him sitting up in the hills of Bethlehem strumming away day and night. He was simply the youngest son in his family tasked with the uninspiring work of watching the sheep.Īll that came afterward occurred because he felt this intense purpose, a burning need to play his harp. He wasn’t the son of a king or a great general or even a successful musician. He was a nobody with no clear outward signs of greatness. What makes David so compelling thousands of years later is his origin. There’s the battle against Goliath and the journey to becoming king, the ups and downs of his fortune, and the scandals. ĭavid is one of the most compelling people in the Bible-and for obvious reasons. The following is adapted from Launch with God. ![]()
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