SECTION 1: Your Purpose is a Powerful Donation

Since the start of this course we have been offering you strategies to discover your purpose. Rather than distribute a superficial list at the beginning of the course, we have taken you on a journey to intimately understand and reflect on each strategy, while we have encouraged you to do deep self-reflection. 

 

Discovering your purpose requires work and commitment. Do you remember that your purpose is your work? Employment outside of purpose is merely a job. If you find that you are ‘employed’ then you are not doing your work, because when you are working you are deployed (on assignment.) 

 

There is no quick fix around discovering and realizing your purpose. Your purpose calls for you to be disciplined, willing to  go the distance and in it for the long haul. By this point in the course you should be very familiar with key strategic concepts, because we have mentioned them several times, and because they are deeply intertwined. 

 

5 Key Strategies/Steps to Discover Purpose which we have discussed with you so far are: 

1. Explore the 5 Question of the human heart

2. Reflect on your childhood dreams and desires 

3. Assess your gifts, talents, passions and unique qualities 

4. Find the common denominator in your gifts and talents. (Or simply choose one) 

5. Determine how this common denominator or chosen/successful gifting can yield a significant donation (how does it serve and  impact lives in a meaningful way?)

 

Ultimately, your purpose is your donation. Remember when we talked about the solution to a problem in your generation? Well, that solution is a donation. Your purpose is about life change and positive impact for others.

 

Watch this video lesson by Myles Munroe Jr. He not only expounds on the five points above with special attention to 1, 3 and 4, but he shares his personal testimony on his journey to discovering purpose. Listen carefully to see if you can identify each of the steps above in his testimony.