Plotting Your Destiny
It is increasingly becoming evident that this is not the age working your way up some corporate or company ladder as has been the traditional norm. There’s been a huge shift in the average worker’s thinking as we are seeing people change jobs many times, resort to working from home and even start their own small businesses. This is an age of empowerment and those with a desire to live above the level of mediocrity are seeking ways and means in which they can live more meaningful lives. The key to this is to plot your own destiny.
In my book, Battling for Your Prophetic Desiny, I have written at length about specific strategies that can be utilized in plotting one’s destiny. This whole week I have been ruminating on this idea and a few thoughts came to my mind that would be very empowering in the realization of personal destiny. These thoughts form the acronym DESTINY:
Determine your true passions
You have to find out exactly what makes you tick. Many people stop pursuing their true passions when they get a job. A job is your pre-occupation while your true passions are your true occupation. What gets you excited?
Embrace your assignment
Your true passions will reveal to you your assignment. Your assignment is that which you are meant to accomplish with your life that few others will be able to do as well as you could. Every human being has the capability of expertise. What are your talents? What do you enjoy doing most? That could be your assignment.
Start right NOW!
Life is lived in the now. Most people’s undoing is that they live either in the past or in the future and experience very little of the now. The company that you’ve always dreamt of starting, start it right now! That song that you always wanted to compose, write it right now! That incident that’s been lingering in your mind for months, let it go right now!
Transform your thinking
Your thinking sets the pace for your doing. You can’t experience greatness if you continue to think in the same manner that you have always thought. Don’t allow yourself to get stuck in the rut of bad or poor thinking. Elevate your thinking by associating with good thinkers.
Identify your strengths
Winners play to their strengths. if you are going to be massively successful in life you have to start that journey of identifying your strengths. As you do this you will definitely uncover some opportunities for improvement in many areas of your life. Strengthen your areas that need improvement and you are well on your way to a great destiny.
Notify key personnel
You need a circle of support around you that will motivate, support and keep you accountable. Share your dreams with them. They may be the key to your ability to move to the next level. Find trusted people who will become your inner circle of confidence. Never under-estimate the power of your close associates.
Yoke with thought leaders
A keener look to the right of this blog will show you that I have links to some thought leaders that I value and regard highly. Someone once said that who you become five years from today is determined by the books you read and the company you keep. Yoke yourself with thought leaders.
