When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life. –Greg Anderson
I love to find great quotes… they give you something to ponder and provides purpose, meaning and motivation. Especially when days like today, its gloomy outside, the forecast is calling for snow (which its raining right now)… It would be easy to stay in bed and call in sick! It’s times like NOW that I need a motivator! I wanted to break this down line by line… its quite a mouthful and a lot to digest in its original form. So let’s take a look at it a different way.
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning…then we truly live life.”
My boss likes to have meetings to go over our “goals”. Those goals really do not mean much to me. I like to go into work each day, give it my best, and go home. I simply do the things that he asks me to do. I rely on him to know what the goals are, and I am there to help him accomplish them. HE knows the goals and utilizes my skills to obtain them. However, I do not necessarily care to know what they are! (I just care to know that the goals are being met!)
But it’s much different when it comes to my personal life, I must HAVE and KNOW my goals or else I feel like I wander around aimlessly… without purpose. It’s ME who must know the goals, make the goals, achieve the goals… there is no one else for me to rely on, no one else to utilize! If my life is to have meaning, purpose, and be driven in the right direction, I must have goals that mean something.
“When we are motivated…by dreams that need completion…then we truly live life.”
I am quite sure that you, the reader, have many unfulfilled dreams that need to be completed. I know I do! It wasn’t until just recently that I started to believe, and once again began to reach for the stars for these dreams to come true. A previous supervisor, also a minister, said to me, “If you shoot for the stars, you might hit the traffic light. But if you don’t aim for anything, you’ll never go anywhere.” How true! So I am spending my time trying to fulfill dreams that are in my mind.
“When we are motivated…by pure love that needs expressing…then we truly live life.”
I have never been an expressing individual when it comes to love. I couldn’t openly express or share my feelings to another person. I’m not saying I didn’t feel anything… I did feel very deeply. I just did not know how to show or verbalize it. I was too bound by fear. After wls, I determined to share my thoughts with others. Where my life had been filled with despair at times, and I was in need of a kind remark, I wanted to give to others the same thing that I once needed. I make it a purpose to say something kind to someone each and every day.
As for relationships, I express often my love for those in my life. They may grow weary of hearing it! But I never grow weary of sharing it! At life’s end, I want to be able to say “I loved people. I expressed that love.” And life will have been worthwhile.
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