I remember dreaming, as a young man, of a life of significance. I went into full-time ministry as a pastor when I was still a young man, believing that somehow, my God given talent would open a way for me to really make an impact. Unfortunately you need more than talent in life to make a success of it. Fred Smith said “The giftedness is usually greater than the person”, I have discovered this to be true with most people. In his book entitled Talent is never enough, John Maxwell said the following: “Too many talented people who start with an advantage over others lose that advantage because they rest on their talent instead of raising it. They assume that talent alone will keep them in front.”
It was only years later while I was milking cows for a living in New-Zealand, after having lost almost everything that was important to me, that I decided to start looking for some answers. Why didn’t it work out like I thought it would? I was desperate enough to do anything. I knew I had to make some changes, because as they say: “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you will keep on getting what you’ve always got.” I started a journey that would change my life forever.
After considering that I am already halfway through my life and I haven’t even come close to achieving what I thought I would achieve in my life I desperately started looking for answers. I thought that it was probably to late for me to become what I should have been, but I committed myself to spending the rest of my life learning everything I possibly can to ascertain that I will be able to assist my two children in helping them achieving their dreams and developing themselves in such a way that they can fulfill their God given destiny, develop all their talents to the maximum and influence the world and leave a legacy.
In this whole journey I discovered my life purpose. To help as many people as possible, through all possible means, to discover their life purpose, and to help them live the lives God intended for them to live, to be better than they are, to be everything they can possibly be, to take everything out that God has put inside and to die empty. That is the most important thing that inspires me about life. Being the best you can possibly be, reaching your full potential, nothing less. If I can help just a few people to be the better than they were I will have made a small contribution and I will be grateful for that. I will spend the rest of my life trying to achieve this one goal.
What inspire me in life are those people that have become desperate enough to come out of the pothole of life’s mediocrity and start reaching for the top. I want to live my life for those people and do everything I can to help them to succeed in doing whatever it is they set their sights on. To help them discover what it is they are destined to become, help them find out what is the price they are going to have to pay in order to get there, and then inspire and motivate them to start paying that price every day of their lives until they have achieved it. And after that we must raise the bar even higher.
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Carnus
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