Take Control: Find Your Purpose in Life

Did you know that one of your primary aims in life should be to do something wonderful with your talents and abilities? The fact is that you have been put in this world to do something wonderful with your life. You have a unique destiny and a special purpose. The starting point for your realizing that purpose is self management. This requires that you take full control over yourself and your activities to assure that you are moving progressively toward the realization of your goals and ideals. Your aim must be to get onto the road toward becoming everything you are capable of becoming. In taking charge of yourself, you begin by accepting that you are self employed. You work for yourself. Even if someone else signs your paycheck, you are still self employed. You are the president of your own personal services corporation. You go out into the marketplace and you sell your services, your product to the highest bidder, which is your current employer. But you always work for yourself. The top 3% of people in every field see themselves as self sufficient self employed entrepreneurs. They see themselves as if they were in complete charge of their lives and their careers. They see themselves in complete charge of their working destinies, responsible for every aspect of operating their personal services corporation at the highest level of efficiency and effectiveness. Self management is the vehicle that you need to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. You are in charge. You determine your own course of action. You decide where you want to work and what you want to do. You then go out and get the job that most satisfies you and allows you to use yourself to your very best advantage. This attitude of self responsibility affects every part of your life. It means that you don't criticize, complain or make excuses. Instead you say, if it's to be, it's up to me. The worst mistake you can ever make is to ever think that you work for anyone else but yourself. You're always self employed from the time you take your first job until the time you retire. With this attitude, your potential becomes unlimited. Now here's an exercise for you. Imagine that you are an independent contractor working for your company, being paid on an hourly basis. What are the most valuable things that you could do at every moment of every hour to make your maximum contribution?