My Purpose Quotes

Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive.

It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you – it must be deliberate.

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

Don’t be intimidated and at the same time don’t intimidate.

You must succeed! Not by accident, but deliberately! You are able to succeed – now you must be willing to succeed and this must reflect in the way you spend your life.

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.

Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.

Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!

Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire.

You should be able to criticize and evaluate yourself before others do it. Check for congruity between your defined mission, vision, values and your practiced attitude, behaviour and habits.

Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.

If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.

Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.

If you are not sure or you don’t know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.

It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.

Because it took you years to become so negative, doubting and dis-empowered – it must now become your daily journey to a life-time of positivity and empowering thoughts, words, actions and beliefs.

Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

Be deliberate about what you choose to read, watch or listen to – these are source codes to your internal programming.

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

Your vision must state the end result and must be stated in the positive so that it will be a constant source of inspiration. Begin by, “I will…

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

Values are the guiding principles through which you make choices and decisions. They are influenced by your beliefs, and will help you uphold a higher standard of personal character.

Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.

Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.

There should be a healthy ‘stubbornness’, assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.

The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.

What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don’t need a prophet for this!

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength.

There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.

You will only become significant in life, by solving the unique set of problems only you and your mission are meant to solve.

There remains unique questions calling for a unique mission like yours to answer – and that is your key to significance. Find them and be the answer.

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself.

Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.

Whilst the greatest threat to your mission is the internal aspects within you, the external circumstances need to be covered against as well. Scan your external environment and circumstances.

The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.

Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.

Everyone has the Capacity to Succeed…Ceteris Paribus!

The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.

Your success must never be left to others. You must be able to visualize it and see it through your own eyes, whilst others assist you to see it better and make it clearer.

Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work.

Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.