Depending on your worldview, that question can elicit different thoughts and even emotions.
In my experience, the average person relinquishes control of their life to chance.
I think a person tends to do this because they don’t want to make hard choices. They would rather someone or something else determine the outcome of things.
When we do this, we don’t have to take ownership if and when things don’t turn out the way we want.
How to live life with purpose and intention?
- Be willing to take control of your life.
- Be clear about what you want or feel called to do.
- Be willing to make hard decisions.
- Be willing to Confront the brutal current reality while maintaining an unwavering faith you will prevail in the end (The Stockdale Paradox).
- Be willing to find comfort in times of stillness.
Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Traveled begins, “Life is difficult.”
Regardless of whether you live life with purpose and intention or not, life will be difficult.
In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins complains with regret that he ever began the journey he was on. Gandalf, the wizard, responds by saying, “So do we all in difficult times.” Gandalf continues..”The test is not the challenges we are given, it is how we handle them. It is not about fairness or our efforts, but how we deal with the hand we have been dealt.”
Comment below what this looks like for you. How do you respond to difficulties? Do you plan your life with intention or do you leave the outcome to fate?
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