Discover you purpose ... NOW!

In this article: Is it reasonable to assume the purpose can be discovered or created... now? As if it's an act of will devoid of the need for personal mastery, and a reasonably sophisticated level of knowledge about the social context and systems at play.

The message that is pumped through repetitively and consistently, particularly from the US, is instant. Instant understanding, instant success, the instant formula. The reasoning is simple. It's the lizard brain that's making all the decisions, so let’s make sure that we're marketing to the lizard brain which seeks principally... immediate gratification.

The logic runs something like this -- Our message is good, so what if the method is a little manipulative, it's the goal that's important, not the method. This mindset assumption is not only false, but has been proved to be false every time. Because the way and the goal are not separate, the way is the goal and the goal is the way.

The thing is, your purpose is not all about you... self-indulgence is.

It's about your cooperation [with others] in shaping our future external shared reality. The one we call community, culture and the world.

And the less we understand of the context the less relevant our participation becomes. And I don't believe relevance can be separated from purpose. In fact I would argue that relevance is purpose.

Relevance: Our capacity to specifically (using our developed talents), collaboratively (in cooperation with others) and appropriately respond (meeting the real needs of the external context) to what is both important and required.

Because without relevance what's left is self-indulgence, and without personal identity, only chaos.