Nurturing Your Definite Purpose – John Monyjok Maluth

Nurturing Your Definite Purpose Is Developing Your Reason for Living

11^th October 2021

Nurturing Your Definite Purpose is an article designed to teach you the meaning of nurturing your purpose, how to do it, its uses, and its significance. It offers one of life’s most crucial lessons. With this in mind, let’s delve in.

WHAT IS NURTURING YOUR PURPOSE?

Nurturing your purpose involves mental nourishment, often referred to as spiritual feeding. I’ve written an article on this topic, which is accessible here. However, what I mean by nurturing your definite purpose is feeding your inner self. For those unfamiliar, I’ve also discussed recognizing your definite purpose in another piece available here. Similarly to how our physical bodies require proper nutrition to grow and stay healthy, our spiritual and mental selves need sustenance. Our minds and souls, the intangible parts of our being, require special nourishment to maintain spiritual and mental health.

To me, the terms “mind,” “soul,” “heart,” and “spirit” are interchangeable, all referring to the non-material aspects of our existence. There are numerous methods to feed our minds, souls, hearts, and spirits, which we will explore in greater detail. For now, it’s important to understand that nurturing our life purposes is essential. Your life purpose, the ultimate objective you strive for, needs care and attention.

It is the aspiration of your heart to achieve before you rest eternally in the grave. It is the essence of your existence. It is how people will remember you. In the Bible, Moses is commemorated for leading the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, despite his transgressions preventing him from entering it. His life’s mission was to liberate the Israelites from Egypt, a land representing oppression and struggle. His name, meaning ‘to draw out,’ reflects his own rescue from the Nile and foreshadows his role in God’s plan to free His people from Egyptian servitude.

Abraham’s clear purpose was to be the progenitor of many, particularly those who share his faith in God, regardless of direct lineage. Each of us has a divine purpose, and it is God’s will that we fulfill it, knowingly or not. Discovering our life’s purpose allows us to live with intention. Engaging in activities aligned with our purpose nourishes it, a process I refer to as nurturing. Our world is rife with distractions. You may be reading this when a striking individual walks by, diverting your attention with just a glance.

Whether it’s a woman observing a man who returns her gaze, or vice versa, the distraction can be potent, pulling you away from this text. Such is the nature of our world. We require guidance to sustain our true callings with appropriate nourishment, despite life’s unexpected diversions.

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HOW DO YOU NURTURE YOUR PURPOSE?

As previously stated, there are numerous unique methods to cultivate or sustain our life’s purposes. Reading is one of the finest methods, and by doing so, as you are now, you’re already nurturing your life’s purpose. However, reading isn’t for everyone. Not everyone needs to know how to read, as reading is an academic activity, and not everyone is or needs to be academically inclined. Moreover, not all that we read is good for our souls, minds, hearts, and spirits.

It’s also important to remember that we become what we read. In essence, we nourish ourselves with the information we absorb through reading. Just as we become what we eat in a physical sense, we also become what we read in a mental sense. If one only reads or listens to discussions about government politics, it’s inevitable that they will talk about that subject. Similarly, if we read our bibles daily, we can become living testaments of its teachings.

Seeing

Sight is one of the five senses we use to perceive our surroundings. It serves as a channel for delivering information to our minds. The data gathered by our eyes is processed and interpreted in our brains, allowing us to comprehend its meaning.

We cultivate our life’s purposes through our vision. Our life’s purpose is the ultimate objective guiding our daily actions. However, to foster our life’s goals, we must sift through the information we receive to determine if it aligns with our objectives.

Smelling

Smell is one of the five senses we use to gather information for our minds to process. Once processed, we can understand its purpose. Similarly, we must filter what enters our systems according to our mindsets. A mindset is a powerful tool that aids us in distinguishing what to retain and what to discard.

Tasting

Tasting as we know is one of the ways in which we feed ourselves. We get into our systems the information when we taste things with our tongues. This information is used to determine if the taste is bad or good. In the same way, we can feed or nurture our souls through taste.

Feeling

The feeling is one way to feed or nurture our minds. The feeling can be both physical and mental. The mental feeling can be as good as the physical feeling. It can also be as bad as physical feelings, depending on the kind of feelings we are experiencing.

In the same way, we nurture our minds by taking the information through our feelings into our minds. This calls for many other factors to be in place. Our feelings matter when it comes to nurturing our life purposes. This means if what you are feeling hurts your life purpose, you can get away from it or just learn from it because painful things are meant to make us stronger.

Hearing

Hearing is one way in which we take the information into our heads and hearts. The word head or mind refers to our brains, but the mind is not the brain. The mind is more of the workings of the brain, but the mind is a spiritual entity, not physical. The brain is physical. The brain receives signals from the immaterial us, and this part of us is soul, spirit, or even heart. What we hear matters.

In all these ways, we can say that we nurture our life purposes whenever we take in any kind of information through our five senses as discussed above. This means our past experiences have a lot to say and contribute to what makes us who we are today. This is why it is important to make friends that matter to you according to your life purpose. Friends can either build or destroy you. Beware!

WHY DO YOU NURTURE YOUR PURPOSE?

The reason why we nurture our life purposes is that this is the only way for us to live a meaningful life even right here on the planet earth. Just as we nurture our physical bodies to live, we also nurture our spiritual bodies so that we live and be healthy, spiritually.

We nurture our life purposes so that we stay focused and live for the reason we ought to live for. Nurturing our life purposes is the best way to live in this world because it makes us know that our lives are not by chance.

If we hear, see, feel, and do anything, we will end up anywhere, and at the end of the day, we will end up nowhere. If we go anywhere, we will end up everywhere. This means doing or saying anything shows the fact that we have no plans or life purpose.

When you have a life purpose, you will like to nurture that idea so that you stay focused on that goal. Even though life happens, it is highly recommended to have hopes to achieve something at the end of your life. Napoleon Hill in his book, Think and Grow Rich said that definite purpose is what drives a desire forward, and this is true only when you have a life goal.

My life goal is to complete a meaningful life. But for me to reach that goal, I have to live a meaningful life, each and every day. This means I have to live up for my goal, my ultimate life goal. This meaningful life is a life of peace and fulfillment. It means having my own space in the world where I live my life in.

For me to nurture this purpose, I have to read what I know will help me learn more about my life purpose. I used to read almost anything, just for learning purposes, but today, I am so selective because I have discovered the fact that we become what we read.

I also watch things that will help me achieve a meaningful life. I also want to listen to those who will help me live a life of peace and meaning. This means I don’t have to hate anyone, but at the same time, I don’t have time with those who have nothing to add to my life in a meaningful way.

But as I said earlier, our world is like that world of Samson, son of Manua. We get distracted unexpectedly. As a human male, I find it harder to resist looking at that woman or girl. This is something I believe most men, if not all, are struggling with.

We see things that we may not want to see. We hear things that we don’t want to hear. We taste, feel, and smell things that may distract our attention from time to time. But with a life purpose, we always get back on track.

Sex is one of the distracting things in life, but Napoleon says that it is one of the mysterious forces of our universe, especially if we divert its power for creative ventures. Yes, even safe sex can be a tool to nurture your life’s purpose.

WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF NURTURING YOUR PURPOSE?

If nurturing our purpose in life keeps us focused in this distracting world, then it is the best thing to crave. This means nurturing or feeding our life purposes is very important indeed. When we go to school, it is very important that we have a basic understanding of all subjects because this will be a great tool later on when we major or focus on one most important things for our higher learning purposes. In the same way, we generalize things when starting out. But when we are maturing, we focus on our callings.

It is important to find out what to read, watch, or listen to, and this must serve your life purpose. You don’t need to believe that you literally become whatever you read, watch, or listen to because whether you believe it or not, you are. This is enough to make you see the importance of focusing much on the things that are beneficial to your calling or life purpose.

Whatever you absolved from this world through your five senses is soon becoming part of you. For this reason, you need to learn how to trash that which is against your life purpose, and only keep that which is beneficial. The apostle Paul said that we may be free to do all things, but all things are not beneficial. This means that you are free to listen, read, watch, or experience something, but it is up to you to get your mind and thoughts away from it if at all it doesn’t serve your purpose.

Someone also said that “You can’t stop birds from flying overhead, but to allow them to build their nests on you, that’s your responsibility,” and this is absolutely true. You can’t stop yourself from experiencing things that you don’t like, but to keep thinking about them for long is your full responsibility.

Look, you might never forget an event in your life, but better learn from it. There is a big difference between living with it and using it as a stepping stone to your destination, which in this article is your life’s definite purpose, your life’s ultimate goal. This means it is very important to nurture and feed our life purposes with the right things, even if the world is as corrupt as it is.

MY FINAL WORDS

Finally, learn how to discard that which is helpless, and keep that which is helpful to you, personally. The world may wish you think, speak, and act in a certain way, but that alone won’t make you that, or this, until you give in and do that which you are never meant for.

The world here can mean your family, your clan, your tribe, and even your country. The world can be anyone or anything in your life. First, find your life’s definite purpose, and then nurture that purpose using some information in this article. There is much to say about nurturing your life’s definite purpose, but I think this information is more than enough for now. If you need more coaching and guidance, please let’s talk.

I hope Nurturing Your Definite Purpose as an article has been helpful to you, personally. Would you like to share your views about it below in the comment section? I will deeply appreciate your thoughts about this article. I also wish you life, health, wealth, and peace during and after the global pandemic. Shalom!