I want to believe everyone wants to live a life of impact, or most people want to. To avoid generalizing I would say, I love to live a life of impact. I would rather live a day and touch many lives than live a hundred years and not be remembered by anyone for having impacted a life. There is always this joy from within when you know you are making a difference in the life of someone or some people.
Living a life of impact isn't without its price. There are things you must do as individuals. The problem is most people want to impact others without impacting themselves. You can't give what you don't have. There is a place where you have to find yourself first before you try and help others. A container without content would have nothing to give.
Most of the time we always limit God. We dictate to God where we want our blessings to come from. We would pray and tell God to touch the heart of this particular person to bless us when God has a lot of agents He can use. It's okay to ask God to touch the heart of someone for us but we need to throw the options more open than being fixated on one person. God can use anyone, after, the Bible says the heart of a king is in God's hands.
Your mind should be global. Have a global perspective. Stop limiting your mind and yourself to the things you can do because the more you broaden your horizon the more your reach - the more people you can impact. Sing that song, write that book, launch that project... Be uncomfortable where you are. Stop settling for the little because the bottom of the ladder is always crowded, aim for the top, and dare to be different.
There is nothing bad about starting little but refuse to remain little. Of course, you have to start from somewhere and more often than not, little. Even God celebrates little beginnings but we don't have to stay little.
How To Live An Impactful Life.
1. Learn how to discern the relationships in your life.
Not everyone is meant for you. Not every friend is yours to keep. You need to learn how to let certain people go or understand their place in your life. Know their place and their importance in your life. Until you discern certain relationships, you might never know where your problem is coming from.
You are in a big problem when those you call friends are the ones planning to harm you and you don't know. I am not saying a lot of people won't turn on you but you should study their content and know at the point something has changed. Every relationship in your life cannot have the same value. You lack wisdom if you treat every relationship the same. Know who to carry like a bag of rice and know those you are to hold like a pinch of salt not because you are overlooking their worth but because they are dragging you back...fueling your weakness and painting you bad.
2. Place value on your assignment.
If you don't understand your assignment you will always feel rejected. What are you good at? What do you have that you can leverage? Stop being tossed around by desiring to be like others. Most people only do things they see others do without understanding if they are equipped to handle those things. They go for what's trending and what's available which shouldn't be.
Locate your God-given assignment and do what you should be doing. What can you do easily that others have to sweat to do? Enhance yourself and do better with it. Go to places that are peculiar to your life's journey. Stop roaming around. If you don't take responsibility, you will be a liability.
3. Discipline yourself.
How do you help others or how do you help yourself when you are all about showing off? In your bid to show off you are accumulating more liabilities than assets. Reduce your liabilities and focus on assets. If you can't afford certain things, avoid them. Your assets should bring a return on your investment and at that time you can afford to enjoy some luxuries.
Life requires some sacrifices but most people don't want to make those sacrifices so they just want to enjoy all they can now only to complain later. You can't afford a car and your friend got a car. To show you are not lagging you decided to join the wagon without understanding the discipline it took your friend (or not - another foolishness) to acquire that. Learn to live within your means and do things you can do per time. Don't overshoot yourself unnecessarily.
4. Avoid distractions.
There are a lot of things that distract us in our pursuit which is why discipline has been mentioned earlier. Some people are distracted by relationship. They have allowed their emotions to take over and when emotions take over you lose every sense of reasoning.
Know your strength. Some can combine both without stress and some can't but the good thing is you can build strength for it by first focusing on what's important to you per time and then easing yourself into it.
May we get more out of life than just a cup of tea.
Thank you for your time.
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