The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

🎉 New #Podcast! #ConversationsWednesday Shamim Nirere is one of the few luminaries in the Education sector that will not be blaming the "education system" left right and center. Instead, she has chosen to passionately pursue her purpose to equip children in Low Income communities to become "Solution Thinkers". Hers is an interesting journey that she says she would never change doing what she is doing even if a windfall of dollars comes her way. She's the President of Kampala Toastmasters and I had a conversation with her about her passion. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! There are those who know what they are supposed to do but they still don't do it. They are kept away from it by some internal or external factors. People fail to pursue their purpose even when they know they should due to this very powerful internal reason. It is so sleezy and can sneak up on just about anyone. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! It is almost impossible to find a human being that lacks passion for anything, it all things are kept constant. In fact, if you ever found such a person, almost always, there would be something amiss either internally or externally. Passion is a rare quality that is nearly a reserve of the human species. If you can locate your authentic passion, within it's vicinity, there will be your purpose. People fail to live their purpose because of lack of passion. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Purpose is at times lonely, unique and integral. It doesn't operate in a group, but in an individual. This can be a problem because when an individual downloads an idea or a passion, either it might not be readily accepted with the larger group, or it might be too far ahead of time. It's one of the biggest reasons why people do not pursue their purpose. Your idea might be weird today but valid in 10 years. Therefore, look for maturity and not relevance. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! You will not find a normal, sane human being that lacks any desire at the personal level. Every time there is no desire of any kind for the human, then their death, whether literal or metaphorical is at night. Just a notch higher of your dreams and desires you will find vision. It speaks of a grand thing that you envisage for the future. You will find very many sane and normal people lacking vision, and that's why God says that they "Perish". Their purpose is never fulfilled. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! There are several reasons why people fail to pursue their purpose even though that's exactly what they want in their hearts of hearts. It reminds me of "The Parable of the Sower". A man went to sow seeds. As he spread them abroad, some fell among the thistles. Even though they started growing, they couldn't reach their full potential because they were chocked up by the thistles. That's the same thing why people fail to pursue their purpose. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! People want to pursue their purpose but fail. One of the things that are subtly embedded in our lives is our traditions. Once we accept them, it is so hard to accept any other suggestion in life. That's why things such as memberships, culture, citizenship and even religion provide us with near iron clad codes that can't be unwritten. That's why you find it so easy to not subscribe to your unique purpose but stay loyal to a culture or a traditional way of doing things. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Welcome to #ConversationsWednesday. Every week on a Wednesday, I will be bringing you discussions I have had with different people on my favorite subject of Purpose, Productivity and Resilience. I had a wonderful opportunity to sit down with Ogwang Oongo Omuga and hold a telephone conversation that was absolutely insightful. You will learn about Passion, Purpose and Commitment and see how exactly this brother talks about talent. Listen to this

🎉 New #Podcast! You can fault people for very many reasons why they fail to live a life of purpose but you can never fault them for never desiring it. Nearly everyone you meet wants to know exactly why they are here, and they want to fulfill it. There are other reasons outside of their desire to know their purpose that causes them to fail to live it. Let's take a look at one common reason. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! There is no doubt that in the heart of every human, there is a search going on for meaning. We might cover that urge or dull it's cutting edge but it is still there. But this begs the question: Why is it that most people fail to live a life of meaning? There is no doubt that it's what they want. But why do they fail? Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! The paradox in life is that at times we don't experience that which we desire and don't live the kind of life we want even if the possibility is there. That's why we have very many folks who fail to live their purpose in life even if they wanted. It's a common phenomenon. What we need to figure out is: why is that the case? Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! The world today is transformed through our collective effort. I do believe that the role of the family in societal transformation should be highlighted even more. When we begin to have these conversations, we begin to capture the vision of purpose driven families. It shouldn't be a foreign thing for a family to have a transformation vision for the community. It should start being normal. Here are the several ways we can build such a family.

🎉 New #Podcast! If you are building a Purpose-driven family, then it follows that the family has to be involved in it. Purpose and vision are spiritual and the way they are transferred to others is through different ways. In one way, vision and purpose are caught when passion is involved in it. On the other hand, the family gets this vision and purpose when they are privy to it's working through and through. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Identity precedes character for the most part. One of the things that drives out identity is what we choose to place premium value upon. If you value sacrifice, then your actions will be called up commensurate to that value. It therefore follows that in building a purpose-driven family, identity of family values will be instrumental for success. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! The greatest sin a family can commit is to compare one member of the family to another and find one of them wanting at least using that yardstick of comparison. It is sinister to say the least. However, due to purpose ignorance, this case is prevalent the word over. In building a purpose driven family, one needs to balance between the vision of the family and the individual purpose and passion of each member. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! What we need to answer is this: does a family need to have the capacity to deploy it's purpose before they can be a purpose-driven? In other words, one might ask: what's the reason for downloading a huge purpose for the family if you cannot fulfill it? In this episode, that question is succinctly answered and in addition, we also show you the second way you can built a purpose-driven family. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! No. It's not going to happen arbitrarily. The fact that a purpose-driven family is the ideal to have doesn't mean that it will happen by itself. It is possible to have the whole family live purposeless and still have some semblance of success, but that way, something is always missing. For a purpose-driven family, we will have to be intentional about it. When we get intentional, we realize then that it has always been possible to do it all along. Here is where we need to start from. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! What I am advocating for is not a foreign ideology. Purpose driven families are not a thing of the West or the modern world. If anything, the modern world has moved away from Purpose driven families to just being independent and purposeless. Now more than ever is the time to craft our families to have an agenda in society that is far reaching above the normal survival and nurturing. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Imagine if it was a natural thing for families to have a mandate beyond nurturing children. Imagine if the purpose of a family had far reaching impact in society and at times even in the world? And no, I am not just talking about business, but impact all spheres. Wouldn't that change stuff a bit? I think we need to start having these serious Conversations as we go along. Here is my argument in this episode, check it out.

🎉 New #Podcast! Unfortunately, when we say that "the family is the basic building block of society", we are mostly thinking about breeding and nurturing. As such, we live in families that exemplify no purpose beyond the basics of growth and development. Could it be that we can have our consciousness pricked so we can start raising purpose-driven families that look beyond survival and on to impact and transformation? Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Well, I am not saying that it's perfect. I am not saying that there is nothing wrong with the education system. Far from it. All I am saying is that the collosal blame on the system is unfair considering several things. Sure enough, it needs to be improved but I can tell you that you can improve it all you want but if society does not change, you will be doing useless work. Here is a summary of why we shouldn't be blaming the education systems.

🎉 New #Podcast! We blame the education system for raising zombies... people who can't think for themselves, own a decision, make a recommendation or any of the self leadership stuff. We would be very wrong in doing that. Ask yourself this: whose prerogative is it to raise leaders? Whose responsibility is it to raise self leaders and critical thinkers? The school system? Think again as you listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! If you were to line up the people that have a bone to pick with the education system, you will have several miles of line of humanity, a large percentage of which are the products of the self same education system they are blaming. At times, talk is cheap. I am contending that this blame is unfair because it needs to be painted elsewhere for the very reason that education doesn't exist in a vacuum. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! If the education system was wrong to the extent that it has been blamed, how come it IS still producing? How come it's still giving us skilled labor? We err greatly when we compartmentalize education from society and it's unchanging expectations and status quo. We blame it as if it's existing in a bubble. Every time you are blaming the system, you are letting someone else off the hook. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! We all have been guilty of this, at least I have. People who once were illiterate and ignorant have now gained so much knowledge and cognitive skills from the education system that they are now able to blame it for failures in society. Paradoxical. I invite us to take a review of ourselves and THINK again. They system isn't to blame, at least not 100%. Even in this day and age, it is still helping millions, if not billions the world over. Listen to this.

🎉 *New #Podcast! More than ever before, we need purpose driven people in this world. The advancements we have had in life and specifically with technology are putting to bed many so called "Jobs" that defined whole careers complete with pension and retirement. That's why it is important that in a changing world, we align the next generations to focus on purpose, others, transformation, impact and solution provision than on just a job. The earliest possible time we start this, the better. Here is a summary of 7 ways to nurture purpose driven children.

🎉 *New #Podcast! When you build a three-legged stool, you give it the capacity to support weight. That's akin to gifts and talents in children. They are some sort of capacity to support their intended purpose. In raising purpose driven children therefore, parents should never ignore this major hint of purpose. We need to delve right in to this more than we do other things in nurturing children. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! One of the things we blame the education systems of the world today is that it's so strong on theory and so thin on practical. As the world progresses each waking dispensation, we realize that theory can be Googled but practical and experiential learning can't. In raising purpose driven children, this will be the way to go. We shall have to dig deep into purpose related projects that they can pursue. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Are you interested in raising a purpose driven generation? We soon enough realize that the responsibility is not out there with a professional someone, even though that helps a great deal, but the responsibility is with us. We realize that our children are hero worshippers who easily catch concepts when they see adults passionate about them than have these taught to them. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Obviously in life questions are answers. In raising purpose driven children, the idea of answering their "why" questions is novel and noble. When someone asks you a question starting with "why", for the most part, the answer you will give would explain purpose. Children can be very inquisitive and that's why it is important to be patient with them especially when it comes to answering this question. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! There will come a time that a child will go through stuff in life that they will question the very reason for living. This is not scaring to doom, you will do good to understand that the situation doesn't have to be negative. Even positive events can lead them to question the meaning of life. In raising purpose driven children, there is one simple and continuous process that we can employ to get it done. It's potent enough to help them. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Money has it's use. They say that it is neutral but only takes the attitude of the one in possession of it. That's why the conversation on money will never end. It is an opportunity for us to use money and it's purpose to start teaching children about their purpose in life. Raising purpose driven children can be done by talking to them about money in it's entirety. Otherwise, money becomes purpose to them, and for the most part, this never ends well.

🎉 New #Podcast! If you wanted to know the crux of this series, ask any personal development practitioner in any niche. What's one feedback that they get when they deliver their content? Invariably, people say they wish someone taught them earlier. I have said it previously that one of the greatest shortcuts for purpose discovery is personal development. Let's see how teaching children the importance of money towards this helps. Listen to this

🎉 New #Podcast! Money is a powerful subject. The Bible has a portion of scripture that says "money answerers everything". It is true. There are very money mistakes that we make in life but perhaps the greatest money mistake is not to teach children about it. The interesting thing is that in teaching children about the purpose and impact of money, we can end up raising purpose driven children. This is what we cover in this episode. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! One of the biggest mistakes we make in life is to look for a silver bullet especially in "doing life". For instance, if you find me proclaiming that purpose pursuit is the silver bullet in life, I would not be speaking the truth in it's entirety. Clearly, there are merits to purpose pursuit as there are demerits in not pursuing it. If we are raising children, increasingly, there are quite a number of disadvantages in not leading them to purpose. This is worth noting, so listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Our world today is totally different from the world our fathers and mothers found themselves growing up in. Today, if you talked to several HR practitioners, they will tell you that getting the right person for any vacancy is one of the toughest thing. "The right person" is the key word. Certainly, a child who has been groomed to be purpose driven tends to come out more as the right person than others who are not. Let's see the difference between them. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! Most Coaches and personal development trainers will tell you that the major feedback they receive from their clients is "I wish someone taught me these things earlier". "Earlier" in this case has to be when you were a child growing up, and not an adult preoccupied with making ends meet. So as you can see, it is critically important to start raising purpose-driven children as early as possible. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! I saw an unfortunate infographic this morning deriving more than ten similarities between Prison and Formal school. It's somehow true and quiet unfortunate. What captured my attention was loss in individual autonomy and no personal input in decision making. In raising purpose driven children, these two components have to be available. Listen to this.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! The answer is "Yes!" And the question is: Should I get intentional about knowing what my purpose in life is? It might sound really like one most obvious thing to say, but I have learned never to take anything for granted. That's why in this series we have been exploring the several thoughts as to why the answer is yes. Please check this out to learn more about that.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! A scripture tells us that "there is nothing new under the sun". I have always struggled understanding that because I am sure that if a person time travelled from the past to present day, they will see very many new things.😆 However, we can always learn from precedence. What has been can always instruct what we want. Certainly that makes total sense when we are answering the question: Should I be intentional about seeking purpose? Check this out.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! In your purpose discovery journey, you are not left clueless. Nobody is. There are quite a number of hints and indications of where your purpose could be. One major hint is the uniqueness of everybody. So that begs the question: if there are hints of purpose for us, should we be in pursuit for purpose intentionally or should we wait for God? The answer is obvious. Listen to this.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! Intelligence might not necessarily be a function of formal education and school. But it is one thing that every human being needs to win at the adventure of life. There is a reason why you and I have a head, a hear, and hands. There is a reason why we have passionate ideas coming to us daily. Given this situation, the answer should be obvious when asked: Should I seek my purpose intentionally? Check this out.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! One fundamental perspective we must have in this life is about control. Between you and God, who is in charge? If it is God in charge, what part do you and I have to play? Do we become robots? Clearly, our success or otherwise is predicted on this perspective. Those who think it is God in charge will mostly do all they can to appease God so they can succeed. Those who know God has put them in charge will act accordingly. Listen to this.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! Are the best things in life free? If I wanted to be successful at anything, must I have a part to play in the making the success a reality? If I wanted to know my purpose, should I seek for it or wait for it to come? The answer is a Yes. There is no success worth it's salt that didn't have or require intentional seeking. There is no way you will discover your purpose if you are not a seeker. The good news is that once the search begins, the answer is on the way. Check this out.

🎉 New #Podcast! If God is all sovereign and he is the one who created us for good works and for purpose, should we be the ones to seek for purpose or should we wait for it to be revealed? This is a valid question. If purpose really is important in life, how come many people are unaware of it? How come most people do not know their own purpose? Could it be that they waited in vain or searched in vain? Listen to this.

For More of this, visit http://lifesignatures.libsyn.com 🎉 New #Podcast! If God is all sovereign and he is the one who created us for good works and for purpose, should we be the ones to seek for purpose or should we wait for it to be revealed? This is a valid question. If purpose really is important in life, how come many people are unaware of it? How come most people do not know their own purpose? Could it be that they waited in vain or searched in vain? Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! 833. No. God Might Not Change Your Purpose. Here's Why #Purpose In answering the question of whether God can change your purpose if you asked him to, there are perhaps some considerations that you need to make before coming to that conclusion. The answer is no, at least from my reasoning and in this episode, I give the reasons why I think that is so. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! In answering the question of whether God can change your purpose if you asked him to, there are perhaps some considerations that you need to make before coming to that conclusion. The answer is no, at least from my reasoning and in this episode, I give the reasons why I think that is so. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! We are trying to figure out if God can change your purpose were you to approach him with that specific request. Perhaps several things will need to be in place. So let us consider for a minute. If you have ever built something...was it out of fluke or out of design and intention? Was your original thought for building whatever you built intentional or reactional. Listen to this.

🎉 New #Podcast! This is a valid question. There are two sides of the divide. There is no middle ground. The answer is either a resounding Yes or its an emphatic No. What's important is the reasons behind the yes or the no. That's what I attempt to discuss in this new series. The answer to me is obvious but it needs some reflection at first. Listen to this.