The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

You can kill your vision instantly by telling it to every Tom, Dick and Harry. How does that work? Simple. Not every Tom , Dick and Harry has a vision, and the first opposition against your vision is someone who has none for themselves. However, you can also give your vision great power and wings to fly when you tell it to people of like passions. People that you can sit together and talk about that vision and mastermind about it. We know how powerful this works...and we use it especially when we want to get married...Listen to this.

A true personal vision is going to constrain you. All of a sudden you realize that you cannot continue hanging out with the boys. You realize that you cannot continue feeding on gossip and constant negative news. Vision is like a pregnancy. You cannot do drugs when you are pregnant (nor should you even when you are not). My point is that vision constrains you and therefore, if you will activate it, it is important that you constrain yourself accordingly. If not, I can guarantee you the vision will not work. Listen to this.

So you have your vision crafted and documented. Probably that was three or five years ago. You look around at your life and wonder what happened? Why is it that the vision is not bringing forth results? What could you be missing? Like I have said, vision is for the long haul. Vision is also like a baby. If you do not do the vision, it will not take care of itself. There is one critical aspect of visioneering that must be put into consideration IMMEDIATELY you have clarified what it is. Listen to this.

The coming up with a vision is straight forward. In this day and age, it is easy to google and find answers on how you can get clarity on your personal vision. And yet, we still have millions of people who do not have that bit sorted. Where the rubber meets the road is what we have to do in order to bring this vision to fruition. Just the fact that you have vision does not mean that things will now fall into place. You need to realize some important aspects of your daily life. Vision is like a baby. Fragile yet so powerful and filled with great potential. Listen to this.

It is written that where there is no vision, the people perish. They cast off restraint. One of the greatest softwares in the renaissance of our individual lives is a personal vision. To have it or not to have it is the ultimate question. However, there is reason to believe that coming up with the vision is perhaps the simplest part. What needs to be focused on is what we do after knowing what it is. It is said that in any gathering, there are three types of groups. There are the 84%, then the 13% and then the 3%. These are grouped in relation to their intentional pursuit of their personal vision. Listen to this.

I know it sounds cliché but the notion of a personal vision, in my estimation, is one of the greatest key words in personal development. We need to clarify what our vision is at the individual level. I'm sure we have no problem doing so at the corporate or organizational level whatsoever. It is sad though to find a head of a department in a multinational not having their own vision quantified. We need that done. Listen to this.

There are perhaps two major reasons why people would not want to discover their purpose ON THEIR OWN. First, they are not so confident that they can do that. They would rather an external entity helped them, such as a spiritual man, a coach and so on. Second, they are afraid that they might "discover a miss". In other words, they might spend their life doing that which they thought was their purpose and yet it wasn't. The fact is that alone, one can put two and two together and discover what their purpose is. It is possible to use about six avenues that I have put together to do so. One can get comfort when there is greater clarity as one resources complements another. Listen to this.

Familiarity breeds lots of contempt. What you have you take for granted until you don't have it. What you don't have you treat it as treasure until you have it. In talking about purpose, this analogy can work pretty well. One of the ways you can fail to know your purpose is through familiarity. You are so adept at something that you don't treasure it. It is within you or around you so you don't take note of it...but someone else does. Listen to this.

If you are interested and committed in identifying your life purpose, there are quite a number of ways you can do that. In the previous episodes, I have talked about questions, gifts and talents, ideas and action. Did you know though, that if you noticed your emotions, you can discern from them what your purpose in life could be at least to some degree? That's right. Emotions are a critical way in which you can discover your purpose. There are two major emotions that you need to look out for. Listen to this.

Perhaps one of the greatest mistakes I ever made with purpose pursuit was to stop everything I was doing and wait until my purpose was revealed before I could start living. I know I was being zealous and radical at the same time. Was my purpose revealed to me through that mode? Nope. It wasn't. Does it get revealed to other people in that mode? Not all the time. So I noticed one clear path to take when you want to discover what your purpose is. Take action and stay alert. Listen to this.

If you wanted to discover your purpose in life, there is one thing that is commonly available to you that you can use. In fact, all of us have it. What you are passionate about might not be what I am passionate about. Consequently, what you "see" in life might not be what I "see". Why? Because we are uniquely different. Perhaps that is why we need to examine the ideas that interest us. It is from that connection with the ideas that we can determine what our purpose in life is. Listen to this.

What if I told you that your purpose is not so lofty and complicated as many think? What if I told you that it is readily available for you to know it and pursue it, centring all that you are doing in life on it? The fact of the matter is that it is easy, let me say that again: It is easy to find your purpose. One of the ways to do that is to look at what comes to you naturally: Your gifts and talents. Your passion and disposition. Your unique abilities. Why you? Why are you uniquely that way? Was it not the tools that God put inside of you to use as resources to deploy your purpose? Think about that. Listen to this.

If you look for something like hidden treasure, chances are that you will find it. And when you do, the way you will treasure it will be impeccable. Purpose is a treasure. If you asked people about purpose, most will acknowledge that they would love to know specifically the reason why their are existing. But they don't. They want help with that. They would rather that the heavens opened and God "called" them. In this episode, let us look at one of the most powerful ways in which you can inch closer to your purpose. Listen to this.

Someone gave me a memorable quote of sorts. He said, "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing". That's what purpose is all about. There is no one on the face of the earth that lacks purpose. Yes, you might not have discovered what it is, but that is not to say that it is non existent. Purpose is. It is there. It is the reason you are alive. What needs to happen is the realisation that there is something greater to life than what we are experiencing and actually going forward to search for it. Listen to this.

If you find yourself in a rough economic patch of life where mostly it is called "Jobless", there are two options involved. First, you can allow that label to govern your life. It has its consequences at the individual level. The other option is to choose to label yourself as an "Steward". If that is done, I believe that the identity alone goes a long way in alleviating joblessness. There are at least seven different aspects of stewardship that will go a mighty long way in helping you through that rough patch. Listen to this.

Do jobless people study just for the sake of increasing their capacities? Answer that for yourself. Can you remember the day that you did not have a job? Did you engage that incredible time in study? Unfortunately we burn our books whenever we are through with school. Study is seen as some kind of sentence that we break free from. If you are a jobless person, or if you knew one, I can tell you that study is one of the most potent ways of dealing with joblessness. Listen to this.

When a person decides to take up on the title of "Jobless", quite a number of things happen. Chances are that the level of activity in their lives would diminish. Chances are that they will feel dis-empowered and unmotivated for life. I think the identity that we put on ourselves determines how our life will turn out. For example, if a man decides to see himself as a steward instead of "jobless" at least at the identity level, things will change. One of those things will be an increase in activity in their lives. See how this helps. Listen.

We see people in the twilight of their years forming organisations and foundations that they can use as a conduit to help society. Somehow, we feel like we can only be of help to society when we are old and have accumulated resources. But being of service to others can be one of the greatest weapons that a jobless person can use to alleviate their situation. There will always be someone that you can help. You can complain about your torn shoes until you meet the person who doesn't have feet. But first, it's not good to accept the "jobless" title. Listen to this.

The person who is jobless is by definition someone who is not engaged. On paper, let it be so. In reality, to be disengaged is one of the greatest disservices that you can ever mete on your life. A disengaged mind, heart or body is simply a recipe for death. The biological term is called "Apoptosis". In essence when the brain see that the body is disengaged, it send signals to the rest of the body that they are no longer needed, and that's the process of death in reality. Don't call yourself jobless. Call yourself a steward and by so doing, get engaged. Listen to this.

If you give two people in the same situation an opportunity to rise out of it, the perspective that either of them will adopt will be critical to the transformation that they will have. If you are jobless, you can decide to call yourself jobless and have a mental assent to it. That will most definitely define what you will do with your situation. However, if you are jobless and you decide to see yourself as a steward, it changes everything. A steward will be hawkish about the way they spend their time consciously. That person will be easily delivered from that scourge than someone who decides to accept their fate. Listen to this.

The first thing about stewardship is "servanthood". H. E The President of Uganda at one point in time was quoted and the clip spread throughout the internet. He said, "I am not your servant!" We are discussing the aspect of healing the identity of the jobless person. I have posited that the solution is found in choosing to call yourself a "steward" rather than accepting to be called "Jobless". A steward is a servant...and that is not derogatory in anyway. In fact, the heart of the human is service. Let us explore how important the servant steward is in healing the identity of the jobless.

What if I told you that a simple change in your identity can see you through a "jobless" situation better? What if I told you that accepting the title of "Jobless" is defeatist and dis-empowering? The reality is there on the ground for all to see. Life is about a journey. In that journey, there is a danger in camping permanently at a place because of a wrong identity. Instead of "jobless" can the label,"Steward" help you in any way? I believe it can. Listen to this.

At the end of the day, what is the function of the human? Really? If we do not have an answer to this question, the quality of life that we live will be affected. In this #NewSeries, we introduce the topic of Stewardship vs Joblessness. Th identity that we impute upon our lives will determine the activities that we shall do and our outlook in life in general. If there was one thing that can obliterate "joblessness" at least at the identity point of view, it is simply this: Stewardship. Listen to this.

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. What we miss to find is the treasure. For instance, if you knew that the child in your house will for sure be the UN secretary general, or a Nobel laureate how would you raise them? The fact is that every baby is a messenger of God, an ambassador on a mission sent by God himself. If we had that revelation, the way we will raise these children will change drastically. However, each waking day, we are oblivious of this. And that's why at times we are not intentional in how they grow up. We steep ourselves into an autopilot mode totally distracted by the news of the day. Here are five things we need to do with the revelation that the children in our homes are a treasure. Listen to this.

Realizing that our children are one of the greatest weapons in the hands of God, it changes the way we approach their growth radically. If we keep looking at them as ordinary, we get oblivious of them. But if we have this revelation that they are weapons in God's hands and that we are stewards, the way we bring them up changes totally. The truth is that every child is a treasure and is sent here on a mission to do something specific. How we raise them up should be commensurate to that mission or purpose. Listen to this.

A child is the most amazing thing whenever they come on earth. They do not just come arbitrarily. You will realize that they come prepackaged, pre-ordained to be on mission to do some things. If we change the way we look at them, the way we raise them will consequently change. If you do not see anything good in a child, then you will not treasure them or take care of them. Stories abound of peasants and destitute who treasured their children because they saw hope, promise and a future in them. They scrapped around and sent seven of them from one family to school. That was because they believed in their treasure. Here is one more way to raise children after believing that they are treasure from God. Listen to this.

The way we look at children as we raise them up determines how we shall raise them up and how they shall turn out. A child born in royalty is made to understand how important and even privileged they are to rule over others. In those days, a child born as a peasant is made to understand how subservient they have to be to the ruling class. Today, whatever belief system we put in the child is based upon what we see of them. If we see our children as weapons in the hands of God for good, then the way we raise them up will change. Certainly this is one critical way to do that. Listen to this.

Someone popularly said that if we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. It is true. Talking about children, it as even graver truth to handle. That if you look at a child with a particular revelation, whether positive or negative, they will change to fit that revelation. Perhaps the most forgotten revelation in life is that each child is no a mission and that each child is a weapon in the hands of God. If you have this revelation, it follows that the way you look at that child will change. Once that is done, the way you raise that child will also change, just like the royals do not raise their children to be peasants. Something will have to be done due to the revelation. Listen to this.

I have reason to believe that there is no one useless on earth. That God is not arbitrary about his dealings with humans. God sees years, decades and even centuries ahead. He then works going backwards by preparing people that he can use. He brings them on the earth as babies. All of us have something to do, I believe that we were sent to do. If you do believe in God, you would have no trouble believing in this. But as babies are being born left right and centre, we seen to have forgotten this revelation. Listen to this.

Let's talk about children. All the while that these angels are being born, the world is oblivious of what they are capable of. The world is steeped into the politics of the day and totally ignoring the weapons that these babies are. It happened in 1809 as it is happening today. Then, everyone was following the exploits of Bonaparte. All that while that the battles of 1809 were happening, Gladstone was born, Oliver Wendell Holmes was born and even Abraham Lincoln was born. But all these babies were ignored then. Listen in.

One can never over-emphasise the power of numbers in life. All around us, we are governed by numbers. Our performance and productivity; and indeed, our very existence in life is governed by numbers. What we ought to do is to become intentional about this. It is easy for us to track and recite numbers of our favourite athletes and sports personalities. It is easy for us to track numbers for business and even for the companies we are employed at. Where the rubber meets the road is when we come to terms with our very own numbers at a personal level. That is when we shall see revolutions in our lives. Listen to this.

The New Year will always be that one single time that all of creation stands in awe of life and has heightened hopes. It gives us a psychological "new start", if you will. Part of what billions of people around the globe do is to decide and resolve. We call this "New Year Resolutions". Of course, many a motivational speaker will tell you that the resolutions do not last. Why is that? The answer is simple. There is lack of numbers. Measures, metrics and statistics are great in governing decisions and resolves. Without these, the decision will be an emotional high that will lack the power to prevail when things get tough. That's why numbers are important. Listen to this.

It is one thing to have a vision and quite another to have the vision fulfilled. It is one thing to have purpose and quite another thing to pull through a day of drudgery where the inspiration of the purpose is not there. This is where numbers, measures and metrics come in. At the individual level, it is important to run our lives with some measures and metrics. It is important for us to have statistics that govern our lives. Without personal statistics, we are like a ship on the sea with no direction to go. It is just tossed up and about and ends up wherever place. The numbers do something unique to our vision. Listen to this.

A friend of mine says that "Growth is not the default mode of operation in the human...drifting is". I totally agree. If you will not be intentional about anything in life, there is a pretty high chance that that thing will not see the light of the day. That is where numbers come in. It is easy for us to track stats for players, business entities, athletes and so on. It is quite another for us to have our own personal statistics to track. Numbers are critical in our growth and development for they help us to see where we can change. Listen to this.

Life is defined by numbers. We might not have given attention to that fact, but it is what it is. Everywhere you look, numbers are there to define life. When you talk about performance, you cannot do so without the help of numbers. In fact, if your performance is not governed by numbers in any way, there is no knowing how much you can do and how far you still have to go. Much as we track numbers for sports teams and sports personalities, we only realise late on that this trait can be flipped and used in our own individual lives. When we start tracking ourselves and how we are doing in life, we will go places in terms of our potential and our performance. Listen to this.

Numbers warn, they instruct, they inform. They tell us how far we have come and how far we are yet to go. They gauge our performance. There basically can be no life if numbers are not there. In fact, the only place where you do not need numbers is the grave. We all agree about the importance of numbers in sports, business and school. I think where the rubber meets the road is when we will start agreeing about numbers in our individual lives. What are our personal stats? If we can answer this question, we are well on the way. Listen to this.

Let me ask you a question. Who out there does not want a sizzling, romantic, rewarding and fulfilling relationship? We are all built to want love and tenderness and care, to feel that we are wanted and needed and appreciated. However, if we will only transact our relationships based on feelings, woowoo, spirit, romance, lovey-dovey and flowering feelings, that relationship will hit rock bottom faster than a tonne of stone thrown in the sea. Introducing numbers! Yes, you heard that right. Numbers do not lie, they tell us. Numbers govern even where feelings have stopped...and someone aptly said, "You can act yourself into feeling more than you can feel yourself into acting". Here is how personal statistics can make a difference in your relationships.

The funny thing is that if I asked people about the numbers of their sports teams, they will give them to me adequately and eloquently. But when I ask them about their own numbers, they will stare blankly at me like a cow on a new gate. Let's face it: Statistics are a very critical part of life especially in terms of productivity. That is why I am advocating for individuals to start adopting and even having a lifestyle of tracking their personal stats. We can do this in different areas of life that we want improvement. I can tell you this though: that there is no improvement in life without taking care of numbers. Listen to this.

Numbers literally govern our lives. You can find numbers in everything in life. In fact, if I asked you to think of any area of life that doesn't have numbers in it, you will be hard pressed to come up with any. Sports fans track their teams numbers. They track the numbers of individual performers. Whenever a record is broken, numbers are always in play. It is a momentous occasion. I would to God that we would track our individual numbers with the same fanaticism that we do sports and business and government things. When a recession happens, it happens in your house, with your individual numbers. Here is one of the ways you can track your numbers. Listen to this.

Numbers are a big aspect of life. They help us to measure. They help us to number. They help us to track. If you talk about the performance of sports people, you realize that all of them track their numbers. Any person that is a stickler for productivity will of necessity be so immersed in their numbers and statistics. Perhaps the greatest thing we can ever do about our productivity is to determine the numbers of it thereof. This new series covers the importance of numbers in our personal productivity endeavors. Listen to this.

If you wanted to leave a life of legacy, there are some things that you need to be aware of. Legacy first off, is not something that you can legislate. Legacy is an overflow of a life well lived. When you are gone, what people say about you positively is your legacy. Today is the day that you need to put some things in perspective so that legacy becomes something that is an offshoot of your life, not something that you have to worry about. In this episode, I share in summary form, 7 critical pillars of a life of legacy. The other succeeding episodes have already expounded the individual pillars. Listen to this.

There is happiness on one hand and then there is fulfillment on the other. Happiness is fleeting and just on the surface. But that is not to say that it is not important. Fulfillment is deep, long lasting and it is stuff of legacy. Our pursuits in life should rather be for fulfillment that for happiness. Some people normally say that happiness is a decision. You can decide to be happy regardless of what's happening. But fulfillment is a result of your life being lived circumspect. That is why a life of legacy is important. What can you do to experience that life? Listen to this.

In his very last speech, Martin Luther King said something very profound. "Longevity is not something that I am concerned about...I just want to do God's will" He said. "I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the promised land. I might not get there with you, but we as a people, we shall get there". We celebrate him every year as his legacy is talked about to succeeding generations. What made him have that legacy? There are several things that I have already alluded to in the previous episodes. Today, we add one more thing that is critical to having a life of legacy. Without this, there is no having a life of legacy. Listen in.

One of the ways to build a life of legacy is to build a life of excellence. They normally tell us that "cleanliness is next to godliness", but I will tell you that "Excellence is godliness". There is no one in the entire creation that ever create a life of legacy living without excellence. It is not an easy thing to have excellence because it is costly. It will cost you not just an arm and a leg, it will cost you everything. But that is how you build legacy. Listen to this.

In building a life of legacy, there are some aspects of life that have to be looked at. If you studied big time visionaries that have a life of legacy, you will notice a common denominator around them. Much as they might not have gone out to specifically create a legacy, you will notice that there are some things that run in their character as they lived that led them to leave a legacy behind. One of those things is leaning on their uniqueness in life...no one ever created a legacy in life by doing things that did not exemplify their difference. Listen to this.

Legacy is something that every human being should think about. Unfortunately, we can find ourselves so steeped in trying to eke out a living that at the time we exit the earth, there is nothing to write home about. To create a life of legacy, we have to be deliberate about it. There is no knowing how that legacy will look like and to what extent it will reach. However, for us to have the legacy, we have to be intentional about it. One of the ways to do it is to create a system that will govern our daily productivity endeavors. Listen to this.

📣 New #Podcast! It is a waste of time to worry about how you will be buried, where you will be buried, what people will eat at your funeral and who will preach at the service. By extension, we might find ourselves caught up in the thoughts of what kind of legacy we shall have. You see, legacy will always take care of itself, it will have it's own dimension that you cannot legislate. However, you can do something that contributes towards that legacy. You can design it or can determine where exactly you want to be remembered in terms of a niche. How you will be remembered is another ball game altogether, something that you are not in control of. Listen to this.

Legacy. What a fresh thought. I know that every one born of a woman will leave a legacy. The question we have to grapple with is this: what kind of legacy will it be? I know it is counter-intuitive to be thinking about the kind of legacy you will have. What happens with legacy is that it will take care of itself. Probably what you think your legacy will be might not necessarily be what people will have in remembrance of you. Listen to this

If you haven't watched "The Law of Attraction", popularly packaged as "The Secret", you need to do so. Just go to YouTube and check out for it. You will be inspired, no doubt. However, I am more for transformation that is sustained than just an inspiration that is fleeting. The Secret taught very pertinent things in life. However, I do believe that the crucial aspects of life were not given prominence. I do understand that the message was supposed to go out. The problem is that without what I consider the "back-end" of The Secret, what you are looking for in life will not be sustained. Is it any wonder that the craze died down? Listen to this.

The Law of Attraction and The Secret had very beautiful topics to cover. First, it was about our thoughts. That thoughts become things. Then we were taught about virtualisation. We were taught about monitoring our feelings for they reveal our thoughts. We will not throw away the baby with the bath water, but I am sorry to say that what the Law of Attraction teachers left out is the most critical. In this episode, we take a look at what was left out that you need to include in your pursuit of life and achievement. Listen to this.