The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

Decisions shape our destinies. There is no doubt about that. Frankly, there are different types of decisions that we can make. At times we make decisions daily and those tiny little decisions coalesce into something major that shapes our lives. However, there are moments that we make huge decisions that drastically define and alter the way we will live and the direction we will take. This is such a decision. Listen to this.

It is one thing to decide and yet it is quite another to follow through. Coming to the moment of making a decision is as crucial a moment as any, and when you do make a decision, you have started shaping your destiny. Sadly, though, many decisions made in life are never given the time to germinate to full fruition and maturity. The rate of abortions of ideas and decisions the world over is astounding. How can we support our decisions to complete implementation? Listen to this.

Of course, the weapons of mass destruction have never been discovered. But, people have been killed, mailed and left incapacitated. Families have been shattered and a whole region made unstable. Two men made a decision against the advice of the whole wide world and went to Iraq to do war under false pretence. Every decision you make will always have far-reaching consequences. Here is how you can avoid a Bush/Blair blunder in your decision-making.

We know that it is in the moments of our decision making that our destinies are shaped. This means that any decision we make in life is critical in shaping out how our lives will turn out to be. It could be chronic-over a long period of time, or it could be sudden. Either way, decisions shape our lives. What then is the input of trusted mentors, coaches and counsellors? What do we do with their input in our decision-making process? Listen to this.

The most successful among us are those in control of their decision-making process. Yes, they do consult. Yes, they do make huge decisions, but no, they do not vacillate in their decision-making process. Deciding is available for each one of us in life. The more we are deciding and backing up those decisions with action, the much better. Listen to this.

The most successful among us are obviously those who make decisions every now and then. They make audacious decisions that are backed up with instantaneous action on them. We all have the opportunity to make decisions. One of the things that we need to learn at heart and make it a character of virtue, is the discipline of deciding promptly. Vacillating over a decision can have far-reaching repercussions. Listen to this.

Audacious, brave, courageous, are some of the descriptions that we give to people who have made astounding strides in life. At the crux of their achievements, there will always be a reference point of decision making. Each destiny in life is shaped by a decision either by the person or by someone else. It would be much better if you will be the one fully in charge of making the most audacious decisions of your life. Listen to this.

There is one major equalizer in life. Whether you are red, yellow, white or black, this same equalizer applies to us all just the same. It is one of the greatest gifts that life ever gave to mankind. It is the gift to choose one's own way. "It is in the moment of our decisions that our destinies are shaped". Listen in.

We live in an ever permissive and liberal world. However, when it comes to doing our work, the work that we have been sent here on earth to do, there is no room for liberality and permissiveness. Excellence is non-negotiable. The Divine is depending and counting on you and me to do our part, of course with utmost excellence. Here is why you make the Divine smile when you do your work with excellence.

In life, it is so easy to get caught up in a tradition or a cultural way of doing things, so much so that we forget our essence. I believe that we have an origin, and that origin spells the intention of our lives. Living our lives without this perspective can easily lead us to massive regrets in the end. And that is the problem: that it's only at the end that we know how off we have been. In the podcast today, let's see one more way we can make the scales between the intention of the Divine and our productivity to balance. Listen in.

If there is an intention of the Divine over each individual life, how in the world do we attain it? How do we get that scale between what the Divine lovingly intends for us to do, and what we are actually doing? That is one of the most important, most potent Life Signatures question that anyone can ever ask. In this series, we are answering that question. This episode gives yet one more perspective on how to balance the scales. Listen in.

Someone said that knowledge is not power. It is applied knowledge that is power. The same thing happens with purpose. It is one thing to know what your purpose is, but it is quite another to live up to it. In order to balance the scales in life, one has to do this one thing and be consistent with their purpose. Listen to this.

Finding purpose in life is one of the most potent things one can ever do. The thing about purpose is that it is not only what one was born to do, it is also the greatest source of eternal fulfilment. Here is now purpose helps you to balance the scale of life.

Life can be lived arbitrarily or it can be lived on purpose. The world demands of us a lot, but I know that on the other hand, we demand of life things. Between what life intends of us and what we are really producing, are the scales balancing? That is the question that we have to grapple with. Listen to this.

Two options in life for every one of us: To Shine our lights, or to shrink from life. They are always available choices each waking day, regardless of how tough or light our lives are. Shining is always going to be a conscious decision that we make. Shrinking, on the other hand, is arbitrary, we do not have to be intentional about it. It could just happen. Here are the 7 ways you could be shrinking in life without notice. Listen in.

Your light shining in society will doubtless have to go through lots of opposition. The earliest obstacle that comes against your glory is the obstacle of identity. Society tends to impute to you an identity that limits or dims your lights. This is a silent killer. If you are not careful, you can easily accept an identity that is imputed on you, an identity that is not who you really are. When you do, your light starts dimming. It doesn't shine as brightly as it was intended. Listen to this and curb this devious way of shrinking instead of shining in life.

A mentor of mine says, "I never found a poor person who cared about their time, and I never saw a rich man who didn't". The choice to shine or shrink is effected each waking day by the decisions that we make about what we shall do with the time that we have. Even now as you are listening or reading this, you have a choice. Probably listening or reading this is not the most valuable thing you should be doing now, in relation to what you ought to do. To shine is to be deliberate. And to be deliberate is to be conscious about your time. Let's listen to this

We all have a promise. we all have something to offer this world. It is our light. It is our blessing. It is our uniqueness and purpose. The worst thing in life is to be distracted, derailed and sidetracked from shining our lights on the face of the earth. The sad thing though is that around the universe, billions of people are not shining their lights for just one common denominator. Listen to this.

You can always depend on them. You can always count on them. And that is why they are stellar performers. That is why their lights are shining ever-increasingly brighter. It makes no difference who they are, whether it is individuals or institutions. From whatever walk of life they come from, for as long as they are dependable, their light will be shining brighter. Listen to this.

Each waking day, millions, nay, billions of people around the universe have an opportunity to shine. The same people are exposed to myriads of ways their light could be dimmed and they would ultimately shrink. Perhaps the greatest thief of magnificence and brilliance and glory of the human is fear. In this podcast, we discuss how you can keep your light shining despite the fear that you might be experiencing.

If you put off today what you can and must do for tomorrow, you have chosen to shrink in life instead of shining! You do not give birth to time, neither are you its creator. Time management is a myth. You are the manager of events within the duration that you have, and not most powerful of it is the now! If there was a killer of your might, an extinguisher of your glory and a quencher of your fire, it would be procrastination. Listen to this.

Time and time again, we are faced with a binary of options. To shine, or to shrink. Invariably, we make decisions in life either consciously or unconsciously that feed accentuates either of the two options. How do you know that you are shrinking? In this episode, we look at one of the ways that this happens. Listen in.

Our greatest enemy in life is darkness. In all its formats, whether through ignorance, evils, chaos and so on, darkness as a metaphor representing all these ills can only be overcome when we choose to shine our lights. The antidote for any kind of darkness is light in its magnificence brilliance. For you and I to shine, we have to do several things to impact our world. Here is a summary of the four ways we can shine.

Shining my light on earth is my responsibility. It's not my parents', my wife's, my children's or anybody else's. It is my sole responsibility to shine my light. This shining illuminates my world and causes me to be a man of value, influence and impact. If I wanted to my light to shine on the earth, of course, that light is a metaphor, then I have to be a man who if action-oriented. Listen to this one.

There is no doubt in my soul that each one of us was meant to shine here on earth. You and I are the light of the world. Our shining and our playing big on the centre stages of our own platforms is what our worlds and in fact, the world itself needs. So, how can we shine our lights? One might ask. Consider your speech. Consider what you say daily. Listen to this.

A friend of mine says that growth is not the natural progression of things, regression is! For our lights to shine, we have to be deliberate and intentional about it. In this podcast, we are looking at one of the ways you can make your light to start shining. You were meant to shine, so shine on! Listen to this.

I think that one of the greatest responsibilities that HUMANS have on the face of the earth is to shine their lights. We live in a world that needs illumination. We live in a world that needs us to come alive with our glory and magnificence. Here are the three ways you can know how to shine your light. Listen in.

It is possible to look at light and cherish its usefulness and totally forget that you and I are also lights. You are a light. Your light is meant to shine in the face of the earth and to make it a better place with impact, influence and value. In this podcast, I show you exactly how you can Identify where your light is. This is one of the most valuable episodes I have done. Listen in

Sitting down and taking a toll on my life, I found two major things. First, life has happened to me. Second, I got feedback from being intentional, urgent and having direction. This feedback from both instances has shown me that there are at least ten major areas in my life that I could do better to restart and refocus on them. I am sure that some, or even all of these will resonate with you. Listen it.

I will say it again for the umpteenth time: the biggest reason why life is worth a living is the millions upon millions of second chances accorded to us every waking day! Imagine a life without any second chance? How restrictive! How boring! How one dimensional! But one great gift we have as a human race is the gift and the grace to start over. However, we ought to know how to leverage this grace. It will only be possible if we are reflective and introspective enough. If I was to start over, I would do these two things zealously. Listen in.

If given an opportunity to live or to start over again, there are several things that I would do differently. In this episode, I share two more crucial things that I am challenging myself with. I can tell you, if I did these two things, in fact, if I did only these two things, implementing them in my life to the fullest, my life would be richer and more productive. Listen to this.

Armed with information from our present, it is possible to go back and start over again in our lives, this time around more intelligently. What a powerful blessing it is to have this "insider" information to help us with our lives as we move along and ahead. In my life, I have found quite a number of key learning areas to help me develop and become a better person. I am sharing with you two of those areas today, further to what I shared in the previous episode. Listen to this.

Perhaps the most gracious gift given to humanity is a second chance. An opportunity to start over. This chance can change the most hardened of criminals and can improve the purest of saints. We all have the opportunity to learn from our past experiences. Whether we are intentional about life and got feedback from it, or life itself happened to us as it sometimes does, a new day to start over is always welcome. So the question is, what will I do when given an opportunity to start over? Listen in.

Every waking day, we conduct our lives consciously or unconsciously in answer to that question. Our priorities are ordered by the answer or answers we give to this question. So if everything was a constant in life, if everything was equal to everyone, what would be your answer to this question? What if the answer we are looking for is a constant answer throughout life? Would that change your perspective? Listen to this and find out the three tests you can use to find out what the most important thing in life is.

Someone said that life and nature abhor a straight line. In other words, at one point in time, we will face a setback or a crisis. The question we need to ask is this: Is it OK to call it quits at times? I believe there are several contexts in which it is plausible to quit. Listen to this.

Imagine if all your wishes would be fulfilled? Imagine though if you had just one prayer and it would be answered. What would you ask for? I know that there is no right or wrong answer, but the gist of this episode is to make us come to terms with what our deepest and greatest desires are, all things being constant. Listen in.

It turns out that there are great benefits when we are constricted and when our backs are against the wall. On the surface, it might seem like we have so much great disadvantages against us. However, if we are keen enough, we shall realize more than 5 Benefits of living our lives on the edge. Listen to this!

In Life, questions are always going to be answered. The quality of the life we live will be in proportion to the quality of questions we are willing to ask. It will also be determined by the dare that we have to stay with the questions long enough to get the answers. Thankfully, Google is here...but does that solve our life problems? Here is where Google is limited and here are five or six things you can do instead.

It is easy to be motivational and tell people that they can be anything they want to be. Is it true? Although it sounds like we can choose whatever we want to do, I think there is a major difference between being anything you want to and being everything you were meant to be. Here are five reasons why. Listen in.

From the ends of the earth, the universe and the Divine are in a seeking mode always. Looking throughout the earth for men and women that have come alive. These men and women are the world's most wanted. They are not special and few. As a matter of fact, we all potentially can be the world's most wanted. Here is why.

The biggest paradox in life is that between comfort and discomfort. If we embrace comfort, then discomfort visits us. When we are content in discomfort, our growth is stifled. However, when we intentionally choose to be uncomfortable for a season of time, we start growing. There are five or so crucial benefits for discomfort. Listen to this.

At times in life, we face insurmountable odds. Nelson Mandela faced his just as much as any human being encounters some personal odds. I have read Long Walk To Freedom for the umpteenth time and have drawn some five lessons we can learn when we are facing our odds. Listen to this.

What a great relief when a leader of any sorts rises up. This world experiences order out of chaos, dreams are given hope and things are made to happen. A great leader though is distinguished by several things from other types of leaders. In this episode, we discuss just five of those. Stay tuned.

Growth is something that can almost be inevitable. However, in life, there are those moments where we are affected by one thing or another, and we become seemingly stagnant. How can we ensure that growth is taking place even when we are seemingly not progressing? I think there are at least seven things we can do. Listen in.

In our quest for progress in life, at times our growth and development is punctuated by stagnation. What we need to figure out is whether this stagnation is within our control of mastery or not. But even if we are not in full control, there could still be something we can do. Listen to this.

We were all created to progress through life and get to our destinations through levels. No matter how far you and I have come, there is always going to be a Next Level to aspire to. What we need to learn is how intentional we can get to get to our next level. In this podcast, let's share the 7 different ways we can intentionally use to get to the next level.

We are amazed when we experience top performers in any life discipline. They operate as if they are from another planet. In Christian lingo, they are said to be anointed. In business circles, it's peak performance. In sports, it's being in the zone. The question is, how can we PERSONALLY generate this anointing? Find out 5 ways to do it here.

/The fact is that our greatest growth will always stem from facing our greatest impossibilities. The impossibilities are always going to be subjective. When we shun impossibilities, we are in a way shunning growth. Here are five ways impossibilities are good for you and me. Listen to this./

/We all are entitled to break with the status quo and do something that is revolutionary. Something that resonates within our hearts and yet it seemingly has no place in the status quo. How in the world can we create our own personal revolutions?/

/Once in a while, we have to make a decision whether to take on an impossible project or leave it. Our growth and development will be proportional to how much we are daring to over and over again challenge the impossible. This is what to do when you have to dare the impossible./