#purpose-driven

[adoptiondetectivejudithland]

Striving for a “Purpose-Driven” Life

“Life is about creating yourself. Adoption shouldn’t result in a lifetime of finding yourself. Adoptees should strive to ‘create’ themselves to live a purpose-driven life. Don’t let the past hold you back. Everyone can choose their friends, vocations, and education.” Judith Land “A purpose-driven life is based on pursuing and attaining worthwhile goals. When we pursue and attain worthy goals, we…

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#adopted #adoptee #ADOPTION #Adoption Detective #children #Judith Land #purpose-driven

[young-thoughts]

Patient Urgency

This week's topic is about a subject that's been on my mind as of late and can be extremely beneficial if interpreted correctly. Patient urgency. Take some time to read those two words and I'm sure you'll come to an easy interpretation of it's meaning. For the sake of this post, I'll go ahead and define what the concept means to me and maybe it's tied to what you're already thinking. To be patiently urgent is to pursue an objective with an understanding that it will take time to come to fruition, but one works diligently towards that objective daily and with focused intent. It's like applying the phrase 'carpe diem' but with a beeline focus on your objective and a realistic expectation that the best pursuits in life often require patience to see the end result through.

With a common understanding of patient urgency established, think about applying the principle of the concept to your life and shifting your mindset in favor of what the phrase means. In a world full of expectations of instant gratification, it's not normal to put off what you want now for what you want the most in your future. However, that shift right there can drastically alter the trajectory of your life. There's an opportunity cost to every decision we make in life, even the small ones. Buying a new watch that costs you $400 could have been $400 applied to a student loan or other debt. Is the watch worth the investment when your loan is accruing interest around 2-5%?

What makes this concept so powerful is potentially combining it with other small life changes to double the potency of the impact in your life. Less time-consuming content, investing in your relationships, and spending time on your physical health are just a couple ways patient urgency can be applied in your life and drastic changes can be made because of it. I could write more words on this topic but it requires personal agency to make that shift in your life and only you can do so. I am a big believer in "maxing" life out and I truly believe this concept is a way that can be done.

Get after it this week.

In Unity,

DaJuan

#self development #work #purpose-driven

[hollyjcompton]

5 Criteria for Choosing a New Church

I want to begin by saying I am not looking for a new church home, but this was on my heart to share at this time because I know others who are. If you are in the market for a new church—hopefully from a healthy place and not leaving bad blood behind at your previous one—then here are some very important things to be looking for as you move forward. As I have heard it said many times, when you’re…

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#church #family #growth #Jesus #Love #purpose-driven #Renew #Word of God #worship

[junods2408]

Athena InsideOut Education is a Human Innovation Institute.

Exponential technological innovations have changed the world in recent decades. In order to keep up in the world of 2050, every person will have to reinvent herself again and again. Human Innovation stands for the expansion of human capabilities. And the expansion of human capabilities is a must in order to

a) build an innovation-driven economy and

b) develop the ability to cope with change, to learn, unlearn and learn new skills as well as to maintain a mental balance in disruptive situations.

The expansion of human capabilities requires new forms of education. Forms of education that are no longer primarily focused on cognition, but on both cognition and intuition. And forms of education that implicitly incorporate the well-being of each, whereas Well-Being stands for mental, physical and emotional maintenance, growth and resilience.

This is why our Value Proposition also includes Well-Being.

Visit us here: www.athena-ioe.com

#education #awareness-based leadership #science-based education #universal principles #equality #inclusion #sdgs4 #sdg5 #sdg8 #sdg3 #epigenetics #neuroscience #quantum field theory #resilience #purpose #purpose-driven #empowerment #mindset #shamanism #spirituality

[bethekindestyou]

Hear it from a queen herself, Angel Marie. We think, being the kindest you for you means taking care to fight like the King or the Queen that you are - believe in your God-given purpose, and trust God to lead you to it and through the journey to all the goals it presents.

#purpose-driven #note to self #self love #bethekindestyou #be the kindest you #wisdomfromabove #btkylife

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

#feminism #dysphoria tw #your body doesn't need to have an Intrinsic Worthwhile Purpose so that you can live without fear #and it is fine if people say this to criticize the way breasts are overly sexualized and fetishized or what have you... #...but i encourage people to not see this as an end-all-be-all argument #because this opens discussions about how we politicize bodies and how we interpret them #i see overlap between this and the way trans bodies are politicized and policed honestly #and i guess personally i'm just so tired of the idea that to be safe your body Must Have A Good Reason To Be #and i fear this may reinforce the idea that we Must Serve Purposes and Be Useful and Used #ask to tag (genuine) #and what would this say for childless people? or people who cannot bear children? if they have breasts are they 'useless bodies' #because i have seen the ways some people's bodies are treated when they do not 'work PROPERLY' and that scares me #it scares me to potentially start treating people with different bodies as Defective and Unworthy and Unproductive #and i don't always trust when people latch onto purpose-driven arguments for human bodies that it stops at that y'know #have seen some discussion amd whatnot so 👍 #is it now time to clock put and be a silly goose yet?

[reddbuster]

I see people talking about how Dahlia is fragile and calling her a girlfailure and all that and I mean I don't disagree but the thing is. You need to understand that she's not fragile in a frail way. She's fragile like a bomb about to go off she's fragile in the way that honeybees die when they sting. Dahlia isn't a genius mastermind or a pathetic little girl with no agency. She's a self fulfilling prophecy who drove herself to destruction because she never got to see that there were other ways to live than to fight her way to the finish line. DO YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING this is why the ending of Trials and Tribulations fucks me up

#She's driven by self-destructive bitterness because she's a miserable person who lived a miserable life. #She went so far to hurt Mia because hating Mia gave her a purpose and somewhere to direct all that bitterness #She drags Mia's memory behind her like Achilles dragging Hector's corpse around the walls of troy #does this even make any sense or am I insane im like half asleep rn #ace attorney #dahlia ace attorney #dahlia hawthorne #fey girls tag

[aroacehanzawa]

whats ur beef?

My favourite manga lost the plot so now i cope by being a hater 👍

#long answer is i have beef with the direction that the bsd manga has taken #it only superficially resembles the beloved mystery and character-driven detective agency story with atsushi as the main character #i'm dissatisfied with major developments like killing off fyodor and reviving him and pulling this #PSYCH his ability wasn't what you thought it was. with zero foreshadowing or buildup #because the manga has become full of marvel-movie type plot twists that serve little to no coherent narrative purpose except shock factor #it cheapens the story and it cheapens the development of characters and it cheapens the reader's experience #because we can't speculate and we can't draw connections and parallels and engage with the story on a deeper level #what connections there exist (for example between manga and anime) are shoehorned in after the popularity of the anime and #specific characters (e.g. fyodor who was shoehorned into untold origins in the anime) and mostly the characters who bring in money #i.e. fyodor and dazai and chuuya and their relationships especially soukoku. all this at the expense of characters like atsushi or #the majority of the female cast. who have been MIA for god knows how long and who were barely given frame each in the anime's finale #bsd treatment of its female characters has been subpar shounen level at best and now they're completely sidelined #as with most of the original cast and the original themes of the story. in fact i struggle to identify a coherent overarching theme #for the current arc. other than military action scifi movie go brrrr #compared to early arcs where each chapter had a meaningful message to say about the importance of living and what it means to stay alive and #keep going and why we are fighting to keep important people in our lives and to keep ourselves alive #and what it means to belong somewhere and what it means to be good or bad and how your place of belonging affects that #as a long term reader i just feel betrayed and disappointed. by how a story with complex and vibrant characters has become another #generic cashgrab shounen. and i mourn for the lost potential it had and everything the series has build up #only to have plot points abandoned at a whim. #so that's why i'm a hater now 👍 #i know a lot of my bsd mutuals are still big fans of bsd so i try not to be obnoxious about it and mainly keep it comedic #like i don't actually hate the manga. because it's so important to me. and i respect the creators of the manga and anime #but it's frustrating to watch a train wreck in real time. and it's my blog i can hate what i want 😔 #sorry if there are typos i wrote all this on mobile and can't edit the tags. i didn't wanna put any of this in the main post

[trek-tracks]

Is this anything

#not trek #pusheen #florence and the machine #florence and the pusheen #puns #bad puns with no purpose #follow-up to my post #pusheen pusheen pusheen pusheen i'm begging of you please don't take my man #that's it that's it grading for a week and a half has driven me insane

[augustfiction]

"I think its like, once you start seeing them interact you know its going to be slightly different. It's like, you know, the way they've left each other was so dramatic. And so, to me, it's like, "how are they interacting? What are they giving-- what are they, like, revealing of each other or themselves, which is very little. And then that 'thaw' we continue to talk about, and we kept referring to it as like, getting back into bed with each other... That is what it feels like. It feels like a-- a chess match, like a seduction dance. There's something about it where they still do want to be with each other, they're not willing to admit it."

Lucia Aniello, Hacks Season 3 Podcast, Episode 1

#if you want to be driven absolutely crazy watch the fuckin podcast recap #makes me feral #they refer to them as 'breaking up' and 'getting back together' #honestly they don't even need to romantically involved for me to happy tbh #i just like knowing that the subtext im picking up was definitely put there by the writers on purpose #hacks hbo #hacks s3 #hacks spoilers

[forestofsprites]

being a human being is just so... i've GOT to learn how to do that! i absolutely MUST gain knowledge of that very specific thing immediately!!!!!

#i want to learn how to do everything absolutely ever #i need to learn how to properly support a bit of 4x4 IMMEDIATELY . for future knowledge purposes #im autistic this is very much also driven by being autistic #as a child i didnt so much talk as i did ask questions #i was like a walking 20 questions game. oyu know the little 20q battery operated things from the 2000s. i had one . it was green . #there was no time for socializing. there was no time to interact with other children #i was put on earth to ask questions and read books and learn ohhhh generally all the things

[orcelito]

minor details, but in chapter 68 of trimax we do see this bit:

the items that vash kept in his coat.

a "funbari doll" (which i cant find anything definite online about what that is with just a cursory look, so im going to run under the assumption that theyre some kind of collectable in-universe) & it's a red one, which is apparently rare. he still has the same pen radio that connects to his earring that's used waaay back on the sandsteamer. a swiss army knife, a random key, a used tissue (?), and...

a lighter? blow torch? i still cant tell what that last bar thing is tho. & i guess he had some kind of (normal) coin too? but Only One.

love the characterization implications for this lol. definitely the kind of pocket contents i'd expect from a silly immortal with a big coat

#speculation nation #fanny reads trigun #fanny's trigun analysis #trigun #just. hm. for Fic Purposes this is pretty useful. #it's cute that he has the doll. very vash. #overall tho it's very utility-driven. swiss army knive + blow torch. Yeah those would be useful to just have. #gotta wonder what that key is to. maybe i'll keep my eyes peeled in my official reread to see if it's mentioned. #otherwise i might have to just accept it as an unknown. & perhaps make smth up for Fic Purposes lol #he got the pen back from Kaite. which is a very interesting detail. not exactly useful for my fic bc he does not have that pen anymore lol #unsure if the coin is currency or some other thing. if it Is currency then lmfao @ vash being flat broke before all of this. #but THEN AGAIN early on he does say a lot of money gets in his way traveling east to west (i think it was) so What's The Truth Vash? #anyways im still looking for a new icon. got a few possibilities but im still undecided. #in the meantime U guys can have this lol. im fascinated by all the little details that are put in like this. #i really do love that he carries a swiss army knife & a blow torch. would they still call it a swiss army knife? #he does refer to the french language so obvs he knows about old earth stuff. for ease's sake id probably just call it a swiss army knife lo #bc yes now that i know he carries a swiss army knife it will Possibly come up in my fic. this is a tool i can use for my Purposes heheh

[loving-jack-kelly]

once again thinking about how jack kelly would not be the person he was without the anger that drives him but at the same time has not yet recognized that anger can be a good emotion. thinking about how jack gets so, so angry on behalf of himself and the people he loves and when it's over feels like he has to apologize for it. thinking about how jack has anger burning under his skin and he hates it even as he learns to use it and control it and keep it in check. thinking about jack learning to understand his anger, learning to know the difference between selfish, unhelpful anger and the anger that can be used to motivate, the anger that deserves to be anger and the anger that would be better expressed as hurt or sadness or disappointment. thinking about jack who is a fundamentally angry person learning to lean into the hope that comes with being angry for the right reasons instead of the bitterness that comes with the anger of despair.

#jack kelly #newsies #it's like. the difference between anger driven by the fact that things can and should be better #and anger driven by pettiness or mistakes that can be fixed or yourself with no purpose behind it #and jack starts as angry at the world and ends at angry at the things that should be different #and there's a World of difference between those two even though they're both angry #jack is a bitter person trying so so so hard to be hopeful and it's so good. it's so good

[kodirox]

this woman is making me SICK

#how do we relationship #i don’t think anything has driven me this insane #if i ever made a video essay about anything it would be about this. so much material even in just the first 36 chapters #and the author fully is doing it on purpose. ughhhhhh #the more i read the more crazed i become the more i read etc etc #if i’m not posting it’s because this series is fucking Getting Me

[ghouljams]

I get the feeling your Demon!Reader and my Poltergeist!Reader would get along. The spooky Tricks, the laying over Simon’s shoulders like a cat, they’d be besties. - ☀️

They probably would! Idk if Simon is equipped to handle 2 supernatural partners though, especially not ones so intent on being spooky and laying on him.

#ghoul speaks #demon!darling au #kicking my feet and giggling about the demon darlings #god i wanna write more about them and how they function on the battle field #i wanna talk about demon naming conventions and purpose driven demon assignments #i wanna talk about how Price's demon is also called Price and he hates it

[briannaisadorable]

#all black everything #purpose #life #hustle #grind #top #stars #melanin #moon #gif #pic #quote #quip #word #travel #higher #driven #fyp #ig