Importance Of Purpose In Life

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."

Nothing in life that is worth having can be achieved without hard work. That has been my mantra my entire life, through the seven different school buildings. I grew up with the notion that failure just was not an option, and perfection was the expectation. I shifted from one gifted program to another with each new school. I did not know it at the time

Through all my 19 years of life I’ve only learn one thing, which is that when students tell themselves “I can’t do it” they will obtain failure but in the other hand if students are constantly reminding themselves “I can and I will do it” they will obtain success. Dweck made it clear on her article: “It is through effort that people build their abilities and realize their potential” in other words students need to challenge themselves for them to obtain more than what they expect, and with effort and a positive attitude everything is possible. My mom always tells me “dream big and you will be big” and I always keep that in mind. In other words if one day I want to be a billionaire, I will try my best to do so, and I will accept all of the challenges in order to get to my goal, and I understand that it will be a hard path but it doesn’t matter how hard and complicated it will be I can do it and I will do it.

Most people want to live a meaningful life. They feel that is important to live a life that is sufficient and worthwhile. The meaning of life has been debated among many people and philosophers throughout history. There have been several theories used to try to explain the true purpose of life in some subjective or objective perspective. Louis Pojman argued that religion gives every individual life meaning to it and those who choose not to believe have no morality or purpose in life. On the other hand, suppose someone would object Pojman theory and believed that life with or without God is not required for finding meaning in life. In the following paper, I will explain Pojman theories about religion giving meaning to life and what that life may consist of. Second, I wish to explain how an atheist would reject his premise and provide a response to how a person of faith would respond to and atheists argument.

About a year ago, I remember being very anxious to figure out who made the cut, for middle school basketball tryouts, that is. I also remember this one man-child looking guy at tryouts, who I saw as about ten-feet tall. After finding out who made the team, I was not-so-surprised to find out that the man-child was the only sixth grader to make the team out of the one-hundred or so kids that had tried out. Engrossed in my thought, all that I remembered thinking about was, “Life is totally not fair. It’s just not. Of course that kid made the team, he is literally double my frickin’ height, and there is nothing I can do about it.”

I have always had a purpose when it came to my education. One of the first things I did when I started to think about my future was to consider what my goals are. My objective when I started school was to be in an area that was close to my husband’s job, so that made the decision easily for me. The primary function I wanted school to be for me was to open up opportunities to the medical field and study abroad opportunities.

Being told that one can be whatever one wants as long as one has determination, hard work, and imagination is proposing a lofty goal that will most likely

When I was a young man in high school, I never thought I would get to where I am today. This is simply because, in my early days in high school, teachers used to discourage me that I would not make it in life and have a successful career. This is because I showed zero effort.

Ever since I was a little girl I always wished I was good at sports, or learned how to do makeup like the pretty girls. I never quite got how people were so great at doing things like it just came to them,even academically there was always someone better. This never discouraged me or made me feel belittled, actually it made me want to find what I was good at. I tried almost everything! Cheerleading, step team, all the way to the debate team.

Part two: “Becoming a Purpose – Warren tells us that every church is driven by something. He describes seven aspects which typically is the driven force behind a church. For instance, churches are driven by tradition, personality, finances, programs, building, events, and seekers. In this section of the book we find the central aim of the author, which centered on the purpose- driven church. Warren uses Scripture to help reinforce his claim which is a clear purpose reduces frustration. A clear purpose not only defines what we do, it defines what we don’t do. Furthermore, a clear purpose allows concentration, a clear purpose attracts cooperation, and a clear purpose assists evolution. (88-93) Warren maps out the five purposes of a New Testament Church. First, worship – “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only” (Matt. 4:10). Second, ministry – The church is to “… equip the saints for the work of ministry” (Eph. 4:12 NRSV). Third, evangelism – “As you are going make disciples” (Matt. 28:19-20).

In the text  Living to Some Purpose, the author talks about the myth of Sisyphus. He also talks about the French existentialist writer Albert Camu and his views about the myth of Sisyphus, that Camu wrote in his book. He explains how it relates to the meaning of life. There are two ways of looking at the story of Sisyphus; one of them being that all life has no meaning. The only meaning in life is your own satisfaction. Essentially it makes no difference what you do in life, if you feel satisfied, and joyful you’ll be living a fulfilled life. For example; Sisyphus who endlessly pushes the same rock, up the same hill can feel just as satisfied as a man who travels around the world curing diseases because this gives both people the same amount

Dr. Seuss wrote in his book Happy Birthday to You, “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Every essence of our being, from our personalities to our DNA is different from everyone else in this world. Many of these distinctions are apparent in the classroom setting and at times can prove challenging for a teacher. Some students may learn the lessons very quickly while others may take extra time and may need out-of-class help. These differences will affect their ability to learn and grow as a student and the strategies I implement in my classroom will affect their ability to succeed.

Setting priorities by knowing themselves through doing or action will help define purpose in one’s life. For example, A purpose can be found in the necessary things people do, like cooking for their loved ones, a purpose can be in someone’s career, personal activities, and providing for their family. A good place to start finding what a person believe is to ask oneself what an individual believe the meaning of life is: “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self” (Albert Einstein). Purpose in life can change at different points. A purpose may be discovered at this very moment in someone’s life. In months or years from now, life may be different and be served by a new sense of purpose. For instance, life’s purpose may have everything to do with getting established in

firmly believe in the philosphy that “Where there's a will, there's a way” and hard work is the key to unlock the doors of the success because there is no shortcut and alternative for attaining success.

In the play Three Sisters the character Vershinin says, “We’re not happy and we can’t be happy; we only want happiness.” So, what’s the purpose of life? Is it to be happy? Everyone has that desire, to have happiness. We even base our decision we by how it will affect our happiness. In our life we experience happiness and unhappiness, but we are oblivious as to what happiness is. What comes to mind when thinking of happiness? Is it pleasure, the thought of the good life, prosperity, or is it something else? We won’t be able to have a response to that question until we have a notion of happiness. When reading this quote, I connected it to a few philosophical ideas. The first connection I made to was hedonism then epicureanism, stoicism, free will and existentialism.