To be like James Arthur

One day my wife showed me a YouTube video that inspired the heck out of me.
James Arthur, a young unemployed guy from Middlesbrough,
took part in the X-Factor competition and he sang his soul out. This performance blew me away. I really recommend you watch it. The actual performance is between 3:34 and 5:55.

I could rant for hours about how shallow and empty the music industry is nowadays, but I won’t. James Arthur reminded me what the art really stands for.

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Personal Mission Statement – 4 Good Reasons to Create Yours

Reportedly, only 3% of Americans have their goals stated and written down. So, there is a question, which came first; the chicken or the egg?

Are the top 3% people of society successful because they wrote their goals down, or is it just the habit of the 3% “best” of us?

Well, there has been researche done on this topic, which tries to discover a correlation between goals writing and success. In the case of personal mission statements there is no such conducted.

And having a personal mission statement is even more elite than having your goals written down. On the other hand, there were millions of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People copies sold and this is the book which popularized the concept. So, having a personal mission statement is not as rare as having a unicorn in your stables.

What the heck it is?

A personal mission statement is your philosophy, your creed written down.
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Your Life Has a Meaning p. I

Discover it

In God’s plan, every man is born to seek self-fulfillment, for every human life is called to some task by God.
Populorum Progressio, 15

You’ve heard it right. Every one of us has a task to do on this planet. You are not so unique to be different from the rest of humanity in this regard. And it’s up to you to detect and fulfill your purpose.

Logotherapy – the science behind purpose

Victor Frankl, the author of a psychology school called Logotherapy, spent a good part of his life proving the above words of Paul VI. He was a scientist, a professor; he had a great mind. I can’t describe his theory and the way he constructed it and the load of data supporting his point of view in one blog post, no matter how expanded. There is a multitude of volumes written about the subject.
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