In the world of work and life there is a lot of language around purpose and vision. There is debate as to whether it is best to go with your sense of purpose and craft your life around your vision or whether to just take life as it comes. We can easily get caught up in the overall greater meaning and purpose of life that we can lose sight of the importance of the life we are actually living today. The only way we or others will know if we are living our purpose or making a contribution is if it shows up in our everyday lives. Perhaps it is the influence of living the 12 steps, but when I got into recovery I realized the power and importance of living one day at a time. In the beginning it was the only way I could fathom stepping into the unknown. After a while I realized its validity in using it for all areas of my life. When it comes to contributions who we are being as much as what we are doing determines the kind of contribution that we make. A work product or a specific action is easier to provide proof of our contribution but when it comes to the contribution of our being that is more subtle. It is kind of like what Maya Angelou said, ” I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” While I take notice with the idea that we actually make others feel things, she was speaking about the impact that we have on each other just by our presence. If we learn to cultivate an awareness of our own hearts and use that to guide our interactions, the contribution we make will far outweigh the specifics of what we say or do. This can work conversely as well. If we are hurting in our hearts part of our contribution will be the in the weight of that on our experience and possibly the experience of others. God encourages us to be mindful of the contributions we are making in the daily little moments of our lives. It is the accumulation of those that we will look back upon at the end of our lives and determine what our real contribution was.
What kind of impactful contribution might we find ourselves able to make by aligning the contribution of our body, mind, and heart today?
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