My Personal Mission in Life

Activity 1

My Personal Mission in Life

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

A ponderous and challenging quote from Zig Ziglar that is, indeed significant to all of us. Mission entails the goals and objectives of an individual. Clearly, it is our personal course in life. From the fact that we are existing and maturing, we need to embody a unique direction in life. We need to possess a mission for us to unravel the purpose of our existence.

Everyone has a mission in life, of course. Even in such small things of our daily living like cooking, we have an objective for that-to make it pleasant to eat. I, too exhibits a personal mission in life. From time to time, they are changing but I finally come up with three. First, to treasure and make the most of my college life. We all know that we are just passers by in this universe. What happened in the past will not occur again in the future. So this is what I'm trying to stress in my first mission- to value my life in college, treasure all the positive and negative experiences because they will never going to happen again. I should be thankful for my achievements and accept my failures because it will help me grow into the person who I wanted to be. Engage in social activities where I could share my God-given talents.

My second quest is to strive hard in my academic works in order for me to achieve my dreams and goals in life. This is true to every students. As a student we are absolutely trying our best and make extra effort in our studies for us to have a brilliant and advantageous future. For me, I'm earnestly studying because I desired to assist my family in our present status. I've pondered that they are positively supportive to me so that's why I should offer my achievements to them. They are my second motivators, next to God and factors why I'm doing the best that I can.

The third and my most important mission is to serve God in most possible way. As what Leo Buscaglia quoted, "our talents are the gift that God gave to us. What we make of our talents is our gift back to God." I want to serve God by not necessarily making myself as a nun but by sharing my talents to others without expecting any return. Helping those in need within my capacity. I remember so well the movie of M0ther Teresa that she perceives the poor and outcast as the face of God calling her to serve Him. I'm enlightened with that movie and called to follow God by such simple act of helping.

Imagine how powerful our personal missions into the lives of others. It could greatly affect to ones life's perspective. We should empower our attitude because "our attitude towards life determines life towards us" by Earl Nightingale. It is strongly important to ask guidance from the Divine above and offer or surrender to Him our missions for these to be acquired or come true. We should not let our failures drive away our trust to Him because He is merely testing our faith and every obstacle is a proof of His unconditional love for us. Also, by accepting our uniqueness, be contented for what God blessed us and soar high like an eagle, I firmly assure that everyone's mission will undoubtedly be achieved.