Life's Three Great Decisions

1. Who will you live your life with? A marriage is not successful because of compatibility. Integrity is the key. Integrity to make a decision, make it yours and die by it.

2. What will you live your life in? A job is as sacred as a marriage. The person who doesn't love, honor and cherish their work will never receive the rewards that come to those who live their work.

3. What will you live it for? Purpose and Motive. Purpose produces passion. If the motive isn't right, the results will be wrong. We can succeed for ourselves or for God.

Those are great questions! Charlie brings to the forefront what we often talk about here as we discuss "how to stay HUNGRY." Purpose. Understanding our purpose brings life to work, relationships and life. Purpose gets our mind off of the "grind" and on to the freedom of "adding value" to life rather than just working.

Professional baseball player, preacher, and orator, Billy Sunday puts it well, "more men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."

According to Helen Keller, "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

The Sufi poet Rumi tells us to think of our lives as if we had been sent by a king to a distant country with a special task. All of us are on a quest to make a life for ourselves that is purposeful. "You might do a hundred other things, but if you fail to do the one thing for which you were sent it will be as if you had done nothing." To sustain our hungry spirit we must find our place of personal purpose.