![]() There are plenty of people on a mission, just on smaller scales. Being on a mission doesn’t have to be quite that big, though. These are the kinds of passionate and motivated people who make a difference in the world, and do so on an international scale. While on opposite sides of the war/peace debate, both of their missions were the passion of their lives, an unquenchable desire to achieve a goal. As I have mentioned before, Mother Teresa was also a person with a mission. I started with the scary side of missions to make sure that you harness your passion and set your goals in a proper manner. From Rev Jim Jones to Marshall Applewhite, the trail of carnage and suffering is astounding. Many on the fringes of religion suffer from the same kind of mission, and usually fare no better. Usually it was amassing personal power, wealth and prestige, cloaked in claim that they were helping the common folk achieve those same things. From Hitler to Idi Amin, they had a mission. ![]() Name any great tyrant in history, and you have a person with a mission. But one must be careful what one takes on as a mission. Being on a mission is having a goal that is an unquenchable desire. The second group needs some introspection and planning, and the third, that’s where we want to be, isn’t it? To which of the groups above do you most regularly fall?īeing on a mission – sounds like the start to a movie, doesn’t it? The line has been used in everything from the Blues Brothers to the Mission Impossible franchise, and many movies in-between. The first group is not of much interest to anyone. They know what they want to do and they are doing things they think will move their mission along. Others, a rare few in my observation, are on a mission. ![]() Others are feverishly running around, doing busy-work, without an overarching plan or mission to guide them (me, most of the time). Some people spend their life waiting, doing a little here, a little there, but never doing much (the intermission referenced in the quote, by my reckoning). If someone were to demand to know what you life’s mission was, could you tell them? Right now, I’d be hard pressed, although I have the usual list of roles I fulfill and tasks I do which define my existence. Make your life a mission, not an intermission! – Arnold H. By philosiblog on 9 June 2011 in exceptionalism, goals, mission, passion
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