The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

If productivity is one of the biggest reasons we are alive, and it is, what would be the best way to make us productive? The answer is simple. We have to "die daily". It sounds harsh and weird but it is true. One of the things we have to do is to make sure that the object of our focus, that is our core work, is what we were meant to do in the first place. In other words, we can be "successful" in...

I do believe that the main reason why we are existing is so that we can be productive. We do this through work. We have to answer two major questions: "Where was I called to be productive?" In other words, how have I been wired so that whatever I do is what I am not only gifted at, but also what I have lots of passion at? After answering that question, we are left with one more crucial question to...

When you are misunderstood as a visionary, you could be easily discouraged and thrown off balance. In the worst-case scenarios, people give up the vision so that they can fit in and conform to society. We have to understand that from the get-go, the thing you are passionate about as a visionary is not necessarily going to be generally accepted. At times, it is against the status quo of the day. Wh...

According to Napoleon Hill, "No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind." The more reason you need to mastermind when you are misunderstood as a visionary. There will be one or two people on the face of the universe who are as passionate as you are about ideas. This could be one of the best ways to make sure...

The word "disruption" is being thrown around a lot. The fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be disrupted in life, at least in the way they see their certainty in life working. People want to be sure that what works remains working. As a visionary, you might be disrupted when you want to do something totally different from the widely accepted norm, different from the status quo. What do you...

So what do you do when you are constantly misunderstood by your friends and loved ones because you are pursuing or want to pursue a totally different angle in life from that which is widely accepted by the status quo? We are all different in our own unique ways. Perhaps the greatest misfortune in life is when we want to fit and conform more than we want to stand out and be distinct and celebrate o...

It could be impossible for the whole wide world to turn against you as a visionary. If you look carefully there is always someone out there who understands you. As a visionary, one of the prices you will have to pay is being isolated, being alone, and being misunderstood. Why? Because your vision will invariably go against the grain and the status quo of the day. If you are not careful, that visio...

As I have said in these episodes, you cannot expect everyone to believe your vision, or purpose, or passion. For the most part, people believe it when they see it. Not so for the visionary. The visionary believes it before they can see it. As you can see, there is a discrepancy between what the visionary sees and what the rest of the people see. You will be misunderstood over and over again before...

Perhaps you have an idea or a vision or some passionate pursuit that you are engaged in. You pretty much wanted your closest friends and loved ones to not only understand you, but you also banked on their support. Unfortunately for you, they do not see things the way you see, they do not feel what you feel. In fact, what you are trying to do is way outside of the norm, the known, the understood, a...

As a society, we are increasingly grappling with change. It is scary to change. When you have always known how things are supposed to operate and all of a sudden someone you care about wants to do it differently, you get scared at times. And this is happening in areas that are interesting in life, such as careers, meaning, and purpose. Increasingly, our friends and loved ones are seeking to move a...

Let's face it. No one is obligated to believe your vision. However, when you have persevered enough and seen the vision bring fruits or it becomes a reality, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of belief. The fact is that everything is created at least twice. The first creation is when you get the vision, the idea, the purpose, or the passion to pursue it. At that moment, there is no evidence...

When a visionary is misunderstood by friends and loved ones, for the most part, it will be because they are taking a stand that is different from what the status quo offers. People will not see what you see, feel what you feel, and hear what you hear. That should be what you and I have to understand from the get-go. At times we get it wrong when we think that people will have the same passion as w...

We all go through pain in our lives at one point or another. Perhaps the greatest pain that we suffer is not physical pain, it is the pain in our souls that is brought about by being misunderstood by the people that we expected to understand. Many times a visionary downloads something out of this world, and just the fact that it doesn't fit in the status quo of the day, we vilify them and make the...

As a visionary or someone who is hot on the heels of purpose pursuit, make no mistake about it, you will be misunderstood. No one is obligated to believe you. No one. So when you are misunderstood, you will go through several things. It is very important for your friends and loved ones to come alongside and help you, support you and shield you, providing a strong belief in what you do. But what ha...

A Jesus-type of visionary will always be misunderstood and for good reasons. They are unlike anyone we have seen. They take on massive "impossible" projects. In our world, we can equate this kind of visionary to an Alexandar The Great, a Julius Ceasar, a Napoleon, a Shaka Zulu, an Abraham Lincoln, or even to some extent, a John F Kennedy or a Martin Luther King Jnr. One can even say an Elon Musk o...

We always misunderstand visionaries among us. This is in families, classrooms, office blocks and community. They see what we don't. They are motivated unlike we are. So we vilify them, judge them, laugh at them, and so on because we want them to operate in life with total respect to the status quo. Unfortunately for us, there is one type of visionary that does not play games with their vision. If...

Joseph is the typically gifted visionary with a heart to save multitudes, but so docile to defend themselves. We have such kinds of visionaries in our lives today. The worst thing you can do as someone who is close to a visionary is to misunderstand their passion and their spirit. Every day, such a one gets misunderstood all over the world. If you are a "Joseph-Type" of visionary, you find that th...

There are at least 7 ways in which we show our great misunderstanding of some of the visionaries on earth. These are the round pegs in square holes, the misfits, and the trouble makers as Steve Jobs an Apple called them. They are found in our homes, our classrooms, our workplaces, and our politics. They are found in our religions and sports arenas. They stick up like a sore thumb against the statu...

There was an astronomer or a scientist who at the time of popular belief that the world was flat, came up with his findings that the earth was indeed round. He was vilified, misunderstood, and excommunicated. He was forced to recant his sayings that were termed as heresies. Later on, the world proved that he was right, and it was Pope John Paul the second that asked for forgiveness on behalf of th...

At times, unbeknown to us, we are living with geniuses. However, we are so hell-bent on making them fit in instead of letting them flourish and stand out. We want them to toe the line, to conform, to be normal. To do what everyone else does on a daily basis. And so we misunderstand their passion, commitment, and drive. We get scared of their crazy ideas. We ask them where the money will come from...

"Here is to the crazy ones, the misfits and the rebels" That was Apple way back in 1997. They had a point. Today, in our own backyards, in our own homes, classrooms, and office blocks, there are misfits that are being vilified. We do not understand their passion and their purpose. We do not understand their commitment, vision, and ideas. So we want to stop them dead in their tracks. In this episod...

One of the greatest enemies in my work is the status quo. The other one of course is ignorance. These two coming together have killed dreams of different visionaries the world over. Day in and out, these visionaries are misunderstood because we feel like they do not toe the line. They are not like us. Such weird people can be found in our houses, schools, and office blocks. Daily, we have no idea...

There are several reasons why in your pursuit of passion or purpose, you are not earning enough. Probably you have just started or you have been at it for ages but there are only trickles to show for it. Some of the reasons why that is the case are covered in the 8 episodes prior and this one just summarizes all of them into one episode. For the most part, people would rather take a job than pursu...

They say that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Quite instructive. I normally poke holes in some of these nuggets. For example, what if the bird in the hand is lame, or has a defect? Will it still be worth two in the bush? Well, that will depend. In pursuing our purpose, we soon enough become weird in the eyes of our friends and loved ones. The greatest question they would be asking is:...

When someone is told, "Go get yourself a real job", chances are that that someone was pursuing something of passion or purpose. Now, a "real" job has some guarantees. You know that you will earn X amount of money consistently in a certain period. That gives you certainty. You know that your bills of survival will be covered without trouble and as promised. Not so with Purpose pursuit. As much as t...