Alister Cameron shares this great bit from Robert Allen about finding your purpose:

Purpose is knowing what you want and doing it because it expresses who you really are. Billy Graham, Julio Iglesias, Lee Iacocca, Mother Theresa (when she was alive). They’re “on purpose.” They’re living the life they were born to live. It’s hard to imagine them doing anything else. They don’t need goals to motivate themselves. They’d do it anyway. And if they do set goals, it’s just to keep score.

I’ve spent a lot of time studying highly effective people, including graduates of my various seminars, and I find four threads that run through all of their conversations:

Passion: They love what they do. If they weren’t making so much money, they’d be tempted to do it for free.

Values: Their daily activities are extremely important to them.

Talent: They’re good at what they do. Call it talent or ability, they’ve got what it takes to be one of the best.

Destiny: They have a sense that they are doing what they were born to do. They are making their own unique contribution. It’s almost a spiritual thing. They’re following their intuition and feel they are fulfilling their destiny.

I *think* I’ve found my purpose, but I’m not totally sure yet. Maybe I should move in to Avenue Q.

Why must you taunt me so?

As soon as I posted my previous entry, a trojan slipped through and pretty much wreaked havoc in this barely used computer. Norton couldn’t even detect it!

So here I am now, fresh from a reformat. I shan’t tempt fate again.

Well, not until I have to reformat my slightly less than legal programs. Haha.

Ugh. As much as I appreciate the program from keeping the trojans out, it’s really annoying how it overprotective that I can’t even authorize my flickr Uploadr. flickr Uploader!

*tears hair out* Does Norton expect me to upload through my browser?! Que horror!