What is Your Purpose?

I have been on hiatus from this blog for a few months.  A LOT has been learned...soaked in since the year started and I am trying to wrap my mind around everything I've learned.  It is intense, in a sense, because I thought I found myself years ago and there I go wanting to learn and know more and here I am with all of what I have learned and trying to figure out how I FEEL about these things. (If that makes any sense.) 

The title of this post... What is Your Purpose? I've been asked this a few times this Summer, by myself and others. I remember putting in an email to someone that I am a healer... that is my purpose.  That is something I feel in my heart.  Choosing my current profession, being interested in Naturopathic medicine, choosing to heal aspects (such as financial, dietary, career, etc because I feel ANY dysfunction in these aspects is a dis-ease in that area & it needs to be healed) of myself, and most importantly wanting to share healing with others, especially Black Women show that this is something I feel strongly about.  Another purpose, rebuilding the Black community (which I cannot do alone).  This, right here, has been on my heart for years.  And not being sure where or how, I've been led to a powerful group, for lack of better word, that keep me focused on this purpose.

When asked what their purpose is, many people draw a blank.  Some have not even thought about it.  They walk aimlessly through life hoping somebody will stop them outside of Starbucks and tell them what they're supposed to be doing.  In the book The Spirit of Intimacy by Sobonfu Some, it is stated that children tell their village what their purpose is before leaving the womb.  If this is possible, if you believe it, then you know what you're hear to do before your first breath.  Why are you fighting it?  That thing that you constantly push to the back burner, afraid of ridicule.  What you may stay up late at night researching.  The tug in your stomach, the book that piqued an interest that has always been there... that is your purpose.

How do you find this? I can't answer that for you.  You have to ask yourself what you are here to do.  Meditate on it.  The answer will come to you.  Some say you can figure this out in twenty minutes.  Here's what they say to do:

"1.Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).

2.Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”

3.Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.

4.Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose."

I didn't cry when I discovered I want to "heal"... should I check my purpose?  No. lol You may not cry. What do you feel strongly about? Educating children the proper way and not the way they do in public schools?  Dropping knowledge in a poetic form that would make Jill Scott bow down?  Your purpose will not be as profound as Mother Theresa's. Don't expect it to be.  Your life is all about what works for you. Not what you've been told to believe, feel, or say... Nobody but nobody can tell you why you are here.  That is between you and The Creator.  Get quiet, go within, and find yourself.

Come back soon for my posts on Debt and Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Financial Growth

This post is off the top of my head, so walk with me as I think...aloud.

My best friend and I just started having "meetings" via yahoo IM to discuss life. Life goals and how we are to go about accomplishing these tasks. Most of my goals are financial. At 27, I am nowhere near where I want or hoped to have been financially.  The beauty is, I am young enough to change that.  I want to share my financial journeys in hopes that it will not only help keep me accountable but help somebody that needs to help themselves financially.

I searched for financial blogs geared toward Black women....... didn't find any.  Funny.  An article I read recently put the average net worth for today's sista at a whopping $100.  Add our cars, if we own one, and it may go up to $5000.  Now, if $100 is the average, how many of us have a negative net worth?  So why don't we have any financial blogs for us?  If there are some, please point me in their direction. This sh*t is making me nervous but they say being nervous means you're doing something right, right?  Do what scares you.  Putting myself on a budget scares me.  So much so, I asked my friend if I can call it a "spending plan" just to make me feel better.  Hope that works. 

They say the best way to become financially fit, to straighten up these tangled wires in our finances is to seek advice.  I've found some quotes that I am going to use to keep myself in check.  Even found a net worth and budgeting worksheets that I will share with you.  I don't know if I will give y'all the details of my finances but... I will definitely share the journey.  Maybe I'll call the posts "Mind on My Money" with whatever subtitle works for that day. *shrug* Who knows?  I will be sharing some of my goals, starting with becoming financially stable.  I'm not as bad as I was (and trust me... I was horrible with money) but nothing is planned.  I spend as I go and when it's time to look at where it went, I don't.  That makes me still kind of bad with the green.

My ultimate goal is to make sure my children's children's children have nothing to worry about.  Other races pass money down from generation to generation. Not enough black people do that.

So take this ride with me to a future of prosperity and wealth and FREEDOM!!!

Next time on My Mind on My Money... DEBT! (yeah, I said it.)