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our purpose is the founda-  Even someone with a different pur-
                                                           tion of pursuing a meaning-  pose can share the impact of your
                                                     Yful, significant, and inten-   vision and bring much needed skills
                                                     tional life. Ask the average person   and resources to your cause.
                                                     what their purpose is and prepare
                                                     for a canned response that contains   Habitat for Humanity is a great
                                                     something about how important   example of this. The vision of
                                                     their family is, how they want to   Habitat for Humanity is “A world
                                                     be a good person and have a good   where everyone has a decent place
                                                     paying job. Passion factor= ZERO.  to live.” Diverse people from all
                                                                                     over are attracted and inspired by
                                                     After we discover our purpose   this vision and donate money, time,
                                                     in life, the next step is to put it in   supplies and skills to work towards
                                                     motion. This is where vision comes   this vision.
                                                     into play. Ask yourself, “what would
                                                     the world look like if I LIVED my   Ultimately, working towards a
            SAME PURPOSE,                            purpose?” This answer gives you   defined vision will create passion.
                                                     your VISION.
                                                                                     There is no passion without pur-
          DIFFERENT VISION                           Plugging our purpose into the   pose, and there is no passion with-
                                                                                     out vision. Want proof? Walk into
                                                     world and taking daily intentional   a large corporate office where every

                raig has always had a  pas-          action will slowly, but steadily lead   day staff are herded like livestock
                                                                                     into their corrals to do meaningless
                                                     us towards our vision. Regardless if
                sion for helping others. He          your vision is grand (I want to elim-  work for people they don’t know, for
          Chas spent over 30 years of his            inate hunger in the world) or small   outcomes they don’t understand for
          life serving the sick and injured in       (I want every child I meet to feel   organizations who don’t know who
          their most desperate time of need as       valued and important) the ripples   they are.
          a fire-fighter, paramedic and Flight       of your intentional actions will, in   Your vision plays a vital role in put-
          Nurse. It was through this experience      some way, change the world.     ting your purpose in action. When
          that he developed a deep appreci-                                          these come together, we spark our
          ation of living your purpose today,        Our vision will do two things. First,   passion and come alive as we chase
          since so many do not get a tomorrow.       it will fuel your passion. Waking   our dreams in hot pursuit.
                                                     up every morning knowing the
                                                     impact you have in the world gets us
          He no longer  spends his days pre-         excited and empowers us. Purpose
          venting people from dying, instead         sitting by itself simply isn’t enough.
          he helps people live. Live meaning-        Purpose plugged into vision creates
          ful, intentional and significant lives     direction, motion, and action.
          by helping them discover purpose,          It helps bring clarity to what we
          develop vision, and grow passion.          should be doing each and every day.

          Serving others is my purpose.              Second, our vision will attract peo-
                                                     ple and resources around us. People
                                                     without vision are always anxious to
                                                     find one to buy into.
       Habitat for Humanity lives its vision of “a world
         where everyone has a decent place to live”














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                                                                                       Uniform August 2000





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