Figmentations

It is not uncommon that when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again, you tend to stop thinking about it on a deeper level since it has essentially become old news to you.  That is until that same old familiar piece of information unexpectedly triggers a new connection for you.

For those of you familiar with social media concepts, you’ve probably heard many times already how sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are simply tools for delivering a message.  The actual sites themselves are not the message. 

If you don’t have a message to communicate, then social media tools will do little for you other than perhaps provide some entertainment value in observing other people’s exchanges.

For those of you confused about what to do with your life, try to apply this same concept to your quandary. Any occupation, product, or service is simply the tool or vehicle for delivering your message, benefit, or solution to others.

Once you get clear on what message you want to convey (or what problem you want to solve for others), then you can start looking for ways to do that.  With some thought, you’d probably notice that there is quite likely more than just one single way to achieve your objective, too.

Though it’s not quite as tidy a comparison as what follows next, but for the sake of providing an example, consider how a comedian and a doctor both want to make people feel better, they just do it in different ways.

If you could deliver any message to the world, what would it be? Can you think of more than one way to deliver that message?
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For a list of all posts in this series go to: Finding Purpose (actual links will be posted as each post becomes live.)