Living on Purpose

Happy New Year fellow bloggers and bloggettes! This is my first blog for 2009 and as I said on my last blog of 2008, I was going to get it together. It's been 7 days already into the new year and I feel like I am trying to play catch up. I've been updating my website (www.fonjames.com) and creating new accounts on Facebook and Twitter (search for Fon James on both), so that I can keep up with all of you, but I feel as though there is much to be done and little time to do it.

Of course I am still working a full-time job, so most of my writing is done outside of work hours. Sometimes I can squeeze in a few words during lunch, but I am mainly confined to writing once I get off work. And with a new baby, that pretty much means I need to run a lean tight ship if I want to ever get anything accomplished. So how does one ever get to a point where they are doing what they are supposed to be doing...or Living On Purpose?

That's my topic for today: Living On Purpose.Often times many of us are thrust into positions, jobs, careers, hustles, etc., just to pay the bills - bills of course that we have created (unless you paying somebody else's bills). We start doing things we are passionate about on the side, and dream of one day making it our main squeeze so to speak.

Over the last year or so, I have been toying with the notion of living on purpose and what that really means for me personally. In order to live on purpose, you have to know what your purpose is and why God put you here on earth in the first place.

How do you figure this out? By communing with God on a daily basis and becoming intimate with Him. Each year, I always say that I want to grow spiritually, which includes reading my bible regularly, meditating, etc. And as most people do with new year optimism, it's good for a while, and then it just falls off.

This year I am vowing not only to grow spiritually, but to live on purpose. I believe part of my purpose in life is to encourage others through the written word. I am always talking to people and telling them how they can make their life better. It dawned on me one day while talking to my mom that I am often the person that people go to when they need encouragement. It took me a while to see the pattern, but now that I do, I realize that this is part of who I am and who God wants me to be. But in order to encourage others to live their best life, I have to be a shining example and live my best life...and I can do that by living on purpose for God.

I pray that I can blog encouraging words everyday to fullfill my purpose, so stay tuned!

Be Blessed and know that God created you uniquely for His Purpose. Seek Him and Your Purpose will follow.

Fon

P.S. The sequel to my debut novel Back and Forth is coming soon. Stay tuned for details and excerpts from the new novel.

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