Reality Repair Starts With Alignment To Purpose

Two of my favorite words lately are alignment and purpose. When these two words are in sync with each other you can access unlimited success and abundance and all the positive feelings that come with those things. But when these two words are out of sync with each other, that is when you get failure and scarcity and all the negative feelings that come with those outcomes.

If you want to be more successful in repairing broken realities that need fixing or creating new and better ones, then the best starting point is to see your primary purpose clearly with single-mindedness and then align your efforts to completing that purpose.

There really is no mystery why some people, relationships and businesses succeed and some fail. Success and failure has everything to do with alignment with purpose. Take the criminal justice non-system for a prime example. Not only do the three major components—the police, prisons and courts—have misalignment with cross-purposes, but each of these parts themselves don’t even have any alignment with a common purpose. The courts change their purpose according to social pressures, the police try to evolve and act on those changes, and the prisons have their own agenda as to what their training and philosophies say works best. There is no agreement about any of these things.

Businesses that are totally aligned with what it takes to make a healthy bottom-line are usually as successful as those who are well aligned with the common purpose of delivering a quality, cutting-edge product or service, or creating quality workplaces for employees. And marriages that are totally aligned with the main purpose of getting further as a couple than individuals will succeed as well as those who have a common spiritual purpose of growing forward together into their best selves and best couple.

The point is that misalignment or disagreement of common purpose gets everyone going in different directions and moves the finish line around so much that no one can see it, let alone get to it. It is like trying to shoot at a moving target when you are running with a rubber gun flapping in the breeze, shooting Kleenex for bullets.

I think we get hung up here with two different types of possible thinking mistakes. One mistake is not spending enough time uncovering clear purpose in what we are doing (or giving up too quickly). And the other mistake is allowing ourselves to indulge in the unproductive habit of over-anticipating and expecting certain outcomes ahead of time as desirable and positive and others as undesirable and negative. These two mistakes cause much misalignment and are an adversary to both purpose and alignment.

How do we correct these thinking errors to access more success and abundance? How do we align ourselves with a clear purpose and stop choosing outcomes before they happen or even before we choose how to get those outcomes? The clue to resolving this dilemma may be in not choosing one purpose as being better than the other, before we really get to it. Hesitation in not fully believing you are aligned with the right purpose often messes with your timing and gets things out of sync, and you end up empty-handed in your success quest and then wonder why.

A good question to start with is what is the purpose of having a purpose? If nothing else, just to help you see what it is you need to be doing or not doing to be successful, without second-guessing yourself as to the results this or that purpose will bring. Here are a few other good questions to ask in attempting to clarify the purpose you have in doing something. Focus on these questions as they are relevant to what you may or may not be doing right now or go ahead and be global in applying them to what you are trying to do with your life in general. Either way works.

• Why am I here in this particular situation?
• What am I supposed to be doing?
• How can I do it to be most successful?
• What do I expect to gain?
• Where can I go to get help when I need it?

Once you get a clearer picture of your fundamental purpose in doing something with your answers to these questions, aligning your head, heart and hands to carry out that purpose as a team, becomes a matter of self-discipline of persistency, consistency and tenacity. This is where effort comes in.

Some say talent + efforts = success. I would say that if you make an honest effort to see your fundamental purpose of doing something clearly, it will be in alignment with what natural talents you have and then all you have to do is make a concerted effort in using your talents to be successful in fulfilling your purpose. In this way your success formula is circular, but then again truth usually is.

You are not likely to have a passionate longing in your heart to be successful in carrying out a unique purpose or succeeding in doing what you are trying to do, without the ability to at least learn and practice the efforts needed to be successful. One caveat has helped me—to be more patient with getting results (the degree in which they actually come, not the volume and velocity of my desires) by learning to want what I already have a little more, before I am fully satisfied with having all that I want. This is probably what I wanted all along.