Dear Dave,
My husband and I even have been very blessed financially throughout our lives. We make a combined income of just over $200,000 per 12 months and currently have a net value of around $4 million. But what do you do whenever you’re now not motivated by something like that? How do you discover and live out God’s purpose in your life whenever you’ve already had a greater life than you ever expected?
Amanda
Dear Amanda,
I can not inform you what your calling is, but I can inform you. There is a number of success and joy in doing something that serves the people and things in your life that matter most.
If you’ve got studied psychology a bit, you could remember something called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It principally says that when your physiological and safety needs are met, you’ll feel the necessity to search out other things to motivate you. It seems like you’re each hard-working, achievement-oriented people. That’s me too. And people like us find leisure and even success outside of labor in alternative ways than most individuals.
If I were you, I’d take into consideration how you possibly can serve other people or causes which can be dear to you. Maybe there have been dreams you had way back that you just put aside in your profession. What really speaks to you at once, at this stage of your life? If you’ve gotten children in the home, it would mean becoming a stay-at-home mom and really getting involved with them. It might mean starting an animal shelter or providing meals to people who find themselves homebound. Everyone has dreams and everybody’s dreams are different.
It seems like you’ve got been serious about this for some time. Here is my advice to you. Treat yourself to a day or perhaps a weekend all to yourself. Get away from every thing and everybody – all outside distractions – and take into consideration your future self. Bring things to eat and drink, a number of notepads, pencils, and a Bible. Then, before you do the rest, take a deep breath, calm down, and pray.
From this point on, be completely honest with God and yourself. Open your heart and mind to the belongings you care about and to all possibilities. You should have a worthy goal in mind, and that is the only thing missing. But a time of thoughtful prayer—and yes, even daydreaming—can bring you closer to a solution than ever before.
Congratulations in your success, Amanda. You and your husband are truly blessed. But now perhaps it is time to turn out to be a blessing to others!
–Dave
