A Higher Purpose. Let me explain to you what it means again. Well, let’s start with a purpose. Everybody has a purpose or even purposes. And of course, it is great. It is great because if you do not have a purpose, you don’t have a life. Having a purpose is very important.
It is important because if have aВ purpose, you exactly know what toВ do inВ your life or with your life. For example, you want toВ do something creative or you want toВ be someone like aВ doctor or aВ teacher. That is your purpose, your goal. That is something you want toВ do inВ your life. Something that motivates you toВ do what you wannaВ do.
Now you may ask me, if, for example, IВ want toВ be rich. IВ want toВ have aВ lot ofВ money. Is having aВ lot ofВ money aВ purpose or aВ goal?
As aВ matter ofВ fact, it is. Money is fabulous, but money is not everything. ByВ the way, money is aВ not aВ good motivator.
Well, we all do things for money. InВ other words, we all need money toВ live, toВ buy food, clothes. But money is not aВ higher purpose.
You have toВ have aВ bigger purpose, something that is bigger than you. The purpose why you do what you do. For example, my higher purpose is toВ build aВ bridge between two cultures, between people. My higher purpose is toВ help people toВ speak English easily and confidently. That is why IВ create my courses, IВ create my lessons. And IВ use them as aВ platform toВ enhance people, toВ inspire and encourage people, toВ help people toВ be more successful and happier. That is my higher purpose.
What about you? What is your higher purpose in life? Oh, by the way, if you don’t have a higher purpose, it is not a big deal. Why? Because you can always create it. Promise? Okay, I know you are serious about it. Just do it.
Now we are jumping into the vocabulary lesson.
Our first word for today is to advance. You can see in the sentence: “A Higher Purpose is the cause, the reason that is so just that you would willingly sacrifice your own interests in order to advance this cause, this higher purpose”.
ToВ advance simply means toВ move forward. AВ Higher Purpose is the cause, the reason that moves you forward. You go, you move forward your cause. You advance this cause, this higher purpose.
Next we have the verb to own. I used this word in the story. You probably know this word, but let’s just repeat it again, review it again, one more time. To own means to have as one’s possession. It is something that you possess, you have, not your brother or sister. Not whatever or whoever. No one but you. For example, you have a car or you own a car. You have a house or you own a house. You have a company or you own a company. It is only yours. So I think you’ve got the idea.
Alright, next is the word a competitor. Here a competitor means a company that sells the same goods or services as your company does. Tony the tiger owned the company and he often said, “We’ve got to beat our competitors”.
Of course, to beat a competitor means to overcome your competitor. To defeat someone in a game, competition, to win. That’s what it means.
Next is the word an employee. You might already know this word, but again an employee. An employee is aВ person you hire toВ work for you or for another person or aВ business. AВ team ofВ employees simply means aВ group ofВ people who are paid regularly toВ work for another person or for an organization.
The next we see the word frequent. Frequent. Frequent means constant or happening often. The people who worked for Tony didn’t want to go on constant business trips. They didn’t want to go on frequent business trips. In other words, they didn’t willingly sacrifice their lives to the company.
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