"Instead of searching for some type of ultimate mission, you should try and figure out what makes you happy and where your skills lie."
Sensible, but I say keep searching for the ultimate mission too.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
Is this too romantic? Because in that ethos I find food for the soul.
Sensible, but I say keep searching for the ultimate mission too.
One of the best ways to assist that search is by doing lots of stuff. So you get the best of both worlds, making progress before discovering your "mission" and learning a little more about what that mission might be.
And, no, the T.R. quote is not too romantic. Without big dreams, many of us would just shrivel up and die.
I agree with edw in this. That's a great quote, I don't think it's too romantic. I think it's one of those things entrepreneurs should live by and have tucked away in their Rolodex of ethos and life values.
From an email I got once, I really like this quote as I feel it is something I believe in:
"Success is the process of living your life working toward worthy goals. And here is the brain tweak: once you reach your goals, you are no longer a success! You must set new goals!...Success is not being debt-free, having cars, going on vacations or buying expensive toys.
Success is living your life working toward worthy goals. If you are sincerely and diligently working your business on a consistent weekly basis, and you have your reasons for doing the business in front of you daily, then you are a success!"
Sensible, but I say keep searching for the ultimate mission too.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
Is this too romantic? Because in that ethos I find food for the soul.