“…how is your business going, how far is it from sustainability?”

It was also an anchor for me to maintain my certainty when waves of challenges seem to beat against me. This reminded me how deep the words of that right person can have on your trajectory. I noticed there is a couple of days lag time for my behaviors to catch up with my insights, resolutions, or new intent. Then I become most effective and efficient when they are aligned.

First, when I saw “sustainability” I thought it was my dad who asked this question. I even remembered it as him who asked it until I went searching through my messages and realized it was my mom. Next, just asking that question lit a flame under my dream of becoming an entrepreneur that wasn’t there before. It provided the validation to my business endeavor I felt mom never explicitly expressed. You see I was aspiring to be a doctor but changed to business. She supported my efforts to go into medicine but hadn’t communicated interest like this before.

Perhaps you are uncertain of your purpose, but you suspect what it is. Or maybe you already found it, you are uncertain about the next step, but you suspect the direction you should go. Remove distractions for a few minutes and listen to the quiet voice within you. You may notice more interest in one direction over another. Explore it. You may have gotten confirmation from somewhere, a speaker or a writer. Explore it. Fan the flame.

The world needs your passion, which may now just be a flicker, to develop into a flame that would provide a guiding light to some and an inspirational fire to others.

Like Jeremiah you have a potential fire for your purpose that cannot be contained.

But if I say, “I will not remember Him or speak any more in His name,” then in my heart it is like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am tired of holding it in, and I cannot do that. Jeremiah 20:9 (NLT)