Always remember that when you are committed to a life purpose that is bigger than your problems, your problems become relatively insignificant and you will overcome them with ease.

Life is greater if you live with purpose.
When you find a meaningful reason for doing what you do, you’ll feel complete.

But as you live your life with more and more true purpose, you won’t accumulate so much tension during the day.

Those who overcome the temptations of mediocrity and achieve everything they want in life have an extraordinarily compelling why that drives them. They have defined a clear life purpose that is more powerful than the collective sum of their petty problems and the countless obstacles they will inevitably face, and they wake up each day and work towards their purpose.

purpose is more important than fear.

A valuable skill in life is to be larger than the situation.

When you're feeling stressed or rattled, the situation is consuming you. It feels bigger and more important than it needs to be. This is when your emotions are likely to get the best of you.

But when you are larger than the situation, you can mentally "step outside and above it." Yes, there are problems to be solved. Yes, you need to take action. But the chaos is happening externally and you are still in the driver's seat internally. You're in control of the moment, the moment is not in control of you.

The problems in your life are much less about the things that are happening, and much more to do with the way you see them.

If you have life, you have purpose.

The purpose supersedes the discomfort.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If you haven't developed yourself in any capacity, your current purpose, and the ones following, will increase in meaning as you solve your own problems. Start with what's right in front of you. Are you overweight and sluggish? Do you hate your job? Are you dealing with relationship issues? Is your mind a storm of negative thoughts and emotions? You must confront what's causing the most pain in your life, dance with that pain, and create a plan to solve the problem. When you solve that problem, not only will you build momentum into the next, but your other problems will become easier to solve. This is not a linear process. Your problems are a tight-knit web that bind you to your current situation. Problems don't exist on their own.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Even in everyday life, something bigger, deeper, and more important than self-satisfaction needs to be inside us. Having a transcendent cause is not just some vague idea in the back of our minds, something we'll hang onto just in case of a crisis or a battle. No, it has to be there day in and day out. Our lives should reflect our commitment to that cause. One example of this may be as simple as your faithfulness to some uninteresting and seemingly unrewarding job- simply because you've got to bring home a check- and not giving up on it.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.