A purpose driven career is the result of deciding to change career with purpose!

Making a decision to change your career with purpose

Can you see it? Guided by your personal purpose mission statement, you arrive at your purpose driven career, a career choice prompted by your decision to change your career with purpose!

So it was for me too. I was locked in by my concept of being in ministry. Once I began exploring God's Word to help me define what a purpose driven career would look like, examined some of my preconceived ideas about ministry careers, and faced some personal fears about "leaving ministry", I decided to change my ministry career direction, doing so with purpose.

The Shaping Of My Purpose Driven Career Concepts

Concepts such a purpose driven career, a purposeful career, finding life's purpose from God's perspective, and the purpose filled life have entrigued me all of my life.

My interest in the purpose driven life began 30 years ago, when my children were preschoolers. My concept of a purpose driven career began taking shape, after attending a conference on the purpose filled life.

Write A Simple Sample Statement of Purpose

Defining my personal purpose led me to write a sample statement of purpose as I struggled with putting my mission purpose statement on paper. That experience literally changed my concept of who I was and what I was alive to do!

I remember my first feeble efforts in trying write my sample statement of purpose. What I learned about defining personal purpose has taken a lifetime for me to understand and implement. There are several key sources that have given me a biblical concept of God's purpose.

Formulating My Concept Of The Purposeful Life

First and foremost in defining a purpose driven career is the Bible, God's Word.

If you want to see what is available in Bible resources, check out Purpose Driven Bible Resources Next, as I formulated my concept of the purposeful life, came a book written by Garry Friesen entitled "Decision Making and the Will of God".

I read that book, radical at the time in it's concept of the will of God, 20 years ago. It was this book that prompted me to continue defining my concepts on the purpose driven career.

Then came along a book with the title "Experiencing God" by Henry Blackaby that further challenged my concept of the will of God.

It was back to the drawing board of my mindas I continually worked on defining my

. . .concept of purpose-driven and determining my life's purpose

. . .tweaking my sample statement of purpose

. . .determining to start writing a personal statement of purpose

. . .and then sharing with others how defining their purpose filled life could lead them to greater freedom.

As they lived out a life purpose driven, guided by their personal purpose mission statement, they too would arrive at their purpose driven career.

Next to influence my concept of purposeful living were the writings of Bruce Wilkinson. His first book that captured the attention of many was entitled "The Prayer of Jabez".

Recently I read David Wilkinson's book "The DreamGiver", a simple allegory that gives a refreshing view of God at work in our lives.Because of its simplicy and brevity, I use it in my "change career coaching" efforts.

The Forty Day of Purpose Impact

And finally, in recent years, the powerful writings of Rick Warren entitled "ThePurpose Driven Church" and "The Purpose Driven Life" have helped multiplied thousands to define what being purpose-driven means.

People in my life have been been able to see their lives in a new dynamic way after reading Rick Warren's books. Many have also attended his "Forty Days of Purpose" seminar telecasts shown by thousands of churches worldwide.

Not only has my own life been impacted bythe Forty Day Experience I wholeheartedly recommend these books in helping people see, and then, be all that they can be by God's grace in every area of life.

Onward With Purpose

Recently, I was in a home to do a spiritual assessment in my role as a hospice chaplain, On the table next to my client, an 85 year old lady with a diagnosis of less than six months to live, was the book "A Purpose Driven Life"!

When I asked her about it, she said that she was eager to know just what God's purpose was for the rest of her life, especially knowing she had little time to live. She wanted to make the most of the time she had left to impact her children and grandchildren with truth concerning the purpose-filled life.

She reconfirmed my belief that as you and I. . .

determine our life's purpose for God's sake,
as we too attempt writing our sample statement of purpose,
and continually explore getting it right in our sessions of writing statement of purpose
will lead us to defining our own concept of a purpose filled life.

That is when we reach the point of purposeful living, applying what it means to be purpose driven even to our career change planning.

Yes, my purpose for this website is that you too, guided by your statement of personal purpose, will join me in arriving at . . . your purpose driven career . . . a purposeful career flowing out of your purpose driven life . . . leading you to change career with purpose!