The BIGGEST Question EVER!

“What is your life purpose?”

That was the biggest question anyone had ever asked me.

What was my life purpose?

I didn’t know and told him so.

“I want you to do something with me,” he said.
“It’s a game I play when I want to know something, but just don’t get it yet.”

I agreed to play, and asked what I needed to do.

He told me to close my eyes, sit with my back fairly straight, rest my hands on my legs, and take a couple of long and slow, very deep breaths and relax as completely as possible.

I did.

Then he said, “What I want you to do now is to use your imagination.
I want you to pretend that you’re standing in front of a movie theater. There’s a big crowd outside waiting to get in. You look up on the marquee and there, in huge letters, is your name, and it says, ‘The True Story of His Incredible Life.’

“Go on in and take a seat.”

I did.

Then he told me to imagine the lights dimming, the music coming up louder and the movie beginning on the screen.

He had me tell him all about the scenes I imagined on the screen.
He kept asking questions about what was happening in the movie, pressing me for details of the events and people I was seeing.

After a while, he stopped asking me questions and sat quietly, while I watched that movie of my life continue vividly before my eyes.

I have no idea how long it was before I opened my eyes.
When I did, he was sitting there smiling at me. He asked, “Well, what was that like?”
“That was wild!” I replied.
“I’ve never done anything like that in my life.”

“Great,” he said. “What happened?”
I described a number of scenes: some funny ones, a few sad ones (from when I was growing up) – and a whole bunch of things I’d never done before but that were in my movie anyway.

I was receiving an award in front of a hall full of people giving me a standing ovation… I was teaching or presenting to another group of people who were all tremendously moved by what I was saying… I’d written a book… There were many scenes of me traveling in far-off lands like Japan and China and Russia… It was astonishing how many different and wonderful things were there!

“How did it end?” he asked.

“It was funny,” I told him.
“It ended right here, right in this room. But instead of you sitting where you are now, I was sitting there. And there was a young woman sitting here where I am now, and I was asking her about her life’s purpose.”

He closed his eyes and we sat in silence for some time.

Then, he looked at me and nodded his head up and down.

“So, what’s your life purpose?” he asked again.

“Teaching,” I said. “I’m a teacher… and a writer – and what I teach people is how to be successful and free.

I show them how to achieve their life’s purpose. And,” I added, “I make a profound difference in thousands, even millions of people’s lives.”

I cannot tell you what an extraordinary sensation I experienced as I said those words.

Excerpt from “The Greates Networker In The World” by John Milton Fogg

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