We are continuing to talk about and describe SignifiCats. A SignifiCat is someone who lives a life of greater significance. SignifiCat’s lives make a big positive impact in the world, and they do this on purpose. One of the ways they do this is to live a focused life.
Unfocused
Focusing our efforts is important. If we don’t focus, our life will be about everything. We’ll donate to Habitat for Humanity. We’ll give to adoption agencies, scholarship funds, World Vision, Thanksgiving baskets, angel trees, homeless ministries, the american red cross, cancer research, and the girl scouts.
We’ll attempt to be impactful at work, at the supermarket, and at the gym. We’ll be involved everywhere like the local food closet, race for the cure, sex trafficking awareness, the local soup kitchen, and yard-work for the elderly.
We’ll be spread so thin, the depth of our impact in any one area will be pretty small.
Focused
Instead the SignifiCat focuses their efforts in just a single area, but the level of involvement in this area will be huge. Maybe this is their job, so they spend 40+ hours a week as a therapist, for example. Or maybe it’s not their job, and they spend their weekends, and their money, for example, at the homeless shelter befriending encouraging, mentoring, and serving people there.
This doesn’t mean we can’t help out in other areas from time to time, but our primary focus is in just one area. Also the specifics of our efforts may change while the main focus of our life remains consistent. For example, if we are all about mentoring people, the mentoring can take many forms over time.
Whatever our passion is, to become a SignifiCat, we need to focus our lives on just one thing.
