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Are You Living A Purpose Driven Life At Work?Living a purpose driven life - isn't complicated as this story shows ... Recently I visited a coffee shop and the young man who served me (Matthew), apologised for his slowness in taking my order as he was "still learning the ropes". When Matthew delivered my coffee. I commented on the beautiful design he had patterned (with chocolate) on the top of the coffee. The conversation then went something like this: Matthew: Thanks, let me know how you like it, it's my first moccha Me: Wow it looks so beautiful, are you an artist? Matthew: No, Yes, Sort of ... I'm doing an apprenticeship in coffee artistry Me: I didn't know there was such a thing Matthew (face lit up and totally animated) Yea, its fantastic, I've only just started it, but its great, you get to learn how to make all kinds of beautiful coffee and put extra touches on it that people love and when you are really good at it you can travel the world and meet lots of neat people. Me: Really We chatted briefly, then he went about his work and I turned to pick up my book and what would normally be an absent-minded drinking of my coffee. But something caused me to pause. Matthew's Magic I looked at the coffee, it looked exquisite. Glancing over at Matthew, a huge grin on his face, fiercely concentrating on delivering yet another spectacular creation to his next guest, I realised that this was no ordinary coffee, it was a coffee that had been made with joy, passion and love, it had been delivered by its creator with a quiet sense of reverence and I needed to honour it in the same way. So the book stayed closed and I slowly began to drink ... It was simply the best Moccha I have ever tasted! I got to pondering why this coffee tasted so much better than any other. Probably because it had been touched with a bit of Mathew magic. (In fact I ended up having a second it was so delicious!) Before I left I said to Matthew: "That was the best moccha I've ever had and I think I've figured out why. It is because you have such joy, passion and love for what you are doing right now and it came through to me, both in the way you spoke to me as I ordered the coffee and in the way you delivered it to my table. You filled my coffee cup with your passion and joy and I drank it in. If you keep being like this for the rest of your career, you will fill both your own life with delight and that of the people who come to you for coffee - because they will be getting a lot more than a hot cup of water with some coffee beans in it". He was a little taken aback by this and then another of those big grins: "Thanks I'll remember that". Will Matthew sustain this joy, passion and love throughout his working life? Maybe, maybe not - it will depend very much on the people who guide and influence him. One thing is for sure though, if he takes the time to understand what makes for a purpose driven life he has a much higher chance of living most of his life this way and he will certainly live a life of purpose and significance. We will never know for sure, but it may well be Matthew's purpose to open people's hearts to the possibilities of living life with passion, joy and love by delivering to them a coffee that is filled with it; so they drink it in to their very being (even if it is at a subconscious level) and take that feeling with them throughout their day. His Passion Made A Difference to Many People I watched people came in and out of that coffee shop for an hour and nearly every one of them seemed to be impacted by a touch of Matthew magic - it may have been as subtle as shift in their body or a larger smile as they walked away from him, but one thing was for sure it was catching! And isn't that simply a very noble purpose and a life of significance already for one under age 20? Are You Living A Purpose Driven Life?A life of significance, bringing love, joy and passion to the work you do and the people who are touched by it?
The sad reality for most is that the answer is a resounding "No".
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