One great mistake when setting out on a new business venture is to try and plan it without taking into consideration your life’s purpose. Your business is a vital part of our life, but not your whole life.

We may try and deceive ourselves into thinking we can focus on just business goals and make this our whole life but that won’t work. In fact this would end up destroying everything and everyone else around us.

There are at least 7 ways in which your life’s purpose will influence your business goals, planning and development:

There is a well worn cliche: “if you don’t know where you are going, how do you know you have arrived when you get there?”

Years back, I was part of a class of about 20 in a Bible School. From there I went out to the mission field and accomplished some things.

During a vacation time back in New Zealand I met up with one of my companions from this class and he told me that few really did anything after graduating.

Then he told me that rumors were running around