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3that most people live their entire life never learning what that purpose is, never discovering their niche and never finding out where they fit.People tend to live out their lives on one of three levels of living. 1. PloddersAlmost half of this world are plodders.They are people whose lives are robotic. They don't really live; they just exist and just eke it out. They plod through life. If you were to ask them, what do you live for? They'd say, \They're plodders. They plod through life and they miss it.2.PushersAlmost the other half of the population are pushers.The pushers are the carrot chasers, they're the ladder climbers and they're the ones the world deems successful. These are the folks that the plodders envy because they've made money, possessions and prestige. To a plodder, he pusher's life looks pretty good. But the fact is, eventually the pusher feels the emptiness of the plodders. Because after they've earned so much money, many nice cars and given their kids everything, they ask themselves: Why don't I feel fulfilled?It's amazing the number of books that fill the bookstore shelves in the last couple of years that show the emptiness of success. Here are four or five titles of some books that have come out: The Price of Success, Is it Worth It?Or how about these, If I'm So Successful, Why Do I Feel Life a Fake? andThe Success Trap, ReThinking Your Ambitions. Here's one.The Search for Meaning.Let me give you one more, Beyond Success, Coping With the Fast-Track Blues.You don't even have to read those books to know what they're saying, do you?What are they saying? They're saying that what this world calls success does not satisfy. Why? Because it's not our purpose. God didn't put you on this earth to make money. His motto for living is not: \didn't make you to climb some arbitrary ladder of success that He did not build.3. Purposeful LivingOnly a precious few in this old world ever realize it. It's called purposeful living.These are the few folks who've discovered God's plan for their lives and as they tap into that purpose, they find power, they find significance and they find satisfaction. What's more, these are the people who make the greatest impact on this old world.When you look across history at the people who've made the greatest impact on this world, they are not the ones who are the brightest, not the best educated and not the wealthiest. No, the people who have made the biggest difference in this world, for goodor for bad,

