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The Single Woman

Single Moms: Identify Your Purpose in Life

By Lori Little

Where are you right now in your journey as a single mom? Are you just barely surviving and trying to get through this season of life? Maybe you have been a single mom for several years now and nothing seems to be better than the day you started. Maybe you are a new single mom and you have no idea how to be successful at this new life of single motherhood. Or maybe you are a single mother who is just plain tired of a mediocre life and you’re ready for a breakthrough year.

No matter what description best fits your journey as a single mom right now, it's never too early or too late to take your success and satisfaction in life as a single mom to new heights. It all begins with discovering that success lies in your own eyes and to achieve a breakthrough in your situation, you simply need to live in a way that is consistent with what is most important in your life.

When you live life consistently with your own unique priorities, life begins to work. You will experience less stress, less frustration, less inconsistency, less dissatisfaction—more motivation, more joy and more fulfillment.

For you to be a truly successful single mom, you must first be a satisfied, successful person. That is going to require you to look deeper into yourself than what you see on the surface. Without a solid foundation, your outward success as a single mom will never be stable or consistent—even if you have been a single mom for some time now.

Ask yourself, "What is truly important about life to me?" When you take some time to really think about it, the answers may be far different from the way you live. What you may think is important in your current circumstances, may not be ultimately what is important about life to you.

In my own life, I used to focus on finances as being one of the most important things to me as a single mom. However, when I sat down with God and really prayed about what was important to me in life, financial success came in almost last place. Yes, finances are important, but not as important as many other things like God, my child, my home, my business, my ministry, my extended family, my church and others.

When I listed in order what is truly important to me in life and why these things were important, my priorities, focus and time management became different. When you live life in right priorities for what is important to you, things really happen; fulfillment comes and stress leaves.

Take some quiet time for yourself and discover what is really important to you. Then start living life in order of importance and eliminate the rest. Watch and see what a breakthrough you will have as a single mom.

Reprinted with permission.

LORI LITTLE, A Woman By Design ministry's founder, is the former Director of John C. Maxwell's THRiVE!, Becoming A Woman Of Influence. A major focus of Lori's ministry is the Hope and Help for the Single Mom initiative. Lori is the author of Hope and Help for the Single Mom.