In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin he had built in the woods. Thoreau lived there for two years, two months and two days. He wasn’t in total solitude because he regularly visited nearby Concord, Massachusetts. It was from this experience he wrote “Walden; or, Life in the Woods.”

Thoreau learned some lessons at a young age many people take a lifetime to learn. One of those lessons was that a meaningful life is built on recognizing what truly matters and living deliberately. Even in the 1850’s men were working like hell to accumulate wealth, status and possessions. Thoreau dared to ask the question why.

Thoreau recognized something else. He knew that the Creator had imbued each of us with a unique purpose. Many people spend their lives knowing this, but they put off pursuing their purpose in lieu of a different life. But the missing piece of the puzzle remains no matter how much we amass.

Henry David Thoreau wrote some words that haunt me. Yet they inspire me, too. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and die with their song still in them.”

Find your purpose. The world needs to hear your music…