How can an organization help you fulfill your life dreams?

My Yahoo Answer:

Any organization can help me fulfill my life dreams by honestly explaining to me what the organization's purpose is, and what services or products it has that might help me fulfill my potential. Then letting me decide what is compatible with my dreams, even if that is nothing.

Every organization has it's own purpose. As far as I know there is not a single organization in existence that has my true potential as it's primary purpose. It's purpose might be compatible with my life dreams, but it will still serve itself at some level. To be independent, I have to decide what services or products I will accept and utilize to fulfill my true potential.

An example might be a spiritual based organization that wants to help me achieve a level of spirituality I have decided I want in my life. That organization can support me, only in way's it knows and chooses. It also needs to recognize that I will ultimately decide what my spirituality is and will become, and how I can be helped in fulfilling my spiritual path. The organization can let me know what it is about, the services and literature it offers to enlighten me. Then let me decide which services and literature to utilize to live up to my true potential. Each person is likely to have a different answer, because we are all pursuing our own unique destiny.

Being honest about it's purpose, products and services is the bottom line. Trying to fool me through clever marketing or leading me down a path that I might not feel is right for me, just because the organization itself believes it is, are not examples of an organization helping me fulfill my life dreams. It is an example of an organization pursuing it's own purpose and believes, no matter how much the organization believes it is for my benefit. Only I can make that decision, it is my life, I am an independent being.

Being saved, in the Christian religion, is an example. Don't scare me into accepting Jesus Christ so I can get into heaven, when even the bible does not say it is so, then ask me to tithe. Tell me honestly what you believe and even why, but let me make the choice of whether or not it is right for my life dreams, and how I can give back.

If an organization says it's only purpose is to help me, I will challenge it. If I then ask to lead this organization and make absolute decisions for it, in pursuit of my own life dreams, what would the answer be? If the answer is "No", which I would expect, then that organization has a different purpose and is not being honest about it's purpose to me.

My life dreams are going to be self-serving no matter how much they claim to be serving others. No matter how much time or money I donate to the service of others, I still am trying to achieve something in the process, for myself. Even the Christian who would save my soul by imploring me to accept Jesus Christ, is interested in saving their own soul by doing what they believe is God's work, they are not solely concerned with just me.

I would say to any organization make your purpose what you love, offer services and products true to your purpose, be honest about what your purpose is and give me the freedom to decide how I will allow myself to be helped. This is the best way to help me fulfill my true potential.

More specifically, I have a wide variety of dreams but sometimes I lack the self confidence to pursue paths that lead to the realization of those dreams. Inspiring me to believe in myself, which you have done through your writing Mr. Chopra, is a perfect way to help me fulfill my true potential.

I can change the world, only if I believe I can!