The Smart, Practical Advice of T.D. Jakes’ Destiny: Step into your Purpose
Bishop T.D. Jakes’ lively and inspiring new book, Destiny: Step into Your Purpose, is filled with lessons and insights that will appeal to readers across all denominations and faiths. While Jakes is a renowned preacher and religious leader (of a non-denominational church, The Potter’s House), and his life philosophies and advice stem from his understanding of God, Destiny isn’t a religious book so much as a book written by a religious man, which offers up a treasure trove of smart, sound advice.
Destiny: Step into Your Purpose
Hardcover $25.00
Destiny: Step into Your Purpose
By T. D. Jakes
Hardcover $25.00
Destiny is where passion meets purpose
The main purpose of Jakes’ book is to help people find their “destiny,” which is a disarmingly simple concept explained in very practical terms: Destiny, according to Jakes, is the combination of the “push” of your passion (the things you feel a drive to do combined with your natural talents), and the “pull” of purpose (applying those talents and that natural drive to a goal). This is a concept everyone will find relatable: we all have natural tendencies and capabilities, and sometimes the biggest challenge is in discovering how to use those talents in ways that bring us rewards both material and, yes, spiritual.
The advice is good
Good advice is good advice. This book isn’t about converting you to any particular religion, or even getting you to believe in a higher power—it’s all about seeing your own talents and passions clearly, and helping guide you toward what it is you should be doing with your life—which is not always the same thing as what your degree is in, what the family business is, or what your loved ones think you should be doing.
Toward that end, the advice is eminently practical. In one section, Jakes talks about the three types of people you need to attain your goals: Confidantes, the very few people who understand you intimately and will support you in every way; Constituents, who support what you’re doing but not necessarily you personally; and Comrades, who aren’t for you or what you’re doing, but rather are against what you’re against, and will leave you behind the moment you win. This is a remarkably clear-eyed way of looking at the people in your life, and how they relate to your goals.
Simple truths
Jakes also sprinkles this book with fundamentals, eye-opening ways of looking at life expressed in Jakes’ spiritual style. In one particularly great example, he presents a scenario in which $86,400 is deposited into your bank account every morning, and whatever’s left at the end of the day is deleted at night. Then he asks what you would do with the money. Of course, the natural answer is to spend every penny. Then he points out that we all get 86,400 seconds in every day with which to achieve our goals—and it’s that sort of gut-punching revelation that makes this book valuable to anyone who has goals to achieve.
The most universally helpful books aren’t specific to any belief system, lifestyle, or industry, but are built on a sturdy foundation of practical, useful advice that can help anybody. That’s what Destiny is—reading it may not solve all your problems immediately, but it will certainly give you a few things to ponder that might help you change your life in the long-term.
Destiny is where passion meets purpose
The main purpose of Jakes’ book is to help people find their “destiny,” which is a disarmingly simple concept explained in very practical terms: Destiny, according to Jakes, is the combination of the “push” of your passion (the things you feel a drive to do combined with your natural talents), and the “pull” of purpose (applying those talents and that natural drive to a goal). This is a concept everyone will find relatable: we all have natural tendencies and capabilities, and sometimes the biggest challenge is in discovering how to use those talents in ways that bring us rewards both material and, yes, spiritual.
The advice is good
Good advice is good advice. This book isn’t about converting you to any particular religion, or even getting you to believe in a higher power—it’s all about seeing your own talents and passions clearly, and helping guide you toward what it is you should be doing with your life—which is not always the same thing as what your degree is in, what the family business is, or what your loved ones think you should be doing.
Toward that end, the advice is eminently practical. In one section, Jakes talks about the three types of people you need to attain your goals: Confidantes, the very few people who understand you intimately and will support you in every way; Constituents, who support what you’re doing but not necessarily you personally; and Comrades, who aren’t for you or what you’re doing, but rather are against what you’re against, and will leave you behind the moment you win. This is a remarkably clear-eyed way of looking at the people in your life, and how they relate to your goals.
Simple truths
Jakes also sprinkles this book with fundamentals, eye-opening ways of looking at life expressed in Jakes’ spiritual style. In one particularly great example, he presents a scenario in which $86,400 is deposited into your bank account every morning, and whatever’s left at the end of the day is deleted at night. Then he asks what you would do with the money. Of course, the natural answer is to spend every penny. Then he points out that we all get 86,400 seconds in every day with which to achieve our goals—and it’s that sort of gut-punching revelation that makes this book valuable to anyone who has goals to achieve.
The most universally helpful books aren’t specific to any belief system, lifestyle, or industry, but are built on a sturdy foundation of practical, useful advice that can help anybody. That’s what Destiny is—reading it may not solve all your problems immediately, but it will certainly give you a few things to ponder that might help you change your life in the long-term.