What have you been mandated to do?

Mandate from the latin mandatum meaning "something commanded"
basically there are two parts to a mandate

1) It is a command, when you are ordered to do something by someone in power.
An official order or commission to do something.
When God has required you to do something.

2) It is authority given so that you may act in a certain way.

Often we think we know where we can contribute, sometimes jumping in wherever there seems to be a vacancy or need. However, many times we're not called there and you find yourself fighting a tide and feeling frustrated or drained instead of contributing. Other times, God may use you in that time and place, He may bless what you have chosen to do, but...
but to be really effective and affective we need His anointing, and anointing comes when we are doing/being what we have been mandated to do.

Where God has called you to be, He gives you the authority to act, and you can and should ask for His anointing.

Don't settle for less than what God has and wants for you.

here is an example someone gave me.
As a dancer if God has called you to dance, thenyou are meant to dance.
The dancing is the end not the means to an end.
So if you have to decide between practicing for half an hour to hone your art, or taking the half hour to counsel someone, you should actually be practicing and refining your art, because that is what you were called to do, and ultimately the dancing itself is the counsel.

So seriously ask God what he has mandated you to do, and act on it.