These posts look at the various ways that knowing and living your purpose alter your existence and give more benefits that one would anticipate.
When I started to understand how to make money grow, I knew I needed to take the leap from “management” to “investment.” The same has been true with my time. Management, for me, means allocating the resources that are available to you. Investment is something different. Investment means making those resources work for you. My …
Every once in a while, I get myself so much in a rut it feels like a wartime trench. I’m busy fighting off the resources being sent my way to save me. It’s a cruel place to be, but it happens to the best of us. I’ve noticed recently how often the way out is …
When my little one was just a few months old, I could see the endless lists of roles I could play: cook, chauffeur, activities director, hygiene officer, etc. While I had many options at my fingertips, from early on, I found it was best to simplify my role and I chose to focus on just …
In the years leading up to having my little one, I was a full-on believer in the idea of “leaning in.” The concept, made famous by Facebook COO Sheryl Sanberg, speaks about not giving up on excelling in your job when you have children. I had absolutely no issues with the idea of being a …
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As a life coach, I am constantly studying how to ask my clients better, more beautiful questions. This has led me to create a north star question to help guide my work: “Why do more people not pursue or live their purpose?” This will be a life-long study, but I already know four reasons because …
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In the first few months after my baby was born, I kept hearing a similar story from clients, “I’ve lost myself in motherhood.” At first, I didn’t understand this, but slowly, I saw how my whole being began to mold around my child’s existence. As I dug deeper, I saw how much my child could …
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I know when a client is ready to work with me. They are ready to walk into their fullness, but they don’t know where to start. There is an almost audible groaning, a frustration that keeps them awake at night. They can’t live another day doing what they have been doing. They know something is …
For years, when people asked about my specific talents, I would tell them it was “encouragement.” I even took an online spiritual gifting assessment once, and my second on the list was encouragement (my first was “living in poverty,” which still confuses me). You can imagine my surprise when I got knee-deep into my coaching …
We live in a world that seems to constantly be sucking us dry of joy. If we aren’t careful we can get pulled into a downward spiral of bad news. Because of this, so many of us are not accessing the joy that is available to us. For this reason I have created the “Wheel of Joy”.
This week, I was discussing purpose with a young person with high aspirations in the military. He has focus, direction, and a sense of purpose, but something was missing, and he couldn’t quite future it out. When he put himself in the shoes of the person he wanted to become, he got a new perspective. He saw tasks and discipline were not going to be enough – he needed a transformation. Ideas started to race about steps he could take to reach his dreams [see them below].
The last interview I participated in was a direct catalyst for my becoming an entrepreneur. What I’ve realised since is that I was using a narrative in the interview that is extremely common. The words I used were a simple and effective trigger to finding and living my purpose.
I remember sitting across from the interviewer at a very well respected advertising company and said, “I could probably do just about every job in this company, minus, perhaps, accounting.” Yes, perhaps I could do everything given a lot of hard work and a lot of misfits but what would that prove and would I really want to?
In the past, it was easy for me to look at other people’s lives and wonder if they have something that I should want. There was even a tendency to overlook my own heart’s desires. But the road to matching my life and lifestyle with my values has been marked by discovery and acceptance.
As soon as I became a mom, I knew I could never work the same way again. For years I did “good work” – some would say it was purpose-driven, but whose purpose was I driving? I worked with entrepreneurs and social enterprises who were truly changing the world, but I longed to see individual …