The Foundation Lists
The Foundation Lists you’re about to make will produce a large number of answers that will comprise your “road map to Purpose”. There are 5 different lists to be completed. For best results, do them in the order listed. For each topic, write down as many short answers that are true for you as you can think of. Lists of related words are better than essays, always.
If you find you’ve given a rather generic answer (love, family, nature), delve deeper into that answer and write down all the different things it means to you. For example, Family can mean a lot of things to people, both good and bad. Write all those things on the list it pertains to. In the first list of Responsibilities and Shoulds, family could mean need to make a living, or caring for your parents, or being a role model for your kids, etc. In Annoyances, family could also mean taken advantage of, or always around, no privacy In Pleasures, family could mean closeness or connections. Get really specific.
It’s really important not to edit or critique your answers as you list them. Just let them flow out of you naturally, and write them all down.
LIST 1: Responsibilities and Shoulds
LIST 2: Annoyances
LIST 3: Fears
LIST 4: Pleasures
LIST 5: Passions
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Next week we'll be covering the Winnowing Process. Stay Tuned!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
I'm giving it away!
Hello everyone. It's been a very eventful few weeks. I'm glad to be back on track and posting again.
I've decided to give my copyrighted, "just wrote a book about it" Life Purpose Discovery method away.
For the next few weeks, every Tuesday I will be giving out, in order, the overview, outline and instructions to do the simple yet profound Life Purpose Discovery method for yourself.
For free.
Now, don't get me wrong, here. I'm still selling my book and doing private Life Purpose Discovery sessions wherein I get you absolutely clear about both your unique Life Purpose as well as identify your Grand Passions in about 2 hours. In person or over the phone or via webcam.
Yup, 2 short hours is all it takes, when you get it done with the method's creator. Okay, enough with the shameless plug.
So, here goes the first installment of the Life Purpose Discovery method. I hope you get as much out of it as my clients have.
Life Purpose Discovery Process Outline
This is the quickest explanation of the very simple Life Purpose Discovery process ever written. Guaranteed.
Your Life Purpose is the context within which the “stuff” in your life becomes empowered, meaningful and worthwhile. Purposeful living has the power to imbue even the most mundane of tasks with a sense of “right direction”.
When you view your life and circumstances with clarity of Purpose:
• decision making becomes clearer and easier
• relationships take on new meaning and depth
• your goals, talents, passions and gifts finally resolve into harmonious focus
From that place of empowered clarity, anything is possible.
This process has three parts, the Foundation Lists, the Winnowing, and the Naming. You’ll make 5 big lists. There will be obvious patterns of affinity and aversion throughout the five lists that will emerge as you continue to explore all categories. Those patterns will ultimately lead you to your Life Purpose.
I've decided to give my copyrighted, "just wrote a book about it" Life Purpose Discovery method away.
For the next few weeks, every Tuesday I will be giving out, in order, the overview, outline and instructions to do the simple yet profound Life Purpose Discovery method for yourself.
For free.
Now, don't get me wrong, here. I'm still selling my book and doing private Life Purpose Discovery sessions wherein I get you absolutely clear about both your unique Life Purpose as well as identify your Grand Passions in about 2 hours. In person or over the phone or via webcam.
Yup, 2 short hours is all it takes, when you get it done with the method's creator. Okay, enough with the shameless plug.
So, here goes the first installment of the Life Purpose Discovery method. I hope you get as much out of it as my clients have.
Life Purpose Discovery Process Outline
This is the quickest explanation of the very simple Life Purpose Discovery process ever written. Guaranteed.
Your Life Purpose is the context within which the “stuff” in your life becomes empowered, meaningful and worthwhile. Purposeful living has the power to imbue even the most mundane of tasks with a sense of “right direction”.
When you view your life and circumstances with clarity of Purpose:
• decision making becomes clearer and easier
• relationships take on new meaning and depth
• your goals, talents, passions and gifts finally resolve into harmonious focus
From that place of empowered clarity, anything is possible.
This process has three parts, the Foundation Lists, the Winnowing, and the Naming. You’ll make 5 big lists. There will be obvious patterns of affinity and aversion throughout the five lists that will emerge as you continue to explore all categories. Those patterns will ultimately lead you to your Life Purpose.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Too-Too-Tuesday
Hello all!
Well, last Tuesday I awoke to my alarm set for 6am, got myself dressed and trundled over to my best friends' (there are two, married to each other) home to watch the Inauguration. We cuddled up on their couch and watched as nearly two million people thronged at the Great Mall to see history made. We all wept. It was very good. I watched all day, and enjoyed every moment. It felt like a great, grand holiday.
What an amazing time we live in!
We are now blessed with the extraordinary opportunity to do some "RE" work. REbuild, REnew, REcycle, REpurpose, REaffirm, REacquaint, REflect, REcreate.
And a whole lot of "RE"s I didn't mention. Like REspect, which frankly seems in short supply, both for self and other.
We as humans are wise beyond mere REason. Our intrinsic nobility lies in our innate ability to rise above the petty distractions of our personalities and do what we know in the core of our beings to be right.
It is that "core of rightness" that is our internal North Star, our guiding compass point that always unerringly points us to the best path. We need only REfresh our stale perspectives, REjoin our souls to our work, and REjoice in the abundance around us to REstore our equilibrium and REalize our individual and collective dreams.
REally.
Take meaningful action today.
Well, last Tuesday I awoke to my alarm set for 6am, got myself dressed and trundled over to my best friends' (there are two, married to each other) home to watch the Inauguration. We cuddled up on their couch and watched as nearly two million people thronged at the Great Mall to see history made. We all wept. It was very good. I watched all day, and enjoyed every moment. It felt like a great, grand holiday.
What an amazing time we live in!
We are now blessed with the extraordinary opportunity to do some "RE" work. REbuild, REnew, REcycle, REpurpose, REaffirm, REacquaint, REflect, REcreate.
And a whole lot of "RE"s I didn't mention. Like REspect, which frankly seems in short supply, both for self and other.
We as humans are wise beyond mere REason. Our intrinsic nobility lies in our innate ability to rise above the petty distractions of our personalities and do what we know in the core of our beings to be right.
It is that "core of rightness" that is our internal North Star, our guiding compass point that always unerringly points us to the best path. We need only REfresh our stale perspectives, REjoin our souls to our work, and REjoice in the abundance around us to REstore our equilibrium and REalize our individual and collective dreams.
REally.
Take meaningful action today.
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