An excerpt from the new workbook

We all feel adrift sometimes. We’ve all been situations where we’ve felt lost. And at one point or another we’ve all questioned what we’re doing with our lives and wondered what our purpose is on this earth. I’m here to tell you that you DO have a purpose and it’s easy to find.

I came to do this work as a natural progression of my Life Coaching practice. What I noticed is that folks who were clear or got clear about their Life Purpose during our work together made faster progress, easier decisions, and experienced what I observed to be a greater sense of satisfaction with their lives in general. They seemed more willing to make significant changes with less grief. And the changes they made seemed to stick.

What I also began to notice was the ever emerging, unavoidable patterns of affinity and repulsion in the lives of my clients, colleagues, and friends. It was those patterns which became beacons to me, a kind of individual roadmap to the soul’s purpose, laid out so neatly and obviously that I wondered at its simplicity.

In our society, there are certain proscribed roles for people to which we have become so enculturated that we believe them to be the only viable, practical options for success. Far from encouraging individual excellence, authenticity and empowerment we as a culture channel the energies of countless souls into mainly meaningless days filled with work that matters little to them, consigning generation after generation to lives of quiet desperation. Yet at the same time, we tend to revere and celebrate those with the fortitude, tenacity and drive to follow their own drummer (when we’re not castigating them for being different). We laud many of them as geniuses, as though they are somehow profoundly different from the rest of us.

The actual fundamental difference that separates the sometimes feted but certainly successful few from the rest of society is an inner certainty, an irresistible sense of Purpose at the core of their being that guides their actions and supports their dreams. They are clear about why they’re here, and as it turns out, that makes all the difference. Those folks measure success by their own terms, because they know who they are and what they’re about. The rest of us measure life, success and happiness according to the opinions and values of others. And that is just warped and all the way twisted out of kilter with Nature, as I see it.

What I came to know is that our Soul, Authentic Self, Higher Self, whatever you want to call it, is ALWAYS, and I do mean always, seeking to express itself in the course of each and every person’s daily life. And express itself it will, intentionally and for the greatest good, or not.

Creating awareness of one’s unique Life Purpose as a powerful catalyst for lasting change becomes the order of the day. So, here we are.