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Let’s break down a few more preconceptions to get to deeper insight. At first consideration, if ordinary guidance is like business advice, coaching, suggestions for revamping your kitchen, or assistance with a health program, esoteric guidance might pertain to your spiritual life. This distinction proves to be of little use when examined closely. What about […]

In this in-depth Post Series we explore guidance from prow to stern. Nautical terms are appropriate; guidance can function like a seagoing vessel, carrying us over and across the waters of this mysterious journey we call Life. Note: The Life Guidance Series starts right where the Life Purpose Series left off. It can be read […]

Here is a wide range of examples of meaningful ways to contribute. Mix and match: Does your vision of making a difference include political impact? Canvass for a congressperson or someone running for office Get signatures for an initiative Volunteer at a caucus Are you passionate about world welfare? Join the Peace Corps Help with Doctors […]

We each impact the world at every moment. Life Purpose is about being intentional about this impact. I recently returned from a spiritual camp in which we used breath, intention, movement, music, and concentration to bring about a very real experience of being safe, loved, and connected with the entire group and with life itself. […]

This post speaks to additional challenges with Purpose. The problem with “needing to know” is that intense focus on the mind and on outcome block the processes of feeling and intuition—the channels through which the information you long for might otherwise come. So many people want to “know” what their Purpose IS. Beyond presupposing that […]

Continuing our tour through common misconceptions . . . What you do for meaning should provide money and security: Some people’s purposes in life have nothing to do with their profession or pocketbook. Others are intimately related. If you hold Purpose hostage to what you are trying to GET from life you may miss what […]

Let’s take a tour through common misconceptions about Life Purpose. Part of this is summary and review, heading into fresh insights about the things we’ve covered. We will also break new ground: Success and Life Purpose are the same thing Life Purpose refers to your entire life You will be known and seen in the […]

Here is the complete quote with which we began the series: “Your work in this life is to find your work, and to give yourself to it with your whole heart. And not to do the work of another no matter how great their need.” Buddha Inspired contribution to the Greater Whole is meaningful and […]

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill With respect to Life Purpose, it is natural to consider not only what we want to GET from life, but what we can bring to it. Giving allows us to receive in special ways that put […]

Are your goals, dreams, and motivations inspired by heartfelt values or motivated by buried emotional issues? What if you are already lovable, worthwhile, and even precious, without having to prove anything to anyone? If you knew this to be true–and could feel it–how would this impact what you feel you need to do in the […]