Are you living your "purpose"?

In the past, when I've been faced with this question, it used to send a punch of fear and a spike of pressure that made me want to run for the hills.  

Without a clear answer to that question, it left me thinking:

• Does that mean I should know exactly what my one thing is?
• And if I don’t, does that mean I’m not living my purpose, am I missing it?
• And jeez, if I pick my one thing, but I’m wrong? 
• Does it make me a hypocrite if I change my mind and my purpose path changes with it? 

I think the reference to “purpose” as being the one thing that we were put on this earth to do, is limiting, not all that helpful, and can harm our progress to living it.  I want to offer a different perspective.  

"Purpose" -  the lived expression of our values and our gifts.

I believe that the experience of living with purpose is one that takes shape over time. It's not as simple as an all-in, YES or NO, PASS or FAIL, DOING IT or NOT DOING IT.  

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• My three greatest learnings from John and his work with an explanation of how I got here:
  1. Trust my intuition. (Time Stamp 3:03)
  2. I am not my fears or my limiting beliefs. (Time Stamp 7:26)
  3. Life is energy and how that energy leads us to our highest purpose. (Time Stamp
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Today, we talk back to school parenting, during "these times".  

For me, COVID 19 acted like a magnifying lens helping me to pay even closer attention to my kids’ experience. 

As parents, we want to know that our kids will be alright, and with them facing a new school reality, I had some anxiousness.  

After watching my girls leave yesterday morning, I’m pleased to say I was less anxious and most inspired. 

In our house, the first day of school felt very much the same as others. COVID has not changed or ruined it. It is different, yes. And also, in that difference, there are opportunities.

Ten Opportunities To Pay Attention To "During These Times"

1. Opportunities to face heavy disappointments. To know that they will be hard AND that we will get through it.  
2. Opportunities to adapt to significant changes in routine and structure, together we figure it out. 
3. Opportunities to meet new challenges with conscious creativity (like having fun picking out and decorating the ...

A story about the saboteurs of a great nation and what one ruler did to protect it.

The following story invites you to take on the role of the central character, a ruler of a great nation that is amidst an attack.

There are two versions of the story (each provided below), which ruler best describes you?

Act I - losing ground

Imagine you are the ruler of a great nation, you are under attack, you stand to lose your land, your rulership, and everything you’ve built a lifetime creating.  

You are hurried, you are under attack, and it's up to you to decide how to respond, your main line of defense is currently under siege, and losing ground quickly.  

On the ground, your enemy seems to be swarming from EVERYWHERE.  All angles are compromised, time is running out, soon there will be nothing left. There is too much to take in; you can’t possibly weigh all outcomes.  

You feel overwhelmed with options and you can’t show this weakness.

You consult with your lieutenant; ...

These 4 saboteurs account for 90% of the reason why we don’t do what’s best for us, the first two are external, the last two are internal, and they are all interrelated:   

Saboteur #1. Information Overload & The Paradox Of Choice:  we are living in an era of abundant information, ask Siri or Alexa, type in where you want to go or what you want to know, and pages of answers magically appear. Information comes from everywhere at an alarming rate.  

For example, according to an article written in Forbes in 2018, “over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.”  It went on to say that “2.5 quintillion bytes of data” were being created each day. 

We also enjoy the freedom of abundant choice.  We, for the most part, are the designers of our life, from who we hang out with, what we eat, wear, live, and believe in.  We have choices to make in every direction.  

When you add these two enormous forces together, infinite information + copious choic...