FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW

How do you feel? Are you exhausted? Or are you energized? Do you feel empty? Or do you feel exhilarated? Do you feel like you can't take it another day? Or do you feel like you can't wait to get back to it? Do you feel alone? Misunderstood? Left out? Or do you feel seen, heard, and understood by people who truly "get you?" Checking in with yourself to see how you're feeling a...

Have you ever had the experience of someone's face lighting up when you walked into a room? When you were little, did anyone's face totally light up into the biggest smile when you walked in? Or have you had the experience of walking into a room to meet angry, frustrated or disgusted expressions? We get our self-esteem from the expressions of the people we care about or those who are in au...

Depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders... the list of the things that diminish our sense of wellness, goes on and on. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America estimates that 264 million people struggle with depression and that 40 million people struggle with anxiety. If you deal with these things, you're not alone . Mental illness...

Our guest today, Elizabeth Rosenberg, CEO of The Good Advice Company, shares three specific, actionable ways to find ways to do what you love to do, utilize your strengths, and make an impact in the world, which she interprets as living your purpose. Elizabeth's 3 pieces of advice are: Figure out what you are passionate about that brings you joy. Figure out what you can do that makes you money...

Think about your childhood, your teenage years, and all the years up until today. What are the moments that stand out? What did you accomplish that you didn't think you could? What did you do that came easily to you? What did you celebrate? What did you overhear that you wish you hadn't? What did you go through that you would have done anything to prevent? As those things come to mind, thi...

We are all influenced by the people around us. They evoke emotions within us, they teach us, they can provoke us, and if we're honest, they can also encourage and empower us or they can lead us down the wrong paths. Whether we admit it or not or like it or not, we are all influenced by lots of different people and things. We remember what a teacher said, what a friend or family member said to...

There is A LOT of confusion about success. People on social media who post about their beautiful, amazing, nothing-ever-goes-wrong lives appear to have it all, but do they really? Are they really that shapely? Is that really their car? Is that really a picture of a fabulous vacation in Hawaii or just a fake background they dropped into Zoom and snapped a pic (like my background today 🤣)? Even if...

D's & F's diminish or destroy our purpose. What are we talking about? Doubt, Discouragement, Distraction, Fear, Frustration, and Failure, just to name a few. All of these are threats to our purpose.  Doubting yourself discounts and diminishes your abilities. Discouragement happens when we don't get the results we expect. Too much discouragement results in depression and feelings of...

"Resilience is being proactive, absorbing shocks, growing through trauma, building supportive networks, and being proactive," says Brad Hook, author of Resilience Mastery--11 Keys To Upgrade Human Performance and host of the Resilience Podcast. In this episode, Brad joins me to talk about living for more, sharing our gifts, having empathy for others, and perceiving everyone as being conn...

We all experience loss and the grief that accompanies it at some point in this life. It always feels unfair. Many of us don't see it coming so it feels like a completely unexpected punch to the gut. It's when we're down, at the most painful and raw point in our suffering that we have a choice--a choice that will change our lives forever. In this episode of FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast...

Finding your purpose sounds like an impossible thing when you're barely surviving. Living in survival mode is difficult. It's exhausting. And it can push us past what we think our limits are. We can find ourselves in survival mode through no fault of our own or as a result of the choices and decisions we've made. Either way, it's up to its to get through survival mode to being a su...

The first step to moving forward with your purpose is to get a clear picture in your mind of what you would LOVE to be doing, how you want to spend your days. To do that, think about things that you've done, experienced, or accomplished that made you feel really good. Think about what you would have to do to re-create that feeling. When you have a picture in your mind, start talking about it....

Suicide. It's a hard, deep, dark subject. But the flip side is that suicide prevention work is "deeply entrenched I'm hope," says psychologist, Morganne Reid. Many of us have experienced times in our life that were just too hard, when the pain was just too deep, or when hopelessness felt like it was never going to go away. You may feel like that now. Or you may know someone who d...

Most of us aren't going to have a purpose that makes headlines or tons of money, but every one of us has a purpose that is significant. Many of us make the mistake of thinking that we have to find a cure for cancer or invent something that makes a zillion dollars before we can really feel like we're fulfilling our purpose. That's just not the case. For most of us, our purpose is at the...

If you are doing the work of finding and fulfilling your purpose WE CELEBRATE YOU! In this episode we talk about the excitement and the incomparable feeling of contentedness that comes from living your purpose. There's literally no better way to live than living your purpose. To watch the video of the podcast as well as many other videos that provide actionable steps to creating personal and p...

OK, let's clarify that there's a very high likelihood that you'll have to DO SOMETHING to find your purpose. It's awesome when someone just stumbles into their purpose, but it doesn't usually happen that way.  In this episode we talk about the face that more often than not, finding and living our purpose involves discipline, focus and a determination to say yes to what moves us...

When our world is small and the people in it are few, our perspective becomes small. It appears that our choices are few. Limited choices and microscopically focused perspective can result in us missing our purpose. But what's the answer? In this episode we talk about being willing to go to new places, try new things, meet new people, observe the different lifestyles of others, listen to their...

We've talked about many of the clues to finding your purpose. It's time we begin to talk about how to put your clues together to live a life of purpose.  In this episode we talk about putting together the clues you've discovered and then what to do with those clues. Going through this process is SO WORTH IT! Doing this one thing can change the trajectory of your life and put you on the...

Misery is the #1 indicator of not living in your purpose. If you're miserable, grouchy, irritable and just downright difficult, you're NOT living in your purpose.  There is an antidote to misery, and we talk about it in this episode. It's can heal a broken heart or a wounded soul. In fact, it's the only thing that can. Listen to this episode to find out what it is and how to get it...

Have you ever accomplished something and felt like you were on top of the world? If you have, the area of your accomplishment may be pointing you in the direction of this important clue. (If you haven't felt that way, keep trying different things until you feel that "cloud nine" feeling.) When we feel good about ourselves and what we've achieved, it could be because we're fou...

Some children know what they want to be when they grow up, and they proceed to grow up and do exactly what they said they wanted to do. Many of us have known a teacher who as a child set up her dolls as though they were in a classroom. Good for those people who never had to think about finding their purpose, but that's not most of us. Some people, like our guest today, get a phone call or an e...

Your purpose ALWAYS involves helping others. Often the ones we're to help are, well, difficult. The pathway to purpose through helping people who are irritable, grouchy, or downright mean may not seem obvious at the time, but if we will do it, the connection to our purpose will eventually becomes clear to those of us who are actively seeking to fulfill our purpose.  In this episode, I talk abo...

We've all said or done things that we wished we hadn't. We know the minute those words come out of our mouth (or that donut goes into our mouth) that we shouldn't, but we just can't seem to help ourselves. It's human nature.  The problem is that those are the kinds of things that can keep us from finding and living our purpose. Think about it--if you snap at people, you're...

YOU are THE ONLY ONE who has your specific purpose. You were uniquely designed and perfectly matched to your purpose. You are not a match for anyone else's purpose. So let's quit comparing ourselves and our purpose to others. Unfortunately, our culture tells us that people who have wealth and fame are to be admired and made even revered. YIKES! If money is the measurement of success, then...

No one wants to re-live the most painful experiences of their life, but before you click this off, consider that we learn survival skills by surviving-- not out of a book or in a classroom. We acquire powerful, highly valuable character traits by going through hard things.  In this episode, let's look at the character traits that were developed in you as a result of what you've been throug...