The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

Living in a world where a large percentage of people want to make it through getting a favour, it is important that as parents, we position our children to know the power of taking full charge and responsibility for their lives. This can only be done if we take the mantle of being Life Coaches to them. The truth of the matter is that the world as structured no longer works as we always thought it...

A parent as a Life Coach shouldn't be something to debate about. The parent has the heart energy as well as the divine mandate to directly influence the life of the child. Unfortunately, we abdicate this responsibility to the school system, thinking that all that we have got to do is to find the best schools for our children and send them there. We then sit back and wait for results. Breaking News...

There are crucial things in life that are important for success. Most of them, believe me, are not taught in traditional school systems. That is why you as a parent must position yourself as a Life Coach for your children. I mean, if the school system as it is is no longer working for a multitude of us today, how about the next generation? In this episode, we look at one of the things that you mus...

Parents already do have the inherent knowledge about the giftedness, uniqueness and difference of their children. The saddest thing is that they do not follow through. They totally ignore these gifts because they are sending the children to school! They leave the school system to sort that part out. Invariably, no school system is well equipped to Life Coach the children to their destiny. Schools...

There is something that we as parents do and we have no clue we are doing it. It is called, "well-meaning abdication". Let me explain. We spend top dollar or at least we scurry around to make sure our children get an "education". All the while, we have gone through the education system and we know that it doesn't work, it doesn't serve everyone, and at least it doesn't bring out the best of our ch...

What's the case for academic papers in the current world? I will tell you something. They are no longer the silver bullet for success and career advancement. Not any more. That used to work for my father and at least some percentage of my generation. What we ought to put in sharp focus is the next generation, our children and their children after them. Guess what? Some huge organizations no longer...

Raise your hand if you have never heard about changes in curriculums of our schools even at your youngest age. You would be lying. Apparently, it has always been a clamour each year, that the curriculum being used is no longer working. We are talking about competency-based curriculum, emphasis on skills and what have you. Where the rubber meets the road is where we need to get insight into what th...

Are school systems serving the purpose that they are supposed to serve? I am talking about the insight into the education of our young people. The moment you call it an "education system", your reference has already locked some people out. But still, even those that the "system" takes care of for about two and a half decades, is it serving them right? Ultimately, is the education system bringing r...

The world is always a-changing. Not that it was supposed to stand still. The metaphor that our earth revolves around the sun every single second should tell us that we should always expect changes. In the job/career/vocation world, we have however held back to the past tenets so hard that we are failing to see that they are no longer working. If the parent of this century is going to continue thin...

The way we exit this world (all of us shall) varies one person from another. And yet, there are only to major groups of people at the point of death. There are those who are carefree. Unworried and unfettered by even death itself. And then there are those who are scared to death (pun not intended). How we lived will determine how we die. I believe that if we do the following six things throughout...

Death is an ominous subject the world over...but also a fact to all individuals. It is a given. We go through life resigned to the fact that we are prone to death every waking day. The decision that is left to be made is the decision about how we shall live. How can we live our lives so well that death is just an event that ushers into the next dispensation? Our lives are firmly connected to our d...

The fact is that one out of one dies. That can either be good news or bad news depending chiefly on what we did while alive. I have a firm belief that we were meant to live a spectacular life of productivity, impact and contribution. That is the Divine design for everyone. No one is exempt. The question we have to answer is this: How do we live such a life that at the time of our death, we are so...

Every child born of a woman is a message and a messenger. He or she is a weapon in the hands of the creator. He or she is an agent of change and transformation. We all come on the earth with a mission, at least equipped to be on mission. However, we live our lives filled with so many distractions that by the time we come to the end of our lives, there is so much that was meant to be done that was...

Someone said that some people tiptoe through life hoping that they can reach safely at death. I can understand the feeling. No one looks forward to dying. However, there are those who do look forward to their death with enthusiasm. They know that they have lived their lives worthy of that death, and they also know that there is no finality in that death. It is rest, yes, but it is also transition....

Amazingly, life and death are connected to the hip. We are mortal. However, we can live our lives to such an extent that our legacy is immortal. Several people have done that. Looking at history, you can mention several names of visionaries who lived thousands or hundreds of years ago. Their names still impact our lives today because of how they lived. That brings us to scrutinize how they lived t...

Every now and then, I give people assignments to do regarding the following: Writing their obituary and epitaph. It forces you to think about the impact that you left on the earth. Invariably, people seldom want to do this assignment or complete it. It is tasking, involving and of course, ominous. However, thinking about your last day on the earth puts focus on how you will live your life. On the...

So we are told that success leaves clues. I agree. Death does too, especially the death of the successful. If we listened to what they said at the time of their deaths. If we learnt what they did before they died. If we learnt how they died, we would have a lot of information to glean. Our lives are impacted by the death of others...but if we could learn to stare at our own deaths, chances are tha...

We live our lives at times for the moment. Thinking about our lunches and bills. We repeat this for years until we stare at death right in the face. We have been avoiding it all the while, ignoring it even. Now it becomes a reality. That's when we discover the gems of life that have gone by. That's when we realize that our focus might not have been the right one. That's when the urgency of doing t...

Death has so much finality that we tiptoe through life trying to evade it. But when each one faces themselves on their death bed or when they have a brush with it, what comes to their mind is something pure, something deep and something worth listening to. That is why we strive so much to listen to a dying man or woman. We know that what they are saying is not fake, it is the truth. As much as the...

You can "mirror" a major brand that is doing what you want to do in the market, or that has opened your eyes to see how things can be done, how things could be better. Not all the information you have is yours. Not all of us will be successful by deploying only our original ideas and information. We do need from time to time, ideas from elsewhere, especially from the people that are movers and sha...

How do you obtain information from a market leader that you can use to better your own brand? These are things that are done every day in business. At times, people simply ask and get it. At times, some just look, study and research. When Apple launched the IOS operating system from smartphones, it wasn't long before Android technology was used to create a rivalling product that has helped million...

It is instructive that when you mirror what a market leader is doing, you tend to grow your brand in return. There will always be someone doing something better than you are. We have learnt that you do not have to plagiarise, copy and paste their work. At times we seek people doing this thinking that it is a short cut. The side effect of copying and pasting is debilitating. But what if you cand do...

When you mirror a visionary in what they are doing, you are not necessarily copying word for word their content. You can mirror but not copy. Staying authentic and original to your essence is of utmost importance as you are growing your brand. There are three major advantages that will come your way if you decide to mirror a brand in your niche that is already performing in a stellar fashion. That...

We can decide to reinvent the wheel and waste time and resources or we can decide to leverage what is already existing and move on quicker. If you wanted to grow your brand, one of the most potent things you can do is to mirror an existing brand that is operating in your niche market. There are several advantages that will accrue from this. Growing your brand doesn't have to be done as if you are...

After you have discovered what your purpose in life is, or what your vision is, or what you are passionate about, you quickly realize that there are many other folks that are doing generally what you have set to do. This can either be intimidating or discouraging. I have dumped some ideas along the way because I saw people having done a semblance of them. However, we can flip the coin and intend t...