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Living on Purpose: NLP, Coaching & more #2

What does it mean to live on purpose?
To live intentionally, consciously, doing what we truly want? We do live in a free country, but are we really free? Are you truly living the life you want? Are you doing the things you want to, each moment, of each hour of each day? If so, FANTASTIC and CONGRATULAIONS! Please write me and tell me how you do it! I live the way I want maybe 80% of the time… and am moving toward the 100% (or as close to it as I can possible come!) I so want to know how you are successful. It may be the next strategy that creates the “nickel drop—AHA” experience for my next client!

If you’re not living the life you truly want, what are you doing?
What’s really important? In Coach talk, this is sometimes referred to as our BIG A Agendas. Franklin Covey refers to them as the “big rocks” of our life, those things that are most important. What do we live for? What are we passionate about?

Last month I talked about “what you want”, in specific measurable terms.
Results, getting results are what most people who seek coaching are after. Eliminating self talk, reaching financial goals, clearing the clutter of their lives. One of my clients recently described his goal of “Erasing his hard drive and starting over”. Well, taken metaphorically, I suggested that he simply run a de-fragmentation program, use what is useful in the places that are most useful; starting first and foremost with finding out what is most important in his life. This hit home, wholeheartedly he said YES, lets get started!

I have the quote in the sidebar “Ignore what a man desires and ignore the very source of his power”.
As humans, we are meaning making beings. We create meaning, interpret our world and operate on these meanings as if they are “reality”. In many ways, this is reality, our reality. And in working with prospects, clients, customers, even in our closest relationships, what is important, what drives each of us is what is at the core of who we are… This is “the stuff of life” that creates the drive and momentum that pushes and pulls us every day.

All the techniques and methods in the world will fall on deaf ears if we ignore that which is truly human in all of us…
the passion that in many ways is unique, but that drives us, keeps us getting up every day, working, playing, striving for….

What is it you are striving for?
If this is a question you have running around in your head, then how will you answer it? Certainly, most coaches, like me, offer a complimentary coaching session to begin to explore this and similar questions you may have. I offer a free discussion group to explore these and similar questions you have. Are you living the kind of life you truly want? Are you?