In my previous post, “Inspired living, authentic living” I waxed rhapsodic about what we as a society mistake for success, and what we really value as individuals.

I have a great, fabulous, profound, simple and easy to understand answer (but you knew that, right?).

The first thing you need to do is get clear of your compulsion for acquisition. You are NOT a Ferengi, and acquiring mountains of stuff is certainly not the be all and end all.

Okay, so what is, right?

HERE’S THE DIVINE COSMIC ANSWER:  Do what you love. Yeah, I know. But just hear me out.

I titled this post series “Inspired living, authentic living” on purpose. I chose the words carefully, because words have power. Here’s why these words were chosen.

INSPIRE:

Origin of the word: mid-14c., from O.Fr. enspirer (12c.), from L. inspirare (see inspiration), a loan-translation of Gk. pnein in the Bible. General sense of “influence or animate with an idea or purpose” is from late 14c.

1. 1. To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
2. 2. To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion

AUTHENTIC:

Origin: 1300–50; < LL authenticus < Gk authentikós original, primary, at first hand, equiv. to authént(ēs) one who does things himself (aut- aut- + -hentēs doer) + -ikos -ic; r. ME autentik (< AF) < ML autenticus

‘Nuff said.

LIVING:

Origin: bef. 900; (adj.) ME lyvyng(e); r. earlier liviende, OE lifgende  live (see live¹, -ing²); (n.) ME living(e) (see -ing¹)

1. 1.having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
2. 2.in actual existence or use; extant: living languages.
3. 3.active or thriving; vigorous; strong: a living faith.
4. 4.burning or glowing, as a coal.
5. 5.flowing freely, as water.

So follow me here, the answer to the Cosmic Question “What do I NOW?” is this:

Take action, yourself, with purpose.

And now the torrent of questions comes… -what- action? What purpose? What do you mean, myself?

Obviously, you must personally take purposeful action, deliberate steps in the direction of the divine. But how do you distinguish the right path from just another time waster? Well, for that you need to get clear about why you’re here and what you’re meant to do. You need to know your Life Purpose.

When you know your Life Purpose, decision making becomes easier. Your goals and dreams, talents, gifts and affinities all come into harmonious focus. From that place of clarity,  purposeful living, inspired living, authentic living naturally springs, along with an unlimited source of natural motivation.

Sounds good, right?

Now your question is, “How do I find out my unique Life Purpose?”

Lucky for you, I’ve created a sure fire method for uncovering your unique Life Purpose quickly and reliably.  As a matter of fact, it’s never failed to deliver meaningful results to those for whom I’ve done this.

It’s SO good that I’ve taught other people how to do it, after they’d gone through it for themselves and saw the fast results and experienced the benefits of Purpose clarity. They now use it in their practices and report stunning results, as well.

On the right hand side of this page is a box that says, “Life Purpose Discovery method explained”. When you click on that box, I’ll send you a pdf that contains a complete overview of this amazing technology so you can see for yourself how simple and straightforward it is.

Some of you will be able to use this overview and get a pretty clear sense of your own Life Purpose. Bravo! Now find some true allies (mentors, coaches, friends) to tell  your Purpose to and help keep you make a plan, plus stay on track and you’re good to go!

Others of you will shrug and never try it. That is what it is. It’s all good.

For the rest of you who can see how this simple and dynamic process might get you the answers you seek, but want to take advantage of my expertise as the creator of this method to obtain a clear DEFINITE answer and fast results, contact me for a private session. I can safely promise that you’ll have a definitive answer and your Life Purpose statement in your own words of power in between 2-3 hours, guaranteed.

CALL 415 IMQ MLLY (467 6559) or email mburke@lifepurposeworks.com to schedule your private session and get clear QUICK!

Molly Burke CPCC MSU
Queen of Confidence
www.lifepurposeworks.com
“Even before I begin, I am made of win!”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” ~Seneca.

So many people I encounter on a daily basis are living lives of quiet desperation.

They had thought their jobs would fulfill them, that making a living was the best way to make a life for themselves. That maintaining a lifestyle matters more than living a full, rich, satisfying life. And after accumulating enough stuff to fill a house, garage, and all their closets, they’re still miserable.

Let’s face it, in the great big scheme of things, “stuff” is the booby prize. No one on their deathbed ever said, “I should have spent more time at work making money and acquiring stuff and less time doing what I love with the people I love”. That’s because the “dying” have a much clearer sense of what is really important than most of us who are “living”.

So, what’s important? It varies from person to person, but there are some consistent themes that appear when they are asked. Here are some of the most common:

• Love
• Meaningful work
• Making a difference
• Service
• Health
• Family
• Connection
• Spirit

What I have come to know is that, in order to live a rich fulfilling life, we must dare to take action on the things that are most important to us at the core of our being.

This is risky. There’s not a lot of buy-in from our society around authentic living. There IS a lot of buy-in around looking good, accumulating possessions, getting ahead, and there’s a LOT of buy-in around scarcity and competition.

It is a radical act to live according to one’s inner guidance. It is risky to act on your dreams when the easy money only requires that you sell yourself out.

So, what to do, what to do?

Well, if you’re at all like me and so many others, you come to realize that the trappings of success as measured by our culture is not the way you wish to measure your own life.

Then the question becomes, “what the heck do I do NOW?”

I’ve got an answer, it’ll be in the next blogpost.

Molly Burke CPCC MSU
Queen of Confidence
www.lifepurposeworks.com
“Even before I begin, I am made of win!”

Here’s the finishing part of a short series on one my favorite words:

VITALITY

Which we have already ascertained is cool for being a peculiarity, amongst other things. Now let’s talk about vitality and Life Purpose.

The daily practice of Purpose driven living encourages you to expand your present relationship with the peculiar quality of vitality that is yours alone. Through the discovery and use of your unique Life Purpose, your experience and expression of vitality is enhanced and deepened. You’ll find this increases your satisfaction in every aspect of your life, from your work to your love relationships to your spirituality to your playtime.

You’ll also become more keenly aware of all the things in your life that you have to be grateful for, and you’ll become better able to express that gratitude with ease and joy. This effectively engages the Law of Attraction on your behalf, creating ever expanding opportunities to be grateful.

You’lll notice that one of the synonyms for vitality is strength. I posit that this is because vitality bespeaks a kind of inner resilience and solidity borne of an acute awareness of one’s own Life Force. Further, it is this solidity that translates into the other synonym for vitality, stability. To possess an abundance of vitality naturally implies the stability that is indeed synonymous with reliable strength, both with vigor of body as well as of spirit.

An increase in vitality is one of the effects of knowing your Life Purpose, and of living it. When you do what you’re meant to be doing, you’ll experience an increase in overall happiness, satisfaction, and vitality just by doing it.

Abundant vitality, now that’s MY kind of peculiar.

Do you fully experience YOUR vitality?

Molly Burke CPCC MSU
Queen of Confidence
www.lifepurposeworks.com
“I’ve bottled confidence and you can, too!”

This is an ongoing series of posts on various subjects for which I lacked a decent Google-searchable keyword title. Searching Google for ideas produced, “PEARLS of WISDOM”, which has such a rich flavor of hubris and chuzpah that I just HAD to use it.

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This is the second in the series, “Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money”, about the phenomenon of male mid life crisis. In the first part, I talked about how a lot of men tend to look outside themselves for the causes of their discontent, and asserted that the root causes of their dissatisfaction are, in fact, internal.  Their circumstances are certainly symptomatic of not living a purposeful life.
If they knew to look inside themselves first, to engage in rigorous self examination, they’d be much more likely to come to the realization that they are the source of everything in their lives. They’d realize that in order to empower themselves they must evolve, examine and re-evaluate their core perceptions as well as their present practices, goals and behaviors. Always, it’s an inside job, first. Many men leave great lives they’ve built based on some significant and worthy core values before they realize that they can empower themselves right within the life they already have. They lack critical discernment.

Likewise, some men stay in situations far too long that are clearly toxic because they feel trapped by their circumstances, lack of meaningful direction and sense of feeling purposeless; and that comes from not going within, as well. It’s always an inside job. First and foremost, an inside job. Always always always.

Here’s what’s worse: as a society we neither support nor encourage men to take time for personal growth, vision quest, goal reassessment, life path correction, any of that. We fail to support our men in living rich lives, mistaking the attainment of financial gain or social reputation for true wealth. We sell them, and in turn ourselves, short by not empowering them to live purposefully. We pigeon hole them, limit them, dishonor them, assigning to them artificial values and inappropriate expectations that hamstring their abilities to truly excell. We fail to afford them either the time or adequate opportunities to do the essential soul searching that is critical for their ultimate fulfillment in work, in love, in Purpose.

A man without a sense of purpose is a sad thing indeed.
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In the next installment, I’ll be wrapping up this article series with some solutions and recommendations to hopefully mitigate the worst effects of male mid life crisis. Come back.

Molly Burke CPCC MSU
Queen of Confidence
www.lifepurposeworks.com
“I’ve bottled confidence and you can, too!”

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