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Maybe Your "Calling" Is Easier Than You Think!

1/9/2023

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I often work with people in career transition, or wanting to re-energize their connection to life purpose. Sometimes it feels like those clients seek a "sacred job description." Wouldn't it be great if Source laid it all out for us?

​But, that's rarely how it works, as this cartoon from War and Peas playfully suggests:
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My sense, from conversations with colleagues, indigenous elders, and work in the Akashic Records is that most of what we traditionally value isn't all that important from a cosmic perspective. (That's not to say it doesn't count with our bosses, of course.)

What is cosmically important? Taking advantage of our incarnate form: that is, doing those things one can only do in a body, and with free will. That includes delighting in the world around us. Connecting in meaningful way with others. Being in and supporting the environment around us.

I wrote some about this subject after working with Kogi elders in Columbia, A Radically Different View of Purpose. Ditto A Kinder/Gentler Alternative to New Year's Resolutions. What I said there still stands.

And, if you're saying "yeah, yeah, but I want to live a life committed to purpose, and I'd like some insight on that--got any recommendations?"...I do! Lynne Twist just published an easy and amazing read, Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose in Something Larger than Yourself. And Stephen Cope's The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling is an old favorite that many clients have found useful, too. And, finally, another way to reconnect to your purpose in a quick and powerful way is through Core Intention work. I've already enjoyed working with many of you like that.

Hope you're off to a fun and engaging New Year. On my end, Gale West and I moved to California (Los Gatos in the Bay Area) in August, got married in October, and honeymooned in Patagonia. I am so grateful!

What's happened for you that you'd like to share? ​Feel free to touch base, and/or share insights.
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1/13/2023 01:34:12 pm

I recently visited relatives in Seattle and a quirky cousin bluntly volunteered out of the blue that he was content having no particular sense of purpose. I knew my cousin had strong feelings about justice and human rights, yet I was not too surprised given his lack of steady employment, permanent mate or children. My feelings on hearing his statement involved something like a sigh of relief, but also a nagging sense that one OUGHT TO stand up - activate! - for our beliefs.
My recent conversation and the conflict I felt was why this subject is so relevant right now. My visit to Seattle also involved that cousin's activist sister, as well as visits with a brother-in-law whose dedication to environmental causes is a family trait.
Am I a slacker when it comes to "purpose"?
I shall check out Mark's suggested readings for perspective.

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1/14/2023 11:50:41 am

I do think some of the suggested readings will help. I'm very much in favor of having clarity about what's ours in life to do. As long as we allow a true answer to come forth, vs. the ones we've been conditioned to think are important.

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