Living Upward: The Real in Reality

By no means am I immune to or ignorant of the realities that life heaps upon all of us, nor do I want to be. But with this new intentional, purposeful life that is taking shape around me and within me, I’m realizing that there’s nothing …

Publish Date: 05/20/2010 10:37

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Does Your Attitude Keep You From Having Quality of Life?

Quality of life is accomplished when attentive attention, goal setting, and purposeful action are organized into an active agreement. Happiness, well being, since of accomplishment, good health, purposeful acts, are all part of your …

Publish Date: 05/19/2010 22:21

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Purposeful Leadership: Self Leadership: Lead yourself to success

Finally, live life with an open mind and remember that oftentimes other people know you better than you know yourself. Listen to what they are really saying about you and then lead yourself to become what you were created to be. …

Publish Date: 02/25/2010 11:01

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We Live for a Purpose, No?

So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.” It is, very well said. I should start to open up lots for important people in my life and important events to come by. All for a purposeful life. …

Publish Date: 04/24/2010 14:13

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ARE YOU LIVING A PURPOSEFUL LIFE?

Am I living a purposeful life? I often ask myself this question? My answer may vary depending on the day, month or even the year that I ask myself this question. At times my answer is yes, at times my answer is no and at times my answer …

Publish Date: 04/18/2010 15:27

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‘The Universal Law of Allowing- Wisdom’ (Chp 4) By Dorothy Ratusny.MP4

Dorothy Ratusny, A Psychotherapist and the Author of two books: ‘Live Your Life’s Purpose: A guidebook for creating and living a purposeful life’ and ‘The Purpose of Love: A guiebook for defining and cultivating your most significant relationship’ di…

Wayne Dyer – Ambition to Meaning – The Shift (Part 7 of 12)

Dr. Wayne Dyer – Ambition to Meaning – The Shift ([Part 7 of 12) how to find the path to our Spiritual Purpose and therefore our Greatest JOY. Filmed on coastal Californias spectacular Monterey Peninsula, The Shift captures every persons mid-life lon…

So I gotta a say.. I’m kinda pissed.  For the last few weeks my hands and arms have been really, really stiff and hurting.  So much that it’s hard to get dressed in the morning and typing is a REAL chore! Many will say – “Well… that’s part and parcel with Rheumatoid Arthritis!” ( I’ve had RA since I was about 20 years old… I’m a few decades older now!)

But ya know what…It doesn’t seem like it’s my bones anymore, it seems like it’s my Muscles! I get massaged regularly. Deep almost masochistic massage… very painful but it really is exactly what I need. I get Reiki twice a week and am trying to exercise more… but the pain persists… My Reiki Master Berta Prevosti tells me I’m releasing old anger and sadness… Now I don’t really get the whole Reiki thing, but I know it’s really helpful. I have a lot of faith!

I’ve been on a journey of growth and self exploration for about 10 years… I would have thought I would have gotten where I need to get buy now… but I’m learning that the journey is it’s own end. And when push comes to shove… I LOVE this journey! I LOVE growing! I LOVE helping others grow!

And that’s what keeps me going through really tough times like this. I have a passion. I know what my passion is. It’s kinda funny, but when I’m in service with others, a LOT of my pain goes away…

Do you really know your purpose. Do you really understand what you are here for. Now I’m not perfect with this yet, but I’m getting a lot better! I think many of us walk around and through life in quiet desperation, some of us realize that “there must be more to life than this”… some of us feel that we have peaked, and just figure that their purpose is to maintain status quo… I challenge that there is more for all of us. The power to have more is in our hands. No one can give it to you, you need to take it!

So what is your purpose. Maybe you’re not sure. Let me know if you’d like me to write more on how I found my purpose….

When you find yours will you be as excited as Steve Martin in this Clip?

Talk to me… What is your special purpose… How did you find it?

It’s almost an Entrepreneurial pandemic! But there is a remedy and it’s not really a choice between doing a little or a lot. The answer is – “Both”.

I understand how you feel. You get pulled from every direction, marketing, sales, promotion, management, customers vendors, bills to pay, orders to ship… it’s a battle to find time to work on you business… not in your business.

But lets try an experiment…  just for this week.

Take one task that has been looming overhead. We all have them, could be a repot you have needed to write, maybe a lot of filing that needs to be done… maybe you haven’t been reaching out to your Clients and Customers the way you have wanted to… we all have a list of stuff like this.

Starting today, take that big task and break it down into smaller chunks… if it’s not too much, try breaking it into 5 chunks. That give you a chunk to work on every day.

If its a BIG project break it up into 10 or 20 chunks. The number of chunks isn’t important, what’s most important is that you break them off into chunks you feel you can get done in about 45 minutes. Don’t overwhelm yourself and try to cram 2 hours of stuff into 45 minutes. Be realistic.

Now look at your calendar and find 45 minutes every day that you can dedicate to this and schedule tose 45 minutes in… just like you would if this were a very important Client. JUST this… nothing else. No E-mail. No Twitter or Facebook or phone calls. JUST THIS.

Now download a countdown clock. You can Google for one but I like BlingClock Timer it’s a free download and very visual. Now set it for 45 minutes each day and work on the ONE task that you have dedicated that time to… remember… JUST that task!

Do this for 1 week and report back here about your experience… We’ll discuss more in a week about my results.

Oh… don’t do this halfheartedly… really dig in and give it a try.

No pressure… Remember it’s just an experiment. If it works… cool… if it doesn’t you ditcjh it!

Fair enough?

John

Faith can be in yourself, faith in the universe or God… or even  faith in your business process.

Faith is hard to get when you don’t have it.

Its also hard to ‘teach” people to have faith, but I’ve found you can be coached into having faith.

You could hire me as a personal coach, and we can exercise that faith muscle ’till its big and strong…

…or ask your spouse, a friend, a partner (make sure they support your project first) to be a faith coach or a cheerleader. When you ‘re down, they encourage you to keep plugging, when your confused they help you de-scramble the jigsaw puzzle etc…

Teach Faith

Ya know one ofthe best ways to become faithful… Coach others to have faith. Find someone that is down on themselves and Coach them, be their cheerleader. You’ll be amazed by whet you learn when you teach! I  always learn from my Coaching Clients!

Sammy Hagar Teaches us Faith

In the immortal word sof Sammy Hagar in the song “Give To Live” :

” If you want faith,  just believe a little.”

Just for a moment…   suspend disbelief in yourself,your project and your company and imagine what it would be like to have your plan work…

When you look at the past, don’t focus on the down side… Ya know, all those stumbles and falls were just lessons.

My good friend Andy Jenkins of Stompernet tells me “there is no success or failure… only positive or negative test results”

My dear reader… life is a test, learn from it and then take action on what you have learned, tweak you attitude and actions based on the past results!

Sometimes it will be blind action, but have faith in the process, after all… babies have faith that they will one day walk like their Mom and Dad, and they keep trying until they get it right!

Learn from yesterday and move forward to day with fiath that you will have a test result by the end of the day!

Make it an unusual day!

John