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Inner Calling

Create Your Dream Career – Grow Yourself to Match Your Dream

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Life is too short and precious to spend it in soul-sucking jobs, or a business that drags you down, or splutters in fits and starts, like the engine of an old car on a bitterly cold, snowy morning. Even the words job, business or work can sound dry. I prefer to focus on creating a dream career, that encompasses passion, purpose and a way of life that is filled with ease and joy.

Such a grand vision sounds pie in the sky, but if we don’t expand our minds to imagine what we would love to experience, we will never get close to the rich, fulfilling life we could actually enjoy.

A dream career is a creative process. Let your dream be as big as it wants to be. Then grow yourself to match your dream.

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Not Taking Action? Start Where You Are

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Video Interview Youtube Overcoming Self Doubt“There’s always something in my life that I’m unhappy about so I can’t create,” bemoaned a new client of mine. She had a job that she didn’t like and by the time she got home for the evening she felt drained and uninspired. 

What keeps pulling you deep down in your heart? Something you know you are really meant to be doing, that gets you all fired up, yet, much to your frustration, you are still not doing it.

Maybe you blame your lack of action on your relationship, or lack of one. You think that you don’t have the time or the money. Or is it that you don’t feel that you’re good enough? You have difficulty trusting and believing in yourself.  [Read more…] about Not Taking Action? Start Where You Are

Your Joy is Your Support System for Your Soul-Inspired Second Career

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Distant sunset over hills and ocean“Moving towards your soul-inspired second career and doing your current job? – Even your highest destiny can’t land in your hands when you’re drained, disconnected and frustrated.”

OK. You’re all juiced up with the vision that is forming inside of you, your inner calling, the life that is a perfect match for your soul and so much more exciting and more meaningful than your current life. Like a distant beacon of light on a far-off hilltop, your dream life pulsates, beckoning you to clamber over the rocks and brambles to claim your deepest truth and highest destiny.

Then, as desire and ambition flood your being, your mind feverishly trying to work out how and when, you suddenly find yourself feeling drained and hopelessly human. The beacon of light remains just as distant as before, even when you start to move stealthily towards it. Is it a golden carrot that beams before you like a cosmic tease, so beyond the confines of reality that it belongs to the world of unicorns, life on stars and big ideas that go pop in the night?

When the delicate balance between moving towards your dream life, your soul-inspired second career, the deepest truth in your heart and doing your current job or whatever practical considerations you have right now becomes out of whack, you have to look at the warning lights instead. Even your highest destiny can’t land in your hands when you’re drained, disconnected and frustrated.

The key to sanity and success in following your new soul-inspired direction in life is to weave in your joy, to let joy be your balm, your freedom and your best friend. Many people ignore their joy just to get everything done, do the right thing, be responsible, feel safe and to cling to their fears. They mistakenly think that their to-do list or financial security come first. Yet, part of them is dying of thirst, starved of nectar, even on the path to golden lands.

Here are three simple ways to keep your joy alive and be enlivened by your joy: [Read more…] about Your Joy is Your Support System for Your Soul-Inspired Second Career

How to Stop Beating Yourself Up for Taking So Long

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Sitting on the Fence“Finding and following your inner calling is different for everyone, so that’s why comparing yourself to others is just being cruel to yourself and so not the point.”

“I actually felt shame about having taken so long,” a client admitted the other day. “I’ve been sitting on the fence, but I couldn’t get clear enough to move forward with what’s been calling me.”

My heart was wide open feeling the pain of her shame. I immediately guided her to be gentle with herself, to help her see that the unfolding of her passionate purpose has been perfect, that there is always a larger picture where so many things you wouldn’t even think of need to happen before you can be ready to take those first steps.

“It’s different for everyone,” I said, “so that’s why comparing yourself to others is just being cruel to yourself and so not the point.”

The call of your heart speaks in whispers, nudges and yearnings. It evolves and takes shape with its own timing as you take the steps to meet it. Listen to your heart – it is showing you the way to live your purpose. You could feel drawn to write, to paint, to speak in front of groups, to travel, to interview people, to be part of the solution to a social or environmental issue, to invent something that you keep imagining and long to make real.

Whatever pulls you and speaks to you is an ingredient of your vision. It will either be part of the life that is perfect for your soul or will help you to get closer to following your inner calling.

The greatest advance you can make is to love yourself for being exactly where you are. [Read more…] about How to Stop Beating Yourself Up for Taking So Long

How Do You Know If You’re Living Your Purpose?

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Your purpose is in your heart, so your heart tells you if you’re living your purpose. If you feel passionate and inspired about something, then you’re sensing a connection with your purpose.

Your purpose is what motivates you. It’s the reason why you feel drawn to one job, career or entrepreneurial path and not to all the others that you could choose. It’s the reason why you are drawn to certain books or articles, seminars or people.

Do you spend a large part of your life feeling passionate, inspired and motivated? If you do, then you are living your purpose. You must be doing something right because you feel a big “yes” in your heart. This is your heart wisdom speaking to you.

Of course you might feel on fire with your purpose, yet feel confused about how to live it or get it out there in the world. If that’s the case, you probably need to tweak your understanding of your purpose, to become more specific. Or look at some of your beliefs and question your thinking.

Your inner wisdom knows where you’re going off course. Sometimes the reasons are right in front of you. You just don’t see them because they are so familiar.

A lot of people feel half on, half off with their purpose.

Is that you?

I used to be that way. Until I learned how to go deeper, to turn to the wisdom of my inner guidance for support with the simple practice I created called Inner Listening Skills™.

If you’re dragging your feet, following shoulds and not feeling like you’ve found your place in life, you haven’t fully found your purpose yet. Or you’re avoiding it.

Maybe you’re going through a tough situation that may lead you closer to knowing and living your purpose.

You’ll know if you listen.

Everything is meaningful.

It all depends on how you frame it.

Sometimes it takes just a small shift to truly be living your purpose. So you really are waking up each day feeling passionate, inspired and motivated.