Purpose Coaching
I work with a lot of women around the topic of purpose. This is an easy place to get stuck. We feel this calling towards higher purpose but we don’t know what that purpose is.
The truth is, we have to get traction and move forward BEFORE we know our sense of purpose IN ORDER TO DISCOVER what our purpose is. This is a catch-22😵💫.
Typically, We try applying our goal-driven way of getting things done to figuring out our purpose:
Making to do list,
setting action items,
trying to implement behaviors or practices like daily meditation…
Then we feel frustrated when they just don’t go anywhere.
We look at role models who have such a clearly defined sense of purpose. They are moving and grooving, getting things done, and seem to be tapped into some bigger energy source. It feels like once we have that same clarity about purpose then we too will finally be able to get traction and move forward.
Actually, The way in, the way to get started, is this: get in touch with what raises your frequency.
What makes you feel good?
What lights you up?
What experiences give you a full body “yes!”?
Many of us simply don’t have the self-awareness to even know when we’re in that state of being, and so that’s the first place to start. This is one of the values of a mindfulness practice. It’s bringing awareness to how you’re feeling in a given moment so that you can start to notice when you’re feeling up and when you’re feeling down.
Then over time, you start to gather data points of all the things that are connected to feeling up. These are clues and inroads to your purpose. But if you’re not doing anything but lights you up, you won’t be able to develop any data points.
So you have to go out and try things. You have to start experimenting, and, while experimenting, paying attention to whether your body is responding by saying “yes!” or “no thanks” or “meh.”
This is how you start looking inwards for understanding your true purpose, rather than looking outwards for the world to tell you what it is.
(Note: There are more steps to developing a foundation of unshakeable purpose that taps you into source energy and propels you forward in life. But this is the beginning!)
