Insights for the Savvy
Issue #29
January 7, 2005
Claudette Rowley
MetaVoice Coaching & Consulting
Insights for the Savvy offers tools and tips
for developing your intuition, and identifying your true purpose and
calling in life.
In This Issue...
Dear Friends,
I’m thrilled to announce my life-changing new coaching program:
“Three Months to Uncovering Your Life Purpose.” This
program is a five-step process that allows you to uncover and connect
with your life’s purpose in just three months. I’ve
been cultivating this process over the past year, and I’m
can’t wait for you experience it!
Here’s my New Year’s gift to you: a “Three Months
to Uncovering Your Life Purpose” introductory special. You’ll
receive three months of life purpose coaching for a total of $900.
That’s a 20% discount off of my regular rate of $1125 for
three months of coaching!
Ready to start living your purpose? Curious about the program?
E-mail me at claudette@metavoice.org
or call me at 781-676-5633 to schedule your complimentary consultation.
Here’s the catch: I only have four coaching slots available.
The first four people who request a complimentary session - get
‘em!
Now read this month’s Insight for a look at the first step
in the process. Over the few months, I’ll be writing about
each step,
so stay tuned!
I wish each of you a happy, healthy and purposeful 2005!
Claudette
Here's What You Need To Know
Insight of the Month
Making the Connections: Finding Your Life
Purpose
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s
only obligation.”
- from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“What’s the point of doing something if
you don’t enjoy it?” This question was posed by the
gentleman who drove me and my son home from the airport after Christmas.
He told me about how he’d been driving his whole life –
he first got behind the wheel of a car at age seven. He’d
gone on to drive trucks and now drove for an airport transportation
service. Here was a man who loved to drive.
I asked him what he enjoyed about driving. He said
that he loved the challenge of it and the sheer joy of moving. I
was
struck by this conversation because, while I don’t mind driving,
it would never make it on to my list of passions. In fact, I
can’t really understand how someone could be passionate about
it. That is exactly the point of this story.
Each one of us has a life purpose that’s unique.
Clearly, this man’s life purpose is to drive and do it very
well. It’s a
common misperception that life purpose ought to be worthy of headlining
the six o’clock news. Or that people living their
life purposes are saints, leaders or in some way famous. Not true
at all.
I once read that one’s life purpose is the intersection
between one’s passions and the needs of the world. In my experience,
this is true. However, the phrase “the needs of the world”
sounds lofty – like we should all be out saving the world.
Purpose doesn’t have to be lofty at all: it’s you and
what you’re here to be and do.
I’ve developed a five-step process for coaching
people toward living in tune with their life purposes.* The first
step in
connecting to your life purpose is to identify what you want and
what’s most important to you. These may or may not be the
same. Here are some guidelines:
- Try to separate your heart desires from “shoulds.”
When identifying what you want, it’s important to make sure
that
you’re not basing your desires on what you think you should
want.
- Challenge yourself if you’re thinking, “I
don’t KNOW what I want.” I work with people all the
time who say this. After some probing and digging, they discover
that they knew more about what they wanted than they realized. And
often they’re
uncomfortable with what they really want. It brings them right up
against a belief or a pattern or a relationship that they
don’t want to examine.
- Let your life purpose find you. Identifying your
life purpose is the act of reconnecting to what’s already
inside of you. It’s
not something you find or seek. Quite often, it’s closer to
the surface than you think.
- Stop stopping yourself. How often do you stop yourself
from following an urge or an inkling? The next time you feel it,
follow it through. You’ll be amazed at what transpires in
your life.
Remember, the world needs people who are passionate
about driving, to drive the rest of us who aren’t so passionate
about
it. And just as your life is precious, so is your life purpose.
Once you know deeply what you want and what’s important to
you, you’ll be one step closer to recognizing that purpose
– the one that’s waiting to be lived through you.
* The Five-Step Process:
1. Identify what you want and what’s most important to you.
2. Listen to what’s calling you
3. Observe your obstacles – what are they trying to teach
you?
4. Tap into Belief and Courage – two key ingredients
5. Plan and go!
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Now It's Your Turn
- * Allocate some quiet time to do the following: write a list
of all that you want and then another list of what’s important
to you. For each item, ask yourself “What’s underneath
this desire?” For example, if you write down that you want
more money, ask yourself “What’s underneath this desire?”
It might be security, freedom, or the means to travel to exotic
places. Doing this exercise will give you a deeper understanding
of what’s most important to you and what you most deeply
desire.
Different Voices
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“It is within my power either to serve God or not to
serve him. Serving him, I add to my own good and the good of
the world. Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive
the world of that good, which was in my power to create.”
- Leo Tolstoy
- “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their
work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that
what has already been said is still not enough.”
- Eugene Delacroix
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Insights for the Savvy is written and produced by
Claudette Rowley. If you have questions or comments, please send
them to info@metavoice.org. To
find out more about Claudette and her coaching services, visit http://www.metavoice.org or call 781.676.5633.
Copyright 2002-2004, Claudette Rowley. All Rights Reserved.
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