Do you wish you’d pursued your dreams? Are you sorry you created a life based on living up to other people’s expectations? Do you feel remorse that your choices were guided by an internal drive to prove something to someone? Do you think about how different your life would be if you’d stood up for …
In the wake of the recent US Presidential Election, you might feel challenged to focus on work or anything at all. You just can’t seem to stay on task…or on purpose. Your mind keeps wandering or fixating on this one event and its ramifications. Your focus challenge might derive from jubilation or dismay, but either …
Find your purpose. Fulfill your purpose. Have you struggled to accomplish these goals? I know I have. And despite my best efforts, I’ve never felt entirely clear about my purpose or how to fulfill it. (And I write, speak and coach about purpose often.) I’ve often thought my purpose was to write and, in the …
Tomorrow begins the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance. It comes after 10 days of introspection when we explore the sins we’ve committed and how to rectify them. We ask for forgiveness from those we’ve wronged as well as from God. There are three types of sins in the Jewish traditions: sins …
Yesterday I watched an past episode of Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday. It featured Bishop T.D. Jakes speaking about how to use our time effectively. I found myself pondering something I often think about: How much could I do that truly fulfills my purpose here on earth if I just gave up all the things I …
I live a lot of my days with a nagging feeling that there’s something I should be doing that I’m not doing. I don’t mean “should” in that negative sense, like my mother told me to do something and I feel like I should to please her but I don’t want to or society thinks …
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Every day I feel like I”m being pushed to grow bigger than my former self. No one has made me grow; I started the process myself. I wanted to grow. I added the fertilizer and the water. The problem is that now I can’t stop the process. The process has begun, and I no longer …
Sometimes life takes us in unexpected directions. We find ourselves walking paths we didn’t plan. We find ourselves far from home–both physically and spiritually. Over the last few years, I’ve been led away from my spiritual path by the business of my life. My organized religious life fell away as I focused on my children, …
“And the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying: Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city…” How often in your life have you heard God’s voice? Ever? Once? Many times? For me…It’s a still small voice…very small…I have to listen hard. I hear it if I pay close attention. When the …
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I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about as a Yom Kippur, Day of Repentance topic. This Jewish High Holy Day typically brings up issues of forgiveness. I didn’t really want to delve into that once again. Then I watched an Oprah Winfrey Master Class video about surrender, and I knew. That’s my …
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