Building A Business Around Your Soul Purpose
Last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed by financial coach Chris Miles on his monthly client call. The topic was, what do you do with your Soul Purpose once you have an idea on what it is that you can do to create value in the world. Chris is a unique financial coach in that he focuses on an individuals ability to create value in the world which then leads them to the ability to create more wealth. On our call last week, I gave four points that I feel are critical to getting started: 1. Self Understanding- Knowing what your skills are and how you can match
Want Better Productivity? Start With Soul Purpose
Business owners and people in general look all they have to do in a day and think that answer to their problems lies in just having more time. You can ask all you want but the reality is that you aren’t going to get it. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. What makes some people more productive than others? It start with knowing and understanding your Soul Purpose. At the base of productivity is having greater personal clarity. When you have that clarity about not only what it is that you should be doing but also how you should be doing it, you are able to
What If I Don’t Have Purpose or Talent?
The above question is one of the most heartbreaking questions that I hear out of people’s mouths when I chat with them about Soul Purpose. More often than not, people are convinced that there is nothing unique about them. So do you have purpose or talent? Read on and let’s find out. When something asks me the question of whether they have a purpose or not, I immediately know that they feel this way for 1 of 2 main reasons. The first reason is that they just haven’t spent enough time on personal reflection to find out specific answers to questions about their ability. The second is that we
My Soul Purpose Story
If you would have told me about Soul Purpose five years ago, I may have said something like, “Sounds great, call me when you land back on Earth.” When it came to my specific set of talents and abilities. I just never gave it much thought at all. This post is a journey through my Soul Purpose discovery process. When it came to having ability, I knew that there were some things that I did very well. Even easier to pinpoint was the list of things that I didn’t do well. ( Isn’t that always the case? We are always so good at what we suck at.) The problem is
Your Employees Are Not You
Bringing people together in a group and getting them to work together is never a very simple, straightforward practice. The main reason for this is that we all have different set of experience as well as a different set of values that we utilize when working. This is especially hard for business owners who wonder why their employees aren’t the same as they are. If you have ever been or are currently in a leadership position or run a business, you know how exciting it can be. We want to get started and change the world. We’re smart, we work hard, we care deeply etc. Things get difficult for us
The Myth of Talent
Talent is a concept that we hear a lot about in our lives. Talent is also an area that can be a sore spot for people as they beat themselves up over a perceived lack of it. For all the talk of talent, there have been some interesting studies on the subject and some good books that have come out recently on whether or not having talent is a myth. Last year I saw an interview on Charlie Rose with Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor at Large for Fortune magazine, who wrote a book titled, Talent is Overrated. In the interview and the book, Mr. Colvin talks about the idea that
The Difference Between Roles and Purpose
An easy tell regarding how well we understand the idea of Soul Purpose is to look at the disconnect that we have between a role that someone plays in life (mom, dad, accountant, police office etc.) and how that relates to their actual purpose. Roles are not purpose and purpose is not one specific role. We see this mistake made constantly and it is most prominently on display in the world of professional sports. I started thinking about this when I heard that Chris Chelios (NHL superstar, future hall-of-famer) was going to play minor league hockey for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves at the tender age of 47. Chris played 28
The One Thing You Don’t Know About Yourself That Others Already Do
The underlying theme of this blog is based on the powerful concept of Soul Purpose. When it comes to understanding our strengths , it seems to be one area that we really suck at figuring out, until it’s too late. Knowing our strengths is the one thing that everyone else already has figured out about us long before we ever do. Maybe this just happened to me but I have a feeling that it has happened to most of us at some point. I also still hear a disturbingly high number of people who suggest to me that they don’t have any kind of special and unique talent. The reason
Book Review: Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
I am personally fascinated and passionate about understanding what makes me, and other people, tick. Strengths Finder is another great tool to help you understand how you operate and what that may look like in your life. One of the things that trip us up in life is that we think we are born to do a certain role. We aren’t born to be an accountant, we aren’t born to be athletes and we aren’t born to be doctors. These are roles that allow us to express ourselves at the core of our being. The thing that we miss in all this? Understanding what’s at the core of our being.
Does the C-word Make You Uncomfortable?
Some say that men typically have this problem…. Some say that it’s a problem in society in general… It has to do with our problem with the word commitment. When it comes to our day, most us commit to one simple action item…trying. We can’t tell you that we will achieve a result, we can only tell you that we will try. Effort and try are noble words that when practiced carelessly, lead to failure. Daily success and achievement starts with a commitment to achieving our daily game plan consistently. Too often we go about our day with either no game plan or no real commitment to doing what we
