Living with Purpose | Now What Are You Supposed to Do? 20 Things Your Soul May Call You to Do
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Release Date: 10/06/2022
Living with Purpose | Are You Confused About Whether to Sell or Stay?
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Are you confused about whether to sell or stay in your home? In my workshops and private sessions, I often attract people who are struggling with selling or staying in their home. Our homes have such a major impact on the quality of our lives that it makes sense how difficult this decision is. As I’ve listened to people’s stories, I’ve found a common thread to the struggle. The ego points out all the reasons to sell when your soul calls you to stay. Or, your ego convinces you to stay when your soul is itching to leave....
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Living with Purpose | Is the Declaration of Independence Soulful? A look from a Soul’s Home® Perspective.
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Is the soulful? In honor of Independence Day today, let’s look at the Declaration of Independence from a Soul’s Home® perspective. is an important Soul’s Home® ingredient and the Declaration of Independence is the foundation upon which this community of America was built. But does the Declaration of Independence have soul? When it was written in 1776, the 13 American colonies were controlled by Britain’s King George III who imposed military rule, restricted trade, and collected taxes without representation or protection...
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Living with Purpose | Does Your Décor Reflect Your Spiritual Purpose or Is it Keeping You Stuck? How To Use Décorating To Get Un-stuck.
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Does your décor reflect your spiritual purpose or is it keeping you stuck? A couple of months ago, I was spinning the wheels on my business and problem solving was going nowhere. Then, I remembered my father’s advice about getting stuck in the snow, “Spinning your wheels digs you in deeper making it hard to get out. Instead rock back and forth until you can move forward.” That’s the same way the Journey to Your Soul’s Home®...
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Living with Purpose | Got Pesky Household Members? 3 Things You Can Do to Turn Pesky into Pleasure
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Got pesky household members? Last week, we applied the to things you don’t like about your house. But what if the thing you don’t like is a pesky household member? Let’s face it. It’s hard to live with other people! Heck, sometimes I find it hard to live with myself! So, let’s use the three choices to turn pesky household members into pleasures. Should you: 1. Live with it 2. Lobby for change 3. Leave First, think about your soul’s purpose for the short term – what I call the little p. If you need help figuring out your little p, check out . Once you know your...
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Living with Purpose | Have So Much to Do That You Don’t Know What to Do? 3 Simple Steps to Cure the “Too Much to Do” Blues
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Do you have so much to do that you have no idea what to do? I often feel like I have way too much to do. If you’re overwhelmed too, here’s a simple cure for the, “I’ve got too much to do” blues. It starts with the belief that there’s always enough time to do everything your soul wants you to do. Think about it – your soul wants you to live your most authentic life and if you’ve always got too much to do, that just can’t happen. You need spaces in-between to hear your soul. But it can be tricky to know WHAT your soul wants you to do, so let’s break...
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How to Leverage Your Troubles to Find Meaning and Purpose in Life
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Can your troubles help you find purpose in life? Last week, we talked about in order to stay balanced during life’s ups and downs. But what if you don’t know what your purpose is? Likely, you’ll find it in your troubles. Let’s transcend your troubles by leveraging them to find purpose. Times of turmoil are fertile grounds for discovering purpose because by experiencing what you don’t want, you can clarify what you do want and are more motivated to get it. ...
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Living with Purpose | What’s Your Point? How to Stay Focused When Life Throws You Off Balance
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What’s Your Point? What do I mean by “What’s your point?” It’s a lesson I learned from spinning ballerinas and balancing yogis. To spin without falling, a dancer “spots” by focusing on a fixed object as her body turns and whips her head around to see the object each time she rotates. The balancing yogi fixates on a point to stay steady. Losing focus means wobbling and that’s bound to happen sometimes but with maturity, you regain focus and steady again. When your life feels out of balance or you’re dizzy from...
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Living with Purpose | Where Are You on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? How Your Soul’s Home® Helps You Reach Self-Actualization
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Where are you on Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs? Maslow believed that people are motivated to act on their needs in priority order: Physiological, Safety, Love/ Belonging, Esteem and Self-Actualization. So, if you don’t have food and water, you’ll seek it even at the expense of your safety. Once you have food and water, you’ll seek safety. Until you have safety, it will be your priority before seeking love and so on. Maslow believed that the ultimate goal of self-actualization was not possible until all the lower needs were met. I was excited to...
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Living with Purpose | Are You a Product of Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Factors That Shaped Who We Are
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Are you a product of your nature or how you’ve been nurtured? As a teenager, I had an ongoing good-natured debate with my mother about whether or not, people were a product of nature or nurture. She was a science teacher so, she argued the Nature side – that people were born with genetic predispositions. I studied psychology so, I argued the Nurture side – that it was the environments people lived in, particularly when they were a child that shaped who they were. But now, I’ve come to realize that we were both right – both what you are born...
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Living with Purpose | Don’t Know What to Do? Here Are the 3 Choices You Always Have
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What shall you do? It’s often hard to know what to do. There are so many difficult decisions in life. I remember the first time I struggled to make a big decision, my mother gave me some sage advice. She said, “Suzanne, you always have three choices: 1. Live with it, 2. Lobby for change or 3. Leave.” Knowing the three choices has felt liberating and empowering. Liberating because it shrinks a sea of unlimited choices down to bite sized pieces and empowering because – gosh, darn it! With this tool, I can decide and move on! So, let’s look closer at these three choices. First, name...
info_outlineWe’ve talked about the BIG P – the part of your soul’s purpose that’s your life’s work, what you were born to do. But what about your little “p” or what your soul is calling you to do for the short term?
I really like the little p because even if you are struggling to figure out what your Big P is you can still stay on track by tuning in to your little p. Your little p will always lead to your Big P. Your little p says, “It’s okay to be where you are, don’t worry about the future just be here with me now and I’ll make sure you get to where you need to be.”
Sometimes, it’s impossible to see your Big P clearly until you have fully addressed your little p. For example, someone who has lived through abuse or has health challenges may need to heal and recover before their Big P gets into focus or is even possible to realize.
Even people who know their Big P need to follow their little p to achieve their Big P. Remember we talked about Jane Goodall’s Big P – to promote understanding and protection of great apes and their habitat. Today, she travels the world, speaking to inspire action. Can you imagine if she started doing that in 1960 instead of living among the chimpanzees in Tanzania? She first needed to understand the apes and their needs and gain credibility before she could be an effective advocate for them.
It’s normal to wish we were farther along than we are. If that’s where you are, go ahead – take time to feel like crap about being where you are. It’s okay. I hereby give you permission to feel like crap for as long as you like – it can be your little p. And when you’re done feeling like crap, ask: “Soul, what do you want me to focus on now?” You define now according to what you need – this moment, today, this week, this year? Maybe, it just takes as long as it takes – that’s okay.
Use the list of common little p’s below to help your soul hone in on yours. Careful though, don’t pick too many, 2 or 3 will suffice. Anything more than that will be counter productive.
- Explore Your Options
- Learn or Study
- Create or Birth
- Prepare
- Pursue &/or Receive What You Need to Live Your Purpose
- Connect with Others
- Perform Your Craft or Purpose
- Survive, Manage, or Protect from Crisis
- Lobby for Change
- Prune and Purge People, Activities and Things
- Rest, Recover and Heal from a Physical/Emotional Difficulty
- Re-discover Yourself After a Life Change
- Be a Caretaker for a Loved One
- Make Time and Space to Hear Your Soul
- Coast & Have Fun
- Develop Good Self-Care Habits
- Improve Your Financial Health
- Heal Damaged Relationships
- Stand Up for Yourself
- Move away from danger
If you feel so moved, please let me know how focusing on little p works for you by writing comments below.
Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.