WHY Get Money Coaching or Life Purpose Coaching?

By Kamila Harkavy

Coaching, like therapy, and other forms of self-improvement has it’s detractors or skeptics who question the need for coaching and the benefits. In fact, EVERYONE benefits from having a coach because no matter what kind of genius you are at what you do, a coach can offer you perspective, support, advocacy and accountability like no one else. People who get coaching and stick with it are generally more successful and more satisfied with their success, their progress, and their lives than their counterparts who do not receive the same benefits of receiving coaching. I won’t bore you with a ton of statistics proving this; suffice it to say that they exist. Not surprising, many of the best coaches have coaches themselves and pay dearly to be coached by top coaches and trained by top trainers.  If you read the biographies of super successful people, you’ll find that they had coaches, trainers, mentors and the like.  They were willing to allow someone to help them work with their strengths, deal with their weak areas and become all they can be to fulfill their potential.

I once heard a top consultant suggest that one invest at least 3% of their earnings in themselves. Each year I invest thousands of dollars into seminars, coaching programs, retreats, trainings and expert consultants. I invest more than 3%.

So why would you do that?

1. You are the most important and valued asset you have. You want to be the best you can be, learn as much as you can, and be in a position to offer as much as possible to clients and others in your life so you’ll get coaching to continually uplevel your awareness, skills, techniques, and knowledge. You’ll improve your capacity and ability to get out of your own way! You’ll accelerate your personal growth and spiritual transformation as well.

2. You are sure to produce a much more substantial return on investment than any stock, bond or other traditional investment. This is truer today than ever before!  This investment in yourself will not only yield more financially, but it also gives you much greater satisfaction, peace, freedom and delight! Even were you to get the same financial yield on an investment, no one else would benefit besides you. By investing in yourself, everyone who comes in contact with you benefits as well.  Your relationships improve both in your business and in your personal life, you’re able and willing to give more and receive more, and be better able to fulfill your purpose which, ultimately, benefits all of humanity and it feels so amazingly GREAT, so deeply satisfying and fulfilling!

3. You get to meet and hang out with amazing coaches, trainers and others also being coached and trained.  You get to be exposed to their mindset, their energy, and their inspiration and increase your awareness, motivation, and wisdom. Priceless. Gee, sounds like one of those commercials for a credit card…..

Why else might you want to get coaching?  For me, coaching, and the other modalities (NLP, Hypnosis, ThetaHealing and EFT) I practice, helped me to change my brain (literally changed my neurology, changed the neuro pathways in my brain, changed the way my brain is wired) and my beliefs, which made it possible for me to live the life I’m meant for. Throughout my life, I had the sense that I had great potential, but I wasn’t able to utilize all of it.  This was enormously frustrating and painful!

I started my career as an architect.  I was so scared that the world didn’t see or understand me or my talent, that the world didn’t want what I had to offer, and that I’d be judged and rejected.  These fears and limiting beliefs interfered with me consistently doing what was needed to get enough exposure and get enough commissions to earn a good living. I was so identified as my work; I thought that I was this architect rather than seeing that I was a person who worked as an architect, that this was one aspect of my life, but not who I was fundamentally.   I was so caught in that identity that if the architect or her work was rejected or not seen, I was completely devastated.

Life’s twists and turns led me to apply my talent in creative problem solving in ways other than in architecture. I changed professions after becoming a mother.  I have done A LOT of work on myself (over the past 35 years with the help of some excellent professionals: coaches, teachers, trainers, etc.), matured some along the way and am now much less identified.  This makes it much less vulnerable to market my business and my services.  I am aware that I am marketing a service, a service that I provide, but that this is distinctly different than thinking that I was marketing myself!  I won’t tell you that there’s no vulnerability for me now, but it’s tolerable and I don’t allow it to be an obstacle. I don’t worry about it to the degree I once did.  In fact, I don’t worry about it much anymore.

In addition to being overly identified, I had other personality issues that posed big challenges to effectively executing many aspects of my business.  These had direct implications for my income, my overall success, my retirement, and my options.  Fortunately, my burning desire to express and manifest the fullness of my potential inspired me to tackle those issues (with the help of some excellent professionals: coaches, teachers, trainers, etc.) and persevere although I wanted to throw in the towel on numerous occasions.  At this point, I’ve made substantial progress with those issues and I have experiences of ease more and more often.  I am relaxed when I’m working.  I’m seldom tense at the end of a workday.  There’s now tremendous purpose, grace and flow to the growth and development of my business. Stress, relaxation, tension, flow, purpose and grace are great benchmarks by which to gauge one.  Clients often begin their work with me wanting more of these characteristics in addition to wanting to improve their relationship with money and discover their life purpose.

Money Mastery addresses both the identifications and the personality issues (in addition to many other things including stress, relaxation, tension, flow, and grace) and provides a highly accelerated path to more ease, more fulfillment, more fun, more abundance, and more flow and a highly accelerated path to the life YOU are meant to lead.

You have just this one precious life.  How will you maximize it? If you want to live your best life, a coach can help you to achieve it.

Contact me for a complimentary consultation.

Our Relationship With Money

By Kamila Harkavy

What are you seeking in your relationship with money? In life? What do you wish were different? Money can be a tool to transform your life in more meaningful ways. As a tool, it may facilitate the path of true fulfillment that comes from living your life intentionally and from purpose. The source of money, and of all things, exists within each of us. You hold the keys to manifesting the reality you choose, including money, abundance, ease, and flow. You can harness this power along with creativity and knowledge and live your best life, reinvent yourself and your destiny. In ancient Greece, money gave rise to intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth and discovery. The same is possible today. Your ability to change and manifest your reality is in direct relationship with your level of consciousness. If you desire your relationship with money to change, you need to be willing to look at your present beliefs and how you acquired them. As your awareness grows, you’ll have choice about what you believe and what you will do; this will allow you to realize your own power to manifest whatever you desire.

Money possesses an energy and life of its own. It contains a duality similar to that found in our own nature. It is both spiritual and material, creative and destructive, loving and cruel. It can help us fulfill our greatest dreams or cause us to be defeated by our worst nightmares. There are two sides to every coin or bill. One side represents our individual and collective ability to master the material world. The other side represents our ability to master the spiritual dimension or inner world. It is this inner resource that we want to tap.

We cannot control money, but by understanding it, we can obtain what we need. Money’s value changes not only in relation to the economy, but in relation to our consciousness. Money remains a subject that is neither taught nor widely understood. Wealth doesn’t make personal or psychological problems disappear; in fact, it often magnifies them. Having all the freedom and options in the world can be a terrible burden to even the most well-adjusted person, and this is even more true if you do not understand your relationship with money. This is why most people who win the lottery or receive some other large windfall experience extreme stress over the money and no longer have much, if any, of it left after five years.

Only one thing is real: your connection to Spirit, whatever you call it and however you define it, and your faith in Spirit. There is no other security. Money, as much as we wish for it to, does not provide security and we can’t control it. Recent economic events are proof of this.  Without our connection to Spirit, we will never feel that we are loved enough, that we have enough, that we are enough. Without faith in Spirit, we won’t pursue true fulfillment, regardless of how much money we have or what we try to fill our lives with. Wealth without consciousness is another state of poverty. The real journey is not about money; it’s about YOU, who you really are, what your path and purpose are, and how to fulfill that purpose and live a life of ease, delight, flow, success, and abundance in accordance with your own definitions and values. Money may act as an obstacle to this journey or it may pave the way. It’s very challenging to fulfill your purpose in life if money is not flowing optimally. If money isn’t flowing optimally, Money Mastery can be invaluable.  Contact me for a complimentary consultation.

This article contains excerpts from Money Magic by Deborah Price.  The book, Money Magic, is available on the site of the Money Coaching Institute www.money-therapy.com and on Amazon.

The Secret to More Income AND

More FUN

By Kamila Harkavy

No, this is not from one of those late-night infomercials on T.V. This is about doing work you love, work you were meant to do, and earning money more easily as a result, earning what you’re worth. This is about the connection between money and life purpose.

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy!”

—Mevlana Rumi

What do I mean by “life purpose”? I mean it as an answer to questions like:

Why am I here?

How can I, given who I am, best serve humanity/the world?

What am I meant to do?

What lights me up from the inside more than anything else?

What work would I want to do if earning a living wasn’t an issue?

Many people aren’t aware of their purpose and may think that they just don’t have a purpose. The good news is that everyone has a purpose, yes, even you. What’s more, you don’t need to go searching for your purpose; it is already inside you. It has been guiding you your whole life, whether you are aware of it or not.

Knowing your purpose can dramatically enhance your experience of life. Purpose-driven people experience more fulfillment, more success, and often greater financial rewards than other people.

Paradoxically, people who set out to live their purpose often make more money than people who set out to make money! This is because we are better at doing our purpose than we are at doing anything else and because we tap into the resources of the universe when we are pursuing our purpose. Some liken it to having the wind at their back. They may be applying themselves intensely to their work, but there’s a greater sense of ease and flow than when they do other work that has no relation to their purpose.

Another incentive for knowing and fulfilling your purpose may be anticipating how you want to feel at the end of one’s life: to be able to look back on your life with a sense of satisfaction, knowing that you gave it your all, and that your life made a difference and had some significance in a way that’s meaningful to you. Dying people rarely regret the things they did; they more often regret the things they didn’t do and having a sense of having not fulfilled their purpose.

Discovering your life’s purpose requires choices. The two most important choices are these: Do I want to know what my life’s purpose is? And, having discovered my purpose, do I want to live my life in a way that is consistent with that purpose? However, in contemplating whether to discover one’s purpose, people may fear that which is unknown to them. Contained within this unknown, though, is the part of you that already knows your purpose and how to fulfill it. Yes, there is a part that knows this- it’s your soul. The universe knows too. As a matter of fact, you don’t even have to figure out how to fulfill your purpose; the universe will figure this out and will reveal it one step at a time once you’ve aligned with knowing what your purpose is and made a commitment to yourself to fulfill it.

In order for us to manifest our purpose, we must have the skills and capacities needed. Fortunately, the soul develops and executes our training plan. It does this by influencing our decisions and helping us to choose things that will develop us in ways that serve our purpose long before we have even an inkling of our purpose.

The soul also “arranges” experiences for us that will cause us to grow and develop. These experiences can often be unpleasant, such as car accidents, injuries, being fired or laid off, and losing loved ones. However, it is most often our “worst” experiences that can teach us the most. The soul doesn’t cause these things to happen in the normal sense, but often steers us toward learning opportunities that our ego would naturally avoid. Along the way, as we try out different things, we act in ways that are in alignment with our fundamental purpose, and also in ways that are not. These two ways of behaving feel very different to us when we reflect on our actions and behaviors.

By looking back over our lives and reviewing the qualities of our previous experiences, we may see that there were sets of qualities of experience that correspond to times when we were on purpose and other sets of experiences that correspond to times when we were off-purpose. By looking for similarities in those times or events, we can draw conclusions about our purpose.

We’re looking for times when we felt fulfilled, passionate, intensely alive, thoroughly utilized, that we make a difference, when things happen easily and seemingly chance coincidences occur to support our goals and projects, and our efforts produce results, as well as times when there is serendipity, flow or grace. At such times, it’s as though the wind is at our backs and is moving us along with very little sense of efforting on our part. The process is enjoyable even if it’s challenging, and we aren’t concerned about having enough energy or motivation to achieve our objectives. These are the times when we are ON PURPOSE although we may not yet be aware of our purpose during that experience. When we are doing things in our life that support our purpose, our soul and life gives us positive feedback.

When we are out of alignment with our purpose, it feels very different. We find obstacles at every turn. We have to muster up the energy and the will to follow through and complete things. There is a sense of swimming upstream or walking headlong into the wind and having to effort to move forward at all. We don’t enjoy the process much of the time. We are not satisfied by our accomplishments, or the satisfaction is fleeting. We wonder, at times, why we’re doing what we’re doing, and imagine greener pastures. I call this experience “slogging through mud.”

Let’s say you’re fortunate enough to have a sense of your purpose. Now what? It’s not all downhill cruising from here. You’re likely to meet up with resistance internally and externally. People resist consciously and unconsciously. The reason we resist is fear, for a few reasons:

We know that it is a road we must travel alone. Even if others are going with us, we now answer to a higher call and must follow that inner guidance.

Many people will not and cannot understand what we experience because they have not experienced it themselves so we must seek out people who understand the process so we can relate our experience.

We all have an ego.

Your ego, the part of you that you think of as “I”, makes choices and takes action in the world. It is responsible for your safety. One of the primary ways that the ego ensures safety is to maintain the status quo. The ego is not keen on any growth or change that diminishes the ego’s hold on you or reality as it knows it. Your ego isn’t going to let you find or pursue your purpose if it thinks that it is or will be unsafe from it’s perspective.

You’re probably aware of your desire to know your purpose, or you wouldn’t be reading this. Are you also aware of the part of you that DOESN’T want to know your purpose, or is AFRAID of knowing your purpose? If not, sense into it. Watch what arises in you as you entertain notions such as: “what if my purpose tells me to change jobs?”, “What if my purpose doesn’t involve making a good living?”

It’s not uncommon for people to suffer emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually as they contemplate pursuing their purpose. The suffering has to do with their attachments to who they take themselves to be, how their life is arranged, and related concepts as well as resistance to the truth, their truth. People may resist seeing or accepting the truth. Yet, With each step forward, your fears will dissolve and the ways will be shown and the road will be wonderful and that’s where we are all heading. Even you.

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” – Dorothy Thompson

Regarding success and failure:

Change your beliefs to change your results!

By Kamila Harkavy

All failure begins this way:  People start out with high hopes about fulfilling their dreams, their life purpose, being successful, becoming balanced, happy and fulfilled, becoming wealthy,etc….., but when their perception of their circumstances suggests a lesser outcome is more likely (perhaps  an unexpected obstacle arises), their reaction becomes the initial seed of failure. This process destroys the dreams of countless people.  One of the myriad benefits of getting life purpose coaching or Money Mastery coaching is that the coach will help you to see the obstacles for what they are and hold you accountable to pursuing and fulfilling the dreams or intentions you initially brought to your coach.

Take a look at how this process works:

1. We all have two parts in our thinking: One is our dream or goal, and the second is the belief (conscious or subconscious limiting belief) that it might not ever happen. This is where most people start out.  This is like driving with the parking brake on- the parking brake makes it extremely difficult to move forward much less achieve acceleration or transformation.  It takes tremendous effort on the engine’s part, consumes a tremendous amount of fuel in order to move forward AND it’s highly stressful and will create damage.  In this analogy, we can all see that it makes no sense to operate a car this way.  Yet, many of us do attempt to operate our lives and our businesses this way and we wonder why we don’t succeed or why we can’t do everything needed to succeed.  We wonder why our spiritual, personal, and economic growth is slow or difficult.  So often it’s a case of looking at only half of the equation (the doing half) and forgetting the other half: WHO/HOW you have to BE to succeed.

2. Next, something begins to spark or inspire a person to take action on their dream, their life purpose, or their mission. Yet, not having a full understanding of the Laws of Success, they may not be aware of or receptive to the changes, the personal and spiritual growth required to realize their dream outcome.  Many individuals are not open to growth and change; this shows up as resistance.

3. Their subconscious may manifest an obstacle to keep them from experiencing anything “new” – a pre-requisite for moving forward.  This new challenge is perceived as a point of failure.

It is at this point in a person’s journey where moving forward becomes too painful or fearful, and a person usually chooses to stay “safe”, to remain in the realm of what they’ve known and are comfortable with.  This is known as one’s comfort zone. Being willing to move out of one’s comfort zone allows one to move forward, see the bigger win they are hoping for, and move into the growth and change necessary!

For any kind of change to occur, some sort of shift is necessary. Your beliefs control your perception of everything in your world, which in turn creates your reality. If you want to change your results, you must change your beliefs AND shift your perception. Until you shift your perception and your beliefs, you will continue to make choices that keep you where you are.  Without such a shift, you will likely feel defeated and give up on your dreams.

In theory, it’s really simple … but in practice, many people find it difficult because they really don’t understand all beliefs are nothing but illusions anyway. These illusions are so strong people think that they are real and they lack the knowledge, training or guidance to transform their beliefs.

The power of belief is astounding. I encourage you to study its mysteries for yourself and see what changes you truly do have the power to make.  Want some help?  I have powerful graceful tools to facilitate your transformation.

Contact me for a complimentary consultation.

Essential Time Management

By Kamila Harkavy

There’s something about this time of year: whether it’s that business slows down, looking at the year in review – what went well, what didn’t, what could be improved or different; or that people start thinking about the New Year and making a fresh start, turning over a new leaf, aligning with our most important values, focusing on personal growth and transformation with renewed vigor, adjusting one’s habits to create greater satisfaction, fulfillment, spirituality, abundance and solvency; writing out resolutions; the shorter daylight hours causing a natural inward focus, etc……

This time of year, I usually spend some time completing minor tasks left unfinished when more pressing matters took precedence, filing and organizing (and unfiling or purging my files as well), and clearing any piles (I’m happy to see that piles are almost a non-issue for me now whereas they used to be a MAJOR issue).  Although this is something I like to do at this time of year, it doesn’t work for me to put it on my list of things to do.  Yesterday, however, I spontaneously began doing this and this morning I spontaneously continued.  I purged a whole bunch of files that I no longer need and rearranged my files for ease of use.  It just feels great to have this done and I feel excited knowing that from a feng shui perspective, I’ve made space for the new and also for more to flow in.  I feel this is as valuable as some other ways to optimize your business during a slow time.  Energetically, it brings your environment current: current with your vision for your life, your business, your career, current with your energy and your intention.

In the process of clearing and organizing, I came across some notes to myself on Essential Time Management. The word essential refers to the essence of who we are as well as the essence of time management, and how to take time management out of the realm of the ego and have it emanate from the soul. Time management becomes much more compelling when it emanates from the soul.  Although still rife with challenges, it’s easier to align with and feel motivated from a deeper truer part of yourself – from your soul rather than your ego.  Discipline, then, is an expression of your deepest truth.

Your intentionality is then merged with your actions.  Applying WILL to your life means getting present, getting on track, bringing your soul into focus, getting clear highly-tuned dynamic movement.  How you use your time determines whether your life is an expression and fulfillment of who you really are, what you want, and your life purpose and mission.  That’s the main reason to practice essential time management. Why else: to be inspired and intentional and move toward greater satisfaction and fulfillment, to have time for contemplation, fun, being ourselves, being with those we value, and leisure, allowing and expressing  your heart’s desire!

What we’ve been told about ourselves (and what we’ve continued to tell ourselves) also affects how we use our time.  What do you tell yourself?  What have others told you?  Cease to keep this a secret.  It liberates so much energy to bring this into the daylight.  It has taken more energy than you realize to keep it hidden, to attempt to compensate, etc…  You can use that energy in better ways!  Allow it to serve your transformation instead.  Truthfulness is the agent of transformation:  Telling the truth about who and how we are.  The lies we believe and repeat keep us from truly supporting ourselves. THIS is the core of procrastination. (Reminder: if procrastination is a major issue, please see my previous blog posts and book review of Neil Fiore’s The NOW Habit).  Continuing to tell ourselves the truth is essential for progress.  Holding the bigger picture is a discipline.  Keep returning.  No need to judge yourself for losing focus, it’s completely natural to do so; just renew your focus again and again.  Lather. Rinse. Repeat.  Return to sensing what you really want and what’s important to you; reconnect with yourself, your purpose, your highest intentions.  Remember and value who you really are and your purpose.  True discipline will arise naturally.  This is like a muscle; it’ll become stronger as you use it and challenge yourself regularly. Remember how I spontaneously found myself organizing and clearing?

As much as we may want them, we also fear having love and success because we fear having them and then losing them.  Again.  We don’t want to feel the pain of that loss which will remind us of the other times that we’ve experienced these losses.  THIS is one of the main obstacles to true time management!

I return to these notes from time to time, learning something new or deepening my understanding each time. Since I’ve shifted and grown since I last read them, I’m able to see or hear some things in a different way, it’s able to penetrate further, and my understanding has shifted too.  I know that Essential Time Management is key to living the life of my dreams so I persevere……and keep returning.

Moving through limiting beliefs and fear to fulfill your life purpose and live your most authentic life

By Kamila Harkavy

“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.  Seek the path that demands your whole being”  -Rumi

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown

Each of us has a purpose in life whether we’re aware of what that purpose is or not. Once you begin to make clear decisions about discovering and understanding your mission and purpose and fulfilling that purpose, and then follow through on your decisions by taking appropriate and consistent action, your subconscious mind will start to “freak out”.  Forms of fear, doubt and worry will arise to hold you back and keep you where you are, where there is “the known”, the familiar, your comfort zone. This “freak out” is a mechanism of your subconscious mind to keep you “safe”; it’s completely normal and par for the course, but these thoughts and beliefs do not serve you and your purpose or the world because they often keep you from moving forward. Recognize these limiting beliefs for what they are: false and designed to maintain the status quo.

If you are feeling any resistance to moving forward, your limiting beliefs are attempting to hold you back from stepping into the power and glory of WHO you really are and what you’re here to do. Until you can break free from these beliefs, you will be using much of your energy to counteract those beliefs and you’ll never be completely open to allow Spirit to work through you.  As a result, life and work will always take hard work to succeed.  Yet, when we uncover and disarm these beliefs, the horizon opens up and the wind is at our back making the road ahead much easier. I work with clients to uncover these limiting beliefs (which often stand in stark contrast to what their conscious mind believes) and either reconcile or eliminate them then replace them with beliefs that do support their unlimited growth.

During this period, you must embrace all the faith you can muster- the faith that’s based on the knowledge and experience you’ve amassed over the years. Those beliefs have taken you this far, but to travel further, you need faith and the assistance of those who have successfully traversed this terrain. By getting coaching, support, and studying and applying principles, you will reinforce your faith and your knowing, strengthen your ability to trust and persevere in the face of doubt whether internal or external and more easily pass through the uncertainty.  Many people are wise to realize that support and guidance are invaluable at such times.  An excellent coach or mentor can make the critical difference between being overwhelmed or blocked by fear, doubt, and insecurity and staying in contact with your inner knowing of what you must do if you’re to live your best, fullest and most authentic life. Few people navigating this terrain alone succeed in a big way.  Why make it any harder than it needs to be?  Don’t allow your ego to keep you from getting all the support and guidance you possibly can.  Time is of the essence; the world needs your gifts asap.

Once you move through the abyss of doubt and fear, you begin to experience the riches you seek. As Napoleon Hill writes in Think and Grow Rich, “When riches begin to come, they come so quickly and in such great abundance that one will wonder where they’ve been hiding for all the lean years.”

In other words, the success that you seek, the money that you desire, is only going to come when you go past the fear that is stopping you. You have to be willing to rout it out, face it, move past it and then follow your true desire into the unknown. Only when you come out on the other side, will you experience the success you seek.

Through my own journey into the abyss and out again, I learned one of the biggest lessons of my life:

When it comes to your success, you will only go as far as your greatest fear; if you let it, your fear will prevent you from having what you want.  The big lesson: facing the fear actually felt much better than living with the fear; and it liberated me.

There will always be more fears. Every time we consider a leap into the unknown, we will feel fear. However, having been through the abyss before, you’re not as unnerved by it the second time or the third or the fourth. Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Do one thing everyday that scares you.” Why? When you do this, facing fear becomes a habit. You don’t rear back from it, you face it and then move through more quickly each time.  “Do the uncomfortable thing until it becomes comfortable being uncomfortable.” Well, the same principle applies to fear. It may never become completely comfortable, but it does become less powerful.  You will develop muscle and skill in being with fear and that will make it easier and faster over time.

Our potential is only limited by the fear that stops us. If we never allow ourselves to be stopped by fear, we will never encounter any limits to fulfilling our potential and our purpose.

Imagine yourself, like a warrior, you move through every fear that arises. Imagine yourself embodying your true passion, becoming exactly in this life the person you are meant to be.  How does that feel?  Want that?  Take the first step and get valuable support. If you’re ready, I’m here for you.

Contact me for a complimentary consultation.

Values, Life Purpose, and New Year’s Resolutions

by Kamila Harkavy

Soon people will be writing out their New Year’s Resolutions for 2010 or at least thinking about the New Year.  People will be thinking of what they want, what they want to be different and better, and what they think they could do differently to better bring about the life or circumstances they desire- a life, perhaps, that better embodies their values, perhaps even expresses their purpose.

Deeply held values, those that have intrinsic worth and thus are about things that cannot be lost, fuel the energy on which purpose is built. They define an enduring code of conduct- the rules of engagement in the journey to bring our vision for ourselves to life.  Some universal values: generosity, integrity, courage, humility, compassion, loyalty, steadfastness, and love.  To begin to explore more deeply the values most compelling to you, set aside uninterrupted time to contemplate:

• Jump ahead to the end of your life.  What are the 3 most important lessons you’ve learned and why are they so critical?
• Think of 3 people that you deeply respect.  Describe 3 qualities in each person that you most admire.
• Who are you at your best?
• What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?

These questions will elicit your deepest values.

A value is ultimately a roadmap for action.  The more we are committed to and guided by our values, the more powerful a source of energy they become.  A value in action is a virtue.  Alignment occurs when we transform our values into virtues by embodying and acting on them.  Values hold us to a different standard for managing our energy and our lives.

Some questions we may ask:

• how can work be a forum in which to express and embody our deepest values and purpose?
• What is my greatest purpose in life and how can work be an avenue for or an expression of this?
• What are some steps that would move in the direction of discovering my purpose and creating work that is an embodiment of that purpose?

Clarifying purpose takes time, quiet uninterrupted time- which is challenging to arrange.  It may help to think of this time as an investment with the potential to deliver a high return over time- increased energy, fuller engagement, higher productivity, and greater satisfaction.

Ask yourself: ” Is the life I’m living worth what I’m giving up to have it?”.

If these questions have stirred something within you that you’d like to explore in greater depth, you may want to work with a coach who can guide you through the discovery and clarifying process.

Contact me for a complimentary consultation.