How To Live A Purposefilled Life
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Living a purpose-filled life –Learn how to align work, love,
family and friendship
The story, in brief
I The Myth of Personal Freedom
II The 8 Essential Questions
III Living an Identity-Based Life
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I The Myth of Personal Freedom
The Myth of Personal Freedom
You can’t be anything you want to be …
… but you have more potential than you know
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The Myth of Personal Freedom
Life has order
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The Myth of Personal FreedomCrack your identity code
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II The 8 Essential Questions
The 8 Essential Questions
#1 Who am I?
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Define yourself as separate from all others.
“The thing that makes you exceptional is inevitably that
which must also make you lonely.”
Lorraine Hansberry
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The 8 Essential Questions
#2 What makes me special?
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Unearth what you love.
“We are not in a position where we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings”
Abraham Maslow
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The 8 Essential Questions
#3 Is there a pattern to my life?
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Make the connections that explain past events and
foreshadow your future.
“Life is the act of becoming. Life is transitional. That’s what I
am engaged in: to continue to become more of me.”
Martin Buber
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The 8 Essential Questions
#4 Where am I going?
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Commit to the path revealed in what you’ve learned so far.
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it. Never desert your own line of
talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed; be anything less and you will be ten
thousand times worse than nothing.”
Sydney Smith
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The 8 Essential Questions
#5 What is my gift?
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Follow the signs of joy.
“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our
privilege and our adventure to discover our own special
light.”
Mary Dunbar
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The 8 Essential Questions
#6 Who can I trust?
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Take stock of who matters and why.
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly
smile, nor the joy of companionship. It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover
that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The 8 Essential Questions
#7 What is my message?
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Declare yourself on the strength of your gift.
“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity...I didn’t feel better
or stronger than anyone else, but it seemed no longer important that everyone loved me or not – more
important now was for me to love them.”
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The 8 Essential Questions
#8 Will my life be rich?
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Surrender to the pull of identity.
“Until one is committed there is always hesitancy, the chance to
draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth – that the moment
one definitely commits oneself, providence moves too.”
W.H. Murray
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III Living an Identity-Based Life
Living an identity-based life – Things you can do starting now…
… In “work”
• Find a path and place that wants what you haveto give
• Ask your boss or co-workers how, as a group, you canbuild more meaning into the work you do every day
• Invite others to talk about how to make a distinctive and lasting contribution to the organization
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Living an identity-based life – Things you can do starting now…
… With your spouse/partner
• Make identity a deliberate part of conversations
• Help clarify each other’s identity – and honor those special traits
• Build activities into your relationship that spring naturally from who you are
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Living an identity-based life – Things you can do starting now…
… With friends
• Take stock of who matters and why
• Create your “inner identity circle”
• Re-think the meaning – and practice – of trust
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Living an identity-based life – Simple things you can do starting now…
… As a parent/grandparent
• Observe patterns of success early in childhood – Play them back
• Give children things to read that highlight the importance of knowing oneself
• Talk ‘purpose’ with your kids, early on
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Make your identity a framework for living …
The Identity Credo – A framework for living
I am alive, I am unique, and I am immutable,
Even as I grow and evolve.
To truly live, however, I must express myself fully,
And in this regard, have much to give.
But to do so, I need others
And am most productive with those
Who need me in return.
To establish these relationships,
I must first be known for who I am,
And it follows then that I will receive in accordance
With what I give.
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“You are where the world begins. You have value simply as a result of being who you are. No one can take
your identity away from you. No one can make you be someone you
are not. That is your strength and it is eternal.”
Larry Ackerman
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The Law of Being
An individual’s ability to live depends first
upon defining one’s self as separate from
all others.
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The Law of Individuality
A person’s natural capacities invariably fuse
into a discernible identity that makes that
person unique.
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The Law of Constancy
Identity is fixed, transcending time and
place, while its manifestations are
constantly changing.
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The Law of Will
Every person is compelled by the need to
create value in accordance with his or her
identity.
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The Law of Possibility
Identity foreshadows potential.
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The Law of Relationship
Individuals are inherently relational, and
those relationships are only as strong as the
natural alignment between the identities of
the participants.
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The Law of Comprehension
A person’s various capacities are only as
valuable as the perceived value of the whole
of that person.
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The Law of the Cycle
Identity governs value, which produces
wealth, which fuels identity.
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