Living On Purpose

Today I heard a teleconference call, for free, where answers to changing my experience of life for the better were completely laid out before me. The Women Masters is a series of ongoing calls, and though they are part-way through the series, you can still jump in here to hear next week’s call:

http://www.wakeupcallcoaching.com/womenmasters/

About today’s speaker:
Marcia Wieder, CEO and Founder of Dream University is leading a Dream Movement. With over twenty years coaching, training and speaking experience, her inspiring message, style and wit has touched audiences from 50-5000 at companies such as AT&T, The Gap and American Express.

For the purposes of this Dream Movement, a dream is something you want, and it becomes more profound when aligned with your life purpose. You can design a strategy to achieve a dream, but a fantasy (like winning the lotto) usually isn’t something that can be attained with a strategy.

Marcia mentioned that if you want to become masterful at manifestation, you need to become masterful at the process of “enrollment.” Practice these steps to watch your dreams come true (as long as you are living with integrity.)
1. Establish rapport
2. Build value
3. Overcome objections by doing more of 1 and 2
4. Secure an agreement.

Here are two questions that will awaken your dreams within you:

How do I want my life to be?
What am I willing to do about it?

So, if the life you are living right now is far, far away from your dream life, figure out what you are going to quit in your life to make room for the things you need to be doing to begin your journey towards your dream life.  Go on a mental “Passion Quest,” wherein you begin focusing on pinpointing the things that make you happy in life. What brings you fulfillment? What brings you joy? What sucks your energy? What do you need to let go of?

Marcia states, “We choose what we believe.” Think about that one! Have you had the experience of dumbing down your dreams because you didn’t think you could achieve them? Here is how I dumbed down an early dream:

I used to draw and draw and draw. If I was bored, I started drawing anything in my sketchbook. I have old drawings of light switches, shoes, glasses, hands, self portraits, views under bridges, and an old victorian heater. I was good, but my boyfriend at the time was better. I went so far as to draw an entire portfolio to apply to Cornish School of the Arts when I was 19. I was accepted. I had an art career virtually in the bag.  I then proceeded to talk myself out of it. I listened to The Doubter. Oh, I had a list a mile long about why I shouldn’t trust myself to enter an art career: I’d become a phony (I got this one from required reading in high school, Catcher in the Rye), I’d put my parents into debt and never be able to repay them, I’d never make it because artists are a dime a dozen, I’d become the stereotypical starving artist…and on and on.  So, I declined the offer. I figured I’d keep art as a hobby only and that way it would bring me more joy than if I was pressured into needing to create in order to put food on the table. Guess what? It didn’t work out for me! I suddenly didn’t have money for paints and supplies, and I certainly didn’t make time to do portraits very often or stay in practice.  Art became less than a hobby, it became something I didn’t have time for.

This is the kind of behavior that Marcia says she sees in almost all of her clients. They don’t believe in their dreams.  The place to be is: believe in your dreams because they matter to you and then take action on them.

How, how, how to get there?

1. Set your intention.
2. Live with integrity.

Number two is a doozy. You can’t bring your dreams to fruition without integrity. It simply means that you keep your promises to yourself. Marcia gives the example of setting the intention to go to the gym three times a week, and then never going to the gym. This dissolves your self trust. Without self trust, you can’t take risks. Living with this kind of integrity breech inhibits your ability to get to the life of your dreams.  If you cannot keep agreements with yourself, how can you keep agreements with God?

“Keep your agreements with God by living on purpose.” These words came right out of Marcia Wieder’s mouth, and I knew I had to make a blog post about her call. She spoke more about living on purpose:

To live on purpose, you must:
1. Have a spiritual practice in which you get quiet enough to hear the wisdom voice.
2. Know what is unique about yourself.
3. Find out how to be of service with your uniqueness.

Life changes for you when your ego is in service to your soul.

You deserve to have joy and fulfillment in your life.

So how do you know if you’re out of integrity with yourself? If you constantly complain. If you judge your body. If something is incomplete or undone in your life that causes you suffering.

So gather up your willingness, your courage, and develop & maintain an ongoing practice to be able to answer the question, “What are you doing to prove you are committed more to your dream than your doubt?”

To begin, you can actually hold an interview with your doubter voice. Let the doubt go on and on about why you shouldn’t go for your dreams. Then methodically examine all your obstacles. You’ll find that they are either limiting beliefs you hold or something that requires a real-life strategy.

It’s never been a more important time to go for your dreams, says Marcia.

Here is how to get ten free ebooks from Dream University to help you:
http://dreamcoach.com/gift/

Here is Marcia’s main web site:
http://dreamcoach.com/

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