A Newsletter Valuing Change

January/February 2001
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Tips for Change

Being on Purpose for 2001

Being on purpose means living your life being who you need to be to do what you were meant to do. When you are doing what coincides with your inner self there is no place you would rather be.

Getting On Purpose

Create and live in alignment with your life purpose statement as well as your values. Answer the question "What am I here for?" to create your life purpose statement.

Use your Life Purpose Statement To:

• Create meaning in your life.
• Increase awareness of who you are.
• Help you make better decisions.
• Clarify your values and principles that are meaningful for you.
• Take responsibility for what you want out of life.
• Put the suffering that life presents you into perspective.
• Live a fulfilled life.
• Connect it to your career.

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Visualize Self-Respect

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Happy New Year!

Books Supporting Change

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is really two great books in one. The first is Dr. Frankl's profound autobiography of his experiences amid the horrors of the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau that led to his discovery of his theory of logotheraphy. His is a story of deep meaning that helped him survive through the suffering he was exposed to.

The second book is his explanation of logotherapy – or "meaning therapy" as an approach to the reason why some people got through the suffering while others did not. If one is struggling with any sort of suffering, pain, or grief Frankl suggests that finding meaning in the suffering may be the way to endure such suffering

Buy this book

Shakti Gawain: "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."

Personal Notes During my coaching training and work with my coach I developed my life purpose statement. It is of immense value in keeping me on track and more content when aspects of building my coaching practice seem challenging. My life purpose is "I am a shining star that inspires others to take the plunge". That purpose would have served me in my law practice, but it particularly works for me in my coaching practice. One of my career missions resulting from that purpose is "to transform the practice of law one lawyer at a time."