Finding Your Purpose: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment

 

Part I: What Is Purpose?

·        What others say about purpose

·        A definition

·        Symbolizing passion

·        Purpose or meaning?

·        Why find your purpose?

·        Is your present work your passion?

·        Discover your passion

 

Part II: The Five Masks

·        Mask #1: Busyness

·        How busy are you?

·        What do you enjoy?

·        What are your talents?

·        What are your skills?

·        Merging your talents and skills

·        RX for busyness: Cultivate solitude

 

·        Mask #2: What Will Other People Think?

·        The tyranny of the shoulds

·        RX for concern about what other people will think:

·        Determine your values

·        Values clarification

·        Replace shoulds with values

·        Value conflicts

·        Create or react?

 

·        Mask #3: I’m Not_____Enough

·        RX for I’m not_____enough: Develop self-esteem

·        Self-esteem inventory

·        Self-talk

·        Daily acknowledgments

·        Your uniqueness

·        Affirmations

 

·        Mask #4: Fear

·        Types of fear

·        Understanding fear

·        Letting go is scary

·        Responding to your fears

·        Befriend your fear

·        RX for fear: Develop courage and take risks

·        Risk questionnaire

·        Steps to improve your risk taking

 

·        Mask #5: The Having Mode

·        What is success?

·        Lifestyle or life?

·        Have, do or be?

·        Misconceptions about money

·        RX for the having mode: Shift to the being mode

·        Qualities of being

·        Who are you?

·        What is your purpose?

 

Part III: New Truths In a Life Guided By Purpose

·        From goals to process

·        The joy comes from the joy-ney!

·        Your life cycle

·        Steppingstones—your life process

·        Exploring your steppingstones

·        Internal time/external time

·        From logic to intuition

·        Blocks to intuition

·        Developing your intuition

·        Intuition log

·        From either/or to and