career – My Purpose

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10 Minutes to Find Meaningful Traction on Your Goals

We all have goals and objectives that we find particularly challenging. These are the goals that we can’t quite seem to find traction on. It’s worth the time to consider the things that you need to start making some progress on these types of goals. Let’s look at how we can view these goals, and discuss strategies for understanding them and make some progress.

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What About When There’s no Tailwind?

Things are going to get hard, they’re going to get difficult. Sometimes, things are going to be tough. There’s going to be days when you feel like you have a tailwind, and there’s going to be days where you feel like you’re dragging yourself through the day on your face. How do you stay motivated and consistent when things get hard?

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2 Simple Steps to Help Discover Your Purpose

Your values can be a useful compass to help you further uncover your purpose. Your values are those things that are most important to you. When you define your values in each area of your life, you further define your vision and discover powerful goals and insights that help you to live in alignment with your purpose.

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Using Journey Based Outcomes to Embrace Growth

In the My Purpose framework, which uses Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Actions, we typically think of objectives as markers along the way towards our goals. It seems natural to set objectives that are a percentage towards what we think is the final outcome, which is really another objective on our way towards living into our goals. These objectives are called outcome-based objectives, and focus on results.

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Horses, Fleas, and Breaking our Limits

When often find ourselves in situations where we wish that we were doing more than we were. Maybe we wish that we were making a bigger impact, want to see more progression, or wish we could achieve the goals that we’ve set. Sometimes, we’re held back by our own limitations that we’ve set for ourselves. What can horses and fleas teach us about breaking our limits?

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Should You Ignore or Tackle That Problem?

So, you’ve got a problem that you’re trying to solve. There are really two main ways to address your problem. You can ignore it or you can tackle it. Surprisingly, both ways to deal with it are effective. Not every problem needs to be tackled, and not every problem should be ignored. Let’s talk about this a little bit…

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Writing Prompt – Find Your Beliefs to Create Change

A belief can be something that you accept to be true or something that you accept exists. There are some commonly held beliefs, and some that are less common. Some of your beliefs may be specific to you and your situation.

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Writing Prompt – Getting Unstuck

This week’s writing prompt is about getting unstuck. Sometimes, we get stuck, and we’re not sure how to move forward. By taking some time to look back and think about times you’ve succeeded in the past can help you find success now. Understanding your past successes help you understand your strengths to move forward. You may also find where you might be relying too much on your past successes. Let’s dig a little deeper.

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Writing Prompt – Who Do You Look Up To…

This week’s writing prompt is gonna make you think about who you look up to, and why.

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Writing Prompt – What do you want?

As we’ve started our new course of study in 2021, we find ourselves reading James 1:5 which states, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” This verse uses “men” to mean “mankind.” Although still patriarchal in nature, this scripture is meant for all people. If anybody lacks wisdom, let them ask and it shall be given them.

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