Here’s what happened this week on Your Life on Purpose:

 

1. The Hero Inside All of Us

We embarked on The Hero’s Journey and are taking a close look at how it mirrors our live when we choose to live on purpose.

 

We all have a genius. We all have a hero inside all of us. It’s our mission to activate it and live it fully. That, my friends, would be sucking out the marrow of life, knowing that when I came to die that I had truly lived and not just merely existed.

 

And, yes, that was an allusion to Henry David Thoreau’s book, Walden.

 

2. A New Vision

There are plenty of moments where we are able to see anew with a whole new set of eyes. When have you experienced a new vision and saw something so beautiful you didn’t even know existed beforehand? 

 

For many of the people that I’ve interviewed, the new vision (like an awakening) happened when they started living their life on purpose, in accordance with their passion. When their motivation to work came from the soul instead of just trying to pay the bills, they found a new burst of energy and excitement. And this carried over into their new path in life.

 

When you live your life on purpose, you’ll have more thirst for life than ever before.

 

3. Leaving The Ordinary World

Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People, helped us realize that once you stop living in the rat race and focus instead of living from the heart, you sort of lose connection with the regular world. You see the rat race and it just doesn’t make sense anymore. 

 

When you live your life on purpose, things change. You choose to look at different things, choose to talk about different things. The cliche watercooler chat and living paycheck to paycheck just doesn’t make sense anymore.

 

4. The Call to Purpose

Jean Kilbourne, the filmmaker behind the widely acclaimed documentary series, Killing Us Softly, helped me realize that we all have times in our life where we have a decision. Something will make itself present and we have the chose to act on it or just ignore it.

 

For Jean, she saw how advertising in the 1960s was influencing women in a negative way and knew it would only further manipulate young girls growing up to act feminine like the advertisements showed them women should be like. 

 

So, she stopped modeling and took on The Call to Purpose. 

 

Have you heard a call to purpose? 

 

5. Refusing The Call

Last episode shares the story of Ben Lecomte who will be swimming the entire Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco as part of this year’s world sustainability initiatives set forth by the World Economic Forum.

 

His ridiculously awesome call to purpose raised the bar for me.

 

it’s people like Ben that help push me to heed my call to purpose. Because level 3 in The Hero’s Journey is when the resistance creeps in and talks people out of their call. And, my friends, we all know there are plenty of reasons out there to not live your life on purpose. And I’m not a perfect role model. I constantly want to give up. 

 

Sometimes I wish I could be like some of my friends who work a job that there not really happy with, but it allows them to be provide for their family. They are okay in their comfort zone and honestly, sometimes I’m jealous of them. I wish I could do that.

 

But, I’ve learned, that I’m not like that. I look at life like a video game. I like to level up as much as possible and grow my mind, body, and soul. 

 

I only have so much time on this earth and I plan on on making it count.

 

Are you with me?