If you tried something in the past and it didn’t work - i.e. you tried to charge for your services and got rejected, you went up on your prices and got ignored, you pitched the media and got ghosted - what are you making that mean about you?

IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: Experiencing a failure doesn’t make you a failure. So don’t let a past failure or season of failure DEFINE you.

Don’t define yourself by the failure, just find a winning strategy and try again.

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I recently had the incredible fortune to be interviewed by my dear friend James S. Walker on his podcast, One Quick Point. 

As this was my first interview about the PURPOSESCAPING idea, James was generous enough to allow me to cross-post it here and make it an official episode. I think you learn a lot about someone when you hear them interviewed, and since James is one of my oldest post-college friends, the discussion was one I didn't want you to miss!

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To answer the call is to live beyond your means, and accept an invitation to go higher up in your own evolution. In Purposescaping, I teach a principle called “spiraling up” which means taking everything you’ve learned about yourself on one level and refining it so you have an even more narrow, more focused iteration of your calling on the next level. Imagine a pyramid that gets narrower and narrower as you approach the top. That’s the path to your purpose. And as you spiral up to each subsequent level, the levels get more focused.

You “spiral up” enough times over the course of your life and you find yourself walking in a version of your purpose that only you can occupy.

But the first step of getting to that hyper-focused version of the purpose that was designed specifically for you and only you is essentially a faith walk. It’s answering a call when you’re not sure where the call is leading you - where the journey is taking you, whether this crazy idea of yours is going to work or not.

I can’t tell you whether anything you do or anything you try will work. But I can tell you that a part of the journey to clearing a pathway to what you were meant to do with your life comes in large part from acting, moving, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, refining, recrafting, eliminating the excess, and pruning away the branches that are dead and stalling your future growth.

Remember:  your next level was already promised to you. How do you know? You know it was promised to you and only you because the call keeps calling you and only you. No one else can hear your call. No one else can see your path with the clarity you see it. But nobody else can validate it for you. No one else can confirm it. No one else can tell you they see what you see.

And I believe you see it. You just may not be allowing yourself to answer it by taking that first step because it feels almost like a mirage. You’re afraid you’re stepping out over a cliff into nothingness because you have no proof there’s solid ground to support your next step. You’re trying to live within your means by sticking to what you know.

And yet the call keeps calling, daring you to evolve.

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It's okay to let go of a season, even if that season has served you. This is an episode about obedience.

Purposescaping is largely about learning how to read the signs and answer the call for your life. But what happens when you hear the call for something different but you ignore it because

Well, I'm here to share that even when the season you're in has served you well, it's okay to let go of it if you're being called to something higher.

Here are 5 signs you're in an expired season and it's time for you to let go.

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WINTER - the last season and final grandmother episode. I have really enjoyed basking in my grandmother's wisdom and letting her warm voice wash over me. I hope you've enjoyed listening to her, too.

Here are my key takeaways from the winter season:

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Another grandmother episode! I just love hearing from her about her experiences on a farm and this metaphor we can use for our own purpose.

Here are my key takeaways from the fall harvest season:

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As my grandmother shared, summer is a season of rapid growth and maturation, but it's also a season of threats.

Whether you're navigating drought, insects, weeds, or other pests you can expect predators to come when you're growing something good. So instead of giving up when threats emerge, understand they'll be attracted to what you're growing and prepare yourself.

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For today’s episode, I want to do a more thorough breakdown of the seasons so you have an overview of the Purposescaping concept.

Purposescaping teaches self-actualization through the seasons. It's all about clearing a pathway to your purpose. That language is intentional - we're clearing a path to something that has been there all along. It may be overgrown, it may be hidden, but the path is there. The purpose is there. I believe that wholeheartedly.

I consider it one of the great fortunes of my life to still have my 90-year-old grandmother Etheldra K. Miller. She has been a kindred spirit since my childhood when I would spend summers with her at her home in southeastern Georgia.

While I didn’t know it then, I was unwittingly soaking up a way of life and understanding of nature that underlies the Purposescaping philosophy. While many of the ideas I’ve stumbled upon in recent years seemed novel to me upon discovery, I realize now they’re actually principles the farmers and educators in my family have lived by for generations.

I had the fortune and honor then, to interview my grandmother in person at her home in the fall of 2019. As I was starting to put scaffolding around the Purposescaping framework, I wanting to hear directly from her how the concept of self-actualization through the seasons directly corresponded to the seasonal activities she remembered from farming.

I believe nature holds all the answers we seek if we’re open enough to see how she speaks to us. In this short series of episodes, you’ll hear a breakdown of the four seasons in my grandmother’s words and my own interpretation of how farming or cultivation of any kind is a vivid metaphor for clearing a pathway to your purpose.

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We all have a different recipe that allows us to grow and thrive. A part of Purposescaping - just like landscaping - is getting clear on what growing conditions YOU specifically need to be your best.

Just like plants come with care instructions - one may need full sunlight and regular water, while another requires moderate shade and for you to keep the soil dry - if you fail to follow the instructions you notice the plant starts to talk back to you.

It may wilt or droop, its colors may fade, and eventually, it may wither and die. 

Yet when a plant's optimal growing conditions are met, it thrives and you almost have to prune it back to contain the growth.

Why would we be any different? Human beings as living things, all have a unique imprint we came to earth with - one unlike anyone else’s. We all have an optimal set of growing conditions that, when met, allow us to thrive. Yet many of us fail to examine our own ideal growing criteria and assume we need the same thing as the next person.

Not true.

How can you understand your own optimal growing criteria? 

Here are a few questions to help you figure it out.

Purposescaping - the art of clearing a path to your purpose - is about radical self-discovery. You probably study the needs of others who you care about the most. Now it's time to do a deep dive on yourself and what you need to be your absolute best.

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It took me a long time to learn that just as there are seasons in nature, there are seasons of purpose. 

If you think about winter, spring, summer, and fall - it's easy to see what's happening in nature during any given season. The ground rests in winter, blossoms to life during spring, matures during summer, and finally generates a harvest during the fall before fading away and settling in for another period of rest. 

Most of us don't question the changes happening on the trees and with animals - we've come to expect those changes, and even may say things like "everything in its season..." 

But when it comes to our own lives, careers, relationships, and businesses - I've noticed we aren't generally so understanding. One mantra I took up a few years ago was "no flower blooms year-round..." and in the same vein, I recently read this powerful quote on Instagram which was attributed to Maya Angelou - "every storm runs out of rain..." 

The same is true for us. 

You actually NEED those other seasons to make the harvest all it could be. They're not just "nice to haves" - they're necessities. 

For many people, the year 2020 has presented challenges and opportunities to prioritize rest and reflection. Think about it - so many people reported feeling burnt out prior to the coronavirus pandemic, why? Because they had likely been pushing themselves to stay in a. growth and harvest season when their bodies, minds, and spirits needed to stop and rest. And nature has a way of course correcting.

So I want you to think of seasons in an abstract way. A season doesn't have to last 3 months - one season in your business may last one month, while a season in your marriage may last 2 years - but the idea is to zero in on the cadence that is naturally occurring in whatever part of your life you choose to focus on.

Instead of considering yourself behind in one aspect of your life, or beating yourself up as we high achievers are prone to do when you haven't been able to do more, or nothing seems to be "happening" - consider that you may be in a season of reflection and rest instead of a season of creativity and planting. Or you may be in a season of steady maturation and growth that will set you up for that incredible season of harvest.

Wherever you are, remember it's a necessary phase in the cycle - no season is wasted.

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