You Know Your Life Is On Purpose When Your Life Is Congruent With Your Life Purpose
I don’t remember where I first came across the word, congruency, but for me it really captures an essential ingredient of living on purpose. It comes from the word, congruous, which means being in agreement, harmony, or correspondence. So congruency regarding living on purpose is when your thoughts, decisions, choices, speaking, actions and results are…
Brad’s Adventures in Katrina Land
UPDATE ON TRAVELS TO LOUISIANA Well, I’ve returned safely to North Carolina after an adventurous and challenging journey to the Gonzales area of Louisiana where I assisted along with many other volunteers to help 1200+ animals displaced by Hurricane Katrina. I arrived just in time to help move about 120 dogs and about 2 dozen…
The 5 Largest Pitfalls in Developing Yourself as a Freelance Writer and How to Avoid Them (Part 2)
Are you ready to express your life purpose through writing and being published but you find yourself stopped? Here are the next 3 pitfalls to watch out for and how to climb out of them. 3. TAKING YOUR WRITING PERSONALLY. Now, don’t confuse what you just read with the idea of making your writing personal,…
Purposeful Places
From time to time you may find you have drifted far from your Life Purpose. Sometimes life knocks you for a loop and you find yourself so far off the Purposeful Path that you may feel lost and alone. When this happens, you may find the regular daily practices, ponderings and prayers insufficient to restore…
The 5 Largest Pitfalls in Developing Yourself as a Freelance Writer and How to Avoid Them (Part 1)
In over 23 years of writing professionally (which for me means making money at it), I’ve talked with hundreds of other writers, many of them far more talented at writing than me, but who haven’t been nearly as successful financially at it. Why? Many of them haven’t avoided the pitfalls that I’m about to share…
How to Use Contrast to Enhance Your Life
In my work as a Life On Purpose Coach many of my clients often experience times of “extreme contrast”. These times can be very difficult and challenging and may have actually been what led them to seek out my services. So, let’s look at how we can use contrast to actually enhance our lives. Contrast…
10 Steps to Simplifying Life
Perhaps you woke up one morning to realize the old joke is true: “Even if you finish the rat race in first, you’re still a rat.” Or maybe, the thought crept in more slowly, wedging itself into your consciousness while sitting in the five o’clock traffic jam as you commute home. However it appeared, you…
PURPOSE POW WOWS
Today let’s look at another of the 14 Power Tools for Living On Purpose — Purpose Pow Wows. (BTW, all the Power Tools are in my ebook, Further Traveling the Purposeful Path available online at: http://wbradfordswift.com/lop/index.php?page=32#sec64) A Purpose Pow Wow is a great way to combine some of the positive attributes of a Purpose Practice…
Top Ten Steps For Freeing Ourselves From The Downward Spirals Of Life By W. Bradford Swift Some people call them vicious circles or cycles. I prefer to think of them as downward spirals of life. Those periods that we can all become trapped in like the whirlpool of water as it drains from the tub.…
What We Can Do to Transform our World On Purpose
What We Can Do to Transform our World On PurposeBy W. Bradford Swift I recently read an interview of Marianne Williamson as she discussed her new book, The Gift of Change. During the interview she talked about the happenings around 9/11 and that we had an opportunity to engage in an authentic inquiry into such…
Isn’t it Time You Knew Your Purpose?
