The Power of Context to Transform Your Life
It's the New Year…well, almost depending on when you read this article. Can you feel the difference? The excitement, the anticipation that this next year will be better than the last? That feeling comes with the New Year each year for just about everyone. And it's a perfect example of how 'context' can transform our…
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
I love the notion captured in the saying, "turning lemons intolemonade," because when I look at life's challenges from thispurposeful perspective, I'm often able to transform my experienceand ultimately the results. For example, Ann and I recently were "unexpectedly blessed" witha lot of extra stuff when one of the renters of a PurposefulProperty (our other…
There are Christmas Trees, then there are Christmas Trees
The family tradition started late — just last year when Amber was already 16. Oh, we'd had trees every year, in the early years they were artificial, then we went back to my family tradition of having a real tree, but all of them came from a tree lot. That's fine, but last year we…
Exchanging Our Gifts with Love or Lack
"And a merchant said, Speak to us of Buying and Selling. And he answered and said: 'To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet…
Living & Working On Purpose TeleRetreat Half Full
We're two weeks out from the start of the TeleRetreat and about half theavailable slots are already taken, and we've added a new feature that I feelwill make it even more value and engaging. Not only will we be conducting the TeleRetreat by telephone conferencing aswe've conducted our programs for over 10 years, but this…
TWITTERING ON PURPOSE? Yes, On Tuesday 8 pm est
You mean Twitter can be about more than people sharing what they're doingnext…as if anyone else really cared? The short answer, Yes – for sure. Tofind out what else is possible, please join Dave Carpenter, the founder ofExceptional Wisdom Radio as he facilitates a Twitter discussion on a subjectnear and dear to my heart —…
PURPOSEFUL PROPERTIES – TURNING HOUSES INTO HOMES
For the past few years Ann and I have tried our hand at expressing our lifepurposes by helping to turn houses into homes for people. While it's been aninteresting venture, we've decided that it's not as pure an expression ofour purposes as Life On Purpose Institute. So we're scaling back and havetwo houses for sale,…
Worrying – An Off Purpose Pattern that Robs Your Life
Worrying – An Off Purpose Pattern that Robs Your Life Over the years many of the people who have gone through the Life On PurposeProcess have come back to us to share that one of the most powerful andlife-enhancing portions of the Process was uncovering their InheritedPurpose. The "IP" as many of them call it,…
Ask & Yea Shall Receive — Works with Cable Company to Reduce Bill
Today's Simplicity post is direct from our family's number one 'simplicity and saving expert,' Ann. Here's her latest saving strategy: Recently I have been looking for ways to cut the expense of our TV and internet. Remember when TV was free. Today our cable company charges $54.00 for the family pack which is the low…
Can the Music We Listen to Help Us Live On Purpose?
According to Mark Romero, the creator of a transformational musical technology, Vibrational Success, music can not only help us live on purpose but a whole lot more. Listen in this coming Wednesday, Nov. 25 from 5-6 as Ann and I interview him on the Living & Working On Purpose Radio show on Exceptional Wisdom Radio,…