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,…
Brad and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Hi Everyone, This is Ann Swift (Brad’s wife) writing to you to let you know about some of the latest happenings with Brad Swift and his living on purpose. As many of you know his life purpose is to live a life of purposeful, passionate and playful service. Well after a few nights of restless…
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…
Be Careful What You Pray For – Katrina Projects
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Ann and I got in a half day of voluntarism at Habitat for Humanity before the rains came and resulted us being released after lunch. More on that later, but since I’m trying to get this in the ezine at last minute, there’s one other thing I’d like to share. Perhaps this could…
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…
Sharing the Peace of God & God’s Perfection — Today’s Theme
One of my favorite parts of my spiritual practices for starting each day is reading from an assortment of inspirational and spiritual books. I keep a stack of them next to my bed. Three of the books that I make it a point to read from every morning are: A Deep Breath of Life by…
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…
Identify Your Perfect Clients & Develop an Attraction Marketing System
Your Vision of Your Perfect Clients Picture in your mind your 3 perfect clients. You may think of them as your A+ clients. Your Perfect Client Prototype – Qualities & Attributes The Be – Do – Have Approach BE: Your perfect clients attitudes, beliefs, & values Example: DO: How your perfect clients’ behave. What do…
Isn’t it Time You Knew Your Purpose?
