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Discovering and Living Your Life Mission
Personal growth work typically is inwardly focused at
first. Perhaps on healing inner pain, or overcoming
personal struggles. Growing in confidence and self
esteem, or becoming more effective at work and
relationships.
But as you continue to grow, you will almost certainly
reach a point where you realize that true fulfillment
lies in reaching beyond your own self improvement and
self interests to something greater. A higher life
calling. Selflessly serving others. Contributing to a
greater good.
When you've reached this point, you are no longer
working on yourself simply to escape your pain or to
increase your pleasure. Instead, your personal growth
work has become about making life better for others, or
for the world at large. Looking back from this new
vantage point, you see that all your prior work on
yourself was really just laying a foundation for a new,
more purposeful, more outwardly focused life.
Consider our "growth pyramids" that outline paths to
freedom from pornography or
from unwanted same-sex attractions: At the pinnacle
of each pyramid is our crowning work - pursuing a
greater life purpose.
It isn't enough to become sexually sober for sobriety's
sake, or to become free of homosexual desires as an end
in itself. No, this work needs to be about something
greater - a greater good, a higher life path. And that
outward focus on life mission shifts our entire energy
and approach. Instead of fearfully "running from" what
we don't want to be, or the life we don't want to live,
we begin joyfully "running toward" something greater.
The draw of self-defeating behaviors begins to
pale as our passion to live "in mission" grows.
This is true no matter what obstacles we may be working
to overcome in life.
A Higher Path Life Coach will work with you to help you
identify your Greater Life Purpose, or life mission.
I'll
help you discover it, define it, and live it.
"Overcoming" and "healing" were only the groundwork. Now
the real fun begins - reaching higher and further than
you ever thought possible.
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