Discover Your Passion

To live a passionate, purposeful life, the first step is to get to know yourself better.  Knowing your fundamental preferences, tendencies and traits – what makes up your soul’s land – allows you to start living from a more authentic place. “Get to know yourself better” is vague and it’s not always clear how to start, […]

The last several weeks we’ve been exploring your soul’s land (you can go back and check out these posts if you haven’t had a chance to read them yet.) What we’re going to do today is see how that land translates to your true self. So from prior exercises you should know the climate, the […]

Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery by Nina Frost, Dr. Kenneth C. Ruge and Dr. Richard W. Shoup will guide you on a journey  to the current state of your soul, how you got there, and where you are being drawn to go. It’s a fascinating, nuanced, exhaustive book of inquiry into your true […]

Questions and metaphors are two of the most powerful tools we have for revealing meaning and diving deeper into a complex subject, and there are few subjects more complex than knowing our deepest selves. Last week’s post introduced the idea of your soul’s land and invited you to begin charting that land with a series […]

Do you know the feeling when you recognize some fundamental preference of yours and finally accept it? It might be the moment an introvert finally turns down his friend’s invitation to a bar crawl and stays home and writes instead. It might be the moment that an extrovert decides to leave the solitary work of accounting and […]

In my work with clients transitioning out of therapy, I use a metaphor to help make sense of the whole process of therapy and coaching and why we often need both in order to live the lives we dream of living. In the coming months, I’ve planned a series of posts around each of these phases […]

I’ve always had a thing for things (and especially clothes). When I flew to Los Angeles for my first year of college, I brought two 50 lbs. duffel bags, and two fully stuffed carry-ons. One  was so big that it couldn’t fit in the overhead compartment or underneath the seat in front of me – […]

If I were to ask you to choose your top three priorities for the next year, would you panic? How about for the next week? I’ve been asking this of myself, with the expected resulting surges of fear. I stock up on legal pads because I think they make the perfect “to-do this weekend” list […]

Back when I was desperately searching for my purpose, a former coach walked me through The Passion TestTM process developed by Janet & Chris Attwood. My greatest passion at that time? “Feeling connected to God.” I was so mad! I wanted a sexier, more interesting passion. I wanted a passion that translated into a career, […]