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Thanks for subscribing to the newsletter for LiveOnPurpose.info. Live On Purpose is about helping you become conscious of your thought patterns, so you can make better decisions in your life. Don't live an accidental life! Live on purpose. This month's focus is on the meaning of Living on Purpose. But first, an On-Purpose maxim: When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. ~Patanjali I am happy to announce I have added a blog to the Live on Purpose site. I'd love it if you would stop by every once in a while to see what's new and leave a comment. You can subscribe to the blog using RSS, and the newest posts will show up in your normal feed reader, like iGoogle home page, or Bloglines or Newsgator. Here is a short essay about what "Live On Purpose" means to me, written from two of the posts on the blog. You know, "life purpose", "calling", and "living on purpose" are very vague terms. When people speak about these terms, they often mean, "living your live according to a plan you made." Sometimes people believe you have to sacrifice things like quality of life, or perhaps quantity of relationships in order to fulfill your "life's purpose" which may include quitting your job to start your own business so you can do what you love. But when I mention "living on purpose," I am not talking about making a life plan and sticking to it. I am talking more about living in the moment and being aware of the decisions you make. I am referring to a method of living that lets us stop living on automatic and start guiding our lives by changing our decision making process. That's why I was reluctant to do the exercise outlined in Steve Pavlina's site, meant to help you discover your life purpose. I love the mystery of life, and I think that a person can go their whole life without generating a mission statement consciously. I believed one should let God set the course for one's life, yet after I finished the exercise and came up with my "purpose in life," I finally saw that if you let your whole life go by without at least setting some goals along the way, you’re setting yourself up for your unconscious to lay out your life for you, and you may end up with what I call an “accidental life.” If we remain bound to the interior invisible walls we have built to guard our own vulnerability, we end up living accidental lives. An accidental life is one where we wake up one day and realize, "How did I get here? I didn’t want to end up this way." I am not talking about what happens to us when an accident befalls us and ruins our lives. I am talking about what happens to us when, let’s say, we let the "what-ifs" from the day of the accident rule our lives and sink us into a quicksand of depression. To try to illustrate this, let me link you to Christopher Reeve’s Biography. Christopher Reeve has truly lived the hero’s life, in my opinion. After starring as the hero in the movie "Superman," he was injured in a terrible accident and became paralyzed from the neck down. He struggled daily to regain control over his limbs. It took six years for him to have control over his index finger. Of course he suffered from bouts of depression during that time. He explained in the documentary made about him that he has good days and down days like everyone else. During his journey, however, he and his wife used their fame and their funds to start the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury, which has helped thousands of patients with spinal cord injuries. So even though he suffered a debilitating accident, he turned it around and found his purpose, and lived purposefully as best as he could. So set clear goals for yourself, and revisit those goals and mission statements periodically to see if they still ring true to your heart. Adjust your goals accordingly, and keep on re-setting your course in life if you need to. Just in case you've just joined the mailing
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