by Les Price | Jan 13, 2015 | Life Purpose & Destiny, Self Empowerment |
Welcome to 2015!
Wow … how exciting! Have you realised that we’ve entered a brand new gateway to another year that is so full of possibility, opportunity and potential for helping us live more fully from our highest life and soul purpose?
A New Year … And So Much New Potential
Like many people around the world I had a chance to take some time over the Christmas holiday period to simply rest, replenish and set a new foundation for the year ahead. I often find that the quiet period between Christmas and New Year is perfect time for doing a short ‘life review’, and starting to get clear on intentions, outcomes and pathway forward for the year ahead.
However this year I found myself being really challenged. Because no matter ‘how hard I tried’ to review my personal goals and business plan, I just couldn’t seem to connect with the true passion and purpose that I know helps ‘light my inner-fire’ and fuels me forward towards happiness and joy.
- Now, I’m not sure if you’ve ever experienced moments like this in your life??
- Moments where you felt dis-engaged from true purpose?
- Or where you found parts of yourself in conflict with each other?
Creating a New Life with New Meaning
The good news is you are not alone! Even the most successful, inspired and dynamic people on the planet find themselves in the ‘valleys’ of life, waiting for the next breath of air to lift them back up the mountain of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.
Serendipitously, in the moment of my own ‘valleyness’ (yes that is a word that I just invented!) I came across some notes on the unfolding of personal ‘Entelechy’ that inspired me back to purpose!
defn. Entelechy – Meaning the realisation of potential.
The condition of a thing whose essence is fully realised.
A vital force that directs an organism towards self-fulfilment.
You see … every living organism on the planet has its own innate intelligence and potential. Just as the entelechy of the acorn seed is to grow into a large oak tree, just as the small green caterpillar will one day transform into the magnificent Ulysess Butterfly, you too have a program for great success, happiness and meaningfulness programmed within you. This often hidden, yet innate potential is usually found at the intersection of your own personal sweet spot i.e. what you love to do, your innate talents and gifts, and your soul purpose and desires.
At a deep level of being there is an aspect of your soul and spirit that already knows your highest purpose. Often for most people it is simply our conditioned fears, self-doubts and limiting beliefs that keep us separated from realising our own greatness and purpose.
What Aristotle Knew about Potentiality
Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle was one of the great proponents of Entelechy. He realised that who we are is much more than just our physical body. That among the cells, organs and tissue is a far greater organising power – a subtle but powerful essence that permeates our entire consciousness. When our soul truly connects with this essence we become alive, our inner-flame is fanned into being, our work takes on a higher and more important level of meaning, and we become truly alive again.
So as we start 2015 how can we engage more of our own personal entelechy? How can we align ourselves over the next 12 months towards action and inspiration that is aligned with our highest good? And most importantly, how can you ‘Live More Fully from Your Purpose’?
I’d like to encourage you to take just 5 minutes from your ‘busy-ness’ to contemplate the following questions.
- What’s my true essence? (i.e. Who are you really? Who are you being guided to become?)
- What’s my blessing? (i.e. How am I being called to use my gifts/talents to make a difference?)
- What’s my mission? (i.e. What am I here to do? How am I here to serve and create value?)
Each of these questions will help you to connect more deeply with your own Entelechy – your soul’s higher organising power.
- Write the answers down.
- Keep them with you.
- Remind yourself often of their importance to you.
- Let them become the guiding star by which you make all your important decisions this year.
- Let them become the sail by which capture the heart of success, happiness and prosperity and that guide you vessel to a new and more meaningful destination this year.
So, what’s your essence?
What’s the true essence of your soul that seeks to express itself in 2015?
I’d love to know. So make sure to post and share your thoughts with us here online.
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by Les Price | Oct 6, 2013 | Life Purpose & Destiny |
Are you doing your highest and greatest work?
Are you capitalising on your unique gifts, talents and abilities?
Are you presenting to life each day – knowing you are flowing in your mastery?
Just recently I was doing an intuitive reading and guidance session for a client who wanted to know more about their life and career path for this life time.
It’s a question that I am often asked in my coaching, mentoring and guidance sessions because everyone wants to live a more meaningful and purposeful life. Now more than at any time in history individuals like your self are being called, and almost ‘pushed’ to step up, own their own power and share their personal message and life story.
So whether you are in business, or just seeking to find greater happiness and fulfilment in your own life, realise that the moment for living your purpose is NOW. In this instant, in this moment, you have the opportunity to embrace the gift of life that you have been given, and the ability to not only change your own life, but in doing so make a significant difference in your world.
Your Life Is Your Message
It was the famous Indian civil rights campaigner Mohandas Gandhi who brought greater attention to the possibility that maybe “our life was indeed our message”.
Within each and every one of us is a unique tapestry, a unique and glorious story of endurance, of learning to love self, of overcoming hurdles and obstacles that only we, and our souls, have chosen to experience in this lifetime.
The key however, is that your unique story is GOLD. It is the stuff that everyone who calls themselves human may go through in a lifetime. It contains the lessons and revelations that can set your soul and spirit free – to be who you are, free from the expectations, desires and beliefs of others.
Award winning Canadian/American actor Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991. Since then he has used the experience to be a prime advocate for raising awareness and money for this debilitating condition.
While actor, film director, producer and screenwriter Christopher Reeve, renowned for his role as Superman, became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse in 1995. Christopher later went on to become a prominent international speaker, and campaigner for stem-cell research and funding for those with disabilities.
How amazing that at some level of consciousness, a man who played the role of someone with super-human abilities, would find themselves in the extreme opposite position, but still harness the power, the belief and spirit of certainty within themselves, to inspire and move other human beings to action – through love?
Flowing in Your Mastery
Apart from the hardships, obstacles and challenges, all of us have also experienced times in our lives where we were just ‘flowing in our own mastery’. The times that we are so connected and engaged in what we are doing, through a perspective of self-less love and service, doing what brings us immense joy, that time seems to slip away, that we become almost one with the moment, and through which some ‘greater force’ seems to flow through us.
Many in our world have started to awaken to the possibility, that maybe, just maybe, we were placed here on this Earth for a reason. That maybe when we are engaged in using our talents, gifts and abilities for a greater good, for a good outside of ourselves that magic has the opportunity to break down the door, and show us the path to a greater freedom, happiness and fulfilment.
Flowing in our mastery therefore becomes the intersection, the union of three self-paths.
- The Path of Personal Love – what ignites us, what inspires us and fills our souls with happiness
- The Path of Personal Purpose – the ability to use our gifts and talents in ways that bring greater meaning and purpose to our lives
- The Path of Personal Service – the place where we are making a difference and contributing to the people, places, organisations and causes that we are most passionate about.
Distilling Your Core Essence – Finding Your Sweet Spot
All great tennis players and golfers know that in their respective sports there is a moment of contact made between racquet/club and the ball, where the contact is pure, whole and complete. Destined in many ways for complete perfection – the way the club or racquet was designed and crafted best to operate.
So too, you have a personal sweetspot. A place of pure essence, of uniqueness, of divine perfection within from which your highest work flows. The great masters, leaders and teachers of our time, were great because they simply found their sweet spot, and then found ways that they could encompass it regularly in their lives. They literally lived from a place of pure core essence.
So how do you distil your core essence? How do you find and captivate your personal sweetspot in life? How do you awaken your personal charism or unique note that you are here to share?
After many years of doing coaching, mentoring and reading sessions with clients one great truth seems to be evident. At the core of our souls and beings – we already have a sense of our ‘core essence’. It has usually been a part of our life journey and has continued to unfold along the way.
Exploring Your Life Story
So here are some questions that will help you engage in a personal dialogue. A personal mining expedition into your own soul. A journey to discover your own path:
- What were the moments that illuminated your soul?
- What were the moments that created greatest challenge? What did you learn? Who were your being encouraged to become?
- When were you engaged with your highest and greatest work?What needed to happen in your environment to create this
- What is a story of struggle from you past which you overcame?
- What is the lesson or message from this story that you most need to share?
Permission to Be the Best You that You Can Be
Finally, remember, this life has been given to you as a gift. Seek within to find your own answers, your own path, and know and trust that your life is no accident.
Recently rum company Barcadi promoted a famous quote of Oscar Wilde that read …
“Just be yourself; Because everyone else is taken!”
In this new age of consciousness, we are now starting to realise that we don’t need to be carbon copies of everyone else. That it is indeed our uniqueness, our differences that make us valuable.
Living in your greatness therefore becomes a different quest. A quest to stand out from the crowd and own our difference.
Each of us has been given a different life experience for a purpose. When you awaken the power of gratitude to be thankful for even the most challenging experiences, then like Michael J Fox or Christopher Reeve, you may just open the door to your greatest gift in this lifetime.
by Les Price | Dec 13, 2012 | Life Purpose & Destiny, Self Empowerment |
Wow! Can you believe that it’s almost the end of another year? And as the ancient Mayans would have us believe, it’s also the end of a significant period in the evolution and consciousness of humanity.
So, at a time when many people start contemplating their highest goals, intentions and outcomes for the new year, I thought what better way to get the ball rolling than to take a look at …
“What Does it Really Take to Live a Happy and Fulfilling Life ?”
Why this topic? And why at this time?
Well, if experience has taught me anything it’s that in life it’s all too easy to get caught up chasing goals and dreams that on one level we believe will provide us with the fulfilment we desire, yet on another level often leave us feeling empty, unfulfilled and off-purpose.
I’ve often noticed many times as I have coached and mentored individuals, business owners and leaders, that a great number of people are hurriedly climbing the ladder of success, only to get to the top and find out that it was placed against the wrong wall!
We may also find ourselves chasing things in the ‘material’ that we believe will give us more happiness, more fulfilment, more status, more credibility, more respect. We can often believe that if we get that new job then we’ll be respected, when we get the perfect relationship then we’ll feel loved, when we win the lottery then we will feel truly financially secure.
Are You Choosing Fulfilment Right Now?
However, the problem with ‘if / when’ thinking is that it implies we can only feel loved, happy, and secure when we attain our goals, have stuff, and have things work out the way we want, rather than realise that we can choose to love ourselves right now, we can choose happiness in this moment, and we can choose to embrace the security that comes from simply trusting ourselves.
Real fulfilment comes from the realisation that all of the feelings, emotions and desires that you believe exist outside of you, are actually available to you right now.
So instead of instead of blindly following the values, goals and ideals of others, it might be easier and wiser to lay your own path, to follow your own soul’s guidance and to look within yourself (not outside) for the pathway to your greatest fulfilment.
So my questions for you are:
- Are you truly living life in accordance with your own values? Or are you are trying to please others?
- Are you truly committed to following your joy, each and every day?
- Are you using your unique gifts, talents, skills and abilities to serve and make a difference?
- Are you sharing quality time with the people in your life who mean the most to you?
Wisdom from the Dying – The 5 Life Regrets
Several years ago Australian palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware started a very enlightening, thought provoking and inspiring Blog called ‘Inspiration and Chai’, where she wrote about the final stages of the life journey as they were experienced by many of her patients who were terminally ill with cancer. Often she was with them for the last 3 to 12 weeks of their lives.
During the course of this writing she discovered that most people were confronted at the end of their life with either one or a combination of the following ‘Top 5 Regrets of the Dying’, which she later published in her best-selling book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
It’s very hard to listen and follow the guidance of your own heart and soul, when you are consciously and unconsciously trying to please and satisfy others. Living an authentic and inspired life requires all of us to have the courage to be ‘true to ourselves’ first. To value and respect our own life dreams and desires, rather than feel obliged, guilty or responsible to other’s expectations.
Just think what a shame it would have been if Andrea Bocielli had followed his father’s expectations for him to get a real job as a lawyer, rather than share his gift for singing with the world!
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard
You’ve probably heard it said before, that no one wishes at the end of their life that they had spent more time at the office!
There is a big difference between working hard and working smart. I remember the director of a company I worked for several years ago that gave up 13 years of his life to focus on growing his business, but inadvertently missed out on some of the most memorable experiences in his children’s life. While another mentor of mine created a multi-million dollar international publishing house and only works from 1pm – 6pm each day!
It’s always a matter of choice and values. So what are you choosing to create for your life?
3. I wish I had the courage to express my true feelings
Why is it that it’s only when someone is sick, dying or about to pass-over that we find the courage to express our true feelings towards them? Could it be that we allow our own fears, insecurity and vulnerability to get in the way of authentic communication and connection?
Courage is the ability and willingness to act even in the face of fear. The key to remember is that its in our moments of action that fear disappears. So who do you need to express your true feelings to today? Who do you have incomplete emotional business with?
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
At the end of our life the only things we will take with us our experiences, and the memories and connections to the people that graced our life path.
In the Facebook era it’s all to easy to think that a quick message or post, a text message here or there constitutes a successful relationship. However its in the intimate, face-to-face connections and sharing that we create the foundation for true engagement with those we love.
So why not write a letter to someone that you have been meaning to connect with? Or take a moment to leave a Post-it Note with a loving message for someone special? Or invite your closest friends for a sit-down dinner and some real community connection?
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier
As Robert Holden, best-selling author of Authentic Happiness says, we can often spend an eternity looking for happiness outside of ourselves, than simply commit to “following our joy” in each moment.
Sadly, very few people are truly committed to following their joy, to allowing themselves permission to simply feel happier in this moment. Especially when you consider that It doesn’t take much. Seeing the beauty in a rose, watching a magnificent sunset, doing a random act of kindness for someone else, giving ourselves timeout to meditate, reflect, pray, or even just sharing a story with someone close to us.
Each of these is an opportunity for us to engage our joy and embrace our authentic happiness – and best of all they’re free!!
Applying the Lessons to Your Life
So why are these regrets important? Because they are an adamant reminder of the true values that each and every soul confronts prior to its passing. That it is not the material that is most important, but that it is the experience, the learning, the growth and the contributions that we make to this world as human beings that mark the value of our existence.
If any of you have seen the movie The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson then you’ll appreciate that this movie was not so much about dying, than it was about encouraging each and everyone of us to live fully.
Hopefully as each of us reflects on these regrets, we will appreciate what it really means to live fully. Hopefully we will find a path back to the ‘real fulfilment’ that is available to us in this moment.
As for me, I’ve placed a large poster (above) on the wall of my office with the 5 Life Regrets re-framed into ‘My Commitments to Life’, so that each day I can remind myself of what is most important, and that each day I can grow a little closer to appreciating and acknowledging the fulfilment that is available to me right now… if I were to see it.
Namaste.
Read more about The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, by Bronnie Ware, published by Hay House RRP $17.95. Also available on Amazon. To read more about her inspirational blog visit www.inspirationandchai.com
by Les Price | Nov 16, 2012 | Life Purpose & Destiny, Self Empowerment, Success Principles |
Are you consistently applying lots of effort, but receiving very little reward?
Do you often feel like you’re taking two steps forward and one step back?
Does your heart long to experience less struggle and striving, and more freedom, flow and fulfilment?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then the good news is ‘you are not alone’!
In fact you have probably got more in common with the other 7 billion people on the planet who are actively seeking to expand, grow and develop, yet consistently find themselves being held back, resisting and sabotaging themselves from their innate natural state of freedom, flow, success and fulfilment. Welcome to Life 101!
The greatest gift of our soul is that it is always seeking to experience greater, and greater expansion and growth. Yet the reality is that anything that is moving will always experience some form of resistance, while anything that is stagnant or resting in the same place will eventually fade away and die.
Your job therefore as an ever expanding soul and being, is to evolve and become the best you that YOU can be, and this requires learning how to align your own internal energy to produce your greatest results with ease, joy and happiness.
So how do you align yourself for success? By understanding that when your actions and behaviours are aligned with your thoughts, when your thoughts are aligned with your values, when your values clearly reflect your life and soul purpose, when your soul purpose is aligned with the higher purpose for your life, and when your higher purpose contributes towards the Divine Will for humanity and the world – then miracles are possible.
So how do you create greater states of internal alignment between your body, mind, soul and spirit?
5 Simple Practices to Align Yourself for Success
1. Creating Greater Rapport Between Your Ego and Spirit
Much of the conflict that takes place in our everyday lives takes place at one of two levels – our conscious behaviour, thoughts and patterns, and our unconscious behaviour, thoughts and patterns.
Your job as the master of your life is to harness the innate intention of your soul to direct your will towards bringing greater harmony, balance and purpose to these two aspect of your being. This inner-battle is best symbolised by the images presented in the major arcana of the mystical tarot that depicts two horses, one black (representing ego), one white being (representing soul) being guided by a chariot driver (yourself), who holds the reigns and must direct these two aspects of self to work together towards its highest intent.
Contrary to popular myth it is not necessary to rid yourself of ego, for to do so would be futile. Your ego brings great strength, resilience, and power to your life when it works in harmony with your spirit. Likewise, a life that is completely bound in spirit, without the grounded connection of ego would spend most of its time with its ‘head in the clouds’, dreaming, but producing little result.
The Practice:
- Take out a blank piece of paper out and simply draw a line down the middle of it. On the left side write the title ‘Gifts of my Ego’ and on the right side write the title ‘Strengths of my Spirit’.
- Now brainstorm all the benefits and strengths that both your ego and spirit provide you.
- When you have completed your lists imagine that each is a horse, and ask them: What they need from you to create a more harmonious, productive and fulfilling life? How can they each work more closely with each other to use their gifts and strengths for your greater good? Who do you need to develop yourself to become a better ‘chariot driver’?
2. Let Your Soul Be Your Guiding Compass
Whether you realise it or not, your own soul is your best and most trusted ally in life. It knows exactly where you are, where you need to be, and what brings you great joy in each moment. All you need to do is find the stillness within and take the time to ask it for its highest guidance for you right now.
The Practice:
- Take out four pieces of paper and on each write in the big letters the letters N, S, E an W.
- Find a large space where you can move freely in your living area or home, which is quiet and where you won’t be disturbed. Stand in the middle of your room. Place each of the pieces of paper at least a meter away from you in a circle, where the N is placed at 12 o’clock, E at 3 o’clock, S at 6 o’clock and W at 9 o’clock (representing the points of a compass).
- Now as you stand in the middle close your eyes and place your hand on your heart. Ask your heart to be awakened and to provide you with the highest clear guidance for your soul. Then ask your soul to show you the direction that you are currently heading in your life, and as you feel compelled simply turn in that direction and take a step forward. Open your eyes and see where you are on the compass.
- Go back to the centre of the circle, close your eyes and now, ask your soul to show you and guide you in the direction of your highest life path at this moment. Turn to it and take a step forward. Open your eyes and just notice where you are? Is there a difference? How do you need to bring your current life into alignment with your highest soul path?
3. Learn to Love What You Resist
In my many years of working as a hypnotherapist and counsellor what I noticed most amongst my clients who were experiencing limiting behavioural patterns, self-sabotage and resistance was that every behaviour has an underlying benefit to the soul.
The Practice:
- So rather than fight or resist the behaviour, instead start by first thanking it for being there, thank it for all the benefits that has been providing you (even if you don’t see any in it right now).
- Then ask it if it would be willing to share with you why it is presenting itself to you? Ask it to share with you its higher purpose and benefit?
- Then ask your higher-self to share with you some alternative and more empowering ways to experience those benefits right now?
Simply by learning to love your resistance you allow it to share its greatest gifts with you, and by doing so you create the pathway to integrating yourself towards wholeness, rather than living a fragmented life.
4. Let Go of What You’re Tolerating
As simple as this sounds, it is often one of the most challenging realisations for many people. In the same way that trying to hide inflated beach balls under water takes lots and lots of energy, so to, the people, activities and tasks that you are tolerating in your life right now, are also draining your chi and life-force energy.
The Practice:
- Make a list right now of all the things in your life that you are currently tolerating, know you need to stop, or that you need to complete.
- Then go to work at eliminating these ‘beach balls’ from your life!
5. Your Only Job Is to Get Clear
I was recently at a seminar in Melbourne recently where the seminar leader shared some powerful advice that really resonated with me. He said ‘you only job in life is to get clear about who you are, why you are here and what you do’. Then you simply need to allow the people, places and situations that resonate with your true-self to turn up!
Surprisingly, the number one reason most people don’t get what they want, is because they don’t really know what they want! Or if they do know, then most of the time what they want is really being driven by other people’s needs, expectations or demands.
The Practice:
- So what do you value in life? What do you hold as being most important to you? If you had only one more year to live what would you do?
- If you won $70 million in the lottery what would you do with the rest of your life?
- If I gave you a magic wand and three wishes, what three aspects of your life would you most want to change and how?
Learning to align yourself for success, and developing greater levels of alignment both internally and externally is one of the greatest gifts that you can give yourself. Just as a river that is free from obstacles, rocks, sticks and branches will flow with ease, so too your mind, body and soul when aligned have the capacity to produce and reflect tremendous life force potential.
Remember, you are here to be the best YOU that you can be!
by Les Price | Aug 21, 2012 | Life Purpose & Destiny, Self Empowerment |
After many years performing self-empowerment and soul-coaching sessions with clients, one thing that I have noticed is that most people are desperately looking to create a happier, more enjoyable and more fulfilling life.
Most of the time they already have access to an amazing and infinite power to change their lives within their soul (even if they don’t realise it).
Yet often what is missing is the courage and self-belief to act on their soul’s inner-guidance.
So what do you really need to create your best life now?
First, we need to stop comparing ourselves to others. Stop trying to meet other people’s expectations. And instead we need to find the self-love and respect to give ourselves permission to be the best we can be in this moment.
“It’s OK for ME to BE the BEST ME I can BE!”
The 7 Keys to Creating Your Best Life Now …
#1. You Need to Discover Your Soul Path and Purpose
Each and every person has a unique soul path and purpose that is waiting to be discovered. Your unique soul song is the key to living in greater harmony and alignment with the divine plan for your life, and provides the foundation for a life of greater happiness, joy and fulfilment.
#2. Create a Powerful Soul Defining Intention
You are a powerful creative being and you are co-creating your life in each and every moment. In fact the results that you are experiencing now are simply the direct reflection of your past thoughts, feelings and actions. The number one reason most people struggle and strive in life is that they simply don’t know what they really want. Defining a clear and inspired soul intention for your life therefore opens the pathway to creating a life of success and significance.
#3. Activate Your Inner-Power
What are you really committed to in your life? In every moment you are being presented with choices for your life. Your freedom to make decisions is what activates and unleashes your true personal power. However the challenge is often staying true to what is important to you (your goals, dreams and higher intentions) instead of being side-tracked by low-priority urgencies.
#4. Develop an Unstoppable Self-Belief
Who you are speaks louder than words. Your character and self-belief precedes you into every situation, meeting, event and connection. Therefore how you choose to see yourself (your self-image) is fundamental to realising your highest and best life. Are you unstoppable or are you being stopped?
#5. Engage Your Intuitive Guidance
Have you ever walked into a room or environment and just felt that there was something not good about the energy? Have you ever met people that you instantly did not like or feel good around? Our intuition is our most powerful guide on this life journey. Every question we ask of ourselves is answered at some level of our being. The question is “Are we willing to listen to the response and act on it?”.
#6. Align With Your Authentic Self
Have you ever experienced being completely in flow? That surreal of all states where we are so engaged and connected with what we are doing that time drifts away, and we connect with the grace and divinity of our own souls? It is in the moments of authenticity that your power and presence grows. Aligning heart, mind, body and soul with your higher self plan is the key to an awakened life.
#7. Expand Your Personal Presence and Influence
Did you know that if you are alive and breathing right now, that your life has purpose? Each of us is here not only to be the ‘best ME that we can be’ but to use our gifts, talents and abilities to make a difference in the lives of those around us. Expanding your personal presence and influence is therefore your birth right and the greatest gift that YOU bring to the world.
Over the coming weeks I’ll be exploring each of these areas in more detail and also sharing some powerful video Masterclass sessions that will help you begin to apply these principles in your own life.
I’m looking forward to sharing them with you … so stay tuned!
