| You have a mission and you have a purpose that are | | | | Wise up, darling. You've got skills, talents, life |
| yours and yours alone. So many people are waiting | | | | experience, passions, and even obsessions that make |
| for the proper conditions: "when I'm out of school," | | | | you YOU, and it's time to cash in on them. Get off that |
| "When I start my business," "When I'm married with | | | | boring, stifling career track and make a U-turn into |
| three kids," "When the end of the world comes." But | | | | what you REALLY want to do and what makes you |
| do you want to know the truth? We never know how | | | | happy! A dream life is within reach if you will just find |
| long we have. Today is your day to get started | | | | your passion and connect it with your expertise. |
| discovering your passion and your mission goal. | | | | A couple of years ago, I had a severe allergic reaction |
| It's absolutely necessary that you consider where your | | | | that nearly killed me. I started coughing. My throat |
| passions and expertise come together. There, my | | | | swelled up. I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was going to |
| friends, is your prosperity. For example, let's say you | | | | die and I could very well have. I got the medical |
| love fashion, writing, holistic medicine, and gardening. | | | | attention I needed and my second chance to make |
| You've got a degree in nursing and have taken some | | | | myself happy and pursue what I am really meant to |
| courses in holistic modalities. Why just be a nurse? | | | | do at an even more powerful level. |
| Why not be a nurse in an integrative clinic that offers | | | | I know from firsthand experience that you never know |
| herbal medicine and nutrition to patients? Why not be a | | | | how much time you have. You don't need to have a |
| fashion writer or an image consultant? Why not write | | | | life-threatening experience to shake up your life. Just |
| a blog on gardening and herbal remedies? | | | | take it from me. (And hey, if you'll listen up, you won't |
| The point is that so often we put on narrow blinders | | | | need to have a too-close-to-the-grim-reaper |
| and only see our career in the most conventional, | | | | experience to get it.) |
| traditional categories. It's time to break out! There is no | | | | I want you to ponder this. What mission goal is |
| reason why you should have to cut off parts of | | | | dormant within you? What principles and values are |
| yourself and focus on only one thing. Integrate, don't | | | | guiding your life? Who do you feel called to help? How |
| separate! | | | | can you step into your power and start doing that? |
| Stop thinking in "this OR that" mode and instead think | | | | Finally, who's in charge? Sweetie, let me clue you in on |
| "this AND that.When you join them together, your | | | | something. The answer is a three-letter word that |
| passions and expertise will create a business or | | | | starts with "y" and ends with "u". Stay tuned for my |
| career that satisfies you and is as one of a kind as the | | | | next article in which you'll find out about an incredible |
| prints on the end of your fingers. (Why do you think | | | | framework you can use to create a mission goal that |
| the FBI uses 'em to find you when you've robbed a | | | | roars! In the meantime, ponder all the questions above. |
| bank and tried to skip town?) | | | | It's your life. Make it count. |