Finding Your Purpose

Legacy: What Are You Leaving Behind?

For many of us, when we hear the word “legacy” we think of people like JD Rockefeller, Mohandas Gandhi, even... 

Who Has a Life Purpose?

Who Has a Life Purpose?

I’ve always had this sense that there had to be more to life than working hard to just get by. I would look at... 

Where Is Your Compass Pointing?

Where Is Your Compass Pointing?

In my many years working with managers and their teams in the business world, the number one request for training... 

Use Your Genius to Find Your Life Purpose

Use Your Genius to Find Your Life Purpose

In an interview late in his life, the psychologist Sigmund Freud was asked to expound on what he felt were the... 

If You Can Dream It

If You Can Dream It

While reading an article by Feng Shui coach, Vicky White, I was struck by one of her comments. About setting powerful... 

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Inspiration

A New Look at Selfishness

Think back to when you were a child. How many times were you told, “Don’t be selfish.” Modern culture prizes selflessness and condemns selfishness, in effect setting the two against each other. But are these two really opposites? “The alternatives are either to love others, which is a virtue, or to love oneself, which is a sin,” wrote social scientist and philosopher Erich Fromm, in his essay titled “Selfishness and Self-Love.” While no one would argue with merits of considering others, it’s time we re-examine our beliefs around being selfish.  It’s time we recognize how those messages have served to alienate us from our self and our life purpose. What good comes from a lack of concern for yourself? Who benefits from you not valuing or loving yourself, not thinking for yourself, not being able to love others without losing yourself? How do you differentiate between valuing yourself and egotistically indulging yourself? The answers lie in self-knowledge and self-acceptance.... 

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