What’s Your Project?
Your life purpose is not necessarily your job. Of course, when you spend a lot of your time and energy pursuing work that is in line with a higher calling, it’s incredibly fulfilling; your everyday life is transformed on a lot of levels.
But don’t mistake discovering your calling with living your life on purpose — with simply having a rewarding project that’s powered by your passion.
You fulfill your life purpose by living – it’s not something you can fail to do. Your life purpose is also not about what you want to give others as much as it is about what others request of you — what THEY want from you. No matter what your job or occupation is, your mission in serving others comes through — it is always expressed. It is also defined by other people.
A life purpose is not about what you decide to do for other people, it’s how you respond to what they ask of you.
You are already everything you’ve ever wanted to become. You’re not missing anything that can’t be transformed through shifting your perspective.
Your creativity is your divinity. You think you’re waiting on the Universe to deliver the components of making your dreams come true, but the Universe is waiting on you.
The most obvious way I know of to transform who you are and what you love to do into a mission, an authentic expression of why you’re here, is to invent one. Almost all the things you hope will magically fall into place involve other people:
- Meeting the partner of your dreams
- Connecting with like-minded souls
- Expressing yourself with spirit
- Finding the perfect job
- Feeling joyful about your daily existence
- Receiving the assistance and support you need to tackle life’s challenges
When I do a Spirit Guide Reading for you or respond to your emails in hopes of motivating, coaching, and inspiring you toward living the magical life you deserve, I find that there’s one over-arching realist goal that anyone can employ to change or improve any aspect of life — you need a project!
You are here to learn from those who know the path you wish to walk; and to teach those who need to know the way that you’ve already mapped.
- Want to meet the love of your life? Involve yourself in activities where people who share your passion congregate.
- Want to develop your god-given talents? Practice them; study them; and teach them to others.
- Want to use your life to make a difference in the world? Take what you love, what you’re good at it, what you’re passionate about — or take the greatest challenge you’ve ever survived, the thing that broke your heart, but did not break your spirit — and find someone who needs to know how you do it.
- Want to ditch your sad life story and trade in your walk-on part as a victim into a hero who has triumphed, against great odds? Become it; share it; tell the world about it.
The rewards are not just about making more money, but any entrepreneur can tell you that the greatest material successes require incredible spiritual stamina, perseverance, and an unwavering positive obsession with something you never grow tired of…
The kind of energy that can change lives starts with what you love. If you love it enough, and you make sharing your passion, and teaching others your number one motivation, you’ll discover unbelievable, seemingly infinite resources of energy and assistance.
Now, if you’re a writer — if you’ve always carried a dream of becoming an author, someday — what are you waiting for? If that is your dream, you have absolutely everything you require, right now, on the very computer you’re staring into — to make that dream happen.
You know who you are; I know who you are — what do think I pick up from your spirit guides when you leave a comment on this site, or when you write to me with those thoughtful, articulate, fascinating personal stories?
When we’re both operating in the medium of words, the words of writers glow with an obvious aura. When I read that glow one of the first things I look for is that link to YOUR blog. When the glow is there, but the Project seems to be missing, I know two things are true — you’re not sharing your writing on the scale that you should or you haven’t yet begun to share your writing on the scale that you could.
Come on, now, if it’s worth telling to me, why only me? My close friends will remember all the years that my energy went into telling them stories, one at a time (I’m sure more than one of you is relieved that I finally found a more effective venue and stopped sending you those huge, long-winded emails…)
If you’re a writer, you won’t be the first to ask me for a reading or write to me searching for your purpose only to be asked “What’s your project?” See, even though Shift Your Spirits is one of my projects, it’s not the only part of my mission, and it’s not my job. I do readings for small donations, but that doesn’t put a roof over my head… It’s a project, a passion, a purpose, but not quite a “job.”
Communicating with Spirit
My life purpose and my mission and my job all grow outward from a single family of projects — to teach other creative writers on a mission how to use technology they already have to share their passions with the world. A big part of my mission involves teaching the teachers — are you one of them?
If you live each day believing “Someday, I’ll be an Author” then you should know my j-o-b is all about sharing my path to Someday. I’ve now made the first part of my Problogging 101 Tutorial a free report for subscribers to Spiritual Blogging.
Writing | Manifesting
Any manifesting technique you study is going to overlap in the most basic recipe:
- write down your intentions
- share them with others
It’s not a Secret anymore. You have to create the life you want to live.
Seek Wisdom — Practice Love
Contacting Your Spirit Guides - 101
Free resources for Shift Your Spirits readers:
- Read the ebook by Slade Roberson especially for beginners who want to know who/what spirit guides are and how to communicate with them
- Listen to the mp3 preview of the Spirit Guide Attunement portion of the Talking to Your Spirit Guides class by Slade Roberson
- Try the meditation to Meet a Guide contributed by Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal
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I really like this:
“You think you’re waiting on the Universe to deliver the components of making your dreams come true, but the Universe is waiting on you.”
I’m finding the Universal deliveries do occur once I’m engaged and participating in making the dream.
Slade, I remember those long-winded emails that I sent to you for about 6 months before you convinced me that I should be doing my writing on a blog of my own and sharing my words with more people. The investment that I made in purchasing your ProBlogging 101 Tutorial is the best money that I have ever spent. I have been doing my own blog for 2 1/2 months now. I have met some very spiritual people who are becoming my friends. The world has literally opened up to me through my blog and the internet. Someone from Israel, another from Japan, K-L from New Zealand, Damian from England, Jason from Canada and quite a few from the U. S. A. are now reading my blog.
I have been doing blog carnivals at the suggestion of K-L for the past month and my stats are jumping 20-25 visitors a day since then. As of yesterday, 502 visitors have been to my site since June 1, 2007. Subscriptions are steadily growing too. One of these days, I will join the ranks of you big kids and have visitors in the thousands per day. I can hardly wait. Patience is not usually a Saggitarian trait.
To any of you beginning writers and bloggers who are new to the internet, Slade is a great Spiritual Blogging Teacher. Thanks, Slade.
From a witness perspective, I can allow myself to step back and see my central focus, my core concern, my ultimate purpose through the ways in which I choose to live, love, and learn. Please note this wonderful and glorious emphasis on me, my, and mine: my purpose in life is about what I decide to do for me, for my own good, with goals, values, and interests that are mine. Does this egoic stance necessarily preclude what others think or feel, say or do? It might. But then again, it might not. If the feedback I get from others resounds with my ultimate purpose, then I would do well to listen and learn. By leaving the most important element of my life - my purpose - to the dictates or suggestions of others, I fear that I would lose my bearings. In you, Slade, I sense a strong egoic push, matched by deep concern for what others might contribute to your purpose in life. In “serving the good of others”, we find a most tenuous objective: good by what standard? Good for whom in particular? I’m rather inclined to think that individuals who claim to serve the good of others actually serve their own conception of that good.
I demand that you take this perspective to heart. Then again, no. I would expect that you shift your spirits in harmony with the purpose of your soul.
Lola,
God helps those who help themselves.
Patricia,
You continue to represent the best reflection of what I share.
Christos,
Duty + Love = Grace
Loving anyone — loving everyone — inevitably includes, and grows from, loving the self.
Slade,
I find that when I wed responsible desire with inspired love, I enter a state of grace. No sacrifice required. In projecting and pursuing a purpose worthy of my love of self, sometimes the best, most responsible course of action is not to love someone else.
Christos,
I can think of many examples where the best course of action would indeed be choosing to withhold your energy from someone else. There is certainly a difference between being self-full and self-ish.
I could be wrong but I think you wrote this just for me, didn’t you? No? Oh well, never mind, it spoke to ME anyway. It spoke to me directly and it bypassed all filters.
Granted, you wrote this back in May and I only stumbled across it today. It took that long for serendipity to magically manifest an ingenious way to get a link to your home on the web into my inbox via e-mail, and then to actually get me to notice the link itself (Slade….it’s the name I tell you!) And, of course, we had to wait for me to hear someone quote Carlos Castenada as having said something like “I realized I didn’t need a personal history anymore”. That got me thinking, you see, about how I could actually change my own personal history by just viewing it differently and focusing on events other than the ones I had up until now. Perhaps unlike Carlos I want a personal history but I want it to be “mystory”, and I want that “mystory” do inspire what I am and what I want to be today. I mused to myself that unless I allow my stories to be told in truth I can’t change them and so my journal bore the brunt of “mystory” telling. Seeing them in the journal made me think that others may learn from this BUT I have to tell it to them (*ouch*). When I was younger I used to do this in 40 page letters to my friends (that they SAID they enjoyed reading) but that was before I learned that my stories didn’t matter. Perhaps it’s my time to tell “mystory” again because it does matter…..
Moonies,
Yes, it was written just for you — obviously!
: )
It’s beautiful how that happens…
Did you also check out The Stories that No Longer Serve You? Not needing a personal history anymore — I was not familiar with that Castenada quote, thanks for sharing it, it certainly affirms the concept as I’ve experienced it.
Moonies, “Mystory” is what my blog Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker is all about. I am not writing it because my EGO needs the glory. I am writing it because others may benefit from my sharing so that the same mistakes don’t get repeated over into the next generation and yes, I do believe that some mistakes are worth repeating so that we each can learn from the growing. Some mistakes are better off not repeating. That is why the story of history is so important.
If someone else can benefit from you sharing your “Mystory” then by all means get busy. We are all waiting and as I said in my earlier comment, as a Saggittarian, I am short on patience sometimes. Really, you don’t need anyone else’s permission to tell your story. I have actually been using some of my own journal entries to write my articles from lately as I revisit a childhood of abuse and incest. The journal entries remind me of my thoughts and feelings when I was in early recovery and still not wanting to do “feelings”. Have a glorious day.
I love the advice to “ditch your sad life story.” I know way to many people are STUCK because they just can’t give up retelling their past woes. It’s so sad. Thanks for sharing your postitive advice!
At first, I was the story of my life. Then, I realized I could choose the story of my life. Now, I write the story of my life.
Slade,
I read The Stories that No Longer Serve You? as well. I read a lot so finding a site like this means I get to satisfy my reading hunger for a while from what is like a smorgasbord of information - I like that a lot! Rest assured, I will be quietly lurking in a corner somewhere digesting your musings, people’s comments and loving it.
Slade, I just saw your link to my article, The Most Influencial Person—#4—Birth Of A Dream, found at http://patriciasingleton.blogspot.com/2007/07/most-influencial-person-4-birth-of.html . This is still one of my most popular articles with my readers. Maybe it was because I am so passionate about the part the you have played in my life. I can’t believe we have known each other for less than 2 years. Wow!!! We never know the impact that we can have on the lives of others.
Slade,
A blog of my own…. Maybe that’s the “baby step” I’ve been looking for to share my life stories? Hmmm — I’m having one of those “could’ve had a V-8″ moments right now. (And I HATE V-8 juice!)
BTW, I had to laugh when you said this:
“My close friends will remember all the years that my energy went into telling them stories, one at a time (I’m sure more than one of you is relieved that I finally found a more effective venue and stopped sending you those huge, long-winded emails…)”
This is soooooooo me.
Love & Light,
Jewels