9 Maddeningly Common Myths About Living Your Purpose By: Christine Kane | - Lets face it. Many people do not succeed as they set out to follow their purpose and build a business based in their passion. There are two primary reasons for this:
The first is that too many people rely solely on themselves to figure out the HOW. They try to go it alone, thinking that their passion alone will be enough.
It shows you the path to fulfillment
Your life purpose not only gives you meaning, but it also gives you clear direction where to go in life and shows you the right path to lead. It gives a fulfilling feeling which is very important to stay happy and contented.
Just Say No To Worry By: Ken Keis | - Worry a little bit every day and, in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway.
Just Say No To Worry!
Worry: To subject to persistent or nagging attention or effort; to afflict with mental distress or agitation; make anxious; to move, proceed, or progress by unceasing or difficult effort; to feel or experience concern or anxiety.
... Tags:Living On Purpose, marriage, personal growth, Success, Wealth, Worry, Health, Anxiety, Relationships, family, business
Spirituality: Something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such; sensitivity or attachment to religious values; the quality or state of being spiritual
Relativism: A view that ethical truths depend on the individual ... Tags:Living On Purpose, marriage, personal growth, spirituality, success, family
Transforming Leadership Is Everything By: Ken Keis | - "Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1884 - 1972
Ethics: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation; a set of moral principles; a theory or system of moral values; the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; a guiding philosophy; a consciousness of moral importance.
The Tyrrany Of Political Correctness By: Ken Keis | - "Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The Tyranny of Political Correctness
Politically Correct: Conforming to a belief that language and practices that could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated.
The fact is political correctness has gone awry -- destroying the freedom and democracy that permitted it to occur in the first place.
Assessing For Success By: Ken Keis | - "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time, you haven't."
Peter Drucker, Management Guru
1909 - 2005
Assessing For Success: Exposing the Misinformation about Assessments
Assessment: To determine the rate or amount of; to make an official valuation of for the purposes of judgment; to determine the importance, size, or value of something or someone.
High Performance Management By: Ken Keis | - "So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work."
Peter Drucker, Management Guru
1909 - 2005
High-Performance Management: A Five-Step Process for Winning
Would you like to increase the performance of your teams?
Raising The Professional Development Bar By: Ken Keis | - Raising the Professional Development Bar: Why Most Coaches, Career Counselors, Business Consultants, Educators, and other Professional Developers are Not Qualified to Teach or Advise
Qualified: Having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task. A quality, ability, or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task.
Why Don't You Teach The Way That I Learn? By: Ken Keis | - "Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams
1744 - 1818
Why Dont You Teach The Way That I Learn?
Learn/ing: to gain knowledge, understanding, or skill by study or experience; to find out.
Creating A Successful Life And Career By: Ken Keis | - "It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do."
Cory Doctrow, Science Fiction Writer
Creating a Successful Life/Career for Self and Others
Career: an occupation or profession followed as a lifes work; a course or passage.
Life: a way of living; the physical and mental experiences of an individual; a specific phase or period.
Fixing The Failures Of Human Resources By: Ken Keis | - "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
Herbert Bayard Swope, Journalist
1882 - 1958
Fixing the Failures of Human Resources
Failure: an act or instance of non-performance of something due or expected; an insufficiency.
The Gift Of Feedback By: Ken Keis | - In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon, Greek Politician
638 - 559 BC
The Gift of Feedback
Feedback: Response about an activity, action, behavior, or policy.
Feedback -- real feedback: the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth type of feedback -- is critical to our continued growth, both professionally and organizationally.
Making A Real Difference In People's Lives By: Ken Keis | - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet
1809 - 1892
Making a Real Difference in Peoples Lives
Difference: Unlikeness, distinction or discrimination; differs from another.
Passion & Purpose By: Ken Keis | - "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine
September 2003
Passion & Purpose
Passion: an object of enthusiasm or affection; emotion, as distinguished from reason.
The research percentages vary but it is generally acknowledged that less than 10% of the people in the developed world are passionate about their work and their lives.
There's No Such Thing As Job Security, Except... By: Ken Keis | - "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller, American Blind and Deaf Educator
1880 - 1968
Theres No Such Thing as Job Security, Except . . .
Security:The quality or state of being secure; freedom from danger; freedom from fear or anxiety; freedom from the prospect of being laid off; something given, deposited, or pledged to make certain the fulfillment of an ... Tags:living on purpose, success, wealth, job, security, opportunity, engaged, compel, motivate, inspire, entrepreneur
Who Are Your Role Models By: Ken Keis | - "Each person must live their life as a model for others."
Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Leader
1913 - 2005
Who Are Your Role Models?
Model:An example for imitation or emulation
Example:One who serves as a pattern to be imitated or not to be imitated
-Who are your role models?
-What example are you leaving for others?
Will You Get Over Yourself - Please By: Ken Keis | - "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde, Novelist
1854 - 1900
Will You Get Over Yourself -- Please?
Selfish:Concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself; seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others; arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others; genetic material solely concerned with ... Tags:selfish, giving, living on purpose, generosity, success, wealth, personal growth
What's Your Legacy By: Ken Keis | - "I wanna live 'til I die -- no more, no less."
Eddie Izzard, Comedian and Actor
Whats Your Legacy?
Legacy:Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past; a gift by will, especially of money or other personal property
If I Had Wanted Your Opinionm I Would Have Asked For It By: Ken Keis | - "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Bertrand Russell, British Author
1872 - 1970
If I Wanted Your Opinion, I Would Have Asked for It.
It's Time You Acted On Your Dreams And Desires By: Ken Keis | - "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.:
Napoleon Hill, Author: Think and Grow Rich
Its Time You Acted on Your Dreams and Desires
Dream A strongly desired goal or purpose; something that fully satisfies a wish
Desire To long or hope for; exhibit or feel desire for; to express a wish for; to express a wish to; to have or feel desire
Can You Let Go of Your Negative Thoughts and Events?
NegativeMarked by denial, prohibition, or refusal; marked by absence, withholding, or removal of something positive; denying a predicate of a subject or a part of a subject; denoting the absence or the contradictory of something; lacking positive qualities; disagreeable; marked by features of hosti ... Tags:success, wealth, living on purpose, personal growth, professional development, failure, guilt, negative, freedom, relief, future
MaturityOf or relating to a condition of full development; characteristic of or suitable to a mature individual; based on slow, careful consideration; having completed natural growth and development; having undergone maturation; having attained a final or desired state; having achieved a stable growt ... Tags:success, wealth, living on purpose, personal growth, professional development, mature, maturity, old, young, experience
What is Your Mindset toward Money and Materialism?
MoneySomething generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; officially coined or stamped metal currency; a form or denomination of coin or paper money.
Reject The Victim Mentality By: Ken Keis | - "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
Marilyn Manson, Musician
1969 -
"The price of greatness is taking responsibility."
Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician
1874 - 1965
Reject the Victim Mentality. Take Personal Responsibility!
Are You Living An Authentic Or A Fake Life? By: Ken Keis | - "Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine
May 2004
Are You Living an Authentic or a Fake Life?
Authentic: Worthy of acceptance or belief; based on fact not false or imitation; real: actual; true to one's own personality, spirit, or character.
Making A Smart Start By: Ken Keis | - "...the root causes of transition failure always lie in a pernicious interaction between the situation, with its opportunities and pitfalls, and the individual, with his or her strengths and vulnerabilities."
Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Factors for New Leaders at All Levels
Making a SMART Start
Guest Author: Dr. Brian J. Fraser
First impressions matter, especially when you are starting a new job.
Decreasing Clutter And Chaos By: Ken Keis | - "A life lived in chaos is an impossibility . . . "
Madeleine LEngle, Science Fiction Novelist
1918 - 2007
Decreasing Clutter and Chaos!
Clutter: To run in disorder; to fill or cover with scattered or disordered things that impede movement or reduce effectiveness.
Chaos: A state of utter confusion; a confused mass or mixture.
Do you ever feel there is just too much stuff in your life?
Replacing Rage With Composure By: Ken Keis | - "If you do not wish to be prone to rage, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
Epictetus, Roman (Greek-Born) Slave and Stoic philosopher
55 AD - 135 AD
Replacing Rage with Composure!
Rage: Violent and uncontrolled anger; a fit of violent wrath; insanity; violent action; an intense feeling.
Success Requires Effort! By: Ken Keis | - "Whenever I hear, "It can't be done," I know I'm close to success."
Michael Flatley, Creator of Lord of the Dance
Success Requires Effort!
Success: A degree or measure of succeeding; favorable or desired outcome or results; the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence.
Effort: Conscious exertion of power; hard work; a serious attempt; something produced by exertion or trying; the total work done to achieve a particular end.
Is There A Way To Finding Your Life Purpose? By: MK Chauhan | - Finding your purpose in life is one of those things that not everyone knows how to do. We might think that we know what it is, but in reality we keep wandering around without any progress. Why is finding purpose so important? Let's look at the details behind it.
Without finding purpose we are like ships without a rudder or sail. We basically just float around the sea of life going wherever the ocean takes us. When a big wave comes along and pushes us, we just let it send us to whe ... Tags:Finding your life purpose, life purpose
The Gift Of Challenges And Problems By: Ken Keis | - "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin
The Gift of Challenges and Problems
Challenge: A stimulating or interesting task or problem.
Problem: A question raised for consideration or solution; an unsettled question; a source of perplexity or vexation.
What Is Stress Costing You? By: Ken Keis | - "If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didnt ask me, Id still have to say it."
George Burns, Comedian
What is Stress Costing You?
Stress: Pressure, strain, or force that tends to distort a body; a factor that induces bodily or mental tension.
Take Time To Celebrate! By: Ken Keis | - "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor, Comedian and Singer
1892 - 1964
Take Time to Celebrate!
Celebrate: to observe a notable occasion with festivities; to refrain from ordinary business; to honor as a holiday with ceremonies.
Do you take time out to celebrate your wins and successes in life?
The Cry For Competence By: Ken Keis | - "The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it."
-Laurence J. Peter
US educator and writer
The Peter Principle
1919-1990
The Cry for Competence
Do we really have a crisis in terms of individuals competence in their various fields of endeavor? Yes, Yes, and Yes!
Creating A Flake-free Zone By: Ken Keis | - "I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
-Nathaniel Emmons
Creating a Flake-Free Zone
Although true success is built on trust and truth, in North America there seems to be a drift toward being "flaky."
The Spirit Of Abundance By: Ken Keis | - "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred . . . unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
-John Wolfgang von Goethe
The Spirit of Abundance
Would you like MORE abundance in your life? If your answer is Yes, read on. If not, read on anyway, so you can help others have more.
Are You A Giver Or A Taker By: Ken Keis | - "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
-Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician 1874 - 1965
Are You a Giver or a Taker?
To give: to bestow by formal action; deliver or to yield to another.
To take: to get into one's hands or possession; grasp, seize, capture, or defeat.
How would your friends, family, or co-workers characterize you -- Are you a giver or a taker?
The Magic Of The Moment By: Ken Keis | - "When we are capable of living in the moment, free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts."
-Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
The Power Of Your Thoughts By: Ken Keis | - "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
-James F. Byrnes, Politician 1879 - 1972
The Power of Your Thoughts
Thought: The process of thinking, serious consideration, reasoning power, opinion and belief
Going For Gold With Goals By: Ken Keis | - "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
-Denis Waitley, Author: The Psychology of Winning
Going for Gold with Goals
A Goal: a mark set as the outcome of a race; an aim, a purpose; an object toward which play is directed
Success Demands Decisive Decisions By: Ken Keis | - "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."
-Karl Kraus German philosopher (1781 - 1832)
Success Demands Decisive Decisions
Every day we are all faced with numerous decisions. Some decisions are mundane, such what we are going to wear; other decisions are life-changing or life-threatening.
Life Is A Risky Business By: Ken Keis | - "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
-John F. Kennedy
Life is a Risky Business!
Risk is the exposure to POSSIBLE loss or injury.
Some people dont enjoy their lives because they are not taking enough risks or are taking too many! (Ill explain the second one later.)
Purpose Of Life: Using Ancient Energies To Live Your Purpose Today By: Lynn Scheurell | - We humans are encoded to search out our reason for being and then express it. When we are not living on purpose, we know it; we are unhappy, we feel isolated, things don't flow in our lives and our bodies reflect it. But when we ARE living in the rhythm of our unique purpose, we feel it.
Through the ages, we've spent a lot of time figuring out how to express our inner being in a tangible outer way. Spiritual teachers, gurus, poets, artists, philosophers, inventors and, ... Tags:purpose of life, purpose, spirituality
The Truth About Living Your Purpose For Small Business Owners By: Michael Spindelman | - In the popular press these days, a dominant theme is about living your purpose. The articles usually ask "Are you passionate about what you're doing earning an income?" One thing about living your purpose or your passion for that matter is that living your purpose can really get ugly at times.
When you live a life on purpose you might appear selfish to the people around you. That's because purpose is about unleashing the quiet giant inside of you. That giant wants to give to the w ... Tags:passion, purpose, small business, owner, six sigma, entrepreneur
