Brad Swift's Life on Purpose, Six Passages to an Inspired Life, is an effective guide for anyone working to gain meaning and understanding to life, to find life purpose.
Life Purpose
Brad Swift's Life on Purpose, Six Passages to an Inspired Life, is a book everyone should read, everyone, that is, who is serious about personal development and life purpose. Finding purpose in life is a strong human drive, yet many of us are frustrated by the difficulty of uncovering a unique purpose to our lives. This book will help.
What is a Purpose in Life?
Swift does a masterful job of conveying the distinction between a life based on doing and a life based on being. Life purpose is about being, yet most of us think of purpose in terms of what we do. We've got it backwards.
We actually fulfill purpose by who we are, the states of being that we choose to predominate our lives. What we do while in these states of being is how we experience purpose.
An Example of Life Purpose
Swift's own life purpose statement provides an excellent example of the distinction between the beingness of purpose and the doing that can result: "...a life of purposeful, passionate, and playful service, mindful abundance balanced with simplicity, and spiritual serenity." The things Swift does, such as his Life on Purpose Institute, reflect and stem from this purpose.
Swift gave up a life of material acquisition and left his veterinarian business in search of his own life purpose. On the brink of suicide, he found inspiration from within which eventually led to his Life on Purpose Institute and this book.
The Life Purpose Journey
With effective use of metaphors and personal examples, Swift breaks the journey to life purpose into six steps which he terms passages. The separation of what Swift calls Inherited Purpose from Created Purpose is instrumental in clarifying true life purpose and how we can discern the transition from a purpose based on fear and "shoulds" to a purpose based on love and what is possible.
In Life on Purpose, Swift brings together the concepts of the Law of Attraction and Purposeful Creation, blending them masterfully into his processes for creating and attracting life purpose. His writing style is relaxed and personal, with no trace of patronizing or preaching.
Will You Need Help?
Can someone gain clarity of life purpose by reading this book? Possibly, but Swift counsels that the job of clarifying life purpose is a task best accomplished with the help of others. The others might be insightful and supportive friends or family, or might be someone from the professional coaching ranks (a subtle plug for Swift's business).
Whether you're well along in your journey of life purpose or barely beginning, Life on Purpose, Six Passages to an Inspired Life is a worthwhile resource. It will stimulate your thinking and accelerate your reflective progress toward self understanding.
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