Creating Your Life’s Work

How do we make time for what matters most? This 25 min ambient-meditation will give you process for aligning your day to day with your Life’s Work.

Transcript

Start focusing in on your breath,

In and out through the nose,

Long,

Steady,

Even breaths.

Find your center.

Come as fully present as possible.

Try to straighten up your spine wherever you are.

Iron out the kinks,

Pull that string from the top of the crown of your head up fully vertical to the sky.

Straighten everything out.

Straight back,

Straight lines on the shoulders,

Down the back.

Hands up turned where the thighs meet your trunk.

This is my receiving mode.

Get into receiving mode.

Just remember that the breath is the primary anchor that will get us back to center,

Take us where we need to be.

And our theme this week is going to help us move towards our life's work as opposed to the busy work.

The crowds around us vise for our attention.

It's the difference between doing what's important versus what's urgent.

We may be capable of juggling a great many things,

But research proves there were really not great multitaskers.

So let's use this meditation,

Set the intention to bring in our focus single-pointedly to our breath,

To my words of encouragement that will direct us to making the best investment of our time in carrying out our life's work.

As we close our eyes if it's comfortable,

Let's bring our focus into the body.

Seeing these even large swells of breath coming in and out like waves.

Imagine yourself seated at the shore,

Observing the waves come in and go out.

The breath forming a steady rhythm.

The only steady dependable rhythm in this scene.

Rest your gaze with eyes open or eyes closed at about a 45 degree angle upward.

Looking towards the sky above the horizon,

An anchor of joyful expectation of what's to come.

Setting your sight on where you're going.

Slowing down the relentless pace,

The quickening pace of life with each breath.

Send the waves in and out.

Notice how all your responsibilities for the day,

Your needs,

Your demands on your time.

Just let them all swirl around you.

Having possibilities,

Heavy responsibilities.

Let them circulate around you.

Seated at the shore,

Sunlight touching your shoulders and your face.

Your breath's pushing the tide in and out.

As we count down from three to zero,

We'll begin slowing down all of these responsibilities,

These demands,

These projects so we can see them more clearly.

Three.

Waves are larger because our breath is deeper.

Two.

Everything around us is getting more clear.

We can differentiate between what brings us joy and satisfaction and what just might be nagging at us.

One.

The tide is touching our legs and our feet.

It's all slowing down now.

Clear differentiation between our life's work,

What we know we should be doing and spending our time doing,

And everything else.

Just let it circulate in a carousel around you slowly so you can take stock of it.

Look for the largest,

Brightest lights that are calling you forward.

Right there asking you where you've been.

These are our opportunities for our greatest contribution,

Greatest expression.

To our right,

Hockey puck sized,

Glowing white and silver is the pause button.

We're going to press pause.

Three.

Two.

One.

Pause.

Everything around us is still,

With the exception of the breath,

With the exception of the waves controlled by the breath.

And if we look from the top down,

We see ourselves surrounded in everything we've committed to,

And whatever we've not committed to,

All of our potential projects and work.

As we look over this landscape of opportunities,

We can file them as important or merely urgent.

Recognizing that nothing is truly urgent in the pause.

Let's begin by taking something big and important,

Something that we're committed to over the next three months.

Visualize this project as one large sphere in front of you.

Something you can direct all of your attention,

Focus and gaze and your inner light toward that has the potential to refract and reflect that light back to you brighter than ever.

Your greatest possible expression,

Your greatest possible contribution for this year.

Imagine that it's yours and yours alone,

That it chose you.

Remind yourself,

I choose my life's work.

I choose consistent action,

However small.

I choose my greatest expression.

Let's set it down,

Grab something we've committed to over the next couple weeks.

Something we know we should be working on,

That could get pushed off to the side by urgent needs or demands.

Picture this as a sphere glowing bright.

Let the sun warm it up,

Let the waves touch your legs and feet as you breathe in deeply.

Give gratitude to this project for choosing you,

For making you become something more.

Remind yourself,

The sea,

The sky,

This project,

I choose my life's work.

I choose daily consistent action,

However small.

I choose my greatest expression and contribution.

Hold it in your arms,

Feel its reflected energy and light back into you,

Back into your soul,

Into your heart.

Knowing that your life's work is what pulls you into becoming something more.

Give it a hug or kiss,

Set it down.

Make something that's due by the end of the week that you promised yourself or your boss or your team that you would deliver.

Pick it up,

Hold it in your hands.

As your breath deepens,

The tide comes in higher up to your knees.

Breathe it in and out.

Hold this project up so you can see it clearly,

Feel its warmth and expression.

This opportunity to shine.

Give it your gratitude.

See your smiling face,

Sun kissed,

Reflected back in this tiny sphere.

Remind yourself,

I choose my life's work.

I choose daily consistent action,

However small.

I choose my greatest expression,

My greatest contribution.

Look out at the sea,

At the sky.

Hold this project in your hand.

Feel the connection,

Set it down.

As you breathe in and out,

Notice connection between your immediate projects,

Something that's due over the next few weeks,

Something that's due over the next three months.

They all have aspects of your life's work.

As we settle into some silence,

Let's reflect upon what that is.

What's the common thread of your life's work that you'll carry out over the next couple days,

Weeks,

Months?

What is it?

That we são.

Settle deeper into your breaths.

As these three spheres begin to orbit around you,

The center of their universe,

Slowly.

How are these connected to your life's work,

Your singular mission here?

Everything else has fallen away.

Your urgent needs,

The mosquitoes that ruin the hunt for big game.

It's you and you alone with your three biggest,

Highest expression projects.

And all that matters is you come back to the real world today and is identifying the fewest,

Highest leverage activities that will move you towards completion.

Our completion is tied directly to the completion of our life's work.

We choose our life's work as it chooses us.

We choose consistent action,

However small.

We choose our greatest possible expression and contribution.

And as we begin to open our eyes,

Come back to waking life,

Carry with us this energy,

This focus,

This peace.

Reviews

Loved drawing in work rather than silencing it.

A interesting meditation, thank you 🤗🙏

Wow! What an incredible meditation. It offers so much clarity and grounding. Thank you. Wow!

Very valuable for focusing on what’s important. Love this meditation will use regularly. Thankyou.

This is amazing! Great workplace meditation.

Just what i need. Right time. Gracias

Epic, loved everything about it.

This led me to focus so much on my goals I completely forgot I was meditating and didn’t realize the session ended. I’ll put this in the win column.

Excellent meditation to become focused on the things that really need to be done. Embracing and allowing the tasks that have resistance.

Very inspiring. Thank you !

Amazing! I was able to meditate with such a deeply aware state, Thank you!
Cheryl
🧘‍♀️

This is like the clear light of self awareness.
Many many thanks for this soul guidance

Excellent combination of approaches, a practical application. Love it ❤️ thanks so much for doing your thing!

Excellent great focus on goals and priorities

This always helps me to break my ideas down into specific key projects. I use a notebook afterwards to clarify them. Thank you for this great visualisation tool! 🙌🏼

I have benefitted from every one of KC's meditations. I've bookmarked them all! Thank you.

That one can walk away with three action items to consider and therefore focus on is a gift. I see that the new client starting this week ties into the need to finish the online program in preparation for a weekend seminar in a years time. Thank you 🎁

Lovely Meditation.

One of my faves.

Last summer I took a vacation by myself for three days and listened to your meditation on creating your life's purpose. As a result i arrivied at a place of "knowing" that I had never experienced before in my life. This knowing was more clear than when I decided to go to law school and more clear than when I decided to start my own law practice, which was very successful last summer. This meditation, was the doorway through which I passed to begin my journey toward clarity and fulfillment of my life's purpose. I am now further along, on my journey and continue to listen to this meditation intermittently. I highly recommend this to all seekers of purpose. Enjoy. Thank you Kristoffer (Christ offer?). Namaste