Thriving On Purpose Through Wellness Principles

This lesson outlines what purpose is and all of the many benefits that a purposeful life includes. Author Po Bronson interviewed hundreds of people searching for their purpose and found one key barrier. We will explain this obstacle and give you the tools to address it right here in Lesson One. This will give you a big jumpstart right from the beginning.

In Lesson 2, we talk about where to find purpose and how to overcome barriers that can trip us up. Here are the three things that we look for when exploring our path to purpose. We need to look for what we are good at, what we love to do and what the world needs. As we go through this course, we are going to be planting a lot of seeds that we want to have grow. For them to really flourish, let’s make sure that they have fertile ground. Part of that preparation is pulling up weeds and the very worst weeds – it’s like the crab grass of life – is negative self-talk. In Lesson 2, we will walk through the biggest self-limiting thoughts around purpose and give you the tools to address them.

Understanding our strengths is foundational to discovering our purpose. In this lesson, we will come to understand how our brains are naturally wired to focus on our weaknesses and where to go to get a scientifically validated assessment of our strengths. We will then explore what these strengths mean and how to leverage them during important or challenging situations.

This course is all about helping you embrace a more meaningful way of living by connecting more deeply to what matters most to you. And the likelihood is, the changes you embrace will push you out of your comfort zone. In this lesson, we will talk about a concept called self-perception theory, which will help us increase our confidence, leaving us better positioned to step into our new reality.

In this lesson, we connect with times we have thrived in our lives and dig into how we can bring more of these experiences into our future. We will explore times in our past when we were thriving, learn about ways to create fertile ground for the state of flow, and understand something called appreciative inquiry.

Get ready to dream big. This lesson will encourage you to believe in your ability to live a magnificent life, perfectly suited to you. To do this, we will imagine our Fantastic Future and better understand the incredible power of visualization, so that you can learn what approaches work and what visualization tactics aren't helpful.

This lesson talks about how purpose doesn’t need to be heroic in order to be powerful. Stanford Professor Bill Damon, one of the top thought leaders on purpose, says “Noble purposes may be found in the day-to-day fabric of ordinary existence.” However you would like to positively impact the world, this is your invitation to envision how this desire to make a difference might inspire your purpose.

This lesson talks about the foundational components of happiness. We will work on defining our authentic versions of success, and use all of the knowledge we have built up so far to start to fill out the three critical areas that will inform what our purpose might be.

We have the foundation for a deeper understanding of our purpose in place. Now it is time to put the pieces together. First, we brainstorm on what our purpose is and see if there is one that feels more resonant and true to our heart and soul. Next, we start building out our Authentic Action Roadmap. This is how we will make our purpose live and breathe in our lives.

In this last amazing lesson, we finish crafting our Authentic Action Roadmap, understand how incremental effort moves us steadily towards the life of dreams, and learn about the things that will keep us fueled up and moving forward in the new incredible lives we want to live.