One of the gifts that the full moon gives us is an overwhelming desire to come alive. Whether that’s bringing a passion front and center or finally making the decision to take a giant leap forward with something that we’ve been holding close to our vest – the timing just feels right.

Imagine driving through a fast food window and placing an order – only this time the menu lists the one thing that you’ve been contemplating for quite some time. Perhaps it’s that book you’ve been working on for eons, but keep finding yourself facing one creative block after another. Or maybe it’s that business that you’ve been wanting to start, but you haven’t yet gotten the courage to just go for it. Whatever it is – it’s on the menu right now. And the clerk (who happens to be representing the positive energies of the universe) says, “What can I get for you today?”

This is your moment. Will you order it? Will you tell the universe, “Yes, this is the right time for me. I’ll take it.”

Then the clerk says, “Would you like to super-size that?”

With the full moon on our side, it’s a perfect time to say, “Heck yeah!”

Whenever the moon is in the full moon phase, her energies are incredibly powerful. With her light beaming brightly from the sky, she showers the earth with the capacity to forge ahead. Projects and endeavors that are began during a full moon carry a special passion and energy that is unmatched during any other moon cycle.

What is it that you want more than anything? Take a gamble on it during a full moon phase and you may find yourself being pleasantly surprised with the outcome.
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Tina M. Games is the author of Journaling by the Moonlight: A Mother’s Path to Self-Discovery (an interactive book with an accompanying deck of 54 journaling prompt cards). As a certified creativity coach and life purpose intuitive, she is the “Moonlight Muse” for women who want to tap into the “full moon within” and claim their authentic self, both personally and professionally. Through her signature coaching program, based on the phases of the moon, Tina gently guides women from darkness to light as they create an authentic vision filled with purpose, passion and creative expression. www.TinaMGames.com

So, despite my tendency to shy away from YouTube videos that last longer than 15-minutes, I decided to give this one a try.  I’m very thankful that I did for it has helped open a channel of thinking that I’ve been unconsciously (and sometime consciously) avoiding for too long.  I think I can best articulate it with a question that emerged as I watched the video:

What is the possibility of politics taken from a spiritually based Life On Purpose Perspective?

More on that in the coming days, weeks and months.  For now, let me just share my insight that has prompted this exploration.  In today’s time, politics is simply too important and has too much of a impact on everyone’s life to continue to ignore it, or for me personally to stick my head in the sand about it. As Marianne points out in the video, it’s time — maybe well past time — for a major course correction.  The Occupy Wall Street Movement is such a course correction. One that I intend to explore from the Life On Purpose Perspective, including creating the distinction of Purposeful Politics.

So, please, give the video a try. Watch and listen to the first 15-minutes and if you find something resonating with your soul and spirit, watch the rest of it as well. Then, let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below. What do you think of the Occupy Wall Street Movement? Do you consider yourself part of the Movement? Is it helping or hindering our country? What major points from the video resonated with you?

You can download the article, Marianne Williamson Article.

I have been searching for my life purpose all of my life…I am now almost 56 years old and have about 10 more years to work before I imagine I will retire. I have been very blessed in my work life in that I have “fallen” into jobs where i have been able to excel but none of them have really been my passion.

I have tried so many programs,classes, therapies and conferences throughout my life to find my “life On purpose” and I am no closer now then I was when I was in college in my 20′s.

Can you tell me what is different in your approach that will help move me in the right direction?

I’m sure I’m not the only person you’ve heard from that has had the same experience as myself (hopefully).

So, I decided a couple short videos were the best way to respond, so here they are:

And here’s an example taken from my own life:

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The first family lived in a beautiful house finely furnished and well kept. The angels knocked on the door and asked if they could have accommodations for the night. The man of the household said there was nothing available in the house but they could stay in the shed out back. So the angels spent the night in the shed on dusty unclean floors. Upon waking and getting ready to leave the older angel left an offering of thanks for the people who had allowed them to stay for the night.

The younger angel asked “What are you doing? These people only offered this old shed when they had a house full of unused bedrooms and they did not offer one. Why leave them a gift?”

To which the older angel answered “All is not as it seems.”

The next night the angels came to an old farmhouse. They asked the elderly couple who owned the farm if they could stay for the night. The couple graciously invited them into the house fed them supper and gave them their personal bed while they slept on the floor of their living room because “Farmers need to be up early to care for their livestock and farm.” When the angels arose the next morning they found the couple at the breakfast table sad and grieving. When the younger angel inquired as to what had happened. The old farmer replied that their only cow had died during the night and now they did not know how they would make it.

This made the younger angel angry and when the two angels left, the younger angel asked the older angel “How could you possibly allow that to happen? Their only cow! Especially when the rich people in town had not been kind to us and you left them with a present. I don’t understand how you could do such a thing?”

To which the older angel said “All is not as it appears. You see the rich couple we met yesterday are about to lose everything. It was the last night they would spend in the house and they did not know it. As for the older couple the angel of death came last night to take the farmer’s wife but I convinced the angel of death to take the cow instead of his wife. So you see all is not at it seems.”

Reflecting on this story made me think of the Law of Allowing. The younger angel was learning the lesson of the Law of Allowing which is allowing things to be as they are because we don’t or can’t see the bigger picture. There is a mystery to life, one in which we can’t possibly know the full picture. I know I struggle with the Law of Allowing. Does it mean I just give up and not care? Does it mean to stand by and just let bad things happen if I can do something to help? No, I don’t think so. At the same time I am limited to what I can do and what I know of the complete picture.

As I continued to meditate I became aware of a new perspective. The Law of Allowing means allowing things to be just as they are WITHOUT JUDGMENT – not just as they are with regret or upset or anger. This is hard. I am like the younger angel thinking so many things are unfair and unkind. How can this or that have happened?

I must confess I often feel helpless as if I can’t make a difference. What if my job is to STOP passing judgment as though I can see EVERYTHING and UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING and therefore know best solution? My job is to do the best I can with the knowledge I have in the moment. You see if I think something is unfair like the farmer loosing his cow when it could have been his loving wife of 50 years, then I’m judging wrongly. Loosing the cow is not as it seems. The Law of Allowing is much more than just letting things be as they are. It means not being attached or upset with any particular outcome. It means not thinking anything is wrong to start with or to start catching the “wrong” thinking and letting it go.

Many times I think it is our job to do the best we can with the information we have. And here comes the hard part. TRUST! Trust there is a Higher Power at work. Trust all is not as it seems. Trust that doing the best I can in the moment is enough. TRUST in the Divine. TRUST that All is not as it seems.

Where are you making judgments based on your limited point of view? Where are you not trusting? What would life be like if you allowed it to be just as it is? Ponder that today — maybe even this week and let me know what you learn. I would love to hear your insights as well.

One way to relate to money that I have found to be particularly powerful and fun to engage in is to view money as energy.  This isn’t all that hard to understand or try on since everything in our physical universe, including money, is energy.

But do we really relate to money in this fashion?  When I look at the world and the amount of suffering and struggling I see, much of it around money, I fear we rarely realize or truly relate to money as a form that energy takes.  If we did, we’d realize that money as energy is readily convertible and that other forms of energy, such as our talents and skills can be easily converted to money as well.

As my wife and I have begun to ‘purposefully play’ with this idea that money is one form the energy of the universe takes, we’ve found some interesting ways to attract more of this form of energy to us.  One of my favorite is blessing the flow of money into and out of our life.  Now, I know for many reading this the idea of blessing money into our life is fairly easy, but why bless it out of our life?  Aren’t we supposed to hold onto it?  Isn’t that the way to become rich.  Well, maybe yes, maybe no.

When we realize that money is really energy then we can begin to see that there is a natural flow of all energy.  In fact, it’s when there isn’t this natural flow in and out that we get into trouble.  For example, try out this simple exercise to illustrate the point.

Relax and begin to breath in.  When your lungs appear to be full, continue to breath in, and then again and again.  It won’t take long before you realize the blessed gift of exhaling!

What if the same is true of money?  Wouldn’t it make sense to bless the outflow of money which then makes room for the inflow of new money.  Why not try it and see what effect it has to bless this natural flow rather than to fear or curse it?  Here’s what we’ve been doing to assist us in relating to money in this energy flowing way.

Each month we print out a blessing that we then read to ourselves before adding them to our mailing of checks out of our business and our personal account.  We include this blessing with each check we send out.  Here’s an example:

Thank you for the role you and your company have played in allowing us — the Swift Family — to live and express our life purpose.  Your service allows Life On Purpose Institute to fulfill its vision of a world in which all people live purposeful, passionate and prosperous lives of service; lives of mindful abundance and simplicity, and spiritual serenity.
Bless you!

Ann, Brad and Amber Swift

Imagine what the response must be at the other end when these bills are open.  But more importantly, it has us be mindful and attentive to the rich abundant flow of God’s green energy of money.

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Living on Purpose Means Finding Your Way Back To Your Inner Child

Throughout her life, there have been many times when Faith M. Davis, owner of Enchant ~ Designs for the Soul, asked herself when she would ever figure out what she was meant to do with her life. One day, it all fell into place…

Isn’t it funny how we often come full circle in our lives, realizing as an adult that we are meant to do what we started out doing as a child? There is so much wisdom in childhood – that time in a person’s life should be honored and called upon, because childhood is when we express our true, uninhibited self. Unfortunately, we usually let that go as we enter adulthood, thinking, “What did I know? I was only a child.”

Faith found her inner child

As a child, Faith knew what she was meant to do. Her love for paper, art, writing and helping people brighten their day was her reason for opening a gift shop in her house at the age of 10. She made her own products and marketed them to the neighborhood by handing out handmade newsletters and samples. She created a catalog of handmade holiday cards to sell for 50¢ apiece, took orders and produced and sold over $300 in cards that first year.

As an adult, she struggled with where to put her talents to work. Graduating college with a degree in fashion design and then pursuing numerous other careers in waitressing, account management, life coaching and sales and marketing, she felt like a floundering child when she “should” have felt like an adult who had it all together.
Then she was brought back to what she did as a child, and it all became clear, and to top that off, it seemed that everything she had done throughout her life actually did make sense because it helped her gain additional skills to turn her childhood dream into a successful reality

Faith now creates inspirational artwork and quotes, which she turns into functional art by reproducing them onto paper products such as journals, note cards, bookmarks and wall hangings. She has discovered that her mission is to provide “Art, words and wisdom to inspire your inner journey.” Her goal is to not only sell her products to people, but to also provide them with a means to use the products to transform their lives. That is why she offers a free “Inspire Your Inner Journey” program along with her products. To browse her work and sign up for her free program, visit: www.enchantgifts.com .

Note from Brad:  Faith’s journals are beautiful.  I’m using one myself for capturing my creative ideas.  They get a two thumbs up from me.

A Purpose Practice is an activity in which you engage on a regular basis to keep yourself present and aware of your life purpose. You can think of a Purpose Practice much like a spiritual practice. Many people have regular spiritual practices that help them to stay aware of their relationship with God or a higher power.

Polishing Your Life to Stay On Purpose

Some examples of a spiritual practice include:

•    Reading spiritual material each day
•    Saying a blessing before meals
•    Attending a spiritual service once or more each week
•    Saying a prayer as you drift off to sleep
•    Meditating regularly

Let’s look at one of these in a bit more depth. Many people say a blessing before each meal, with the intention of being more aware of the bountiful resources they receive from God. But what often happens to these daily blessings? For many people this spiritual practice often devolves into habit. What’s the difference between a practice and a habit? They are both something you do on a regular basis over time. However, a habit is usually done automatically without increasing your awareness of anything, while a practice increases your awareness.
Of course, there are good habits and there are bad habits. I have the habit of brushing my teeth each morning, and while I consider that a good habit, it doesn’t really raise my consciousness about anything. In fact, it is not unusual for me to not remember whether I’ve brushed my teeth—it’s done that automatically.
A classic example of a blessing that is often recited automatically would be:

Good food, good meat, good God, let’s eat.

When we say a blessing automatically in this way, it does little or nothing to increase our awareness of God or the abundance all around us. The same can happen with a Purpose Practice. In the beginning, it may be very inspiring to you, and that’s what you want. Yet over days, weeks, and months it is important to stay vigilant so that the practice doesn’t devolve into a habit. Here is another Purposeful Paradox: while it is a good idea to develop the habit of a daily Purpose Practice, you do not want the practice itself to become something you do automatically, without being mindful and aware.

As we will learn in the exercise at the end of this chapter, Creating Powerful Purpose Practices and Ponderings, it is important that your Purpose Practice be something that fits naturally into your daily routine. If it is too difficult to do, most people simply won’t maintain it on a regular basis. Remember, you want to develop a habit of doing your Purpose Practice each day without letting the actual practicing of it devolve into a mindless exercise. Here are some examples of powerful Purpose Practices others have created:

One of my clients, a very successful real estate investor, loves long-distance running. Since he runs five to six times per week, he decided to incorporate his Purpose Practice into his running regimen. Each time he runs he waits until he gets into the “running zone,” then he begins to recite his Life Purpose Statement to himself, often out loud. He says it not only keeps his life purpose alive and well, but also enhances his running experience.

Another client loves to sing in the shower. Since showering is a part of her daily routine, she created a song out of her Life Purpose Statement—so she can sing about her life purpose as she showers.
A third client has a small dog who needs to be walked at least three times each day. She uses her time exercising her dog to also recite and to ponder her life purpose not just once a day, but three times.

This post was excerpted from Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life, an award winning finalist in the Self-Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News

Where's Your Purposeful Place

From time to time you may find that you have drifted far from your life purpose. Sometimes life knocks you for a loop and you find yourself so far off the Purposeful Path that you may feel lost and alone. When this happens, you may find the regular daily practices, ponderings, and prayers insufficient to restore you to a course true to your purpose. When this happens to me I have a Purposeful Place in reserve. This is a special place that I have designated especially for those occasions when I can’t seem to restore myself completely without a little extra effort.

The name of my place is Jump Off Rock. It is in a beautiful mountain setting with amazing views, and on a clear day you can see for hundreds of miles that take in three different states. I find it to be a very nurturing and spiritual place. It even has several walking trials, with winding paths through the mountain laurels and rhododendrons that populate the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. I find myself going there on some occasions just for the pure joy of it. At the same time, the most special times are when I really need to get closer to God.

I think part of the reason this Purposeful Place is so effective in restoring me to a Life on Purpose is because I have set it up that way. I have made a pledge to myself that if I need to go there to restore myself, I will not leave the mountain until I have accomplished my intention. Luckily, so far I have not had to spend the night at Jump Off Rock. I am usually able to get back in touch with who I really am within an hour or less. By that time I have had a good long talk with God, I have released the fear and self-doubt that may have been shaping my experience of life, and I can enjoy the ride back home.

I encourage you to designate your own Purposeful Place and keep it in reserve for those occasions when you have been knocked off purpose and need some further assistance in restoring yourself.

This post was excerpted from Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life, an award winning finalist in the Self-Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News