Laughing Women

Ann Swift
Phone: 828-697-0057
Email: ann@lifeonpurpose.com
Web site: www.lifeonpurpose.com  Are we a good match?
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Learn more about me through my Angel Ann’s Musings (Blog Articles)

If you are a smart, normally confident woman over 40 living a fast paced, out-of-control life that’s stifling your creativity & desire to make a difference — we need to talk.

You may have lost touch with your creative, spiritual side, and recognize change is on its way whether by choice or by circumstance. In fact, you may be in the midst of some significant changes already. While you have lived enough life to know this isn’t going to last forever, you are looking for a way to move through these issues smoothly with harmony and grace.

You are compassionate and caring toward the people in your life and you enjoy being of service and making a difference. Yet, lately with all the changes, you feel thwarted and ineffective. You know you are a spiritual individual and you are interested in deepening this important part of your life.

You have reached a point in life from dealing with the chaos life has thrust upon you that you are left asking yourself “Is this all there is to life? Isn’t there something more? What do I do with myself now?”

You may find yourself dealing with some major changes in your life like:

• the end of a job you dearly loved,
• the end of a significant relationship,
• a change in the family structure such as all your children have left home or a mother or in-law has moved in, changing the family dynamics, or
• it can be the death of a dream that you were sure you would get to someday and now as you face reality, you are clear that dream will never come to pass.

When What’s Worked in the Past Isn’t Working Now

You have tried all the typical solutions that have always worked in the past but they aren’t working this time. Working harder and longer is not producing the results you were looking for and has left you drained and worn out, making it that much harder to focus. Talking to friends who are sympathetic and concerned leaves you only more drained and confused.

The social functions you’ve enjoyed attending in the past leave you feeling awkward and out of place, so you go along pretending that nothing has changed but knowing deep inside that everything has. Your attempts to sweep the problem under the rug by ignoring it and pretending everything is okay only serves to drive the pain that much deeper, leading to an overwhelming feeling of being stuck and even resigned – the ultimate condition of being stuck.

You may feel like a dog chasing its tail. You’re ready to move ahead in your life but you feel like you’re just running in circles.

These typical ways of dealing with issues don’t work anymore because you aren’t the same person you used to be. When you aren’t asking the right question you can’t get the right answers because they don’t get to the heart of the matter.

Shifting from Outer to Inner Solutions

Dealing with external situations that affect us internally and then expecting to solve the internal issue from the external world never works. These problems have to be dealt with from an internal perspective, and it often helps to work with someone who understands the inner landscape of another person and the importance of healing old wounds that can keep you stuck in life — someone who has gone through many of these issues and come out on the other side.

As a life coach with over twenty years of professional experience, I help my clients reduce stress from such changes in life, by helping them face the truth of their present situation, and then find ways to deal with the changes in effective and life enhancing ways.

The situation moves from being a problem to an opportunity for personal growth and development. As this opportunity opens up we explore and develop new ways of catching these types of situations before they become hard to handle and then custom fit the tools to fit you and your life, resulting in a deeply satisfying and fulfilling life.

As a coach, one of my strongest gifts to my clients is listening deeply and compassionately and then asking the right questions. I also teach my clients skills in self-reflection that gets to the root of the matter with a minimum amount of pain. I’ll work with you to develop the best communication skills possible so that you are able to speak to the people in your life in such a way that they understand who you are, what you are going through and how they can assist you or leave you to your own devices.

In the area of spirituality I bring my studies and work with angels to help my clients. Having been interested in angels for my entire life, I bring a deep respect and honor for what is important to each of us in our spiritual life. I am not here to tell you what to believe but to offer new perspectives and questions to help you sort out what is true for you and what you want for yourself.

Magic with the Right Match

From my years of coaching I’ve learned that the best results are achieved for my clients when we establish up front that we’re a good fit for each other, which is why I offer a no obligation, no cost coaching consultation during which we will determine whether:

• The coaching model I offer is the best fit for you,
• You and I would work well together, and
• You are the kind of client that I would work well with and could provide high value.

The next step to help you determine if our working together is in your future is to request a no obligation coaching consultation by clicking here.

Of if you’re ready to talk now, give me a call at (828) 697-0057 (between the hours of 9 am and 6 pm eastern time please). Sometimes, you just know when Divine Spirit is trying to connect two people together. Call and let’s talk.

Start Your Journey to a Life You Love

I believe you will find completing the Coaching Questionnaire to be an enlightening experience as it will help you focus on what matters most in your life as well as helping prepare me for our Initial Coaching Consultation.  The two purposes of the consultation is:

  • To add value to your life for the pure joy of it, and
  • To determine if we’d be a good match in a coaching relationship

Complete the Coaching Questionnaire Here.

 

 

What Can You Control? (Blog Post for All Control Freaks)

My twenty-year old daughter, Amber, is a self-proclaimed “control freak.” She shared with me the other day how challenging it is for her to be in a situation where she doesn’t feel like she can control what’s happening. I realized that many of us experience a similar challenge. A few days later, Amber awoke to…

Being coached by Brad  through the Life on Purpose process has truly been life-changing. Not only did he help me to gain crystal clarity about my life purpose, he helped me to uncover what had been holding me back for much of my life. Through the coaching, I became clear about what was the next step that I wanted to take in my life.

My life has gotten better in many ways as a result of the coaching: the major anxiety that I experienced around my work is a thing of the past – I learned why I was experiencing this anxiety, and then how to overcome it and I can’t believe how effective it was.

I have been able to establish a habit of taking daily time for myself to reconnect with what’s truly important – this is something that I had tried and failed to do for 10 years beforehand, so I am so happy to have been able to achieve this.

I have been experiencing so many more feelings of joy, happiness and abundance since the programme, and life is just so much better. From Jonathan Dudley — a 30 year old IT Professional (turning Life Coach).

“I had always felt like I was not living up to my potential and that there was something more to life- something more I “should be doing”. What I discovered was that what I thought my life purpose was actually my parents/culture’s idea of what I should be- not mine! This was transformational and allowed me to finally decide for myself, based on my own passions, my true purpose. My Divine Purpose is now conscious and drives all decisions and choices I make in my everyday life.” Julie Chapman after clarifying her life purpose through the On Purpose Program at her spiritual center.

“I am just so delighted with everything you, this course, and the Life on Purpose Institute has given/provided to me.  Thank you, SO very, very much.

I have finished working through your book. It has been a very enjoyable and revealing process. My life on purpose is a life of freedom rooted in wholeness, beauty, truth, order and love. A life of worship, inspired action and full self-expression.

I was especially excited when you spoke about the Purposeful Project.  Wow, what a great idea!  How to get people out in the world being their true, serviceful selves.  I say serviceful because I have an inkling that even if someone doesn’t consider their life purpose to be one of service, or see that as a value of theirs, I don’t see how anyone couldn’t be of service to the world if they are living their purpose out loud.” Peggy Vervalin who clarified her life purpose in Living the Fulfilled Life teleclass.

Immediately I got my final wording sorted it ‘clicked’ it fits like a glove. I have such clarity, it has been great for examining my behaviors and how I relate to others, and for helping me to make quality decisions. I had so many synchronicities in the following days after clarifying my life purpose and continue to do so. A sure sign that I am on my path and that is very fulfilling, even without taking into account my planned purpose projects.

My self-esteem has received a huge boost. I am delighted that I committed and persevered. And one of the lessons God has been bringing to my attention is that ‘commitment and perseverance bring their own reward, a reward that can come no other way’. Which will stand me in good stead as I live out this purpose.

I look at my life purpose and it is truly the essence of me, and the essence of the possibilities I see for others and the world we live in.” Jayne from the United Kingdom

I’m Jude Eastman in Virginia.  I’m a reading specialist and teacher.  I’m also a life and soul coachJudeeastman.

My original Life on Purpose work in 2006-2007 helped me figure out who I was and wanted to BE after losing my parents and my marriage.  I am happy to say that I realized I am  the only one who has the power to decide my place in the world or my worth and I’m pretty dog gone priceless!  After that I soared -completing a master degree, taking a new job position in my teaching career, and completing coach training.

Recently I was ready to push forward in my second profession as a coach.  The Staying on Purpose group helped me accomplish what I’ve been talking about for three years!  I now have my first coaching workshop on the books, conducted a conference call, picked up some new technology skills.  I found out that doing new things doesn’t have to be stressful, but can be fun and I’m in control of that!

Thanks Brad for keeping me motivated and accountable  in such a heart felt way that was both challenging and safe at the same time!