The most wonderful thing about writing this blog is that what I knew about a topic at the beginning of the week evolves into a whole new understanding at the end of the week. This week I have really enjoyed having all my beliefs and understandings about passion and purpose challenged. I have read about [...]
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Passion as a gentle journey
Posted in Purpose and passion, tagged passion, relax you are already perfect on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Road Not Taken
Posted in Purpose and passion on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some of you may have read Robert Frost’s ‘The road not taken’ at school. It speaks volumes about purpose and passion – and the choices that come with them. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And [...]
How others see passion and purpose
Posted in Purpose and passion, tagged purpose in life on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I went to lunch with a group of gorgeous ladies, all of them expats. As we sat talking, I decided to do a little research about how others see passion and purpose and what these things meant to them in their lives. Barb, Benedicte, Kjersti and Cindy hail from different parts of the United [...]
Next steps
Posted in Purpose and passion, tagged Finding your purpose, passion on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Passion – check, purpose – check, what now? Some people are born knowing their purpose and others find it when they are nearing the end of their lives. The rest of us stumble upon it somewhere in-between and then are faced with how to express it. Relax. It took you this long to get here [...]
And then there was passion
Posted in Purpose and passion on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When my daughter visited me a few weeks ago we spent a lot of time visiting zoos and observing animals. We went to places I have never been to before, and saw things I had never seen in places I had been. That’s because a) she was looking for them, and b) she is passionate [...]
So what if I don’t have a purpose?
Posted in Purpose and passion, tagged life purpose, purpose on March 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The age old question of ‘Why am I here?’ is intended to help us to figure out the meaning of life. ‘All very easy for you to say,’ – says you – ‘But what if I don’t have a purpose and am not here to save the world?’ No bonus points for realizing that not [...]
Purpose and passion
Posted in Purpose and passion, tagged passion, purpose on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I belong to an internet Expat Coaching Group and a member posed this question last week ‘What does an expat need to stay?’ Answers included a job, and enough money and many other things, however I believe expat spouses need both purpose and passion outside the family or marriage. You can have all the money, [...]
