DISCOVERING YOUR OWN BEACON

We humans were not designed to sit back and be idle. We are wired to push ourselves to do things of great significance. Steve Jobs made this point in a commencement speech he delivered at Stanford in 2005:

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

(“‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says.”
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005.)

Goals are what will give you direction as you encounter the fog and darkness that is so much a part of life. Catalyzing statements are what will provide you motivation and fuel as you pursue your beacon in the fog.

To help you identify your beacons in the fog and your attendant catalyzing statements, I want you to complete the following model that Garrett Gunderson has developed (and which I use with his permission). As you work through it, you will find those goals that are unique to you and that will motivate you in ways you might have thought impossible.

First complete the Soul Purpose Finder on page 54. Then review your answers while looking for trends and similarities. Evaluate which talents, passions, activities, and/or interests appeared more than once and then circle them. You will then take those and enter them on the spokes of your Soul Purpose Wheel below. A wheel signifies motion, and that’s exactly what you want to do with the components of your Soul Purpose; you want to put them in motion.

THE SOUL PURPOSE STAIRWAY

This model is intended to help you identify, simplify, and evaluate how to get on target! Elevate your Soul Purpose.

(Gunderson, Garrett. Soul Purpose Activator Guide, Freedom FastTrack Financial, 2011.)