THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

Positive expression manifests as inspiring, enthusiastic, constructive, uplifting communication, such as speaking, singing, acting, music, writing, or expressing through other arts.

Observe how houses and skyscrapers are built from the ground up, a little at a time. Consider how much energy and planning it takes. What does this say about how to accomplish anything in life?

Families, corporations, or empires rise or fall based on the quality and level of cooperation and responsibility within their boundaries. At the individual level, our own effective functioning

When we’re dishonest in any way, with ourselves or with others, intentionally or not, our internal parts fight one another and our inner sense of spirit or inspiration fades; we feel cut off and alone, and we attract whatever lessons we need to learn.

Recognize that dramatic or heroic gestures, such as extreme effort for a brief time, don’t usually avail in terms of long-term goals. Decide whether you’re willing to follow the path from here to where you want to go.

The Law of Patterns is important for anyone who tends to break resolutions repeatedly or who has a pattern of incompletions or repeated failures (such as three or four marriages, or quitting smoking five times). Any

What we expect tends to appear in our life. If we see ourselves as a lucky person, we sort for or notice incidents supporting this expectation. The same would apply to an expectation that we’re unlucky. To paraphrase Goethe, we could say that self-concept

We also need to trust the intuitive messages from our subconscious, which may choose experiences or attract people into our life with results that we don’t consciously want but may need for our highest good and learning.

The higher our ideals, the more prone we become to self-judgments. We feel the pressure of our ideals and the constant need to prove and improve ourselves, fearful of falling short, of not meeting our own standards. Ironically, those of us with the highest