When I ask myself what issue most of my clients and listeners are facing, it’s just that: lack of clarity. So many of us lack a clear purpose.

The key principles of the Sacred Six process are clarity, focus, consistency, and prioritization.

Knowing your mission is only one part of the alignment equation. The other driving force is what you value. As you consider what you are moving toward, you need to ask yourself, What are my values? What is important to me?

Alignment is both the culmination of the process—a result of your mission, values, and goals working together to take you to your dreams—and the state of mind in which to begin the journey. Understanding the way alignment works is the key to the process.

One of the key steps toward living the life of your dreams is to identify your mission—your purpose, or what is driving you at this moment. A mission can be as lofty and overarching as finding a cure for cancer or as intimate as communicating better with your kids.

Whatever your mission, the point is that it calls you to slow down and identify your real purpose. What are you moving toward? It took me a while to grasp the importance of that question.