Designed for Life

Your lifework is embodied in your soul:

What you want to do ( your intention )
How you want to do it ( the power you need)
Why you want to do it ( the outcome you seek)

So, how does your soul reveal what you're all about?

When you do something especially well that you love doing, you are expressing your lifework. In other words, what you are doing, how you are doing it, and why you are doing it reveals your lifework.

From your early childhood to now fifty years later you were always building things, or fixing what was broken, or excelling in everything you did, or helping people in need, or in the spotlight, or making a buck, or overcoming difficulty, or making everybody want to vote for you, or starting and running a profitable business, or planning big events, or leading groups in the wilderness, or writing-always writing, or counselling people in need, or exploring over the next hill, or acquiring marbles, stamps, houses and businesses, or digging deeper to find the answers, or planning the next 20 years of somebody's life, or preparing and serving sumptious meals nobody had ever tasted before, or prevailing against the bad guys, or advocating causes and missions ..... and the like.

Why this conclusion is so rational is because you repeat the same pattern throughout your life whenever you do something especially well that you love doing. That achievement can be accomplished in a day or through months of driven effort. Whether you are five years old and have figured out how to damn up a small stream involves essentially the same pattern as thirty years later when you are figuring out how deeply to sink pilings in support of a waterfront hotel and then building it.

Both are expressions of your lifework. As you mature, the pattern involves greater complexity, knowledge and responsibility, but the essential ways you proceed, the competencies and motivations exercised are identical. You will experience many achievements during your childhood, youth, early-middle-and late adult working years, and on into retirement. Each reveals your lifework.

It is only when you are engaged in your lifework (whether at age 10, 30, 50 or 80) that you find your effort both meaningful and fulfilling. It is only when you are engaged in your lifework that you can produce outstanding service or results Throughout the years, that scenario of what, how and why you do the things you are drawn to will be repeated, again and again and again seeking the delight and satisfaction of a job well done, your way.

What's LifeWork?