How To Identify The Seven Stages Of Personal Purpose

How To Identify The Seven Stages Of Personal Purpose. Hello everyone, I hope you are well. In today’s post, I will be sharing a guest post from Kat Byles, Founder of the True Business School. For creative leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists and healers who want to do business differently. She will be sharing how recognising and following the seven stages of purpose and ways how they can help you create a roadmap for your life and career.

We are all born with a purpose. With your purpose placed at the heart of your life and work, you benefit from the clarity of focus and direction. Purpose empowers you, and decisions become easier. So how do you integrate your purpose into your life/career? Kat can share the seven stages of purpose (calling, receiving, articulating, aligning, embodying, leading, and evolution), recognise them, and use them to create a roadmap.

How To Identify The Seven Stages Of Personal Purpose

We all have a purpose. As unique as your fingerprint, it is held within your heart, your reason for being your north star. With your purpose placed at the heart of your life, you benefit from the clarity of focus and direction. On the occasions self-doubt creeps in, purpose empowers you. Decisions become easier as you choose the path aligned with the fulfilment of your purpose.

Your purpose doesn’t arrive one-day boom!’ fully formed, expressed, and embodied. There are recognisable stages to the growth and development of your purpose. These stages are not linear. You may experience more than one stage at a time, and some steps last longer than others. And when you become aware of the stage you are at, you have a map and can more easily participate in fulfilling your purpose.

Here Are The Seven Stages Of Purpose

Use these to create a roadmap. Take a look and decide where you are, and this will help you define the next steps you need to take towards your true purpose and passion.

Calling

You sense you have a bigger purpose than what is currently being expressed. There may be a sense of ‘something’ missing, a frustration, a sensation pulling you towards ‘something’ you can’t quite understand. It is led by a desire for more meaning, contribution, and impact.

Simon Haas, yoga philosopher and author of The Book of Dharma and Yoga and Dark Night of the Soul, shares that your purpose emerges naturally when you live your true nature.

This is echoed by Jill Ellis, former coach of the USA Women’s Soccer Team, sharing the experience of opening up to her team that she was married to Betsy Stephenson, a woman. Fully supported, the US women’s team campaigned for equal pay for women using the World Cup as their global platform. Jill said: “When I became open in who I was, I found my purpose there.”

When you experience a calling, practice bringing more of your true nature into your life every day, and as you do, your purpose is revealed to you.

Receive

As you follow your true nature, you receive a sense of your purpose. The more you receive, the clearer it becomes. At this stage, stay curious. Please don’t deny it or push it away. Embrace and begin to own your purpose.

Articulate

As you embrace your purpose, articulate it in a few simple words that inspire and resonate with your heart. The simpler, the better. For example, The Teen Yoga Foundation aims to empower young people through yoga so that there’s a generation of kids with self-esteem, resilience, and mental wellness. Maddy Cooper, the co-founder of Brilliant Noise, has the purpose of protecting the earth so that families have a bright future, with sustainable marketing for brands that mean it.

Align

Your purpose is clearly articulated. The next step is to align your decisions, actions, behaviours, products and services with your purpose. Let go of any aspects of your life that are not aligned with your purpose. This can take courage, but it is worth it.

Embody

As you make decisions aligned with your purpose, you shift from an intellectual understanding to your purpose becoming a tangible, living expression. The more you can appreciate the deep fulfilment, value, and impact your purpose brings, the more you grow.

Lead

As you grow in the embodiment of your true nature and purpose, you are now ‘walking your talk’. There is an evident dedication, integrity and unity, inspiring others. At this stage, as you communicate and share the wisdom of your experience openly and transparently, you become a recognised leader in your field.

Evolution

Your purpose, your north star, becomes an evolutionary force in your personal and business development. Taking you into the unknown, towards new frontiers. If you haven’t already, you are invited to surrender more deeply, let go of what wants to go, and allow what wants to come.

Katharine Woodward Thomas is the best-selling author of Calling in the One: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life. Katherine, a family and marriage counsellor, developed a pioneering metaphysical process to call in your love match. She used this process to call in her life partner at 42, and they had a child together. A leader in her field, she served thousands of people to create their love matches. She trained hundreds of ‘Calling in the One’ coaches, speaking at international symposiums with peers Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, and Neale Donald Walsh.

Then Katherine separated from her husband – Her One! She speaks candidly about the vulnerability of the separation from her husband and the exposure of a business built around Calling in the One.

Led by her Purpose

Led by her purpose, her north star, which she describes as ‘serving the thrust of love into the universe’, she was guided to separate with love and Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After became her second book. ‘This wasn’t the book I wanted to write!‘ she says. Conscious Uncoupling became a New York Times bestseller, helping thousands of couples to separate with love. She was made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, consciously uncoupling. While a traditional business may have folded with this development, Katherine, led by her purpose, her north star, stepped into a significant period of discovery, growth and evolution.

So, which stage do you most resonate with? And which stage do you want to invest your focus, energy and attention in next?

I hope you enjoyed that.

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ABOUT KAT BYLES

Kat Byles is the Founder of the True Business School for creative leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists and healers who want to do business differently. She works with people to find and align with their purpose and creativity to build a happy, healthy, wealthy business and world.

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