One of my favorite parts of coaching is working with clients on their Life Purpose.  I’m not generally a prodigal capitalizer, but somehow it seems as though working to help focus on and define the purpose of one’s life is big stuff.  Every now and then, it deserves the focus of Capital Letters. Some people take a while to come to a sense of what they want to be about in life.  It feels important, and they want to get their life purpose statement right.  Sometimes it takes some stumbling around and massaging of words for them to feel like they have something they can really remember and put to good use.  I believe pretty strongly that such statements need to be short and packed with solid nouns and a good action verb, not too many adjectives or adverbs.  What’s important is that the person know what it means to them and how it informs their living, not whether it makes sense to anyone else.  It may take a session or two, but we generally come to something the client … Continue reading →