Discovering & Developing Your Life’s Purpose

By Debbie Allen, All Rights Reserved

How are you best utilizing your talents, knowledge and creative wisdom to inspire and help others?  This is an especially good time of year to be thankful for your gifts and talents you posses.  It is time to reflect and refocus your energies to making a real difference on this planet. 

Why are you here? 

I discovered that I am a leader and an inspirational teacher. At first I didn't really accept myself as a teacher. I knew I was a speaker and a writer, but I hadn’t really realized that being a teacher was my purpose and that's what I was put on this earth to do. Now I know that my passion has really been discovered, and that's what I will continue to do for the rest of my life. 

What series of events led to my discovery?

I am passionate about speaking and teaching people how to have successful businesses. I’ve been doing this for twelve years, seven of those years full-time. Yet it only became clear that this was my life’s purpose in December of last year.  I attended a breakthrough workshop with a mentor for two days, and it just hit me like a lightening bolt, “This is what I was put on the earth for.” The reason I had been doing all these other things in my life, such as building and selling businesses was to get the expertise and the knowledge to do what I was really put on this earth to do, which is to teach others.

Now my teachings are not just about business, they include inspiration for personal growth and development as well.  My presentations deal with mental belief systems and inner work. I discovered that teaching in this way is really my true gift. Others now receive my message from multiple angles and it is such a blessing!

I was innately transitioning into that type of work, but I didn’t completely realize it until I refocused my life’s intentions.  Before my discovery, there was something missing for me, something I needed to be more passionate about.

How to discover your life’s purpose 

You cannot fully be of service to other people until you are of service to yourself, and the only way to be of service to yourself is to be true to yourself and never settle for less than you deserve.

Never stop learning and expanding personally. Be a life-long student, not just a student of what you think you have to learn in your industry.  Become a life-long student learning more about YOU. 

When you work on yourself inwardly, emotionally and psychologically, along with continually learning new business skills, that’s when you really become a true master. That’s when you become the best that you can be.    

“Strive to be your best at and then share your gifts and talents in the service of others.”               

 

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Bio: Debbie Allen is one of the world’s leading authorities on sales and marketing.  She is the author of five books including Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters and Skyrocketing Sales.  Debbie has helped thousands of people around the world attract customers like crazy with her innovative, no-cost marketing strategies and secrets to sales success.  Her expertise has been featured in Entrepreneur, Selling Power and Sales & Marketing Excellence.  Sign up for her FREE 6-week e-Course Business Success Secrets Revealed ($100 value) and take the online business card quiz to rate you marketing online now at www.DebbieAllen.com.