Values and Purpose | LAYC55

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Hello.

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I'm curious...

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If I walked up to you at a social event and I said...

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Hi...

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What's your purpose?

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How would you feel about that?

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Would you feel a little uncomfortable?

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Maybe....

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Would you feel a little annoyed with me?

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Understandable, because that's how I'm feeling right now.

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I'm uncomfortable and annoyed with me too.

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I've been looking myself in the mirror and asking lately...

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What's your purpose?

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If you've been listening to this podcast for a little bit, you'll know

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that I've been on this journey...

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My journey through womanhood wonderland and evolution...

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Evolving into the next me....

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trying to figure that out.

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It's appropriate, right?

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I wrote the book, "Who am I Now?"

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But for goodness sakes...

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I didn't realize that I was gonna have to keep asking myself that

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at the time I chose that title.

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On the other hand...

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That is better than the alternative...

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Because if I am not changing and growing...

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Then I am dying, decaying, diminishing in many ways.

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And yes, I do get a little tired of me, always wanting to

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stretch, grow, investigate, learn.

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But not for very long, because I realized it's a gift.

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It's really a gift to be healthy, and curious, and

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have this opportunity to go...

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Okay, maybe I haven't done it all yet.

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Maybe this isn't all there is to me, to my life story, to my legacy.

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And so with your help...

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I'd like to continue on this exploration and investigation of Who Am I Now?

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And just what the heck is my next mission in life?

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What is my purpose?

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And I think I'm getting closer to it, but I know for certain,

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I don't have it all figured out.

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Maybe, that's the irony of a life of evolution...

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Is that it's constantly changing and on the fly we are figuring things out.

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Right now...

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I'm really sitting with this appreciation of...

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Yeah...

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I'm not the me that I was a decade ago.

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Not the me I was 10 months ago, or 10 weeks ago, or 10 experiences ago.

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All of these inputs and experiences in my life, help me to continue to

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change and evolve and grow in ways that I haven't even anticipated.

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Honestly, that farm girl long ago, 50 plus years ago...

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Would never have dreamt that she would have traveled the world and been

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an international business person...

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Pouring her heart out, dumping her inner thoughts out...

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On podcast airwaves with you.

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But here we are...

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That apparently is part of my purpose right now in my life.

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I do know from conversations with family and friends and clients...

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That I am not alone in this challenge, struggle, opportunity to figure out...

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Who are we next?

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Why do we matter, here on this planet?...

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What is our why?

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What is the why?...

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The motivation for wanting to know what our purpose is.

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Part of that is first you have to feel the passion to want to

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have a purpose to do something...

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With that passion...

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How do you direct it?...

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What is it telling you?

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How does it support you to have a purpose, and to accomplish that?

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In my language...

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In the Encore methodology...

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How does that all come together to say YES!...

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To your life.

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YES!

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to your identity, ... Your influence and your impact...

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So that right now...

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While you're alive...

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Present on this planet...

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You're living...

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Not only living, but actually creating in live time, in real time, the

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legacy that you'll be known for.

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And I think that's just so remarkable...

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The day that I was aware of that was the day I said...

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Okay...

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It's up to me....

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It is up to me if I want to be remembered.

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Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you say, and they will

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forget what you do, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

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That's a big driver for me...

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To know that people feel, and remember that I cared about them...

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I cared to be a role model...

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For how I continued to push myself through transformation and reinvention.

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Open up new opportunities for myself, and for other people.

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Lift As You Climb...

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That's what it means for me.

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Going back to where I am right now in this process...

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I chuckled when I reminded myself...

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I didn't have to struggle quite as hard to figure out some of these pieces.

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I just needed to go back, and open up my Visual Encore Plan workbooks and

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go back and revisit, investigate...

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What's different, what's changed, what am I more of?

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Who am I no longer?

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That's gonna help me figure out...

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Who I wanna be next, and create my Visual Encore Plan, so I have a vision for

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where I'm going, and who I wanna be...

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And how do I act like that...

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Behave like that person?

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Until I achieve that.

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Today I've been working on the module called Vital Values and going back and

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doing a check up with myself on...

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Okay...

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Really...

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I have been changing, and growing, and evolving in many different ways.

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The essence of me is still there, those core values, those foundational

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values about trustworthiness and honesty and authenticity.

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But there are other values that have been part of my life...

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That contributed to the different MEs, and the different roles,

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that I've played in my life.

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The scripts that I've lived in my various Encores.

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Now...

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Today, as I'm going through these exercises in the Visual Encore Plan...

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I'm checking back in to see...

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What's changed?

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What influences my values?...

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and really...

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What are my non-negotiables?...

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What are my...

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Oww...

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That's a new priority for me.

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There have been some enlightening moments.

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It's very helpful for me to go back and just reaffirm my vital

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values, and know clearly...

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As I put that vision statement, and my why statement together for myself...

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Which is part of the work I do in this program.

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I know what underpins those...

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Because it's your values that will help you make those decisions.

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Turn left...

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Turn back...

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Keep going forward.

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Those values are the indicators of the reaction that you have in your gut...

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When you know something is wrong, or you know someone isn't right for you,

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or something isn't right for you.

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Those values will help you through the tough times, and

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they will help you figure out...

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Okay...

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Yeah, we are true, and on track.

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I hope that you will continue to come along with me...

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Because I know that living with passion and purpose...

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Really is a privilege.

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The commitment to do that, to embrace it...

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To enjoy it...

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For all of it's highs and lows...

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It does give us power...

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and I want the power to grant wishes.

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Not only for myself, but for people that are very close to me and

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people that I don't even know yet.

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That's the power for me in figuring out what my legacy is and making it happen.

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I would love to hear if you've got thoughts around...

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How your values may have changed and grown.

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What are the most important ones for you?

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What do they mean?

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Can you write at least five of those down and put those on the

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back of your Visual Encore Plan?

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Stay tuned....