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When Life Interrupts Your Purpose · Feel Really Good: Empowering Meditations

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  SPEAKER_00: When life interrupts your purpose,
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  SPEAKER_00: why pauses might actually be part of our purpose, not a detour from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes,
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  SPEAKER_00: right when I start to gain momentum on the things that I feel are truly my purpose,
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  SPEAKER_00: right when I'm finally feeling like I'm moving forward,
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  SPEAKER_00: something in life happens that slows me down.
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  SPEAKER_00: For a long time, that made me feel like something was working against me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd gain a little momentum And then I'd get pulled right back down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then for another chunk of time,
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt like maybe I was forcing something that wasn't meant for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I was being interrupted because I needed to be redirected to do something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe what I thought was my purpose wasn't actually my purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the universe was trying to guide me by stopping me in fits and starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of energy spent on trying to figure out the quote unquote right answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: for those of you who are new here,
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  SPEAKER_00: I am a certified overthinker about pretty much everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I'm realizing now is it doesn't have to be that only one thing is my purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't have to be that the challenges,
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  SPEAKER_00: the things that interrupt my momentum are some kind of sign that I'm on
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  SPEAKER_00: the wrong path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes obstacles show up because there's something else we're meant to be tending
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  SPEAKER_00: to at the same time as pursuing our passions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or there's some lesson we're meant to be learning in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's what brought all of this up for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recently,
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  SPEAKER_00: a dear friend reached out in crisis,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm the person who would 1000% be willing to drop everything on my plate
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  SPEAKER_00: to help.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll fly to the ends of the earth if that's what they need.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a loved one comes to me for support,
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  SPEAKER_00: I go into a kind of standby mode,
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  SPEAKER_00: making sure that everything is lined up and ready to go in case they need me
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  SPEAKER_00: to physically show up for them Right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the middle of my body and mind kicking into action gear while thinking
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  SPEAKER_00: about what I need to line up in case they need me,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a very fleeting thought,
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  SPEAKER_00: one that only lasted a split second, but it was undeniably there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gosh,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm on a roll with prioritizing myself and building my Substack library right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been writing so much,
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  SPEAKER_00: the creativity's been flowing,
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  SPEAKER_00: and here's yet another thing pulling me away from what I feel like I'm meant
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  SPEAKER_00: to be doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I started to question everything all over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this is another sign that I'm supposed to be focusing on something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I realized is that because I'm such a black and white thinker,
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  SPEAKER_00: so much of how I view what comes my way is quote unquote all or nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when one little thing slows me down,
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm being dragged all the way back to the starting line.
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  SPEAKER_00: When in reality, It might just be that I have a purpose in more than one part of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have purpose in many related ways like sharing my thoughts and experiences
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  SPEAKER_00: in life,
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  SPEAKER_00: in writing inspirational fiction,
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  SPEAKER_00: and in creating meditations that speak to someone's heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of which use my creativity to try and help people take care of themselves in deeper ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And...
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe one of my purposes is also to simply be a loving presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: not to do anything, but to hug my people when that's what they need.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead of thinking my momentum is being pulled away from the thing I feel
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  SPEAKER_00: so aligned with, I can reframe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a beautiful,
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  SPEAKER_00: multifaceted human being,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I have so much more to offer the world than just my creative outputs.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always say my purpose in life is to help the one person who needs it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe instead of framing my purpose around actions or the different pieces
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  SPEAKER_00: of my career,
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  SPEAKER_00: writing to inspire,
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  SPEAKER_00: recording meditations,
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  SPEAKER_00: creating and posting helpful content,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe my purpose is to simply be there for that one person in whatever way
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  SPEAKER_00: the moment calls for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some weeks, it's the one person who needs to read something I've written.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other weeks, it's a close friend who needs my unwavering support.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's helping my husband brainstorm as he's building a new idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some days,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the one person who needs me,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I get to not be there for anyone else but myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when something outside of my free-flowing creativity asks for my attention,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to feel like I've lost my momentum.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to see it as an interruption of who I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to see it for what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: The person who needs me right now is reaching out and I get to fulfill my purpose
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  SPEAKER_00: to step into who I truly am by showing up for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: My purpose doesn't have to be one thing and it doesn't have to look one way.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one is making up the rules except me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to build the life I want And it doesn't have to follow a perfect schedule
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  SPEAKER_00: or fit into a box of checking things off of society's lists
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  SPEAKER_00: or gaining momentum every single week or achieving more and more and more and more
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  SPEAKER_00: and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me,
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually really like being able to shift when life is asking me to step
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  SPEAKER_00: into my purpose in different ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that you enjoyed this article and my thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also have some journaling prompts,
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  SPEAKER_00: some reflections that you can go to on the bottom of this page.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be sure to also check out my library of guided meditations, which is growing weekly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that they can support you with feeling really good in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And feel free to like,
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  SPEAKER_00: comment,
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  SPEAKER_00: or share this post so more people like us in the Substack community can find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for your support,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I look forward to sharing another article with you again soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great day.