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From Burned Out to Turned On: Rekindling Your Clients Passion for Life through Purpose

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Confessions of a Burned Out Baby Boomer

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From Burned Out

To Turned On

What Does it Take to Bridge the Gap?

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How to Receive the Most Value

Open & Receptive + Beginners Mind Try on & Consider the Ideas Keep What Fits Disregard the Rest Create an Insight Page

Insight + ______ = Growth & Development

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The 4 Facets of Burn Out

Burn out is physical, mental, emotional and spiritual shut down and exhaustion. Its like trying to run a car with a bad battery, without fuel in the tank, or water or oil in the engine. Physical: tired, exhausted, overwhelmed, prone to stress-related illnesses Mental: confused, unclear, negative. Emotional: depressed, frustrated, resigned, fearful, angry. Spiritual: disconnected, empty, life has no meaning, disillusioned by and about life All this accumulation results in people disengaging from work & life

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The Prevalence of Burn Out

Statistics on to how prevalent professional burn out is, according to data collected by the Gallup Organization in 2001. Less than 30 percent of American workers are fully engaged at work. 55 percent are not engaged. Another 19 percent are actively disengaged, meaning not just that they are unhappy at work, but they are regularly sharing those feelings with their colleagues. Thats about 1 out of every 5 people at work.
Do you have clients who are actively disengaged in their work? If so, what is it costing them?

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Burn Out: Complex Problem with a Simple Solution

Approach solution from a spiritual perspective.
Spiritual: the connection to a deeply held set of values and to a purpose beyond our self-interest. Working Premise: Theres nothing wrong, only something missing.

Whats Missing: Clarity of Purpose

The quantity of energy we have to spend at any given moment is a reection of our physical capacity. Our motivation to spend what we have is largely a spiritual issue. Fundamentally, spiritual energy is a unique force for action in all dimensions of our lives. It is the most powerful source of our motivation, perseverance and directions Anything that ignites the human spirit serves to drive full engagement and to maximize performance in whatever mission we are on. Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz of LGE Performance Systems

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Burned Out Professional: Phoenix Arising from the Ashes

A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by re, later to rise renewed from its ashes.

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Are We Living on Purpose?

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Men
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no clear sense of purpose in life.

52%

46%

Women

Are We Living on Purpose?

No denite purpose for my life. - 94% of people surveyed

Source - William Marsten

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What is a Life Purpose?

Cultural Perspective ____________________________________ ____________________________________
The Cultural Perspective is a major contributor to the epidemic of burn out in this country because it leads to a massive amount of doing, doing, doing in search of the satisfaction and fulllment of a life lived on purpose.

Vicious Circle of Doing & Having often Leads to Burn Out

DOING

HAVING

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The Life On Purpose Perspective

A life purpose is the context, vessel or container into which you pour your life

Your Life Purpose Your Life

The cup gives shape and form to the liquid inside. Your life purpose gives shape and form to your life
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 ALL of Your Life!

Decisions

Choices

Clarity of Purpose
Actions

On Purpose
Thoughts
For Family What Matters Most (Values) For Humankind For All of Life

The foundation of which is Afnity for LIFE! Also known as

What would such a life be like?

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My Life On Purpose as an Example

My Life Purpose
A life of purposeful, passionate, and playful service, a life of mindful abundance balanced with simplicity, and spiritual serenity.

My Life
Founder of Life On Purpose Coach, writer, speaker Father Husband, etc.

The life purpose statement is not the life purpose anymore than a menu is the meal The actual life purpose is the moment-by-moment, day-by-day experience of living on purpose.
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What Has Been Shaping Your Life?

Without clarity of our true purpose a second force shapes our lives
Formed

early in our lives to help us cope Quietly operates in the background Shapes who we are and what we do

Called Inherited Purpose

Based

in fear Sense of scarcity or lack Need to survive Is that all there is? Our default mechanism for coping and making it in life

The Inherited Purpose is a MAJOR Contributor to Professional Burnout

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My Inherited Purpose as an Example

I have to be smart and know all the answers (or pretend that I do), and I have to work really, really hard so I wont be poor and so people wont leave me. How IT Shaped my Life
My Inherited Purpose was a MAJOR Contributor to my Burn Out and Near Suicide What is the Inherited Purpose that has Been Shaping YOUR Life & Your Clients Lives?
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Water to a Fish: Our Sea of Meaning

People are born into and live in a Sea of Meaning which has as much impact on our lives as water does to a sh, and is just as transparent and outside our awareness most of the time. Unfortunately, this Sea of Meaning often becomes polluted by the fear/lack/struggling-to-survive based Inherited Purpose and this becomes the water we swim in every day.
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Fear-based Culture of Business

Inherited Purpose of Business
Based in fear, lack and struggle Satisfaction & fulllment missing Operates in the Background Default Mechanism

Wizard of Oz
Wizard used fear to inuence Dorothy and her friends Lost his power when Toto, the dog, revealed the truth Really just a little man using smoke and mirrors

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How the Sea of Meaning Impacts Our World

The Sea of Meaning Our Physical World

True Life Purpose

Afnity for life

BEING
Attitudes Beliefs Thoughts Emotions

DOING
Actions

HAVING
Results

Inherited Purpose
Fear,lack, struggle

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Clarity of Purpose = The Power of Choice

Living on Purpose Turned ON!

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Choose!
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Living off Purpose Burned OUT!

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Insight + Action
Pick 1 or more insights from todays session that would make a difference if you implemented it in your life & practice within 2 weeks. What will the action(s) be to integrate each insight?

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Life on Purpose Institutes Training

Living the Fullled Life
Personal growth for everyone ready to live on purpose 12 weeks to clarifying and living true to your life purpose Pre-requisite to be considered for the Coaches Development Program. http://lifeonpurpose.com/index.php?page=28

Coaches Development Program (CDP)

If you are ready to live on purpose AND be trained as a Life on

Purpose Coach For people new to coaching or with less than 2 years of practice experience
http://lifeonpurpose.com/index.php?page=10 Coaches Development Program (SCDP)
For seasoned coaches in practice for at least 2 years Pre-requisite is having an established practice http://lifeonpurpose.com/index.php?page=9

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Additional Practice On Purpose Resources

Traveling the Purposeful Path

Step Onto the Purposeful Path & Enjoy a Focused Life of Fun, Fulfillment and Flow

lifeonpurpose.com or travelingthepurposefulpath.com 1(800) 668-0183 or (828) 697-9239 Brad@lifeonpurpose.com

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Walking the Purposeful Path

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