1/9 (Sat.) Live Your Life on Purpose (Host：Timothy)
發表於 : 週四 12月 31, 2009 10:21 pm
Dear YOYO’s,
Happy New Year!
We will be reading and discussing something related to self-improvement at the very beginning of this year. Hopefully everyone has a prosperous life in 2010 and the years to come.
Best Wishes,
Timothy
Source：Live Your Life on Purpose By Dora Nudelman
What does it mean to live your life with and on purpose? Well, first off, it means being a conscious creator. It means being aware of your motives and decisions and being attune to the cause and effect relationship. When you are a conscious creator you make your decisions from a place of awareness and choice. You choose what you think, you choose how you feel, and you choose the actions you take.
Purposeful living also means living your life with intention. When you are aware of your desires and the reasons behind them, you are also in a position to receive powerful guidance that then follows through to manifestation. Every person is unique in what they came here to do and experience. However, all of us have something in common; we are all connected to Source and we are all destined for joy and fulfillment. Why do some people "get there" while others find themselves struggling through life? It's a simple matter of alignment. In order to fulfill our destiny, we must align ourselves with the ultimate truth; that we are here to enjoy life, be fulfilled in all good ways and to share our joy and gifts with the world. We are one with the ultimate powerful energy from which everything flows. We are empowered. We are capable. We are loved.
But purpose also comes in different shades for different people. While we are all aligned with a collective destiny, we are also here to express our individuality. Each of us have our unique combination of life circumstances, ego traits, desires, talents and gifts. Our passions often carry us in the direction of our purpose, as long as they are not distorted by our egos. When we act out of true inspiration, we are aligned with our soul's desires. When we live our lives in this way, we live it with joy and fulfillment. We feel happy within because we are always following our hearts. We are detached from the outcome, knowing that all is manifesting in the best way, even if that means unexpected yet joyous surprises.
The keys to purposeful living are as follow:
1) Follow your heart. What do you love to do? What do you feel passionate about?
2) What's stopping you from achieving your dreams? Find the ego voice and quiet it by breaking it down until you come to the root of your fears and insecurities. Then create affirmations, visualizations, and the like to transform that ego chatter. Be appreciative about life, because with a grateful heart, all fear disappears.
3) Recognize what you're good at. What comes easily to you? How have you helped others with your gift?
4) Realize that purposeful living moves beyond career aspirations. While career can certainly be part of one's purpose, you have a purpose in every area of your life. Infuse purpose and joy into all that you do, no matter how mundane. Your purpose stems from who you truly are and what gifts you have to offer to the world. Ask yourself what you find most challenging and most rewarding, and how you can help others using this insight.
5) Be who you want to be now. Meaning, embrace the present moment and feel your joy within. When you are happy inside, you tell the universe that you are fulfilled. This doesn't mean you no longer have desires (desires can motivate, inspire, and enlighten you to your purpose). It simply means that you are not dependant on or attached to something external in order to make you happy. What this does is create a mentality in you that becomes magnetic to attracting your best destiny of total fulfillment.
Live your life with love, passion and intention. Just think, everything you've ever witnessed, consumed, experienced, all started as a seed of thought. You can do/be/have anything you desire in life, and when you live your life with purpose, all becomes not only possible but doable and fulfilling as well. Get off the gerbil wheel of life and start carving out your own path. And don't forget to stop and smell the roses along the way.
Questions for discussion:
Session 1
1. Every person is unique; each of us has our unique combination of life circumstances, ego traits, talents and gifts. Have you ever explored what you truly are? Have you figured out what you are good at and what gifts you have to offer to the world?
2. People living their lives with purpose are based on awareness of their motives and decision- making. How/why did you choose your majors, career, spouse/partner or some other critical things?
3. We feel happy within because we are always following our hearts to do what we love to do. What are you passionate about recently? What perceptions have you got from them?
Session 2
1. Reviewing the past and expecting the future in the New Year, did you have a good harvest last year and what are your wishes for this year?
2. Live our lives with love, passion and intention. We can do/be/have anything we desire in lives. How will you desire to be in 20 years? Please exercise your imagination to flesh them out.
3. There is a touching word at the end of the article: “Get off the gerbil wheel of life and start carving out your own path. And don't forget to stop and smell the roses along the way.” How do/will you relieve yourselves from pressure or sweeten your lives in the course of pursuing your dreams?
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Agenda:
Session I:
2:15 ~ 2:30 Greeting / Ordering Beverage or Meal
2:30 ~ 2:40 Opening Remarks / New comers' Self-introduction / Grouping
2:40 ~ 3:20 First Group Discussion
3:20 ~ 3:35 First Summarization
3:35 ~ 3:40 Regrouping /Break
Session II:
3:40 ~ 3:45 Introduction
3:45 ~ 4:25 Second Group Discussion
4:25 ~ 4:40 2nd Summarization
4:40 ~ 4:50 Concluding Remarks / Announcements
********************************************************************************************************************************************
聚會日期：列於該貼文主題內
聚會時間：請準時 2:15 pm 到 ~ 約 5:00 pm 左右結束
星期六聚會地點：丹堤濟南店
地址、電話：台北市濟南路三段25號 地圖 (02) 2740-2350
捷運站：板南線 忠孝新生站 3 號出口
走法：出忠孝新生站 3 號出口後，沿著巷子(忠孝東路三段10巷)走約 2 分鐘，到了濟南路口，左轉走約 2 分鐘即可看到。
最低消費： 50 元
注意事項：
1. 文章是否需要列印請自行斟酌，但與會者請務必自行列印 Questions for discussion。
2. 與會者請先閱讀過文章，並仔細想過所有的問題，謝謝合作！
給新朋友的話：
1. 請事先準備2~3分鐘的英語自我介紹；會議結束前可能會請你發表1~2分鐘的感想。
2. 請事先閱讀文章以及主持人所提的討論問題，並事先寫下自己所欲發表意見的英文。
3. 全程以英語進行，參加者應具備中等英語會話能力，對任一討論問題，能夠以5到10句英文表達個人見解。
4. 在正式加入之前，可以先來觀摩三次，觀摩者亦須參與討論。正式加入需繳交可退還之保證金NT$1,000。
Happy New Year!
We will be reading and discussing something related to self-improvement at the very beginning of this year. Hopefully everyone has a prosperous life in 2010 and the years to come.
Best Wishes,
Timothy
Source：Live Your Life on Purpose By Dora Nudelman
What does it mean to live your life with and on purpose? Well, first off, it means being a conscious creator. It means being aware of your motives and decisions and being attune to the cause and effect relationship. When you are a conscious creator you make your decisions from a place of awareness and choice. You choose what you think, you choose how you feel, and you choose the actions you take.
Purposeful living also means living your life with intention. When you are aware of your desires and the reasons behind them, you are also in a position to receive powerful guidance that then follows through to manifestation. Every person is unique in what they came here to do and experience. However, all of us have something in common; we are all connected to Source and we are all destined for joy and fulfillment. Why do some people "get there" while others find themselves struggling through life? It's a simple matter of alignment. In order to fulfill our destiny, we must align ourselves with the ultimate truth; that we are here to enjoy life, be fulfilled in all good ways and to share our joy and gifts with the world. We are one with the ultimate powerful energy from which everything flows. We are empowered. We are capable. We are loved.
But purpose also comes in different shades for different people. While we are all aligned with a collective destiny, we are also here to express our individuality. Each of us have our unique combination of life circumstances, ego traits, desires, talents and gifts. Our passions often carry us in the direction of our purpose, as long as they are not distorted by our egos. When we act out of true inspiration, we are aligned with our soul's desires. When we live our lives in this way, we live it with joy and fulfillment. We feel happy within because we are always following our hearts. We are detached from the outcome, knowing that all is manifesting in the best way, even if that means unexpected yet joyous surprises.
The keys to purposeful living are as follow:
1) Follow your heart. What do you love to do? What do you feel passionate about?
2) What's stopping you from achieving your dreams? Find the ego voice and quiet it by breaking it down until you come to the root of your fears and insecurities. Then create affirmations, visualizations, and the like to transform that ego chatter. Be appreciative about life, because with a grateful heart, all fear disappears.
3) Recognize what you're good at. What comes easily to you? How have you helped others with your gift?
4) Realize that purposeful living moves beyond career aspirations. While career can certainly be part of one's purpose, you have a purpose in every area of your life. Infuse purpose and joy into all that you do, no matter how mundane. Your purpose stems from who you truly are and what gifts you have to offer to the world. Ask yourself what you find most challenging and most rewarding, and how you can help others using this insight.
5) Be who you want to be now. Meaning, embrace the present moment and feel your joy within. When you are happy inside, you tell the universe that you are fulfilled. This doesn't mean you no longer have desires (desires can motivate, inspire, and enlighten you to your purpose). It simply means that you are not dependant on or attached to something external in order to make you happy. What this does is create a mentality in you that becomes magnetic to attracting your best destiny of total fulfillment.
Live your life with love, passion and intention. Just think, everything you've ever witnessed, consumed, experienced, all started as a seed of thought. You can do/be/have anything you desire in life, and when you live your life with purpose, all becomes not only possible but doable and fulfilling as well. Get off the gerbil wheel of life and start carving out your own path. And don't forget to stop and smell the roses along the way.
Questions for discussion:
Session 1
1. Every person is unique; each of us has our unique combination of life circumstances, ego traits, talents and gifts. Have you ever explored what you truly are? Have you figured out what you are good at and what gifts you have to offer to the world?
2. People living their lives with purpose are based on awareness of their motives and decision- making. How/why did you choose your majors, career, spouse/partner or some other critical things?
3. We feel happy within because we are always following our hearts to do what we love to do. What are you passionate about recently? What perceptions have you got from them?
Session 2
1. Reviewing the past and expecting the future in the New Year, did you have a good harvest last year and what are your wishes for this year?
2. Live our lives with love, passion and intention. We can do/be/have anything we desire in lives. How will you desire to be in 20 years? Please exercise your imagination to flesh them out.
3. There is a touching word at the end of the article: “Get off the gerbil wheel of life and start carving out your own path. And don't forget to stop and smell the roses along the way.” How do/will you relieve yourselves from pressure or sweeten your lives in the course of pursuing your dreams?
********************************************************************************************************************************************
Agenda:
Session I:
2:15 ~ 2:30 Greeting / Ordering Beverage or Meal
2:30 ~ 2:40 Opening Remarks / New comers' Self-introduction / Grouping
2:40 ~ 3:20 First Group Discussion
3:20 ~ 3:35 First Summarization
3:35 ~ 3:40 Regrouping /Break
Session II:
3:40 ~ 3:45 Introduction
3:45 ~ 4:25 Second Group Discussion
4:25 ~ 4:40 2nd Summarization
4:40 ~ 4:50 Concluding Remarks / Announcements
********************************************************************************************************************************************
聚會日期：列於該貼文主題內
聚會時間：請準時 2:15 pm 到 ~ 約 5:00 pm 左右結束
星期六聚會地點：丹堤濟南店
地址、電話：台北市濟南路三段25號 地圖 (02) 2740-2350
捷運站：板南線 忠孝新生站 3 號出口
走法：出忠孝新生站 3 號出口後，沿著巷子(忠孝東路三段10巷)走約 2 分鐘，到了濟南路口，左轉走約 2 分鐘即可看到。
最低消費： 50 元
注意事項：
1. 文章是否需要列印請自行斟酌，但與會者請務必自行列印 Questions for discussion。
2. 與會者請先閱讀過文章，並仔細想過所有的問題，謝謝合作！
給新朋友的話：
1. 請事先準備2~3分鐘的英語自我介紹；會議結束前可能會請你發表1~2分鐘的感想。
2. 請事先閱讀文章以及主持人所提的討論問題，並事先寫下自己所欲發表意見的英文。
3. 全程以英語進行，參加者應具備中等英語會話能力，對任一討論問題，能夠以5到10句英文表達個人見解。
4. 在正式加入之前，可以先來觀摩三次，觀摩者亦須參與討論。正式加入需繳交可退還之保證金NT$1,000。
