21 Jan, 2018

Spark Notes: Is purpose a cross-pollination of ideas?

Introducing Spark Notes, notes to spark conversation within ourselves and with others.  Join the purpose conversation.

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The first time I had a spark experience in strategy and planning was with a cross-pollination strategy experience.  The brilliance of this strategy is that the strategy was multi-faceted.  There was a leading driver for the strategy but there were legs that supported it.

The Cross Pollination #key2success strengthens by creating multi-faceted thinking, innovation and solutions.

 

What does cross-pollination have to do with purpose?

I came into a deeper understanding of the Key of Cross Pollination on my path to purpose.  While engaging in my knowledge-based purpose diet, I read Choose Yourself by James Altucher.  In the book, he talks about building your idea and innovation muscle through the idea machine.  As a daily practice he suggests reading from different texts and jotting down ideas to practice with our awareness that we build value through the unique solutions we provide.

What would happen if we cross-pollinate the path to purpose with the idea machine?  Perhaps our path to purpose requires a combination of different ideas about purpose.  Perhaps our path to purpose is as unique as the person.   Perhaps the more we cross pollinate great ideas about purpose, the more we serve ourselves by activating our idea machine to generate our purpose solution.  Perhaps this is why the voracious appetite for knowledge is required on the path to purpose.

The first person you serve with your purpose is YOU. You then have an authentic brand and solution to share with others by bringing the full expression of you.

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My experience with the intersection of the Key of Cross Pollination and Purpose are several lenses on the path to purpose (in no order but to spell out the word purpose):

  • Passion – What am I passionate about? What will I take a stand for?
  • Uniqueness – What is my source of unconventional quirkiness?  If I were in a room filled with like-minded people, how would I stand out?
  • Resonance – What does it feel in my body and spirit when I am on the path to purpose?
  • Promises – What are the promises about purpose from my faith tradition?
  • Oxygen – What am I doing or being that brings life, source and energy to my life?
  • Spark – What sparks me? What makes me come alive? What are my life defibrillators?
  • Experiences – What do I uncover when I review my life experiences from the lens of purpose?

Juicy questions, right?  I am jazzed just thinking about my experiences with these lenses.  It was and continues to be amazing.

This week we will unpack each element of the Cross Pollination of Purpose! I developed the Unlock! Me Review as a free offering to unlock our thinking and the stories we tell about ourselves and life.  Sometimes when we answer questions from the same frame of reference, we get the same answers.  The Unlock! Me Review will is my gift to bring insight, knowledge and purpose through 3 simple steps.

XO,

Dena, Your Sister in Purpose

Dena Wiggins is a transformational author and consultant.  She takes an unwavering stand for your purpose. She supports individuals and systems of individuals in extracting insight, knowledge and purpose to leverage into Galvanized Results that spark, excite and move into action.  Stay connected, join the conversation, take inspired action.

Learn more about Unlocking The Keys To Your Success Personally and in Business. Shop A Life of Purpose® Products.

 

20 Jan, 2018

Spark Notes: What is your purpose diet?

Introducing Spark Notes, notes to spark conversation within ourselves and with others.  Join the purpose conversation.

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What is your purpose diet? How are you feeding your purpose?  How are you taking care of the body that will execute your purpose?

While developing my goals for 2018, I developed some health goals. So here I am again with health goals that I struggle to keep.

I develop goals with a why because the why is what keeps my commitment going especially when I am faced with obstacles.  

Something in me shifted when my why changed to “because I have to take good care of the body that will execute my purpose.” Yes! That why lit me up and I knew I was embarking on a new threshold of commitment.

In my video, EP 3: Purpose Told Through the Life of the Butterfly, I discuss how the ravenous appetite of the caterpillar phase in the transformation of the butterfly.  During our path to purpose, we experience phases when we are devouring information as it relates to our purpose.  Our growth is phenomenal because we are in flow with our design, our blueprint.  The growth I am referring to is our growth of insight, knowledge and purpose.

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I am awakening to the truth that purpose diet is also literally how we feed our body, the vessel that is going to do something with all of the insight, knowledge and purpose.  I realized that if I do not take care of my vessel, I will not be able to sustain all the wonderful action I am taking and will take in the future.

How do you know your purpose diet?

We know our purpose diet by checking in to our body.  We know our knowledge and experience based purpose diet by what is feeding our curiosity and passion. We also know our knowledge and experience based purpose diet by what comes in response to our sincere asks.

Our body will tell us what is good for us by how it reacts.  One of my children has a lot of food allergies and her specialist recommended keeping a food diary so that we could isolate what is no longer working for her body.  You also know your physical purpose diet by how your body responds to foods (lag data or response data) and also what information you are amassing about health that sparks you on your path to purpose (lead data or new data you are amassing to leverage).  There are also miraculous downloads that are responses to your sincere asks.

Before I was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease or dis ease, I offered the sincere ask to cure these strange happenings in my body or give me the knowledge of what was going that many specialists could not figure out.  Within days I awakened in the middle of the night to a PBS special that outlined my symptoms with natural dietary cures!

Knowing the divine nature of the cures that were best for my body did not completely deter my behaviors!  I had a stop and start pattern with making changes that were good for my health.  I am continuing to unlock my emotional attachment to food and eating patterns that are unhealthy for my body.

In 2018 I am beginning an intentional, full-bodied approach to feeding my purpose.  My body has informed that it loves a green food diet with a lot of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory foods and herbs and no coffee.  On this leg of my path to purpose, my knowledge based purpose diet is focused on connecting, building communities and purpose enrollment.

What is your purpose diet? I’d love to know.  Once you share it, you will gain a community of accountability partners and supporters.

XO,

Dena, Your Sister in Purpose

Dena Wiggins is a transformational author and consultant.  She takes an unwavering stand for your purpose. She supports individuals and systems of individuals in extracting insight, knowledge and purpose to leverage into Galvanized Results that spark, excite and move into action.  Stay connected, join the conversation, take inspired action.

Learn more about Unlocking The Keys To Your Success Personally and in Business.  Shop A Life of Purpose® Products.