How to find your life purpose - Life Purpose Bootcamp

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Channel: Marie Benard · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Life Purpose Bootcamp: The 8-Week Breakthrough Plan for Creating a Meaningful Life with Eric Maisel

1:45 - How did you go from military man to psychotherapist and author of more than 40 books?
2:51 - there are multiple purposes in life and many choices
3:50 - what are some of your other life purpose choices?
5:15 - psychiatry vs. life purpose and meaning
7:02 - opportunities to experience meaning  
9:27 - one reason why we may start projects and not finish them
11:15 - how can we make necessary but mundane tasks more meaningful?
13:40 - some of your clients don't value relationships as much as their work. What do you advise for them?
16:15 - how to manage our natural tendencies with what we need in order to reach our goals
20:38 - what matters and what makes you proud
22:29 - devotion to oneself 
23:28 - focus on what's important to you, rather than what mood you're in at the moment 
25:49 - what advise do you have for people who jump from project to project based on their feelings in the moment?
28:10 - stop needing a guarantee of success or perfection
29:53 - getting out of an experience when meaning is no longer present
39:20 - how are meaning and purpose related? The shift from seeking meaning to making meaning. 
44:40 - he doesn't think we're really out to make ourselves happy
49:50 - the difference between "selling out" and changing values
51:23 - how often should we re-evaluate our choices or values?

For a live, acoustic version of the song from the end of the show, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=38&v=8EpDnzuSgl4

Sorry about the breaky-clicky sounds. If you're listening, please comment and let me know if it would be better to just replace it completely. Thanks! 
 this is Synchronicity Radio episode #250, which first aired on CITR 101.9 FM in Vancouver on September 28th, 2015.

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