What Do You Bring to the Table?

Finding your true path

Note: I recently appeared on a YouTube show called Path to Purpose speaking about how to live a fulfilling life. To watch the interview, click here.

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When I work with someone in my coaching, everything depends on what the person brings to the table. 

I recently received a really great testimonial from someone, but it would be misleading to act like if you worked with me you would also end up building something worth a hundred million dollars. 

That’s not how it works, which I will get into, but first I’ll share the testimonial.

Five years ago, I was on the fence about embarking on a major project which was a dream of mine. At the time, I wasn’t sure whether I could do it or not. I hadn’t talked about it with anyone but Nat. 

There was one conversation where Nat kept encouraging me to move forward with the idea, helping me see I could overcome all of my reasons for not doing it. At some point in our conversation, something just clicked inside me, and I decided to go for it. 

Because of Nat’s encouragement, today that idea is worth $100,000,000 (and still growing). 

Thank you Nat!!!! 

A key in there is that I just held with him as he worked through all the reasons not to move forward with his dream. I helped him go through the reasons until it clicked, and the only thing left was to go for it. 

He came to me with a $100 million idea. He also had the inner resources and outer circumstances that would allow him to move forward. It wasn’t just someone coming to me wanting to make a lot of money, he had a clear vision of how he could do it. He didn’t know if he could do it. He didn’t know if he would be successful. What he brought to the table was his dream, his clear vision of how he could go for it, and all the reasons and fears that would stop him. 

He had decided that he would do it “one day”. 

Look at your “one day’s” because often your dreams are hiding there.

If you have a dream that is meaningful in your heart and you aren’t moving towards it now in some way, and waiting to do it “one day” I will be surprised if that day ever comes. That day arrives when you choose to start going towards your dream. 

When you choose to go towards your dream, your dream also starts coming towards you.

Nat living the surf adventure dream, hiking with friends to a secret surf spot

I recently was talking to a beautiful person. She was frustrated and feeling stuck in her life, purposeless.

As we talked, I found what she really wanted that would bring greater purpose in her life. She had this dream that she had been taking steps and moving towards its realization. 

Then she had a consultation with someone who has a specific way of reading things (in the realms of symbols and psychism), and this person told her that now wasn’t the time to be going towards this dream. So she totally stopped moving towards her dream. This is one reason you have to be cautious about these kinds of readings.

I kindly yet firmly berated her for letting someone so easily derail her from going towards her dream. 

I shared how, when I work with someone, I’m not telling them what to do. I am helping them find their own purpose, their own dreams, their wants and desires of the heart, and then assisting them in overcoming those things that would stop them from going towards that. 

It’s not my job to tell you what to do. My job is to help you awaken to what is yours to do, and to work through, let go, or overcome those fears and excuses that would stop you from expressing the truth of your heart. This is what I mean when I say that everything in my private work with people is based on what they bring to the table, because everyone has their true path within them, and it is they who must awaken to it, and sometimes they just need a little help, a little support, and a little nudge to realize a more fulfilled life.

And, if you need help with the first step, reach out to me.