Welcome to Spring!  Are you ready to step out anew?  How do we fortify and grow the dreams we have been nurturing all winter? How do we live in a new way, born from the fullness of our hearts?

Each of us has a unique and necessary purpose in this life.  Fulfilling that unique and necessary purpose leads to the evolution of human consciousness in this world.  We could say that our only goal in life is to identify this purpose and to live it!

The unique and necessary purpose we are referring to is not an ego-driven thing, but rather, a heart-driven thing. It is recognizing the importance of each one of us stepping-up and full filling the role that only we can play in this world, based on our specific abilities and the particular sensitivities that our life’s experiences have taught us. No one person’s role or ability is more important than another – all are crucial, and all look different.  But they all come together like the parts of the body to form a well-functioning whole.  Think of if this way, the heart doesn’t sit around lamenting that it does not do what the brain does, nor do the lungs wish they could do what the kidneys do!  All are necessary and all are unique, but they create a totality where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.  The same can be said for each of us in relation to the whole of humanity.

The key to living our unique and necessary purpose is to recognize that it comes from the inside out – that our individual gifts and sensitives are like no other’s.  When we focus our attention on what others are doing or what their gifts look like, we distract ourselves from looking where we can really find our own gold: inside our hearts, shaped from our life’s experiences.

Here are some clues to reveal your unique and necessary purpose:

• What makes your heart sing?  Even thinking about our unique and necessary purpose will lift our hearts.  Now this is a feeling to pay attention to, as it will be your guide!
• Remember the dreams you had for yourself as a child – our unique and necessary purpose has been with us from the beginning, revealing itself through what seemed to come to us “naturally”.  As we grow, we get distracted, or “practical”, or discouraged in some way or another from following that path, and all of the life experience we gain along the way of “forgetting” creates the skill set we need to fulfill our unique and necessary purpose right now, today.
• Look at what comes easily to you.  We often dismiss our gifts as not valuable because we perceive that “anyone can do this” or “it can’t be this easy”.  We are well-suited for our gifts, and do not need to make thongs complicated or difficult to make them valuable.

…and some tools to put your unique and necessary purpose into action:

• Choose every action from the center of your heart.  To do this, feel a memory of your heart singing, and use this as the quality measure for the action you are contemplating. Does what you are contemplating feel similar in quality to the memory? If so, then say YES!
• Notice how mind chatter reduces your heart-centered feeling.  Notice the “I can’ts”, the “I shouldn’ts” and the “it’s impossibles”.  When you have observed how these thoughts disconnect you from your heart, then you can see that you have an option: to choose from the chatter or to choose from your heart.
• Imagine what you desire as if it’s already done.  What does it feel like right now, in this moment, to live your unique and necessary purpose? What would it feel like t do this every day? What would it feel like if everyone in the world lived this way?