How the 7 stages of purpose can help you create a roadmap for your life and career
Kat Byles, founder of The True Business School looks at how recognising and following the 7 stages of purposes, can help you create a roadmap for your life and career?
We are all born with a purpose. With your purpose placed at the heart of your life and work, you benefit from the clarity of focus and direction. Purpose empowers you and decisions become easier.
So how do you integrate your purpose into your life/career? Kat can share the 7 stages of purpose (calling, receiving, articulating, aligning, embodying, leading, and evolution), how to recognise them, and how to use them to create a roadmap. Kat can offer real-life examples of people who have followed their purpose to success.

RECOGNISE THE 7 STAGES OF PERSONAL PURPOSE
By Kat Byles, founder of The True Business School
Katharine Woodward Thomas is the best-selling author of Calling in the One: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life. A family and marriage counselor, Katherine developed a pioneering metaphysical process to call in your love match. She used this process to call in her life partner at 42 and they had a child together. A leader in her field she served thousands of people to create their love match and trained hundreds of ‘Calling in the One’ coaches, speaking at international symposiums with peers Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, and Neale Donald Walsh.
Then Katherine separated from her husband - Her One! She speaks candidly about the vulnerability of the separation from her husband and also the vulnerability of a business built around Calling in the One.
Led by her purpose, her north star, which she describes as ‘serving the thrust of love into the universe’, she was guided to separate with love, and Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After became her second book. ‘This wasn’t the book I wanted to write!’ she says. Conscious Uncoupling became a New York Times bestseller, helping thousands of couples to separate with love, made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin consciously uncoupling. While a traditional business may have folded with this development, Katherine, led by her purpose, her north star, stepped into a significant period of discovery, growth, and evolution.
We are all born with a purpose. As unique as your fingerprint, it is held within your heart, your reason for being, your north star. With your purpose placed at the heart of your life you benefit from the clarity of focus and direction. On the occasions self-doubt creeps in, purpose empowers you. Decisions become easier as you choose the path aligned with the fulfillment of your purpose.
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