Posts Tagged ‘The Transformational Power of Purpose’

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5  of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: The “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question has conditioned us to think of our life’s purpose in terms of a vocation. When we were children we might say, “I want to be a cowboy, a teacher, a doctor or maybe even President of the United States.” Unfortunately this carries over into adulthood. We confuse our purpose with a vocation. Think of it like this. Your purpose is your destination in life. A… Read More

May 12th, 2013 at 9:23pm

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What’s My Line?

By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5  of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: What’s My Line? was a popular television game show in the 1950s and 60s. Contestants with unusual occupations would join the host on stage while a panel tried to guess his or her vocation by way of a good natured and often humorous interrogation. My favorite part of the program was the final guest, who was always a celebrity. Since the celebrity guest would be readily recognized, the panel donned masks that kept them “in the dark” so to… Read More

May 7th, 2013 at 8:03pm

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That the Powerful Play Goes On

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 4 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: In the film Dead Poet’s Society Robin Williams portrays an instructor in a private school charged with the daunting challenge of teaching teenaged boys the value of poetry. In one poignant scene he huddles the entire class around him in the middle of his classroom and recites these lines penned by Walt Whitman: “O me! O life… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless — of cities filled with the foolish; what… Read More

May 1st, 2013 at 8:16pm

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Learning to Walk Upright in a Four-Legged World

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 3 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: A headline in an issue of USA Today caught my attention, “Firms spend billions to fire up workers — with little luck. There’s no proof hot coals or speeches motivate the troops.” The accompanying article chronicled some of the more creative ways companies try to motivate employees including shelling out big bucks to have employees walk barefoot across 1,500-degree coals. I suppose they hope if you can walk across a bed of hot coals barefoot maybe you can… Read More

April 24th, 2013 at 8:47pm

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Why Are You Crossing the Road?

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 2 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: In the film City Slickers, Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a New York radio ad salesman experiencing a midlife crisis. He and his two closest friends, who are pretty much in the same boat, decide that a cattle drive on a dude ranch is the perfect vacation. My favorite scene is when Curly (Jack Palance), the tougher-than-nails old cowboy, is riding alone with Mitch looking for strays: Curly: How old are you? Thirty-eight? Mitch: Thirty-nine. Curly: You all… Read More

April 16th, 2013 at 11:15am

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The Road Most Traveled

By Jim Whitt “Two roads diverged in the wood,” wrote Robert Frost. And I — I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” I was on the road most traveled ― the road traveled by the quietly desperate masses Thoreau described. Then one day I stopped and asked, “Wait a minute, where am I going?” I was tired of the rat race. The rat race is a perpetual event on the road most traveled. I was tired of competing with all the other rats. So what if I was ahead of the rat behind… Read More

April 8th, 2013 at 5:13pm

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Are you Unbreakable?

By Jim Whitt The following is the Introduction to The TransformationalPower of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life. In the film Unbreakable, Bruce Willis plays the role of seemingly ordinary everyday man David Dunn. His ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary when he walks away from a train crash without a scratch and as the sole survivor. This is the first in a series of events that leads him to believe he possesses unique superhuman powers. He discovers that he is, in fact, a real life superhero. With this revelation he begins to conform to his… Read More

April 3rd, 2013 at 7:18pm

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The Power of Purpose in Business Radio Show

I am now cohosting The Power of Purpose in Business on BlogTalkRadio with my friend and fellow consultant Nathan Mitchell.  We feature guests who talk about how the power of purpose is transforming their lives and businesses. On a recent broadcast Gerald Daniels shared how he discovered his purpose in life while serving a life sentence in prison. He was miraculously paroled five years later and today runs a multi-million dollar business. Nearly 4,000 people have downloaded this program since it was originally broadcast. You can listen to it in its entirety at http://tinyurl.com/a77xesb. Our next broadcast will feature Mitch… Read More

November 15th, 2012 at 3:21pm

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Road Signs For Success – September 10, 2008

By Jim Whitt Time for a multiple choice test. Take a look at the graphic on the left and tell me what you see: A. Superman B. Clark Kent C. Jim Whitt on steroids This is similar to a test I pose to audiences whenever I’m speaking. The graphic is the cover of my book, The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding and Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life. I will show the book to an audience member and ask him or her what he or she sees on the cover. The answer is always Superman. I’ll ask another and the answer is Superman. I’ll… Read More

September 10th, 2008 at 7:45pm

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