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Priorities,
Passion and Purpose
By: Dave Vogelpohl
In
April, 2013 I celebrated the 7th anniversary of starting Excellerate
Solutions. Since the start, I've experienced many changes with some of
the more memorable ones being: obtaining my business coaching
certification, bringing Bill Spreitzer and Susan Arnold into the
business as partners, and as a business, becoming certified as
facilitators of the Passion Profiler
survey. Each one of these changes has served my purpose of helping
people achieve their potential and become the best version of
themselves. By aligning my work with Bill and Susan, who have very
similar purposes, we are making a difference for many people and
organizations.
When I
started Excellerate Solutions I was convinced that I wanted a way to
make a difference in people's lives by leveraging my business
experience with the flexibility to build a business where I
controlled my destiny. This has been my priority for the past 7
years. After a long career in the corporate world as well as owning a
small business with my brother, I knew the value of my experience. In
my coaching practice, I work with clients regularly to help them
achieve clarity around their priorities, both business and personal.
Periodically it's important to reexamine our priorities, especially
in light of changes in our situation and discovery of our passions
and purpose in life. Alignment of my priorities with my passion and
purpose has been the single most significant change in my life in the
past 10 years.
Some
of the benefits when this alignment occurs are:
- Awareness:
Because our passions are the outward manifestation of our
purpose, when we become aware of our passions, we start to get
connected with our life's purpose.
- Clarity: Over
time, through discernment and living our lives connected with
our passions, we confirm our purpose. Once we identify with our
purpose, we achieve an enormous amount of clarity - making it
much easier to set and choose our priorities among the many
choices available to us.
- Confidence: With
the clarity that comes from the conviction we are living on
purpose, we pursue our priorities and make decisions with
confidence.
- Peace:
Ultimately, when our priorities are in alignment with our
passions and purpose we achieve peace and become a center of
peace for those around us.
Recently, after much discernment, examination of
priorities and planning, I've relocated to Orlando, FL where all
three of my children and two grandchildren now live. My wife and I
are blessed to have all of them living not only in the same city, but
also in the same community in Orlando. While it was difficult to
leave all of our many friends, clients, and relationships in North
Carolina, the birth of our second grandchild on May 28th confirmed
that we made the right decision.
While my priorities have shifted in favor of family with this move,
it is a move totally in alignment with my Transformer, Builder and
Teacher passions and my purpose of helping people achieve their
potential and to become the best version of themselves. I plan on
traveling back to the Triangle monthly to work with clients and my
partners to continue to grow our coaching practice. Life is good when
we are in alignment!
If you desire to bring purpose and passion into your life, and are
looking for better alignment, give us a call.
Copyright
protected, all rights reserved worldwide. ©2013
Dave
Vogelpohl - Excellerate Solutions, Inc.
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Motivational
Quotes
"Moving toward purpose
and passion becomes an act of choosing joy in our work and in all
other aspects of our existence."
Alaina
Love and Marc Cugnon - "The Purpose Linked Organization"
"Many persons have a
wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose." Helen
Keller
"The real distinction is
between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek
to mold reality in the light of their purposes."
"The purpose of life is
to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly
and without fear for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
"Learn
to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose." Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross
"If there is no passion
in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever
it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great
things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you."
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