Adam Kayce

I talk a lot about heart, here at Monk At Work. In fact, it’s one of the things I talk about the most (looking at the “Topics” in the sidebar as I write this, you can see what I mean).

But the heart I’m talking about is not just the heart of compassionate action, as in, “I want to hit my sales goal, but when I check in with my heart, I feel that I’m holding onto my goal a bit tightly, and I need to back off a bit.”

Having that kind of self-awareness is great — essential, even, to working holistically — but it’s also just the beginning of your heart, as I’m defining it.

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Today we did the “Key to Your Purpose” telecall (if you’d like to download the recording, you can get it from the “Free Teleclass: The Key to Knowing Your Purpose” post).

On the call, we talked about the importance of context, love, and connection, amongst other things. We also took some time to do a brief intuitive exercise, to start the introspective process that I’ve found to be absolutely essential to discovering and evolving your own sense of Purpose.

One of the great distinctions that has come out of examining our Purpose, for me, has been the awareness that I have some definite core qualities that emanate into whatever I do. What I do may change, where I go always changes, but who I am on a fundamental level doesn’t change; it only ripens.

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Do you lie awake at night, wondering what you’re here for? Does clarity around your purpose elude you?

It drove me nuts for years. And in all the research and reading I did, trying to find out what other people said about purpose, hoping to find some glimmer of truth to point me in the right direction, this is what I found:

1. Some say your purpose is whatever you choose it to be — that you can pick anything you want, and make it your purpose.
2. Others say your purpose exists, but you can’t ever really know what it is.

Hogbutter. Finklesticks. Psh-shaw.

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My youngest daughter turned two in November, and I think she’s starting to hit her stride.

Every other word she utters is, “Why?”
Every answer to her, “Why?” is followed up with another, “Why?”

And so I started thinking: That’s a great question.

Why do you do what you do?
Why is your work, your work?
Why do you stay at it? Why do you love it? Why?

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How would you like to get your black belt?

No, I’m not talking about breaking boards or getting all sweaty or anything… I’m talking about a black belt in intuition.

Say hunh?

From the feedback I hear from many readers, it’s the Intuition aspect of Monk At Work that draws them in. And yet, it remains one of the least understood — and least practiced — of the Big Three: (more…)

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman’s sink and a brilliant sculpture. – Bob Kall

How’s your vision? Can you see angels in stone? Or would you be lucky to end up with a sink?
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Finding your Divine purpose is like traveling to Venice. Why Venice? Good food, good atmosphere. When you get there, you want to take a gondola ride, so you ask a gondolier to take you to a cafe. He winks at you and smiles, ushers you into the gondola, and starts punting you along the waterway, without saying a word.

“Oh, geez,” you think, “does this guy know what I want at all? Where is he taking me?”
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You probably think, being a believer in intuition and all, that following your hunches is a good thing. Wrong.

Following a hunch can mean a heap of trouble. Because even though you may think that hunches are intuitive – they’re not. At least, not necessarily.

(How’s that for stirring the pot?)
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I’ve been doing a study lately of so-called “intuition experts” (call it researching the competition). I’ve been curious to see what else is out there, and to see how they present themselves and their work.

What I’m finding is that 9 out of 10 “experts” claim to have been born with an amazing sense of intuition, or have been “clairvoyant” since they were small children. Stories abound about seeing angels, talking with spirits, and watching clouds of colors swirl around people.

Those kinds of stories are fun to read. But in my mind, useless.
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If you’re like most people I know, the idea of having free-flowing intuition and using it in every aspect of your life feels like a pipe dream.

I mean, come on — you may believe it’s possible for some people, but do you really believe it’s possible for you?
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