The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

📢 New #Podcast!! One reason why we thrive in life is because we are surrounded with an accepting and supporting environment. Without that, we tend to struggle and if we make it, we become outliers or trailblazers. The one reason why we do not monetize our purpose is because there is no critical mass of a supporting environment that we can plug in. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! We, to a large extent, love precedent. Most of the things we do in life are those that have been done, proven and tested. Purpose discovery and monetization is not in the mainstream of life for many countries, and that's why we find it hard to monetize it, at least to that extent of our ignorance. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Monetizing our purpose is always going to be a challenge as long as certain things will not change. For a long time now, gifted, called, talented and passionate people have been living way below their privileges. Here is one major reason why they fail to monetize their purpose. You will love this one.

📢 New #Podcast!!! Yesterday's episode explained in detail the power of status quo in forcing us indirectly not to pursue and monetize our purpose. That status quo has propped up a cousin that is so powerful that is also aiding the situation and making it worse. It is perhaps the biggest reason why this is not happening. You wanna listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!!! Culture eats strategy for breakfast. We know that from Peter Drucker. What he didn't mention is that this can go both in the positive and the negative side. When it comes to purpose, one of the biggest enemies that makes people not to monetize it is the status quo. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast! Personal Branding and content marketing are very critical not just for organizations but also for individuals. There is quite a lot to learn about the importance of the same. We also need to understand some of the things we should do in that space. I have a conversation with Patricia Kahill who is best placed to educate us on the subject matter. I am sure you will enjoy this. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! So far, there is a lot of background information that purpose is something that is available to all of us. It is not a preserve of the few. That being said, we still grapple in this world with joblessness, people failing to find work, meaningful work to do. It is a serious matter. However, all along people are failing to find meaningful employment, they are walking around with ideas, passion, gifts and talents as well as a calling. Here are two main reasons why we fail to monetize our purpose.

📢 New #Podcast!! The good thing about purpose is the fact that it is not discriminatory. There is no human being that is born that lacks purpose. There isn't any that has 'special purpose' and the rest just have 'average purpose'. The word is "unique." If we all have purpose, then we all can make it valuable. Here is a summary of the four things that are evident in the life of all of us. They are the core of purpose monetization.

📢 New #Podcast!! When we talk about monetization of purpose, we need to at least equalize the playing field. Well, we don't need to worry a lot about that because in some aspects, this field has already been equalized. There are some things that are available in all human beings as a starter pack for purpose monetization. One of those things is passion. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! The most amazing thing you would ever seen in a group of people is that most in the group believe that they do not have any gifts or talents. We know by now the importance of gifts and talents and I say it in this episode. Let us see the main reason why people who are gifted already believe that they are not. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! If we are going to talk about monetization of purpose or turning our purpose into profit, there is some groundwork that we are going to lay down first. We need to agree that purpose is not a reserve of a few individuals. It is for all of us. There are four things that cut across all strata of life as we talk about purpose. We discuss one of them here today...why is it that some people monetize their purpose and others don't? Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! It is not just me, but if you were to have asked my peers back then at thirty years of age what their purpose in life was, a large percentage would not have told you anything constructive, believable or inspiring. We have made strides over the past several years but it is still a problem. If we are to monetize our purpose, we will need to first of all believe that it is monetizable. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! We all have brands whether we know it or not. Branding has become a major buzzword in society over the past decade, and as I predicted in 2010, the next biggest revolution in the world will be the purpose revolution. You cannot talk about purpose without talking about branding. I had a discussion with my guest on the same topic and there was incredible nuggets to pick from him. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! One might say that purpose is the greatest equalizer of all time for humanity. It is just impossible to believe that there is a human being on this planet who doesn't have purpose. Whether we know it or not, at times we fall short of turning our purpose into profit for some various reasons. This new series will show us about four of those reasons. Let's get started.

📢 New #Podcast!! As you can imagine, I firmly believe that your purpose is fixed. It might seem a draconian view to take but it is not something that I have just forced down my own throat. This is an assertion based on careful reflection of what purpose is in the first place. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Can our purpose change? That's the question we are grappling with in this series. I have insisted that it can't but before we can come to a fast conclusion, we need to consider some things. The definition of purpose will dictate what stand you have. You can approach the definition of purpose in two ways and thus guide your answer. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! With a background of two episodes in this series, I can now confidently call it. I think your purpose doesn't change. I also think that purpose is not many things. It is just one. It is one thing you dedicate your life to for a considerable period of time. Here in this episode, I share my reasons why I think purpose doesn't change. Listen to his.

📢 New #Podcast!! I once heard Tony Robbins emphatically say that you do not have just one purpose...that there are different 'purposes' that you can serve. Well, we can split hairs on that one but I guess the best place to have that discussion begin is to seek to understand exactly what purpose means. Is it a project? Is it a task? Is it a milestone? Is it a responsibility? What is life purpose? Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! This is one of the most interesting and yet eye-opening questions we can answer: Does your purpose change? I know my answer to this question and you will get it as we go along, or at least you will have a feeling of where I lean. For now, let us reflect a bit before we can give an outright answer. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Branding is a powerful thing in life these days. Strategic branding is increasingly becoming a necessity not just for companies, but also for individuals. Personal Branding has a way it seamlessly connects to what you are about, what difference you want to make and your purpose in life. In this episode, I had the opportunity to converse to Racheal Lwantale who gave us quite number of nuggets on the subject matter. You wanna listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! I cannot overemphasize the power of psychology in our productivity. Our mental states are critical to it. One of the powerful psychological tools we have is detachment. I heard someone yesterday teaching about personal expectations being at times the root of many disappointments. I couldn't agree more. Here are two things we need to know about detachment.

📢 New #Podcast!! We have already said that detachment can be a very powerful tool to use for our mental health. We need this every day. When you are talking about detachment, you are talking about two major things. It is our ability to be mature enough to let go of those things that we are not in control of that helps us with being detached. It allows us to be in control of what we can. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Detachment is a powerful psychological and mental tool that we can use to enhance our productivity and mental health. When we are attached to something, especially that thing over which we have no control over its outcome, we trigger a risk to mental health. Surrender becomes the way to do it and that's the powerful thing about detachment. It allows you to do what you can and what's in your control. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Detachment is such a powerful tool that we can use to be productive. It is not a hereditary thing. It is a skill that is learnable. The more you are detached on many things, the more mature you are. In fact detachment doesn't necessarily mean that you do not care. It simply means that you recognize your limits in influencing an outcome that you care about, and so you release yourself and free your mind to concentrate on other things. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Detachment is such a powerful psychological tool that we can use to enhance our productivity. To be detached doesn't mean that you do not care, as is explained further in this episode. One of the most liberating things is to be content with whatever outcome after you have given your all to something. That's what strengthens your detachment. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! There is an unhealthy psychological trait that we easily fall into with our ideas and pursuits so much so that it affects our productivity. This is attachment. It is human to be attached to what we have created and brought forth. However, it can be detrimental to our future productivity. That's why the practice of detachment is entirely important for us to use. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Personal branding is a mainstay in life. For anyone who is a professional or an entrepreneur, for anyone who would like to be effective in life in their purpose pursuit, personal branding becomes a tool that is non-negotiable to have. My guest today is a Personal Branding Practitioner, an author of two books on the same topic. He is also working on another to be released soon. Our conversation was instructive on the subject matter. Listen to Ariho Kamara.

📢 New #Podcast!! It is only logical that we would be passionately connected and attached the things we love, the things that we have spent considerable time creating. This attachment can easily be explained and I understand that. However, attachment has a way of locking us up in one place so much so that we are not released to be creative in other areas. Listen to this introduction to the topic.

📢 New #Podcast!! When Corona virus was wasting away lives and locking up entire countries, people were forced to do something about it. One of such a person was Professor Patrick Ogwan (Check out his interview on episodes #901 and #902). I give here a summary of six reasons why I think his invention of Covidex is mirroring purpose deployment to the core. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! We love miracles and happenstances especially when we have so little input in their creation. We love surprises especially when we do not have to break a sweat to gain a benefit. Purpose discovery and deployment has some semblance of the miraculous in the form of serendipity. This is what happens when luck meets preparedness. The Covidex story perfectly illustrates this. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! In talking about Covidex, I just realized how smack in the middle of purpose deployment it is. One interesting thing about purpose or a life of purpose is that its discovery and deployment is seldom an event. It is always a process. Here is why I think Covidex invention and deployment was not an event, but an incremental process up until the opportune time presented itself. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! One of the most interesting things about humans is that we love events. We love things that happen out of the blue and miraculously for our benefit. However, the very nature of nature is structured so that we can use processes more than events. There is such a thing as purpose refinement. Talking of Covidex as an example in this episode will help to bring this to light. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! One thing I can tell you about purpose is that everyone has one, and for the most part, the things that we need to fulfil it are not very far away from us. Context matters. If you are deploying your purpose, you will find that it is either around you or within you. That's how it was with Covidex. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! You will find out that I am not just talking about Covidex alone, but any other things that can fall under the category of invention, and even the things that people are doing passionately. In fact, you could use this information to gauge and find out if you are deploying your purpose. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! When things get tough, contextually, those involved are bound to innovate. At times, they do not need to go way outside of their field of purpose, passion, and strengths. At times, what they already have is what makes them to innovate things and thus fulfil purpose. Such is the story of Covidex and Professor Patrick Ogwang. Let us get this background before we can discuss why Covidex is smack in the middle of purpose pursuit.

📢 New #Podcast!! All of us have Covid Stories to tell. As the dust is settling all over the world about this pandemic, there are quite a number of things that we learnt. One such a thing is that necessity is the mother of invention. I talked to Professor Ogwang who invented COVIDEX in Episodes #901 and #908 about his story. In this new series, let us explore the reasons why Covidex is in purpose deployment, but first, a background. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Legacy is part and parcel of purpose. Every time we live a life as was intended, the side effects are always going to reverberate through some generations. If you mention any big name, they would be those who lived on purpose and left a legacy. The interesting thing is that we cannot focus on having a legacy to have a legacy. We can only focus on purpose and doing what we can at the moment. That's where the magic is. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! It is possible to sleep walk through life. It doesn't matter how busy and full of activities we have, but at times, we just walk through the motions in life without having the gift of presence, urgency or intentionality. We go to school because it is the norm. We do what we seen other people have done in the previous generations faithfully. We might be sleep walking through life and we don't know it!

📢 New #Podcast!! It is easy to be present and not to be present. it is easy also to think that we have 200 years to live just because there is no visible countdown clock over our lives. Consequently, we take moments for granted. We take days, months, even years for granted. Urgency is what we need if we might be interested in having any semblance of a life of legacy. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! If there was an alien attack and they wanted to find out what the collective psyche of the humans is in stealth mode, they would easily approach their attack from observation. What do we spend most of our time on? Averagely, where is our focus as a human race? In my thinking, there is a simple way that this can be done. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Time is one of the most essential driving forces of life. What we do within the time limit that we have determines what our legacy will be. The problem is that we do not see that we have a time limit when we are living. It is only when we are growing old that we start thinking about the kind of legacy that we want to leave behind. Here is a different thought to this. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! At some level, you find some people totally immersed in thinking and planning for their legacy. They are consumed with thoughts of what people would say about them when they are gone. The subject of legacy is uncanny, especially with the living. Legacy is what the living will be thinking about those who are gone. What do you do or how do you approach building your own legacy? Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Gratitude is one of the things that we can have daily as long as we are alive. Invariably though, we find ourselves complaining and generally taking some things for granted. We consider them obvious, and sometimes, a right. Only when they are gone do we realize how important they were in the first place. They are quite a number, but this is just a catalogue of five. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! We do life in the assumption that most of the things we have will always be there, and that we are entitled to have them anyway. Only when they are taken away from us in one way or another do we realize what we are missing. One of those things is safety and security. How can we not take this for granted? Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! When we have them, we take them for granted. Perhaps, this is one area of life that is critical in showing gratitude. When we do not cherish what we already have, we lose them or their vibrancy deteriorates. It starts wasting away and becomes a source of great upheaval in our lives. I am talking about relationships. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! There are many things that we take for granted. In life we all have passion, purpose and that which matters to us. At times we know all these things because they are resident in our hearts. Perhaps our biggest challenge in this context is to balance between pursuing our purpose and making a living. It is easy therefore to take purpose for granted. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! They say that our greatest wealth is our health. However, when we are healthy, it is very easy to take that health for granted. Without being healthy, one cannot serve his purpose and meet his goals and objectives. Let us learn a thing or two here about being grateful for our health. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Abundance has its salient side effects. At times, it creates an aura of entitlement. Underneath the surface, we are seriously prone to taking things in abundance for granted because we are sure of their shoreless supply. Let us learn a thing or two here about abundance and the anatomy of taking things for granted. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! Only when it is gone do we have the opportunity to realize how important it is. It is could be a thing, it could be a person. The fact is that abundance and availability makes us to easily take things for granted. In this new series, I want to talk about the things that money could or could not buy that we daily take for granted. In so doing, let us learn to have gratitude once again. Listen to this.

📢 New #Podcast!! It could be a song that I am composing, but the fact is that without motivation, the human race would have no reason for existence. All the new and better things we have in life are brought about by motivation. We need daily motivation, and we need to be motivated above the level of life. Here are some exciting places where you can get external motivation from.