Discover What You Are Here To Do | Life Purpose

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Chapter One from the Book Discover What You Are Here To Do, by Best Selling Author Nicola Grace
Our Life Leaves Clues
When Im on the road speaking, I often joke about the story of my life as if Ive stuffed up, done everything wrong and made wrong decisions that lead me up the garden path of nowhere. Part of my introductory speech often goes something like this I wanted to be a dancer so I studied history. I wanted to live in a tropical country so I moved to Wisconsin. I wanted to marry an American so I married a Canadian. I wanted to be married forever but I got divorced three years after getting married. We laugh together. Depending on what perspective I take, that story could be tragic or liberating. It could tell the story of me not ever really committing to what I truly want on the one hand. But on the other hand it could tell the story of perfection beyond my current understanding. A perfection that can only be realised on hindsight or with deep reflection on the true meaning behind all the outcomes of the decisions I have made. Had I not learned history I wouldnt have been able to make history as I did when I stepped up to save a billion dollar change agent industry from ruin. If I hadnt moved to Wisconsin I never would have become the transformation facilitator I am today. If I never married my husband, the proud Canadian, I never would have experienced profound love. We are constantly making choices. Each of those choices will often lead to a different outcome, sometimes the same outcome. Regardless of what choices we make we get regular feedback from life as to whether or not we are living on purpose and fulfilling our higher reason for being. I have found that no matter what choices we make, or where we end up in life we have never been abandoned by our Soul, that thing that animates us and allows Spirit to breathe life into us the deepest part of our Self. That Soul sits there in every outcome, perceived good or bad, and it communicates to us providing us with clues throughout our life. In fact those outcomes might even be a clue from our Soul that we are on or off track. That being said, the story of our life is a story of a series of clues. We all have a story. We all have clues we can follow. Its our job to find those clues, learn to decipher them and then follow them. When we do that we will

experience the best outcomes that are possible in our life. When we dont follow them well get feedback in the form of depression, despondency, irritation, frustration, personal dramas and sometimes even personal disasters. These types of feedback are clues were off track or theres something for us to learn. In this book you will learn how to read those clues. To help you with that process I have a free manual with discovery sheets and a mentoring session to accompany this book. You can go grab that gift at www.DiscoverWhatYouAreHereToDo.com and follow along with the processes in this book. Or you can scan the QR code.

My story has been telling me all along what I was here to do, but it took me some time to put all the pieces together. I have a very personal reason for wanting to help as many people as I can, find their Higher Purpose and Personal Mission in life, that you will discover as you follow the clues my Soul has left me in my life story. Ive always been an educator. I was born to teach. My life has left me so many clues that teaching was part of my Higher Purpose. It bewilders me why I ever wandered off that path as I have done on a number of occasions. Even in those times I have been an educator I use to think I was teaching the wrong subject matter and I had finer distinctions to learn. In fact I would say I started life out with a little confusion as to what to teach, but got it right in the end. You see when I was five I taught the boys to use words they werent suppose to use. Im pleased to say Im a lot more inspiring now with what I teach. I started out my professional life as a history teacher. I went to university and studied history and education but during my final internship teaching at an all girls school, just six months shy of graduating with both a Bachelors Degree and Teaching Diploma, I dropped out. I had a rather dramatic communication from my Soul it was time to move on and expand. In the middle of a class, teaching Russian History, I had to race out to the toilets to, well, vomit. As I was driving home from school that day a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach told me something was off. But I didnt know what to do about that, so I went back to school the next day. At the end of the day, driving out of the car park, the front axel of my car broke and I had to get the car towed to the nearest garage. Over a cup of tea with my mother, a Buddhist Feminist, gently she said to me, Youre Soul is trying to tell you something. Perhaps this isnt what youre supposed to be doing. I was confused because I thought I was born to teach. But the sinking feeling in my stomach was telling me my mother had a point. Still not sure what to do instead, I picked up my fixed car and went back to school to teach the Russian Revolution to fourteen year old girls who were more interested to know if I had a brother, and was he handsome and available. Driving out of the car park that day, the rear axel of my car broke this time and I came crashing down to earth once again. I took it as a sign that teaching history wasnt the vehicle for my Life Purpose or the next part of my journey. Apparently I needed three signs. Not knowing what it was I was supposed to do I took off to go find myself by travelling through South East Asia and meditating with the Buddhist monks in Thailand. While that was an amazing, expansive and eye opening experience, I didnt find myself. I found head lice instead, as one often does travelling through South East Asia. So I went back home to New Zealand and I decided I better follow my passion because it seemed like the logical thing to do. I didnt want to end up doing something that would make me vomit again.

My passion at the time was contemporary and jazz dancing. I loved to dance. I learned ballet as a child and because I didnt have the body type of a ballerina I never considered ballet as my purpose or career path. But like so many other little girls, my big dream was to be a prima ballerina. Contemporary and jazz dancing was the next best thing as that art form was far more forgiving of women with bodies beyond their skeletal structure. I auditioned for a newly forming contemporary dance and education company and got in. We toured schools performing and teaching dance, which I loved. Here I was teaching, only teaching something I was passionate about. But I didnt feel fulfilled. Something was still missing. Fast forward a few years at the young age of twenty five, I am sitting in a dance class in summer school of the London Contemporary School of Dance in England. I had a dream to audition for their school and advance my career as a Choreographer. Or so I thought. My teacher hobbled into the room with two walking sticks having had both her hips replaced. This particular morning I was feeling very heavy. Still jet lagged from the long trip from down under, I was also tired. I summoned up every last little bit of energy to sit up straight when the teacher said something like, I always say morning class is like suicide. You die only to be reborn again. I caught a glimpse of myself in the wall to wall, floor to ceiling mirror as she said that. This light flashed from out of my eyes. The look on my face was unmistakeable. It was the face of misery. Tired, hungry and heavy at 115lbs, desperate to get down to 99lbs so I could be happy - I looked like I wanted to disappear from the planet. My teachers voice had faded out at, you die. I didnt hear the, to be born again part. I only know she said that because I asked my classmate to tell me what she had said. After class, once again I found myself walking out on my career. Only this time it was my dream career. The one I always wanted. I loved dancing. I still do. But I was hungry and miserable. Id been a round peg trying to fit into a skinny rectangle and it wasnt working. Lost, with no idea what to do next, I went trekking with friends in the French Alps. We stayed in the village of La Grave and walked the trek on the beautiful La Meije Mountain. From our hotel the view was stunning, breathtaking and expansive. We set out on a warm spring day and on our return we stopped to sit and be still, enjoying the sun and this spectacular mountain with its stunning glaciers. We fell asleep snuggled up to the mountain. I fell into a very deep sleep. The best sleep Id had in a long while. As I awoke I felt something breathing inside of me and through me. I heard a deep wise voice say on its out breath, You will gain enlightenment here. Thinking that literally meant Id gain enlightenment in France, I had nothing else to do and no other direction to go in, so I left London and went to stay with friends in a small village at the foothills of the Majestic Mt Blanc on the Swiss French Boarder. I spent several months of intense meditation, reading and contemplating, waiting for enlightenment to happen. One morning, around 11am I entered into a deep meditation during which that breathing I felt on that mountain that day, was breathing through me again. This time I got a visual. I saw come up from deep within me a heart shaped ancient presence, and by heart shaped I mean the real beating heart. It had one single eye looking at me, that when I looked into it I sunk into this deep profound love. Such beauty, wisdom, ancient knowledge and divine vibration was steering right back at me. It occurred to me how absurd it was to ever doubt myself or think lowly of myself if this was inside me. I came to recognize this visual image as a symbol for my Heart Soul Connection. That part of me that connects me to the Divine, to ancient knowledge and wisdom, to my blueprint for this life time, to love, to beauty, to joy, to bliss and to magnificence. That Heart Soul Connection, I have discovered, lies within each and every one of us. It lies within YOU. You have a Soul that is communicating to you all the time often through your heart your feelings and desires. You just need to know how to understand its communication. You would think after having an experience like that, that my life would be sorted from that moment on. That I would know what the purpose of my life was, what Im here to do and what direction to go in, in any given moment. Youd think life would be sweet from this moment on - Apparently not the case.

My spiritual life and my professional life came into conflict with each other. All I wanted to do was study metaphysics and spiritual awakening, but that did not give me a means of financial sustenance. I wanted to eventually teach what I was experiencing and write books about it, so I thought I needed to do a lot more study, which meant Id have to pick up whatever job I could to take care of the bills. And this is exactly what I did. For the next five years I went into a massive learning phase of my life. Professionally doing whatever needed to be done to pay the bills and meet my responsibilities. It was during this time I moved back to London and got a job in television. By my late twenties I had ended up living in Sydney and it was here I wrote and published my first self help transformation book. I wanted that book to launch my career as an author and metaphysical spiritual teacher in transformation. In a round about way thats kind of what happened, but not exactly - Certainly not exactly as I had planned it. I had finished the national publicity campaign for my book, when I discovered I had leukaemia with an optimistic six months to live. I was facing the impossible wall of finality. I woke up the morning after I received the news feeling really sad. At the lowest point, sobbing hard, just when I thought I couldnt cry any more or feel any worse, I heard a small young girls voice and a vivid image of me when I was seven flashed in my mind. My little seven year old girl inside cried out in a faint and soft voice - But I havent done what I came here to do yet. I dont want to die. I lost the plot at that point. The Hoover Damn of despair broke loose. I felt so disappointed in myself that I had let this little girl down. I had failed her. So exhausted I couldnt express my tears or despair any more, my mind became really quiet. A stronger voice came up from the depths of my heart, and she said, I want to live. That was twenty years ago. Through a series of profound awakening experiences and working with a Naturopathic Doctor I live to this day free of leukaemia. I knew my life had been spared because I had something to do. I had a Higher Purpose and it needed to be fulfilled. Still not being exactly sure of what that was, but knowing it had something to do with teaching transformation, I began teaching the process of transformation I had been through. That took me to a teachers academy for A Course In Miracles in America where I lived a life based on transformation, teaching and service. I became a teacher for A Course In Miracles International and traveled extensively facilitating awakening experiences. Nine years later my journey took me back to New Zealand where I built a bricks and mortar business which was set up, supposedly, for me to teach what I love to teach - transformation. But as I was preparing the business for franchising I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma, and this time the death sentence was a thirty percent chance of survival past three years, if I had a good portion of my lower left leg carved off. What! Loose my leg? Cancer - again? Was I just the unluckiest person in my family or what? The news hit me hard and as I began looking back at my life, I still didnt feel like I had done what I came here to do yet. It wasnt fair, I thought. Why me and why me again? That was August 2005. And in 2006 I stepped up to do the very thing I was born for with both of my legs fully present and functioning. Stepping up, turned out to be the very thing that saved my life. In an indirect way it has saved the lives of many others. You see I launched a campaign that led a billion dollar change agent industry facing ruin, to victory. It was the natural health industry, an industry that has helped millions of people restore and keep good health. It was my raison dtre to do this very thing, to make a difference and leave a legacy. It wasnt my intention to do all that at the time. I was just pissed off the industry was facing a life threatening challenge and was determined it wasnt going to happen on my shift. By stepping up to do this very thing I was born for, everything I had learned and been through came together to help me achieve what everyone had been telling me was impossible. I actually made history, though I may never go down in the history books for doing so. Theres that theme of history popping up. It was my knowledge and observation of history that helped me design this industry saving campaign. It was also my experience in

transformation and working the Laws of Nature that together in harmony led a victorious operation. I taught the principles of how and why this campaign would be victorious to industry leaders and consumers. Theres that theme of teaching metaphysics and transformation popping up. Part of the campaign needed some drama to get the attention of the media, so I staged a number of theatrical events to achieve that. Heres where my years of experience dancing on stage and staging dance theatre productions got used. We were also facing impossible odds. For seven years this industry had been working hard to avoid the disastrous decision about to be made that would bring most of the businesses within the industry to a close. Seven years of hard work and in the eleventh hour, it looked like they would fail. I knew what it meant to face impossible odds. Id overcome impossible odds when I faced my six month expiry date. Ironically it was within six months, with my campaign strategy, that we all worked together to turn the tide, prevent the disaster, and the industry lives and thrives today. No one had achieved what I had done before me and no one has done it since, in peace time. That fact is what motivates me to help agents of change and social entrepreneurs transform big obstacles into even bigger results, so their missions to transform this world succeed. I shouldnt be the only one achieving this type of success against all odds. The industry honored me with an award in my role as spokeswoman for the not-for-profit I founded to implement this campaign. It was a grand experience. A big part of my success was that I was stepping up to do the very thing I was born to do. I was embodying my raison dtre. By stepping up to my Higher Purpose and Personal Mission I was engaging mighty forces, seen and unseen, that clamored forward to help me achieve my mission. Because I knew I was doing the very thing I was saved from cancer to do, somewhere inside of me I knew I couldnt fail. I had certainty of the outcome and wavered not - not for one second. At the beginning of the chapter I started out by saying that depending on what perspective I take my story could be tragic or liberating. It could tell the story of me never committing to what I want on the one hand, or on the other hand it could tell the story of perfection beyond my current understanding. That perfection I did realise in hindsight and with deep reflection on all my life circumstances and activities. I connected them together like dots on a page with the stroke of a pen to find the Higher Purpose for me being here. I discovered how my past had prepared me for my lifes work, and how I could take what I learned and share it with others. In this way I could help others connect their life events, make meaning out of their past and present, so their future can be lived on purpose, in joy and that they can reach the satisfaction of making a difference. Your life has left you clues. Your Soul is communicating to you constantly. Its up to you to decipher your Souls messages and be about being the magnificent self that you are. This book is intended to help you do exactly that. I encourage you to write your life story and highlight the themes that come up from it. See how they connect. Throughout this book and the complimentary discovery sheets manual that goes with it Ill be walking you through some processes of finding those clues and join the dots, so you can discover what you are here to do. I also have a recorded mentoring session with me that Id like to gift you. You can use the manual to work along side reading this book to find your clues and follow your path to the very thing you were born for. Remember to pick up those complimentary discovery sheets at: www.DiscoverWhatYouAreHereToDo.com Tags: life purpose, what is purpose, on purpose, purpose statement, meaning of life, the meaning of life, purpose in life, life with purpose, life on purpose, how to change your life, what is my purpose, soul purpose, the soul purpose, your life purpose, what is your life purpose, living on purpose, finding a purpose, my life purpose, what is my life purpose, what is my life purpose, how do I find my life purpose, what is my purpose in life, how to find purpose in life, how to find life purpose, living life on purpose, find life purpose, finding your purpose, higher purpose, finding life purpose, finding a purpose in life, find your life purpose, how to find your life purpose, whats your life purpose, discover life purpose, discovering your purpose, finding your life purpose, finding your purpose in life, live your life on purpose, discovering your life purpose, whats my life purpose, life purpose statement, purposeful life, awakening your lifes purpose, my soul purpose, what is my soul purpose.

Step into the clarity of where your greatest meaning, fulfilment and success can be found, and the confidence you can make a difference living your life purpose.
Discover important distinctions about your purpose, so you can have gaining crystal clear clarity; Learn how you make a difference and why, so you can feel important in the cosmos; Find out what forms of expression will give you the greatest happiness and success in life; Discover what you need to know to seek, find and remove blocks holding you back; Find out where your multi-million dollar idea is within your life purpose; Learn how to develop a greater connection to yourself and your Soul

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About The Author

Nicola Grace, The Mission Mentor and 3 x International Best Selling author, helps purpose seekers find and follow their higher purpose, so they can experience the fulfilment and satisfaction of knowing theyre doing what they came here to do. She delivers speeches, workshops, mentoring sessions and online programs designed to overcome the challenges social entrepreneurs face, and take advantage of the opportunities presenting in the emerging New Era. Recently honoured with an award for implementing a strategy that saved a billion dollar change agent industry from ruin, and make history, four time author, Nicola Grace has an eclectic professional background in education, contemporary dance, politics, public relations and television starting her career as a history teacher. For the past twenty years, Nicola has captivated her audiences as an inspirational speaker, visionary, educator and transformation leader bridging the gap for her audiences, between bright ideas and successful implementation strategies. Nicolas expert insights appear in the best selling book, Ready Aim Captivate - Put Magic in Your Message and a Fortune In Your Future, along with other world leading visionaries Deepak Chopra and Jim Stovall. CelebrityPress recently chose Nicola to join a select group of the worlds leading experts to co-write the forthcoming book titled, More.Better.: The Worlds Leading Experts Reveal How to Get More Out of Business and Life With Better Results. Her most recent title Discover What You Are Here To Do, offers finer distinctions of finding your Higher Purpose, postulating that as we step into doing the very thing we were born to do, through the Butterfly Effect we begin to create the better world we all desire. As spokeswoman of the not-for-profit organization she founded, she made history with her Ten Step Master Plan using the Undefeatable Laws of Nature to achieve an impossible mission in 2006. She has defeated two different types of cancers with short expiry dates and gone on to teach her Master Plan to social entrepreneurs and organization leaders. Now living on the Gold Coast of Australia she writes, educates and speaks internationally on how to transform the world leveraging the Universal Laws of Nature and Law of Purpose. Her interests are as eclectic as her background. She loves the ocean, theatre, contemporary art, dance, politics, quantum science, and enjoys gourmet vegetarian food in beautiful spaces. Nicola is also an active humanitarian with a grand vision for the elevation of ALL of humanity that she would like to share with you.

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