Posted by: broshe
on Jul 19, 2012
I was both excited and mortifi ed by this experience. I was planning on getting married to a beautiful Berliner, my first love. The thought alone of moving to another continent felt like a shock. After I returned to Berlin, my relationship fell apart within mere weeks. I tried to explain to my fiancé that I simply needed space to understand what’s happening to me as a consequence of this light shaft experience. He simply couldn’t grasp why, from one day to another, I had left him emotionally.
We had been together for almost seven years. I loved this man deeply, yet I tragically broke his heart into a million pieces, only to follow some unnamable force that was driving me into a mysterious direction I couldn’t even explain. It was a real low point in my life, and I lost many more friends because I became strangely obsessed with my bizarre need to go to America. I couldn’t articulate my reasons; I could only offer comparisons in an attempt to justify my terrifying decision. I managed to completely polarize my life to the point where I had effectively stripped myself of everything I had come to rely on, except my determination to bring out the best in me. For me to be faced with the choice of my highest purpose wasn’t a question of love, it became a question of life or death.
Posted by: broshe
on Jul 17, 2012
As a young girl, I dreamed of Hollywood, but in my 20s I wasn’t exactly attracted to America in the same way, perhaps because of the Cold War and the fact that I lived in Berlin, which at the time was still a divided city. It was a fl uke that I ended up going on an art trip to Manhattan in October 1991 with my Polish graphic design professor. However, the moment I landed in The Big Apple, I felt like I was coming home, which was a total surprise to me.
I’d traveled extensively and been to Africa and lots of beautiful cities all over Europe, but I’d never experienced this intense sense of belonging anywhere else. I felt immediately compelled to separate myself from my student friends because when you’re in a group, you can’t listen to your inner voice so clearly. I really felt I needed to walk around the city on my own. One evening I was sitting by myself on a bench in Washington Square Park when I had a glorious epiphany.
As I sat on the bench, I saw the early-evening skyline lit up behind the historic park as I watched two policemen majestically riding by on horseback. I must have spontaneously tapped into the—I guess what you could call—quintessential collective “American Dream,” one of the most exciting dimensions of human potential. I could literally see thousands of souls arriving from the old countries and landing in great anticipation on Ellis Island.
I could feel the hopes and prayers of these ambitious, courageous people, each in their own way eagerly wanting to shed their past in the pursuit of their new future. As they reached for their highest goals, they erected skyscraper after skyscraper until the city itself became a living statement of human ambition in all of its glory and brutality.
Posted by: broshe
on Jul 03, 2012
When you accept the abundance of that love, you receive:
• Joy
• Lightness
• Peace
• Understanding
• Knowing
• A positive guiding presence
When I was told to bring joy to people’s souls, it meant bringing them love—real love. A very powerful example of real love can be found in my sister’s story. My sister and her husband lost their first child exactly six months to the day after his birth. The death of a child is not a loss that anyone is going to be able to move on from easily, but they found their way together. Their philosophy is that if God had come to them before the arrival of their baby and asked them to accept the gift of their child, to take care of him, love him unconditionally, and then give him back to Him after six months, they would have wholeheartedly accepted the gift. That’s love.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on Jun 28, 2012
Challenging circumstances can make you uncomfortable, but when you focus your energy into the things that keep you closer to your love, the things that don’t support that love will disappear from your life. The loss of certain things or certain people may cause you to shed a tear, but it can be helpful to think of it as shedding your skin:
What you lose is only lost to make way for something better.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on Jun 14, 2012
Everyone brings their own unique offerings to any situation. People may share your hair color or your skin color. They may have the same qualifications that you have or do a similar job, but the difference is that everyone has their own unique soul purpose. Only you can fulfill your soul purpose. You have been put on this earth to provide a unique service to the world, and no one else can provide that service.
If you’re living your soul purpose, everything you need is at your fingertips. When you’re walking in your purpose, you’re providing a unique service to the universe, and your uniqueness will attract others into your life. The right people will appear at the right time. You already have everything you need to fulfill your purpose. The people who are drawn to you are drawn to your uniqueness, not necessarily your ability to fit neatly into any of life’s boxes.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which will be available soon! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on May 31, 2012
They are very often ideas that exist only in your head, self-generated beliefs that you may have formed because of past experiences or events that left a mark on how you think. However, the effect they can have on your life is very real. Blockers can hold you back. For example, you may have grown up being told by parents or teachers that you’ll “never amount to anything,” and you’ve internalized those words until they became your belief.
There’s no real reason for you to hold that belief, but it has been with you for so long that you’ve allowed it to define who you are. Your mind is a powerful tool, so whatever you believe, positive or negative, is what will be manifested in your reality. This means if you’re focusing on a perceived blocker, it becomes impossible to move past it. The only way around or over a blocker is to realize that your blocker is not real.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on May 29, 2012
People who can help you to hold yourself accountable include:
• Mentors – Reach out for a mentor. Connect with people who are already living their soul purpose; learn from their insight and perspective to help you move forwards.
• Coaches – A coach is someone who can help you become the best you.
• Advisors – An advisor is someone who can advise you by providing additional knowledge, information, and experience.
• Consultants – A consultant is someone who can help you bridge the gap between knowing what your goals are and achieving them.
• Mastermind groups – Mastermind groups are groups of people who come together to provide support for each other by sharing experiences.
Who you need depends largely on your personal style and preference, but you need people who will support you in everything you do and help you to stay focused. Everybody needs somebody; it’s very hard to do everything on your own. You have your vision and your way of providing your soul purpose, which will bring you abundance, but there are always ways to get better.
To be better at being you and to be better at providing your best service, you need to have someone or something you can integrate into your life to make sure you’re holding yourself accountable for making a difference. This is also something you need on an ongoing basis, which means that whether it’s a good day or a bad day, you always have a way to pull yourself back and be supported in positive manner, allowing you to keep on moving forward.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on May 24, 2012
To create a purposeful plan for your business you must…
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• Understand your tribe; understand the community you are here to serve.
• Know what your financial goals are when operating your soul purpose.
• Know how far you want to extend your reach.
• Know the value of your products or services and understand their value as your offering to your tribe.
Having a plan allows you to sit down and work out what you have to do to achieve your ultimate goal and assess whether it’s realistic from your starting point. A purposeful plan is a way of monetizing your soul purpose.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on May 22, 2012
Identify the environment your tribe feels most comfortable in and consider creating that environment for them. Could be organizing seminars, workshops, or any activity that allows you to make yourself visible and let your tribe know you’re there.
When you know your financial goals, you know how much money you need to make, so you must now figure out how often you need to be at these places to attract enough people to generate that income. For example, you might get 20 people to attend your seminar, and out of those you may get five who sign up with you. If you know that you need 10 people to sign up every month, you know how many seminars you need to hold. Break your plan down from a monthly basis, to a weekly basis, to a daily basis.
When you have found ways to attract the attention of your tribe, you can then begin to convert interested people into people who are interested in partnering with you on the journey, people who want the transformation you offer. The next step is to plan how you will deliver the ultimate transformation to anyone who chooses to invest in themselves by partnering with you or your company and buying the product or service you offer.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here.
Posted by: broshe
on May 17, 2012
The essence of any relationship is connection, and it takes a soulful connection to form a fulfilling relationship. However, visions of a relationship are often built around material things and things that have nothing to do with a soulful connection. A person’s soul is not found in the car they drive or the clothes they wear; it’s found in the characteristics that reveal who they really are, the characteristics that remain with them, regardless of the circumstances. Being funny, serious, ambitious, respectful, caring, or family-oriented are all examples of soulful character traits. When you’re creating a vision of your ideal partner, always put your soul connections at the top of the list. The deal breakers shouldn’t be having green eyes or driving a Mercedes; the deal breakers should only be the character traits that reveal the true person. This might be found in the way he or she treats other people or whether that person is a taker or a giver. These are the traits that will remain with an individual and won’t change, no matter how much his or her external circumstances may change. Connect at a soul level and the only limitation is your vision.
This is an excerpt from my new book, Sole to Soul: How To Identify Your Soul Purpose and Monetize It, which is available now! To download a free chapter and order, please click here
