LIVING TRUE TO YOUR PURPOSE IS CRUCIAL TO LIVING A LIFE YOU LOVE. AS A COACH, DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE AND BE CONGRUENT WITH IT AND IT WILL TAKE ON A LIFE OF IT'S OWN.

I always remember my mother saying "do what you love and the money will follow", and I really do subscribe to this belief to this day.  I spent years trying to find myself and find the meaning to my life. Then I went and did a fantastic course, where I really learnt that life is empty and meaningless and that, unless I gave my life a meaning, it would never have one.

So I sat down and really created the purpose of my life. The purpose of my life is to empower others. Now, this may seem too simple to be my life's purpose, however I love the simplicity of it. It opens me up to so many different realms of possibility and so many different experiences. In every conversation that I have my purpose is there underlying, this inspires my intention and the way that I communicate.

I encourage you as a coach to create the purpose of your life. Then it becomes easy to translate this into your business and can assist in choosing a target market, niche, your message and how you want to package up your message into products.

• If you were being the biggest expression of yourself out there in the world what difference would you be making?
• What is it that you want everyone in the world to experience?
• If you were living true to your purpose what sort of experiences would you be having each day?
• If you were living true to your purpose who would you be communicating with even more?
• If your business was an expression of that purpose or your vehicle to bring your purpose alive for all people in the world, what direction would you take your business?

As a coach who runs your own business, it is imperative that you choose a target market and niche to really expand your business and establish a solid presence in the marketplace. By choosing this based on what feels purposeful for you, you will find yourself jumping up out of bed in the morning- ready to rock! Create something that literally calls you into being. So that once you have declared it, it is so powerful that it takes on a life of its own.

When I declared that my life's purpose is to empower people everything else flowed on from there. I wanted to create a team of people who empowered people, so I chose to focus on coaching other coaches so that they could assist me with my mission. In all of the programs that I write and the content that I produce my aim is to empower. When I wake up in the morning and go to hit the snooze button, my purpose calls me up instead- because there is no way that I can lay there when I think of all of the people that I have committed to making a difference to, this is how powerful this purpose is for me.

So, create something that is powerful for you, something that calls to you, something that is meaningful for you and try it on- try it on and see if it fits!! If it has you feeling more intentional and as if you are out there living a life you love and operating with volition- then congratulations- you have invented your purpose!! ☺

Rachel Anastasi is an empowerment coach, speaker, mentor and founder of Free To Be Me Life Coaching and www.secretsofasupercoach.com. For more information visit www.freetobemecoaching.com.au