Tag: practice

Someone might arrive at life mission coaching to navigate a moment that calls for a deeper connection to what they truly want. The discomfort of being out of sync with that deeper knowing often signals it is time for a shift. Red flags, creative mis-steps, or a sense of drifting can open the door to meaningful clarity. There are many reasons to step into life mission practice. There is also another invitation that emerges once the door opens: the invitation to build skill with life mission.

Many of us are not accustomed to thinking of life mission as a skill. It is often framed as something we either have or we do not. When life mission becomes something we can cultivate, our awareness widens and deepens. A pathway of mastering our own existential intelligence begins to reveal itself. It becomes a quest into what we are here for, why it matters, and who we agreed to become.

In this body of work, life mission is an agreement already made. It lives beneath the surface of our lives, woven into our design. We said yes at some level, and that yes shaped our natural blueprint. The practice then becomes remembering that yes, living into it as a quest, and allowing it to grow new forms without fixing it in place.

Becoming skillful with life mission means being able to articulate your lines of intelligence, the areas of deepening that continue to unfold. It means noticing the patterns of your conversation with Spirit, Life, and your essential why. It means recognizing what wants to move through you as your contribution. Within that skillfulness, identities stay flexible and responsive. You can sense when something new is arriving, even when it is not ready to hatch. You can feel the subtle shifts ahead of the wave, allowing you to respond with greater ease. You remain connected to the throughline of your why, so ignition and motivation are more consistently available.

Life mission work is not a single decision or a one-time next step. People often notice that when they begin exploring, something in their life starts to open. Energy moves. There’s momentum. It can feel as though life has been waiting for your attention, holding threads of your mission until you were ready to pick them up. Once you begin, these threads start weaving your tapestry. The tapestry expands with new colour, dimension, and meaning that aligns with your original agreement.

Developing mastery with life mission creates a vast landscape of possibility. It supports your domain of work and your life as a whole: your community, relationships, wellbeing, contribution, and presence in a world undergoing rapid change.

As with every meaningful domain, developing skill with life mission grows with practice, guidance, and community. Consider this an invitation into a space where practice and mastery meet, where the deeper yes of your life mission is invited to unfold, beautifully, artfully, sacredly and skillfully.

~ Carissa Kazyss, inspired by a recent conversation with Daniel Goodenough, author of The Caravan of Remembering: Experiencing the Awakening of your Life’s Mission

I remember the first time I learned how to draw a star without lifting my pen off the page. I was so excited that I started re-tracing that line over and over. Stars bloomed in notebooks and without much will at all, I practiced until I could draw my stars quickly and accurately and effortlessly. This one tiny practice that somehow still takes up residence in my childhood memories, likely because it was meaningful.

We remember what has meaning.

I also remember the first time, not long ago, when I felt the culmination of my practice of asking questions about my life mission seemed to condense into something like poetry. Thick layers of answers over many sessions lead to something that anchored in my heart. Fully anchored, in the kind of way that was equally impactful as it was effortless to recall.

Deep meaning has a compound effect.

Staying true to a practice, and the repetition required in a practice can feel like pulling teeth. The Talent Code is a great resource about how to go about practicing. Regular practice is also how you know when you are ‘on’ and when you are ‘off.’ If we don’t have a regular practice for something, how can we expect ourselves to claim the result?

Remembering life mission takes practice.

It’s not that sexy. We want standout epiphanies. Single revelations that catapult us for decades. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the very thing needed for the sprout to appear was regular tending to the soil: aka practice. We create new pathways in our brains each time we repeat, with intention and meaning, like me drawing stars over and over again as a child.

The work of Caravan of Remembering offers a way to be in a practice about remembering one’s life mission, so that it can reveal to you in moments of great duress, questioning, and change, why you are here, what you are here to do and who you are here to become: the questions of life mission.

“You can use the questions and exercises as a musician does, daily doing scales to increase the skill with their instrument. In this case, one’s own life is the instrument.”

– The Caravan of Remembering