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Your Life on Purpose
by Mark W. Guay -- Entreprenuer, Educator, Writer
The podcast that helps you feel less like a cog in a machine by connecting the dots between school, your passion, and what the world needs -- all in under ten minutes. Get the life plan template at link.
Episodes
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Hard Choices on Purpose
The other day I talked with someone who read my article about living inspired (and therefore "in spirit"). Like what often happens, we talked BIG PICTURE. Like a 'I only have so much time on this earth and what I do with my time matters' kind of conversation. When I asked him a question that Dr....
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You Are What You Read
On today's episode, I'd like to talk about quality over quantity when it comes to the information you hear throughout your day. With literally millions of books published each year (traditionally, not even counting self-published), along with all the many articles that circulate around our social...
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3 Questions to Find Your Purpose
Dr. Dyer was a bit obsessed with the work of Abraham Maslow, the founding psychologist who introduced the theory of self-actualization to the world. It's the concept where a person needs to fulfill certain biological needs before one can work on developing into higher consciousness and evolve…
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Breaking Through Personal Limitations
"The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past the limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization." - Joseph Campbell It's entirely...
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Affirmation from Within
On this episode, let's dig into affirmation and how we can find affirmation from within. Because really, The affirmation you need comes from within, not from what someone else tells you. — Even before writing legend Stephen King sobered up, he would keep the door shut tight to his writing studio....
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Balancing Desire
I recently shared that a dream of mine came true. I became a monk….for a weekend. I joined a small group at a monastery in the mountains of New York and, nestled amongst the rolling snow-covered peaks, we shared mindful strategies to balance the desires in daily modern living. See, we're living…
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1 SIMPLE QUESTION
On this episode, I'd like to talk about your purpose. Because really...your purpose is simple. It's to create something that you — and only you — can create. So, the next time you wonder if you're doing the right thing, just ask yourself this one simple question: What am I creating? Because you...
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Finding Zen Through Positivity
On this episode, The other day my friend asked me to help her find zen and calm in her life. It was before 7am, I hadn't had my coffee, and I just come back from rushing around running errands. I was anything but calm. "Who am I to offer such advice?" I quietly thought to myself. She went on to…
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The Lore of FOMO
On this episode, I'd like to talk about my greatest fear. I'm talking about FOMO. Also known as Fear of Missing Out. And FOMO, unfortunately, I find myself chasing it over and over and over again. Perhaps you can relate? The thing is: Sometimes not giving into FOMO allows you to focus on the…
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Kindness Breeds Kindness
On this episode, I'd like to introduce you to Leon and how one simple act of kindness can spawn a slew of others. ——————— When Leon decided to kill himself, he was literally at the end of his rope. But before he slipped away from us, he had one last thought: What if I did something so crazy, so...
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Creating Your Own Ethos
My coffee's cold and I have Yoda, Joseph Campbell, and a blissful meditation to blame. Instead of writing first thing in the morning like I usually do on the weekend, I read Pathways to Bliss from Campbell, played fetch with Yoda then stayed in meditation beyond the 20-minute timer. But alas, I...
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Lessons from The Lotus Flower
Have you ever learned something that apparently the rest of the world knew, but you didn't? For me, that came in the form of a lotus flower yesterday. I've seen the flower all over. It's about as ubiquitous as the zen Enso symbol in the business of mindfulness. I just never knew its story. So…
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Avoiding Mid-Life Crisis
On this episode, I'd like to talk about keeping that New Year Resolution Feeling Alive. Every new year, millions of people around the world celebrate this new beginning. Millions share new resolutions and goals knowing that they have 365 new chances to live out their greatest self. During the new...
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What Story Do You Tell Yourself?
On this episode, I'm going to share with you two simple ways to find the story that drives your decision making. Most likely unconscious, we all have an internal narrative that either pushes us to grow or holds us back from reaching our unlimited potential. But before we talk about our internal...
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Living Inspired "In Spirit"
I've just made a French press (a Costa Rican slow-dry of sorts for all of you coffee lovers) and am listening to the dance of a morning drizzle outside my office window. What a beautiful morning. I'm thinking a lot about inspiration. Join me for one simple thought this morning. On this episode…
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Five Accountability Strings to Pull You UP
I just poured a piping hot cup of holy basil tea and am about to make some serious superfood pancakes as I wait for the sun to peak over Mt. Beacon (coffee will come later ;) Before all that, I'd like to share with you some thoughts on building up an accountability system that keeps the creative...
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The Growing Edge
Just ask my wife, I'm the worst person to watch a movie with. Why? Because I ask question after question after question. Why did the director choose to cut that scene short? What makes what he just said ironic? What are we being taught to believe here? I confess. I'm a serial deconstructor (holds...
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Branching Beyond Playing It Safe
On this episode, I'd like to talk about playing it safe. As a teacher, I hear this all the time: -- I'm going to go to college to get the four year degree -- I'm going to get my dream job -- I will be happy But, I have to admit, while college was so important for my own personal growth, I'm not...
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Coincidences
On this episode, I'd like to share a bit of what we can learn from coincidences. After you get home from your run, get to work, or just have a minute to send a message, send me a message with a story of how a coincidence shaped your life. If you have one that is. Because coincidences...well, they...
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Following SOUL
Today I'm drinking something unusual which I thought you'd like to know about. It's a type of mushroom called Chaga. Have you heard of it? Some people at the coffee shop down the street were raving about it, so I decided to give it a try. . Yes, it tastes mushroomy. Yes, it's totally legal. No,...
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The Zen in Ice Cubes
On today's episode, I'd like to share with you one lesson I learned while living like a monk. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before on this show, but this last winter I spent a few days at Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskill mountains living like a monk. During that stay, time slowed down…
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Your Holy Grail
As a kid, I was obsessed with Monty Python's The Holy Grail. So much so that the obsession grew from clanking together coconuts as a teenager with my buddy Alan to studying Arthurian legend in my college studies. Even my professor thought I was a bit ridiculous. "You're that kid in high school…
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The Art of Truthfulness
I write this episode as the rain pelts the airport tarmac outside as I sit here ready to board my plane home from a weekend trip in Charlotte. Before I do that, I'd like to share a few thoughts on being authentic in our speech and living the art of truthfulness. Grab your cup of coffee and join…
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1 Sign You're Creating Work That Matters
On this episode, I'd like to thank the squirrels outside my window for reminding me of a little old gent who built a shanty and pissed off the government back in the 1800s. Yes, I'm talking about Henry David Thoreau who spent his days sitting in his little cabin in the woods on Walden Pond. And...
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The Day I Died On Facebook
You're listening to Your Life on Purpose: the podcast that helps you feel less like a cog in a machine by connecting the dots between life, your passions, and what the world needs, all in under ten minutes. Music I'm your host Mark Guay and welcome my friends to season 2 of Your Life on Purpose.…
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Keeping The Optimism in Life's Greatest Dance
On this episode, I'd like to talk about life's greatest dance and how you can join this tango. Because I see this all the time…. High School degree? Check. Bachelor's degree? Check. Enrolled in Master's degree program? If I can't get a job first, check. Enter the dance and keeping optimism alive....
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Write to Answer "Who Am I?"
I talk a lot about the power of writing on this show and a lot of you have asked me to dive a bit deeper into how to write, specifically, how we can use writing as a tool to discover the self. Because as Joseph Campbell reminds us: It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures…
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Practicing Direct Compassion
I'm about to venture out to Breakneck mountain to meet with an old friend whom I haven't seen in ten years. I'll be off in the woods for the day, but promise to come back tonight to read your emails. Before I walk into the wild, I want to share with you what I learned from my recent trip back…
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You Are Not Alone
Today, I'd like to talk about love. No, not the kind of love you're thinking about. I'm talking about platonic love for the self and others and I learned it while on a yoga and meditation retreat at Blue Spirit in Costa Rica. I just came in from practicing headstand and have poured my second cup…
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Ego-less Existence, My Placenta, Star Constellations: My First Float in a Sensory Deprivation Chamber
Today, I'd like to share with you a story that I haven't shared with many people. It involves my Placenta, Star Constellations and Ego-less Existence. It's what I learned while floating in a sensory deprivation chamber for 90 minutes. Here we go: I closed the door behind me and looked down at my...
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5 Tips to Find Clarity
Yoda the cat keeps jumping on my lap with his mouse toy as we play fetch and I keep reminding him that it's Your Life on Purpose work time. But he doesn't seem to understand, so if you hear a mouse squeaking toy, that's him saying hello. I just poured a delicious cup of coffee and am thinking of…
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The Most Spiritual Path in One Breath
I have to be honest. Many times I find myself so caught up in the future that I forget all that I already have with me. Yesterday was one of those days where I drifted from a mindset of gratitude: — As the beautiful Hudson Valley sun shone on my face, I couldn't help but think about the beaches…
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The Art of Dancing in the Rain
I'd like to share a quick story about climbing fish and transformation. Not too long ago, my good friend Phil tried something in New York that no one has done before. He created a website that would connect people based on the books that have inspired them with the only requirement to meet for a...
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Unconscious Images Guide You on Your Path
I just returned from a New York City and wanted to share with you a quick story. It involves a Jungian analysis workshop that I took part in and a sailboat. —————- I must confess: I'm a recovering daydreamer. All my life, I've struggled to focus in on the present because my mind so quickly would...
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Finding Balance Without Popping a Rib
So, many of you know that I recently received my 200 hour yoga teacher certification over a 6 month intensive training regiment. And I'd like to share with you something I learned through my experience of spending months twisting and lengthening my body so that I looked more like Gumby. This…
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Are You Creating Art?
The air smells of suntan lotion and barbecue sauce and after spending the majority of the past day walking through an outdoor sculpture park these words from Michelangelo continue to swirl in my mind. He once wrote when asked about his sculpting: "The marble not yet carved can hold the form of...
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3 Ways to Find Focus Amid Distraction
3 Ways to Find Focus Amid Distraction It's a holiday weekend in my local village as I sit here and record this podcast. In just a few hours fireworks, BBQs, and picnics will have dot the streets like stars in a country sky. It's quite a beautiful display of community pride and family love, yet as...
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What is School For? Think on These Things
As the school bells begin ringing for the start of another school year, let's pause for a moment and think about something that we often don't reflect on. Just what is school for? Is it to get a job? To evolve our brain? To connect with other intellectuals? Or what? We've built a culture that…
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What Blake Teaches Us About Living On Purpose
What Blake Teaches Us About Living On Purpose It's a beautiful day here in New York and as I sip an overly sweetened espresso with chaga mushroom (yes, I know, I'm knew to chaga too for its health properties so we'll see if I get really goofy at the end of this podcast). I've been reading through...
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Wake Up in 60 Seconds
Wake Up in 60 Seconds It's amazing how the mind works, right? One moment we can be angry and pissed off; in another, happy and gregarious. One moment we can sick; In another, healthy. Take, for instance, the last time I acted on stage. I had just come down with a delicious case of the flu and...
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When Apple and Stanford Didn't Hire Me
Since it's the beginning of a new season, I think it's only right that this episode dives into a very deep and personal story of mine: one that I haven't shared public before. One that took me four years to be able to tell anyone besides my wife. I'm talking about one of the biggest upsets in my...
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Add Spark to Your Life
I took a bit of a sabbatical from the podcasting world to focus on other ventures and am so excited to be back here with you. I just poured a cup of coffee and if coffee is your thing, grab your cup and join me. It's summer time and just before recording this session, I listened to the New York...
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Season One Finale
All right change makers. I have little bit to share some news with you. When I first launched this podcast in May of 2015, I had no idea it would garner such attention and pull together some of the most passionate and happy people I’ve have ever met. In June when I started getting emails from...
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50: The Story You Tell Yourself
This past weekend at Omega Institute, I had the privilege to listen to the words and sing with some of the happiest people I have ever met in my life. And I learned something that I’d like to share with you to start this episode. It’s simple and it’s only one question. When you strip away...
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49: Keep it On the Positive
Last night, I took part in a kirtan ecstatic chant led by the Grammy-award nominee Krishna Das then camped under the stars. For those who don’t know what kirtan is, my beginner understanding is that it’s a call and response type of singing that aligns vocal sounds to our chakras. I don’t really...
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48: Weekly Wrap Up
As I get my tent and sleeping ready for a kirtan festival I’m attending this weekend, I’d like to break down a few of the concepts I explored this week. Here’s the weekly wrap up. If you just tuned in for the first time, make sure to check on the past four episodes to see the longer version of...
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47: Unplugging and 5 Reasons Why You Should Do It
5 Reasons to Unplug The crimson Costa Rican sun dipped beneath cerulean blue Pacific as I peered out from the yoga studio atop Blue Spirit mindfulness center in Nosara, Costa Rica. Perched high on a cliff, I flexed by quadricep and stood firm in Warrior Two in this yoga studio that looks like a...
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46: 5 Unconventional Ways to Find Your Purpose
5 Unconventional Ways to Find Your Purpose Joseph Campbell reminds us that if we follow our own bliss, doors will open that will lead us down our path on purpose. He said, “When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there…
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45: Trust in Discovery
Sometimes there are moments in our lives that force us to redefine ourselves. A concrete wall can -- at times -- pop up just as we are joyfully walking down our heroic journeys. And man....can this be frustrating or what? Today I’m thinking about Redefining You and would like to share three tips…
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44: Surfing and Mindfulness
Today I’d like to talk about surfing and what it can teach us about living our lives on purpose. I had not surfed in ten years and eagerly looked forward to getting up at 4:30 in the morning to surf dawn patrol in Costa Rica. Little did I know that I’d see all the lessons I’ve been learning in...
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The podcast that helps you feel less like a cog in a machine by connecting the dots between school, your passion, and what the world needs -- all in under ten minutes. Get the life plan template at link.
HOSTED BY
Mark W. Guay -- Entreprenuer, Educator, Writer
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