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(Part 1) Armed with your 2-word purpose, you gain a significant advantage over your old self who didn’t know your purpose. Your 2-word purpose almost immediately reconciles the mental and spiritual jigsaw puzzle of your past experiences and present worries, hopes, and dreams into a recognizable picture of your future. Energy emerges and flows into meaningful […]

Are you staring fearfully into the pit of modernity? Try daring into the abyss instead. Are you disconcerted as war rages in Ukraine and nuclear weapons use is even a consideration? Do skyrocketing gas and food prices have you digging deeper into your pocket and finding more lint than Lincolns? Are you stressed over increasing […]

Click the image above to watch the Announcement or click here. Hi, I’m Kevin McCarthy, the creator of ONPURPOSE.me. Because you used ONPURPOSE.me to find your 2-word purpose, you’re one of 7,500 souls involved in our live beta testing the past 3 years. Your feedback guided us as we learned, tested, corrected, and, frankly, apologized for our errors.  […]

Courage comes from the Latin word for heart — “cor” — and represents the “seat of your feelings.” In On-Purpose® terms, your heart depicts your purpose. Now that you know your 2-word purpose, do you have the courage to put it to work? In my three decades plus of corporate and individual client work of […]

How and how much a person (or business) spends time is a leading indicator of wealth and health. Years ago, I conducted a study of 853 small business owners. One survey questions was, “What is your greatest obstacle to success?” At 32%, the highest vote-getter was time management. Unfortunately, “time management” is a smokescreen for “I […]

In Spending vs. Investing Your Time, Part 1, your Before Purpose (BP) and After Purpose (AP) Self were contrasted along and you were introduced to the first of two accompanying TOUGH SHIFT experiences. Recall your first TOUGH SHIFT is recognizing you’ve never before lived After Purpose (AP) and you need to muster the courage to cross your […]

Are you spending or investing your time? Which you do makes a world of difference! During the month of March, our theme in the On-Purpose Planet is Investing. The Gregorian calendar marks history as BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini — Latin, meaning “Year of Our Lord,” but commonly referred to as After Death). […]

Unforgiveness is an impediment to putting your 2-word purpose to work. Therefore, loving and forgiving are essential travel companions on your on-purpose path. When your heart is assaulted, forgiveness is a head decision made in hopeful anticipation to soon heal your heart. Extreme grievances may require repeated acts of forgiving to dissolve the hard shell formed […]

When adversity hits hard, will you turn to loathing or loving? The natural response to a TOUGH SHIFT event is to ask the obvious questions: “Why me?”“Is the world out to get me?”“What did I do to deserve this?” Starting in loathing mode doesn’t mean one has to stay in this pool of pity. The […]

Loving your 2-word purpose relies to a degree on how much you are loving yourself. If your self-worth or opinion of yourself is low, then your capacity for recognizing, accepting, and assessing your purpose is likely inhibited. Identifying oneself by misdeeds, sins, and shortcomings stunts well-being. This “glass half empty” view fosters a self-inflicted disadvantage. Admittedly, […]