Articles and Books on Life Purpose

Articles by Jay Earley

How to Find a Career You Love. How Life Purpose Coaching can help you find a fulfilling career.

What's Important in Choosing Your Career. A look at various reasons for choosing your career, from money and status to creativity and meaning.

Finding Your Life Purpose. An introduction to the issue of life purpose, including how to create or discover it and how to actualize it in your life.

Life Purpose and Social Transformation. How to contribute to transforming our culture in a healthy way through finding and actualizing your deeper purpose in life.

Steps toward a Meaningful Career - and Life. A program of steps to take in finding and actualizing your life purpose.

Steps toward Social Transformation. A program of steps to take in finding and actualizing your life purpose as an agent of social transformation.

Working through Blocks to Your Life Purpose. A discussion of various psychological blocks that can prevent you from finding or actualizing your life purpose, and what to do about them.

How the Life Purpose Center Developed. History of the development of Life Purpose Coaching and the Center.

Zeroing in Gradually on Your Life Purpose. How to explore your ideal career most effectively.

Life Purpose in the Service of Social Transformation. A guided meditation you can read to yourself.

Articles by Jay Earley on Actualizing Your Life Purpose

Actualizing Your Life Purpose. This article introduces a model for creating and updating a strategy for actualizing your life purpose. 

Pursuing a Two-Track Strategy. Some people must pursue two goals separately in actualizing their life purpose.

Practical Considerations in Creating Your Life Purpose as a Career. Taking into account your talent and level of development and what is needed in the world.

Planning vs. Unfolding Your Life Purpose. Ideally you need both a strategy and the ability to open to the unfolding of the moment.

Working Through Procrastination and Achieving Your Goals. A detailed look at the psychological dynamics of avoiding action and how to work through that block.

Books by Jay Earley

Inner Journeys: A Guide to Personal and Social Transformation based on the Work of Jean Houston. A book of psychospiritual exercises dealing with life purpose, personal growth, and social transformation.

Finding Your Life Purpose. A short book that contains many of Jay's writings on life purpose.

Books by Others

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The Purpose of Your Life and 
The Purpose of Your Life Experiential Guide by Carol Adrienne

Wishcraft by Barbara Sher.

Discovering Your Soul's Purpose by Mark Thurston.

The Power of Purpose  and
Whistle While You Work by Richard J. Leider.

Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow  and 
To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love by Marsha Sinetar

Making a Living While Making a Difference by Melissa Everett

True Work by Michael and Justine Toms

Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy

How to Find Your Mission in Life by Richard Bolles

Creating the Work You Love by Rick Jarow

Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion