Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World – Pt 1
Personal Transformation and Why it is Important for the Greater World (Part 1)
by Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
Personal Transformation Coach and bestselling author
Like so many other coaches I know, when I first started my coaching practice, I was going through many changes in my life. Moving to a new country, major illness/surgery, my father’s death, menopause, divorce from a 22-year abusive marriage, recovery from post-traumatic stress, leaving my decades-old religious and social circles, doing a Masters degree and a full teaching qualification, feeling the pangs of “empty nest” when my daughter started her adult life, moving to a new town with nothing but a computer and a suitcase of clothes, living completely on my own for the first time since my 20s, becoming a grandmother, changing jobs three times while climbing the corporate ladder in the educational sector, “making it” by becoming a director of a college department with a good salary and even better prestige, and then suddenly dropping everything to change my career completely to start my own coaching practice (and all the training that goes along with it) had all come within an unbelievably short time period of only 7 years. Furthermore, by the end of those 7 years, I was already in my early 50s. Who in their right mind would start their lives over from scratch at such an age and after going through all that change already?
So, was I in my right mind?
Well, since making the decision to embark on my own journey of personal transformation:
- A long list of long-term physical illnesses have vanished from my life
- I look and feel 10 years younger than I did 10 years ago
- I won a business award for my coaching
- I started an organisation called the Global Wellness Circle that is transforming the holistic community in central England
- I became a talk radio host and frequent media guest
- I have been a keynote speaker at such events as International Women’s Day
- AND I wrote and self-published an Amazon bestselling book called The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self
Furthermore, I have coached and mentored hundreds of people through the process of their own personal transformation.
But regardless of all those wonderful things, for which I am truly grateful, the most significant thing of all is that I can honestly say I am truly, deeply happy and fulfilled, and that I know my life has meaning and purpose.
Fleeting versus Ultimate Happiness
A sense of purpose is the most important element in finding deep, core happiness. “Every day happiness” can come to us in many guises. We are happy when we fall in love, have children, are accepted for great new job, complete a course of study, or win a competition. But all of these things are what I call “fleeting happiness” because they are dependent upon time and circumstance. What happens when circumstances change? Where is happiness then?
Ultimate happiness—or joy—can really only come when we are connected to a sense of purpose. You might call it “Divine Purpose” (or at least I do). I firmly believe that every human being is born with an innate purpose to fulfil in this world, and that unless and until we hear the call of that purpose—and answer it—we will continue to spin around in life, trying to get as much “fleeting happiness” as we can find. But the problem with this is that as soon as the “fleeting happiness” runs its course, we will simply look for our next “hit”, because we don’t necessarily have the deep core happiness and joy that comes from living a life “on purpose.”
To be continued.
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Coming up in Part 2:
- “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” and
- “Why We Stay Stuck”
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Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC
For more information about Lynn and her work, visit:
- COACHING: www.create-a-life.co.uk
- BOOK: www.give-receive-become-be.com (or find the book on Amazon)
- GLOBAL WELLNESS CIRCLE: www.global-wellness-circle
- GARDEN OF THE SOUL RADIO SHOW: www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn
- GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/fb-gots
- GARDEN OF THE SOUL FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/gots-fan
- GARDEN OF THE SOUL SOCIAL NETWORK: www.gardenofthesoul.ning.com
