Chris Jackson Coaching

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One of the most important discoveries that humans seek, often unknowingly, is to know what their LIFE'S WORK is. The Japanese have a word for this concept called 'IKIGAI'.

Your IKIGAI (or LIFE'S WORK) can be represented in the graphic below...

My LIFE'S WORK is transformational coaching, teaching, and mentoring leaders to reach their highest potential. My work is also about awakening people about WHO they really are and WHAT their SOUL is really here to do in this life.

The way I discovered my IKIGAI was by continually seeking to work on my gifts and follow my passions.

I actually spent my entire life seeking my IKIGAI without consciously knowing what I was seeking.

So how do you FIND it?

1. Start with your GIFTS.
What you are good at are your 'GIFTS'.
Your gifts are made up of the following:

- Attributes,
- Qualities,
- Skills,
- Knowledge,
- Wisdom, and
- Abilities that allow you to discover, pursue, and master your LIFE'S WORK.

2. Cultivate your Gifts

Your gift is NOT something that you inherit at birth. It is like seed that you plant, that needs to be cultivated over time and worked ON. That eventually germinates. Only when you provide the conditions to nurture it does it eventually grow fruit. This means as a minimum, you need to do things like;

- Hire a coach,
- Invest in educating yourself, and
- Surround yourself with people playing at a higher level than you.

3. Never give up

Sadly, many people give up on their GIFT long before it's had time to bear fruit.

- Believe in yourself
- Don't listen to those who tell you to be realistic.
- Even when the going gets tough, keep going.
- You may feel like giving up. This is normal. Keep going.
- Listen to the small quiet voice inside you that is your soul it always knows what to do when you listen to it

Here is how I discovered my Life's work....

10 Years ago I took a gamble and clicked on a random Facebook ad for a life coaching course. I ended up speaking with a guy on the phone and a week later I invested $5000 on a 1-year life coaching course. I had no idea what coaching was. I really just wanted to help my friends out who were stuck and had a bad mindset about life and I wanted to learn more about human behavior. Mostly I just wanted to become a better human.

On the third day of my first live in-person training, I had an epiphany that coaching was exactly what I had spent my whole life searching for. Following that training, I cried tears of joy and gratitude that I had found my true calling. I signed up for the 3 year course and shortly after quit my engineering career and went all in to coaching.

I have gone on to express my gift supporting businesses owners all over the world revolutionsing everything IN their business by working directly with the owners working ON themselves.

FYI: Most of what I learned in my first coaching studies became mostly redundant and superseded by higher principles and teachings that received from private mentoring.

On the journey, I discovered 5 important principles that every human needs to know about discovering and refining their life's work...

1. Clarity comes after action, not before.

2. Confidence is not a requirement for taking action, it is a consequence of taking action.

3. Our Life's work is revealed when we dare to dream boldly.

4. Our Life's work is always evolving and deepening, there is no endpoint. And yes... The epiphanies keep coming.

5. If you ever get stuck on your life's work go back to point number 1 and continue the process.


Here are some of the examples of what I had to go deeper into to unlock my GIFT...

Insatiable curiosity - A willingness to listen beyond the words, and go deeper and deeper seeking truth.
Deep compassion & Service - Empathy an caring towards other people's suffering and desiring to make a meaningful difference in the world.

Clear Communication - A desire to express myself in the most precise and powerful way so that my words represent the highest expression of my intention.

Leadership - Showing others the way forward and being the example that others look to for guidance.

Emotional intelligence - A deep understanding of the nature of feelings and where they come from.

Language - A working understanding of the structure of language. Our language is the form that makes up the most fundamental building blocks of communication.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Understanding modeling strategies for success.

Psychology - Explaining and teaching how the mind works.

Psychotherapy - How to clear traumatic memories, integrate parts of the psyche and reprogram your beliefs.

Transformational Coaching - Creating a future for people that wouldn't otherwise exist without the coach.

Business - How the nature of business works, including offering outstanding value, world-class product development, over-delivering on quality of services, processes and systems, teams, branding, marketing, and sales, etc.

Psychospiritual Principles - Understanding the nature of consciousness with teachings such as the 3 Principles, and Non-duality and seeing how all of our reality is creted via our state of consciousness.

I am blessed to have several clients who are yet to discover what their life's work is. And they use coaching to help them develop their gifts. These clients know developing their gifts is the key to unlocking the door to their life's work.

I am also blessed to have other clients who already know their LIFE'S WORK, and coaching helps accelerate and deepen their mastery of their work.

I have one amazing client who manufactures pre-fabricated tiny homes in China and delivers them to Australia - Their life's work is revolutionising the housing industry to create a world where every person in the world has a beautiful home and funds empowering young men to develop themselves in the process.

I have another amazing client who supports parents of children with autism - Their life's work is showing parents of children on the spectrum how to live independent, thriving and fulfilling lives.

If you haven't discovered your gifts yet, start by following your enthusiasm and your gifts will become self-revealing.

If you haven't yet discovered your life's work, continue nurturing your gifts and looking for ways to make a difference, and your life's work will eventually become clear.

The world needs you and your gift!

Wherever you are on your journey... Always keep asking...

1. What do I LOVE most?
2. What subject areas am I the most enthusiastic about?
3. How would I like to make a difference in the world?
4. What can I do effortlessly that others really need?

Big Love!
Chris

Over the years I have deeply contemplated the question "What is the purpose of life?"

I've read books, I've been coached, and also coached many of my clients on the topic.

There is a small problem with the question... "What is the purpose of life?"

And that is it attempts to condense the vast topic of purpose which is far too nuanced and complex to be adequately addressed in just a single question.

There are actually 4 simple inquiries at the heart of this question.

These 4 questions are connected in a simple way that simplifies the topic of purpose and gives you a clear way forward to make sense of purpose for the individual.

The first question is...

1. 'Why does the universe exist'?

Another way of asking this is; 'Why does 'existence' exist'?

The only answer that I believe matters is that the existence of a reality is the only reality we can consciously experience so therefore it is all we can know. The shortest and most simple answer... IT JUST IS.

The 2nd Question is...

2. 'Why did the universe create life'?

Again, similar to the first question discovering an answer to this philisophical contemplation is an intellectually stimulating but ultimately irrelevant idea. Whatever reason (if there was one) the fact remains that life exists.

Another question related to this is HOW did life come into being? This question is more directed to addressing the nature of how life works, distinctly different to understanding the reason(s) why the universe decided to allow life to come into existence.

My personal belief is that the universe simply creates every permutation of reality possible... Why? Simply because it can.

What I call Source (The infinite universal engine behind reality) doesn't need a logical reason or purpose for creating anything.

What if it just spontaneously creates all potentialities because it can. It is self-evident that the vastness behind source's creative power has no limit.

What if source's nature is simply to create.

The 3rd Question is...

3. 'Once life has been created, What is the purpose of Living Organisms'?

This question is an enquriy into the nature of biological living organisms. The answer is simple. The function of life is to sustain and propagate life. What distinguishes life from non-life is that all living systems reproduce themselves. So living organism have a purpose of surviving as long as they need to in order to reproduce.

The 4th Question relates to your own subjective experience...

4. 'What is the purpose of YOUR own life'?

Here is where the question has an opportunity to have a practical benefit to your life.

This is a subjective exploration for each individual.

Another way of asking this is 'What are those things that give your life a deeper sense of meaning and value?'

What gives your life VALUE is the real tangible opportunity for you to get to know yourself at a deeper level.

I created a video 'How to discover your purpose' where I share the 29 questions that are the faster way I know how to help you get clear on your own subjective sense of purpose. If you'd like to watch it drop a comment and I'll share it with you.

Loving you!

Chris