Purpose Lab

"The objective is that children themselves bring out the best in themselves, not me bringing it out, but that they can have the circumstances and the continuity that they need while bringing out the best in themselves throughout their life. It is important that we feel like part of the earth at this moment and of the universe, because if we do not feel a part, then you have things like the environmental crisis, because we cannot take care of something that we do not feel a part of."

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"I discovered my purpose in life to be creating a positive impact on others, especially marginalized groups that include women and children. I want to do that through mentoring them and giving them life changing opportunities through some of the projects that I do, so that at the end of the day they are able to make sound decisions, develop their capacity, and be able to earn life skills and livelihood. What led me to this purpose was the fact that I personally come from a remote village in a small town in northern Uganda. That region is the poorest compared to other regions. I lived in such a community where young girls have challenges accessing opportunities that include schooling and access to menstrual hygiene management. I lived seeing some of these problems in the community, and growing up I have always admired that at one point I would be able to do something about it."

It really hit me hard when I was making What the Bleep Do We Know?, and it was in the early phases of it. I was telling some friends of mine who were not really into all the stuff about it, and they all got very intrigued. They were like, 'Wow, that is really interesting.' I talked a little bit about the quantum things that were so bizarre, and people were really intrigued. I just got the sense that there were millions of people out there who really wanted to hear this stuff. That was a bit of a surprise to me, that I got that perception so clearly. Once I got it, I was like, 'Oh, okay, there is a calling for it, and I am going to do it.' There were points while making the film, which was quite difficult, that I kind of thought about stopping. Then I would think about these millions of people out there who were pulling, and I was like, okay, I am not going to throw in the towel.

If 60 percent of the people discovered their purpose in awakening, then the world would not be the same. We would see the nature of reality very differently. We would understand that we are one in consciousness. We would actually become a soul level civilization. And what we would do is say, okay, that soul, that's their blueprint, and they're inventing these types of technologies. As the soul comes in from the source and as the souls express their highest potential, the whole of human consciousness would shift significantly. The visions I have for the world are about how we take digital technology and enliven it to serve the well being of humanity, to uplift those who are struggling, and to create a society where the soul of every single individual can be expressed. There is no need to be frightened of AI. We are going to put AI into the hands of the people. AI can be a very powerful assistant in helping us have more time in our lives. The whole point of AI is to give us back the gift of time.

While I was making this documentary, I also realized the pain of what we're doing to our mother earth. Because to me, war is not about territory. It's about land. It's about soil. And the soil is our mother earth. So the film very much for me currently is actually about peace. It was in the making of this documentary about war that I realized that I need to serve something even bigger than the war, what we're doing to our planet. Where this led me is to the understanding that enemy is such a lie. The idea of enemy is a lie. And what's interesting is even when I'm dealing with the topic of war currently, because my family tree was cut off for being dehumanized, I refuse to dehumanize anybody, even if it's the so-called enemy. But I just want to approach them with love, which is everything I have towards them.

Our purpose is not about ourselves. We are hosts for higher powers that we yet can't control through our own individual will. But as a group, yes, if we find the right group, we can have more powerful will activity. And this is the agreement of, the idea of a democracy was the fact that a democracy wasn't our will, it was the will of a divine being. Ancient Greece were the will of other beings in these various sacred temples. When we know we all can contribute our will to something that's needed in the world, the abundance field grows, and more imagination and inspiration can fill the world. So money is only preparing us to do something far more superior than a transaction, far more enriching to the inner purpose of our being than transacting and feeling, I got what I wanted. It's supposed to be also, I contribute what is needed. I contribute my will to something that's needed in the world. That's a different kind of creation.

I discovered my purpose to be elevating consciousness and inspiring lasting personal transformation and social and planetary transformation through media and film. I really felt like my purpose had a doing component and a being component. And so my purpose is also to evolve into my highest form, which is really just a remembering of the true self. I am intending to be an instrument, an instrument of elevating consciousness in the world. I really truly believe that purpose is something you hear. And if you're truly listening and in connection with the universe, you will be selected to be the vehicle, the instrument, the channel for whatever is supposed to manifest.

The impact that my passion has, the one I so deeply desire to see manifest in others is that I genuinely feel that with this I am changing the world. I mean the world, because you know there's only one parent. There can be a parent and a child, but all that learning, everything the parent observes, and I maintain communication with the parent so that we can ensure a good and successful education, and that the child can develop adequately and the parent practices it at home. So we're already doing it. We're succeeding because that father will tell another father, that child will teach another child, and will create a chain. So I am not just changing the community I'm in. I'm changing the entire world.

It's to reduce suffering and to expand awareness and to help usher in an enduring golden age for all humanity. To have as a vocation to make this experience available to everyone is far more than what those words describe. He made a $6 million scholarship fund to train people from his company and also to train over 200 Canadian Aboriginals. At one point, Chief Willie Littlechild, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Canadian National Parliament, invited me to speak at the United Nations in Geneva at the Aboriginal intersection about the work. I actually had to come up with a new word. Contagion is the transmission of something bad, and protagen is the transmission of good qualities. Protagenous. When people are living from their purpose, they're happier, and the people around them are happier. They're not creating trauma.

If someone is feeling a bit lost and they don't feel like they have a purpose, the main thing I would say is stop looking for it inside yourself. The absolute key that we see in all of the research is when you shift your focus away from yourself. It's not about you, it's about other people. What can you do to help? We see this in social connection in the research as well. To build social connections, you have to stop thinking about what you're going to get from a social interaction and start thinking about what you can give to that interaction. If you start small and just think, where can I help? What can I do? It doesn't have to be an immediate mission straight away, but just those small little actions of focusing away from yourself, looking at where you can actually help someone else, give something to an interaction. I think the mission and the purpose will follow from there. The rationale behind that is similar to what I was saying before. If you're focused on a greater mission, a greater purpose, it's something that is beyond you, so you're not focused on your own physical well-being. You don't have that stress. You're focused beyond yourself. That personal selfish stress melts away and you're passionate about this bigger picture. It's something that will live on beyond you, that is important regardless of the small things that happen to you, and that seems to be very powerful in terms of people's physical and emotional health.

I'm specifically passionate about children and making it a better place for children. I remember being really little, seven or eight years old, and thinking that if I could just become a doctor and help little kids live better or a philanthropist and create a place where kids could grow up really healthy. I'm very passionate about helping younger families be able to take care of their kids better, work less, have a start into life so that the kids can grow up in either a healthy family unit or more of a tribal setting where it's not all on the parents. I don't know how people do it nowadays, young parents trying to pay for a mortgage, trying to work, commuting, and just the way society is set up. When I had my kids, I very much felt like it shouldn't be this hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's really a flaw in the system. I really believe that when it's counterintuitive because it feels selfish to just do your thing, but when you do, you allow others to also do their thing. And my thing is to do for others. It's yes, it's selfish in a way, but I'm very driven by doing it for others, so mostly everything I do is to make the world a better place. Kind of like Mother Teresa.

I have set up goodshipepard.co to be my place where my thoughts and my personality live here in reality. Anything that I make financially off of that, 50 percent gross immediately goes to charitable organizations and to continue research on very important things that are going to change everything. That is my commitment. That is my give back. I say my prayers for humanity, never for myself, and that is key. Pray for everyone else. You only pray for yourself if it is going to help other people.

Once you clear all the cobwebs, once you take away all of those structures that keep you off your purpose, once you are there, there is no stopping you. There is no stopping you. And so that freedom to just go, go, go. That is what is in it. That is what is in it for you. And there is a spiritual freedom in that too. There is. Because when you are living your purpose, you are in touch with the nature of your consciousness and what you are here to do, and what you are here to do is bigger than any one person. That is big. It is as high as it gets. So you are actually living in what we will call divine alignment. The reason I am so thrilled to be helping co create Yuna is because I needed these tools when I was sixteen. When I was struggling, I walked myself to the public library and read self help books to try to figure it out. There were no resources. Many people still do not have access to resources, and that disparity absolutely needs to be addressed.

I think that once I had this understanding, that I was trying to remember something, my entire career focus changed. I realized that I had work to do on myself, that I had been chasing fame for all the wrong reasons, and that it wasn't going to give me what I'd been looking for. And I knew that I had to go within, spend some time working on me, and reevaluating what I wanted in my life. And out of that came this absolute knowing that I had to go to America. I had to go to America because I was going to find something there that was going to be pivotal in helping me move forward in whatever it was I had come to do. At that point, I didn't realize that what I'd come to do was to share, to connect people with information and knowledge.

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By positive person, I mean someone who's developing themselves to grow and help us solve problems in our world. That's the only way we are going to advance humanity. We have to develop ourselves as humans. I call it universal man, universal woman, to be the ones who step into those roles to make the changes we want to see. We have to do more. We can't avoid those areas. They affect us. We can't create these kumbayas and think everything's going to be okay because ultimately it's going to invade us at some point. We have to get involved, and those are social injustices. Wherever we are flawed in our system, we have to step in and represent, and that's what I'm called to do now.

If everyone was able to live with choice in their life that was self-created, with a sense of their uniqueness and their purpose, that's got to be either Nirvana or heaven. If this is what we're enduring now on the planet, then that could be, I think, the most reasonable iteration of heaven because we would all be in the higher angels of our nature. We would be capable of understanding our value and, therein, an even more effective node of clarity. We're like an atom. Each molecule is a part of the circular collective and whole, and if we're all firing on all cylinders, wow, that's got to be the best iteration of heaven or Nirvana. We know the universe is infinite, but we also know it's molecular. We have relevance, and the fact that we're still living means there's something we're still supposed to be able to affect. If you focus on the positive at the forefront of your interactions, which is sometimes hard because the dogma in the world is one thing, and considering external influences and nature, that's the constant human challenge or test for me.

If we all knew our purpose and thought of ourselves as stewards of this planet, we would be living in peace. We would experience peace, not just feel it, sense it, or have glimpses of it. We would all live in harmony because we would all be serving and supporting each other. Nobody, not one single human, would be left alone without bread, without food, without water. Everyone would be taken care of. We would help each other be the best version of ourselves. We would elevate. We would reach levels of connection that we have yet to experience, levels of love, connection, serenity, and peace that I have glimpses of. My message to all of us, to all of humanity, is that we are one human family. We belong to this world, to this planet, to this universe, under the stars, the moon, and the sun. We will get to go to different galaxies, Mars, the moon, and beyond, but we must do it here first on planet Earth, and do it right.

Is the fast solution always the best one? Of course not, but is it the one we choose most? Probably. In his talk, Tim Kelley shows us how our decision making process can sometimes lead to childish behaviour and make countries behave like kids. Tim Kelley is a global change agent and internationally renowned expert on new paradigm systems and methods. He works with top leaders in many fields and countries to transform and evolve organizations, markets and industries. His client list includes top leaders and executive teams from such companies as Alibaba, ING, Oracle, Nabisco and Price Waterhouse Coopers, as well as government ministers, presidential candidates and leaders of international NGOs. Tim has trained over 1000 consultants, therapists and coaches in his methods. He is the author of True Purpose and the best-selling coauthor of three other books. His methodologies have been featured internationally in magazines, newspapers and on television. Tim has commanded military organizations, including an amphibious assault craft unit, and is a retired Naval Reserve officer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from MIT. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Ask

For me, having individuals living their purpose is insufficient. The reason is that a lot of the power and structure that we live in, that benefits us tremendously and also creates harm, is held by systems. By systems I mean things like companies, governments, laws, and the internet. Those systems have a tremendous amount of power, and those systems reflect and act from the consciousness that was used to create them. To me, it's insufficient to have evolved, purposeful people in unevolved, unpurposeful systems and declare victory. That doesn't work for me and I don't think it would work for the world either. In addition to having lots of people living their purpose, we need purposeful companies, purposeful countries and governments, and purposeful systems. What's the purpose of the internet? Good question. Is it living that purpose? I'm not sure because I don't know what its purpose is. But challenging business, government, religion, science, art, and the media to know and live up to their purposes, I think, would create a vastly better world. The two countries I've worked with so far unofficially, I look forward to doing it officially, are Colombia, right after they signed the peace agreement with the narco terrorists and ended years of conflict in Colombia. The other country I worked on was Israel, and I would love to make that project official because they really need it.

"I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children, youth, and families who are immobilized in pain, fear, and shock. The way to get to them is not to say, let me talk to you, can you fill out this form. It is about, I see you, I feel you, I hear you, I need you to come back. The way back is through song. I sing to them, they start crying, then we process the grief and pain and get to a place of starting to heal. I feel that it really is the balm that heals the soul and the soul of the world."

"I have a really strong need to change things, to rip down old paradigms and to create new ones, and I have a really strong need to help other people. I think that went through with our work with What Doctors Don't Tell You. We have covered just about every kind of illness and tried to offer people healthy solutions that don't harm. We are very aware of the state of modern medicine and the fact that it is just an extraordinarily greedy business now, with nothing to do with healing. That has been a really important factor for me."

"We can become spiritual beings. We need to reconnect to our divinity, our supra human Jedi capacities, and at the same time we can do better on this planet. There is no reason why there is hunger, sickness, and the problems that the planet has. We have enough resources, intelligence, action, commitment, and skill to do it. I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

"My purpose is my next patient, it's never changed. My goal is my next patient. People say, but what about your family? Yeah, that's there, that's my responsibility, that's my love, but this is my purpose. And if I'm able to fulfill this purpose, everything around me gets better. So that's my passion, and that's my purpose. A lot of people ask me, what my purpose is. My purpose is my next patient."

"What's one thing that we can relate on, or several things that we can all relate on, that we're all experiencing, and how do we come together to come up with a solution to that together? That is what I feel my soul's mission, soul's purpose, is, to create content that gets into that, not just the little pieces, not just what we think of climate change or belief systems or meditation, but the whole, the big picture, the main core that connects all of us. Those things are what I'm really focusing on, and to take a brighter, broader stance so there's no one left behind."

"My purpose in life has always been to help people. Back in New York on Long Island, I was a police officer at Kennedy Airport for 31 years. Then in 2010, I retired, moved to Sedona, and now here it is, 14 years later, and I am the mayor of Sedona. You've heard the saying you want to leave a place better than when you found it. I want to be a part of the win. I want to be a part of a success. I want to leave Sedona better than when I arrived here in 2010. In city government, I'm fighting for the people. I'm listening to people, listening to the residents, and when there's a need, I'll fight. I don't give up."

Right before a lecture, I had a dream. I was walking along the ocean with all the seekers of the world, all walking together, and in the distance I saw a figure, a woman dressed in blue holding a microphone. As we got closer, she was covered up in a smoke or a fog. To my right, to her left, were horseshoe stands with all the people who have written self-help books and have courses, six-level courses, and seminars. A big wind blew off the ocean, and I heard the following: all one needs for greater enlightenment is a beautiful heart, an open mind, and a humble spirit, and you will reach enlightenment. That dream led me to even further opening up, where I have since developed the philosophy of a beautiful heart, an open mind, and a humble spirit. My very wise Deborah said, well, that's the lifestyle, but people are going to ask how you do it. You do it with love, in love, and through love.

"We have now achieved a moment through the internet to have a university without walls, to have a download of information that allows us to do in a few years what normally would take generations. We're here really to help humanity to get that bigger picture and to realize it's not something we have to fear. It's something we have to understand, that makes us grow in our image of ourselves. We all have an important purpose, especially right now. The planet is going through so many changes, and we're all excited about it."

"I started working in cultural exchange, and that was magic for me. I suddenly realized that all my focus on me was changing to the we, to the collective we. I started working with international students from all over the world, and that was such an extraordinary experience because I was facilitating their experiences. When I turned 26, I cried because I thought I was so old, so over the hill, and I thought by then I was going to know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. That's when I actually put out a prayer to the universe, and I discovered cultural exchange shortly after that. Suddenly I found myself in this industry that I thought, this is beautiful. I'm bringing people together, I lost my sense of worrying about self, and suddenly I was much more concerned about others. It was hugely impactful."

We've been able to be the first refugees all over the world to receive the Rotary International Global Grant. It's a grant which is more than 140,000, and it has never happened. We, as Best Future, we made it. It was more of helping education, helping children access education. We purchased desks, we installed tanks at the place so that the community can access water. Now more than 100 people get safe water from BFC every day. Every day, every time I remind myself that I'm not here in this world just for nothing. I'm here to support others. I was born, I always have a mission to accomplish, and that's providing education to young children, refugees, those who have no opportunities. My big vision is to have Best Future Center implemented in all the refugee camps in Africa, having refugees access education, children. I want to see the world of literate people.

The amazing thing about Choose Love is that it has spread by word of mouth and referral of our programming, and we are now in over 14,500 schools. We are being taught in every state in the United States, and in some states we are the number one taught essential life skills program, and then in 120 countries, which is really incredible. I truly believe that our purpose is to take what we have learned through our lived experience, both good and bad, that translates into wisdom, so take that wisdom and use it to help other people. I truly believe that is why we are here on Earth. Every single one of us has a unique story. We see the world through a different lens, and we all have this incredible story that we can use to help other people so other people do not have to suffer like we did in order to get the benefit from the lessons that we learned.

The Global Wisdom Foundation is a living library of awakening people to the revelation of spoken wisdom from the luminaries, known and unknown in our world, set to music or images in a way that in five, six, seven minutes drops people into a state of remembrance, into that state of wordlessness, into that state of awe that conveys wisdom in a way that changes their lives. The other component of it is offering a tour of musical celebration, where we celebrate our multiplicity and our diversity. I want to go around the world offering these concerts that demonstrate what I'm talking about, who we are, and what we're here for: celebration, joy, connection, gratitude, wisdom, song, spoken word, creativity. These are the things that are the lifeblood of what makes us human.

From my vantage point, autism is a mismatch between the soul's vibrational expression and our human experience. The soul's vibrational expression for many of these kids is vast. I see them as the new human, or a new species, like a new iteration, part of our human evolution. What I have learned directly from the kids on the spectrum, they have collectively come here to help evolve human consciousness. The capacities that they have, as far as that, you might say, are associated with oneness or unity, they already have that. That is already their template. Every single human being on this planet comes in with whatever energetic template they come in as. They are all here to support the collective unification of humanity. As that energy rises, as that template of unity consciousness rises, what we notice is that we begin to lose those parts of ourselves that have created separation or divisiveness. We are at a time in human history, right here, right now, where those higher states of consciousness that these kids have been bringing can now land and manifest in this world at this time.

I think when you're focusing on things that are bigger than any of us, that provides a shield. It's not about me, so my ego gets out of the way. There's a bigger story to tell, and you just let it come through you, let it out, and just keep going.

"I have discovered my purpose to be facilitating greater spiritual consciousness on the planet, reconnecting our planet to the source of living reality, which is understood by many different names as God, the universe, and life, light, the highest, deepest, most beautiful truth, and that we on the planet became disconnected from that in a variety of different ways through no fault of our own, and yet here we are in a time of reconnection. So I have discovered my purpose to be an anchor for that reconnection and to proclaim the good news that we are connected to the source, that we are children of God, that we are one family, with all of our beauty and diversity."

"I think that service to our fellow human beings is our purpose in life. Think of our purpose in life, that we're all pebbles, and when that pebble hits the pond, the proverbial concentric circles touch other pebbles, so by being that listener that listens to another person, you do not know how the good act that you have done has touched other people, which touch other people, which touch other people. So you already know your purpose, just let it shine."

"What if all the people around me were experiencing the same wonderful life. Then it would not just be me having an experience of my personal heaven on Earth, the whole planet could experience heaven on Earth. It was a driving force that says, I am going to go out there and talk to everybody that I can to help them get out of the victim mentality and get into the creative nature of who they are."

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"In a professional sense, I have defined my purpose as using my two core professional trainings and skills, the world of technology and the world of business, and how the two can come together. Using technology and business for the greater good. By greater good, I mean increasing the quality of life on the planet for everyone, reducing suffering, and helping everyone find their purpose and joy. We are all fellow pilgrims, so not just do it for yourself, do it along with others and help others as well."

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"When I got clean, one of the questions I had was, if I could just help one person, it would make my life meaningful and give it some purpose. I started helping people, bringing them in, getting them clothes and haircuts, helping from the ground up. With Miracles Happen, we started giving jobs, providing furniture when people moved out, and donating to other nonprofits. If someone's house burned down, we'd donate trailer loads of furniture. It was really nice to be part of the solution. Last month, there were four people that had 10 years clean who had been through our program. One of them just had twins. He came in, he was going to die, he was like a skeleton. He got his teeth back, he got his worth back, he started his life, now he's married, he has two twins, he's productive. It makes such a big difference just by saving one life."

I have spent years in technology and as an entrepreneur, but in the last decade or so, the focus has really been on serving this purpose and integrating both my contemplative life with my life as a business person and entrepreneur, and my experience in technology. Bringing these streams together. The beautiful thing is that everything needed to heal the world, to heal individual and collective trauma, to create a transformed environment in the world, is all here. Everything we need, all of the resources, all of the conditions, are arriving at the right time. It would probably be something we long for and dream of, and something far more than we can even imagine, how beautiful and how wonderful it could be. It will go into dimensions of human experience and possibility that we have never encountered before. I would say it would thrust us into a state of divine wonder.

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"When I discovered my purpose and passion was in service to humanity, that showed up early on in life and has sort of shown itself throughout. There's definitely been a thread there in my life. Currently, I'm working with the World Upshift organization, and we're working to upshift all the other tremendous work that's happening in the world. I do volunteer work as well in service of humanity, and I've done that my entire life. I look back even starting as early as sixth grade, helping Cambodian children who were becoming orphaned from the war."

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"My calling is the big agenda, I'll call it, which is my true self, which is the world around me. There is no such thing as a separated self. Once I started tuning into the big agenda, which is the world around me, and really felt it was coming from a place of connection with the divine, which is the one that animates all of life and is omnipresent, meaning the planet, eight billion people, animal life, and plant life are part of this oneness too, once I started tuning into that and putting my energy into creating health and wellbeing for that, that's where the wind was at my back. The synchronicities happened, the miracles came, the resources showed up. Our true self is this whole world around us, this big agenda, this bigger self, not the little self I grew up with that was Steve Farrell just as this body. Once I made the decision that this was not who I was, that the bigger self is who I am serving, I did my best to serve that bigger self by creating educational programs through Humanity's Team. All we have to do is serve the big agenda, not the little agendas, the wants for little things, and it all happens."