YOUR PURPOSE TEST RESULT
“Mission”
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What Your Result Means
DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE ON THE PURPOSE TEST
Rejoice! Glitter! Champagne!
You are currently at the interface of “you love it”, “you are great at it” and “the world needs it”, which is a very sweet, joy-drenched, meaningful and productive place to be in. And, as with all accomplishments in life, from learning to read to finally knowing how to do your own tax declaration, it’s easy to focus on what’s missing. In your case that would be good old cash.
Before you think I’m calling you a starving artist, know this: you statistically scored lowest on you’re paid for it. It doesn’t mean you’re poor or doomed to be so. This test is just a snapshot of your perceived right now and does not attempt to establish any kind of typology.
Your results do suggest that you see yourself in a place of not earning enough (consistently?) to live the life you want and to live off of this love brainchild of yours. This could be a structural issue, as in you haven’t found out how to align yourself with abundance-inducing mechanisms, or a mental self-sabotaging one, any of which I dearly summarise under the umbrella term “money bullshit”. Either way, keep reading to get a loving and cheerful look at what has held other people back at this stage. You’re also getting some practical advice that I invite you to take with a pinch of salt (and a visualisation of you swimming in gold perhaps?).
What’s Holding You Back
MEET YOUR BULLSHIT MONSTERS®
No matter which stage you’re at, we all have a little voice in our heads that tries to keep us safe by keeping us un-extraordinary. I lovingly call this self-deprecating chatter “bullshit” and it’s best dealt with by visualising it as coming from a little monster, a bullshit monster!
Gloria Feelgood
Gloria Feelgood, for instance, is a pleasant and well-rounded monster who tells you it’s absolutely ok for you to go and sit on meditation mountain and contemplate the world for a little bit. In fact, she’ll argue, there’s quite the powerful abundance meditation you should try. She’ll recite ridiculous versions of the latest new age advice you’ve read and then usher you onto your couch to binge watch a few series rather than get on your business horse. You may just come to your senses three years later and realise you’ve been endlessly procrastinating in the name of “the right moment will reveal itself”.
Floral Agony
Here’s another common one: Floral Agony, the mistress of self-abandonment under the guise of doing good and generously giving to others.
Floral Agony likes to show up in moments when it would actually be time to sit down and sort out your affairs. She’ll waltz in like a heavily-scented good samaritan and carefully suggest that your plans seem rather selfish, opportunist even. Her speciality is to guilt you into over-giving. Spend a while with Floral Agony and you will have said yes to mentoring seven people for free, working eight days for a non-profit and baking nine cakes for a good cause. If you have the audacity to challenge whether this is a good idea, Floral Agony will dramatically gasp, clasp her petals to her mouth and look so cutely aghast, you’ll be on your way to the grocery store for more flour.
WHAT WOULD I HAVE TO CHANGE IN ORDER TO ADD A 0 TO MY PRICES?
AM I SURE IT’S NOT JUST MY BULLSHIT MONSTERS® TELLING ME I’M NOT WORTH IT?
WHAT PROBLEM AM I SOLVING FOR PEOPLE?
HOW CAN I FORMULATE WHY MY WORK IS USEFUL IN WAYS THAT ARE CONCRETE, TANGIBLE, POTENTIALLY URGENT AND EASIER TO PLACE A PRICE TAG ON?
WHAT WOULD STEPPING INTO DELICIOUS, COMMITTED PROFESSIONALISM LOOK LIKE?
What to do?
If you’ve been waiting for a sign to take this work seriously and really really go for it, please consider yourself signaled... with neon lights, trumpet horns, burning bushes and a deep, deep inner knowing. You are so very much on your path... and you know it.
All you need are some structural alignments and perhaps a little money bullshit cleanup. You can tell if you’re affected by the latter when the chatter goes “people are never going to spend money for this” or “believing that I will actually be able to thrive off of this is just ridiculous”.
Consider this: The world needs good people to make a lot of money. Isn’t the world just doomed if only bad people have and spend the money?
What to do? Play with these ideas (and tweak as they apply to your situation, these are just wild guesses after all).
Considering you’re already great at this, I’m confident the answers (and perhaps other, more specific questions) reside within you.
What would I have to change in order to add a 0 to my prices? Am I sure it’s not just my Bullshit Monsters® telling me I’m not worth it? What problem am I solving for people? How can I formulate why my work is useful in ways that are concrete, tangible, potentially urgent and easier to place a price tag on? What would stepping into delicious, committed professionalism look like?
And now what?
Go and be your brilliant purpose-driven self. You are on your path even when it doesn’t feel like it!
Plus, I’ve got your back. I’ll be in your email inbox in the next few days to help you contextualise your results and put them into action.
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With ease and confidence,
Anaïs
Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll be getting
Why asking yourself “what’s my purpose?” is one of the most useless ways of going about working with purpose (even if you really want to know)
What to do instead
How to deal with Bullshit Monsters® when you meet them out in the wild (procrastination, fear of ridicule, perfectionism - I’ve got you covered!)