The true purpose she declared showed strong interest in help-
ing people maintain their health. She spent a couple of weeks re-
searching business opportunities in this field. Then she bought a
distributorship in a network marketing company offering health
products. She began selling these part time while staying, at least
temporarily, at her social work job.
She was much happier and successful, too, in her network mar-
keting business. Her ability to support other people and to deal
with their problems from her experience as a social worker served
her well in her relations with customers and the distributors who
signed up to conduct the business down the line from her. Her nat-
ural ability to motivate others and to provide them with a vision of
their own potential aided her in creating prosperous distributors in
her group.
Beverly was an attorney working as a research specialist in a
large law firm. Although she had risen rapidly because of her hard
work and ability to uncover the arguments her colleagues needed
for their trial presentations, her dissatisfaction increased yearly. A
single mother, she agonized about the long hours she spent away
from her three children, her true source of joy. She worried they
were growing up without her.
Her true purpose revealed that her most important values re-
lated to children in general and her children in particular. Bev-
erly realized her inherited purpose was about law and arguments
came from her father, a federal judge. A preoccupied man, he
paid her little attention unless she contentiously discussed the
cases he had heard. As a child, she had used these discussions to
get her father’s attention.
On her next vacation, she took a temporary job at a local
day care center and loved it. After the vacation, she switched to
part-time hours at the law office, simultaneously working part
time at the day care center. She put together a plan to purchase
a center.
Her research skills came into use when she gathered informa-
tion about the centers in her town to identify the best ones to buy.
She bought the best one available and quit the law firm. Within a
few years, she had expanded to a chain of several centers.
George was a Training participant who was a highly talented pi-
anist and composer with far greater problems than even the usual
Starving Artist. George was receiving welfare checks and had been
for quite some time. In fact, George was a third-generation welfare
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