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    A Higher Purpose: Living a Life of Meaning and Significance
    A Higher Purpose: Living a Life of Meaning and Significance
    A Higher Purpose: Living a Life of Meaning and Significance
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    A Higher Purpose: Living a Life of Meaning and Significance

    By Jim Reger

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    This is a book of thoughts. Ive always been intrigued by thoughts. And now, in my mid-sixties, after a few successful careers, watching my kids grow into adults and having celebrated my 40th wedding anniversary, it has become clear to me that my life is definitely a direct reflection of the thoughts that I have held over all those years. I have read about this notion; and while intuitively it made sense to me, I now can say, with clarity, that my life is living proof that the emotional intensity and amount of time that I applied to a thought had a direct relationship to what results showed up in my life.

    My life has been a search for meaning and significance. The thoughts and quotes in this book have provided me with the greatest inspiration for reflection. I hope you take this book home - pick it up, put it down, reflect and pick it up again and again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 1, 2012
    ISBN9781466905665
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      A Higher Purpose - Jim Reger

      © Copyright 2012 Jim Reger.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-0567-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-0565-8 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-0566-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011961347

      Trafford rev. 01/17/2012

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      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – The Awakening

      Chapter 2 – Purpose

      Chapter 3 – Cultural Influences

      Chapter 4 – Becoming Ourselves

      Chapter 5 – Change and Transformation

      Chapter 6 – Choice

      Chapter 7 – Love, Fear and Happiness

      About the Author

      PROLOGUE

      It started as a feeling—someone or something was trying to wake me up from the inside. I felt distressed and confused and fewer things made sense—but I couldn’t explain why or what was happening. I now know that awakening starts with confusion which leads to an awareness that there is an absence of meaning and purpose in our lives. We feel lost. We are not clear about what’s important. These are the signs that we are on a spiritual search:

      black.jpg    Why am I here?

      black.jpg    What am I supposed to be doing?

      black.jpg    How do I articulate the meaning and purpose of my life?

      black.jpg    Who am I—beyond my positions and possessions and my achievements?

      black.jpg    What matters the most to me?

      black.jpg    What are my deepest, unfulfilled dreams, passions, and gifts?

      black.jpg    What kind of a contribution am I making to the world—beyond my own self-interest?

      black.jpg    What is the point of my life?

      We don’t easily deal with these questions about ourselves because we know, at some deep level, that the answers will require us to change.

      When we can acknowledge, to ourselves, that our lives don’t make complete sense—we are at a potentially crucial point. This acknowledgement is often the beginning place for finding new meaning and significance and a higher purpose for living.

      From the time I can remember thinking as a child, I have somehow always believed there had to be a reason for our existence. What were all the struggles about? Was it just a random sequence of events? Were the people who came in and out of my life there strictly by chance? I started to question the significance of life early on, but I think many people don’t explore the deeper meaning of life because they fear there may not be one. But I chose to believe, at a very basic level, that our purpose is to evolve—to learn and to grow—and that the search for meaning is the central human experience.

      I spent much of my life around people who worried about money and the stuff it

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