This practical guide to life purpose offers over 60 self-discovery tools for understanding your natural design, your revealed call and how your whole life prepares you for what God made you to be. Written by a top Christian life coach, it’s an in-depth exploration of four key destiny themes:

Design: Looking inward to see what God has planted within
Calling: Looking outward to an external commission from God for others
Preparation: Looking backward at the destiny clues in your life story
Passion: Looking forward at the drives that propel you onward to your destiny

Going far beyond success and significance, this book examines biblical concepts like the connection between suffering and purpose, living toward heaven, and finding your life message (a unique incarnation of Christ to the world) as well as your life task. With specialized tools like influence styles and convergent roles designed for leaders, this book is a great resource for finding and following your calling.

From the Author
This workbook is part of a three-volume set on life purpose discovery. Each has a unique purpose:

A Leader’s Life Purpose Workbook is for those who want to discover their own life purpose. It includes a destiny model and 60 self-discovery exercises, giving you everything you need to fill any gaps in your self-understanding. You’ll end up with a personal purpose statement and a clear idea of how to start moving toward your calling.
The Christian Life Coaching Handbook is for the life coach. It takes the concepts and exercises in the workbook and uses sample dialogs, examples and coaching exercises to show you how to help others find their life purpose.
The Calling Journey is a life-mapping tool that offers an in-depth look at how God moves us toward our calling over time. There are different seasons and stages in life, and knowing what stage you are in gives you a huge leg up on how to engage God and make the most of that time. This book helps you construct a personal timeline of your journey and see how God has worked through it each step of the way.

Rationale
I created this set for two key reasons. First, I wanted to provide a full set of destiny discovery exercises all in one place for the Christian coach. Second and most important, I felt that the Christian coaching movement had not adequately grounded many of our key practices in a biblical framework. I’ve worked to bring biblical concepts like calling (“an external commission from God for others”), how call is reveal and formed through suffering, and pursuing heaven instead of earthly rewards into the mainstream of what Christian coaches do.

How This Fits with My Other Coaching Books
Leadership Coaching is the book to start with to learn how to coach. It covers the basic coaching values and mindset, how to carry on a coaching conversation and basic concepts like goals and actions. The Christian Life Coaching Handbook builds on this foundation, with a set of coaching tools specific to life purpose discovery. Coaching Questions is a reference guide to a plethora of coaching techniques (for experienced coaches), and a great aid to questions for those who are just learning. With over 1400 example questions arranged around the coaching tools they are used with, this book can help you coach like a pro from the start.

I also have a variety of CDs and training products from Coach22.comn. Coaching is an art, and one of the best ways to learn is to listen to an experienced coach at work. If you want to grow as a coach, listen in on a set like Coaching Transitions to catch the flow of a real coaching conversation.