Some people live about 90 years.

Some people live one year, 90 times.

Which one are you?

This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 77.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Good day to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I am your host Dave Stahopje.

This is a weekly show that helps smart people improve their communication

and leadership skills. And likely you're tuning in because you'd like to be more effective at what you're doing.

Probably if you're tuning in you're pretty effective at what you're doing now,

but you would like to do better.

And when I think about our purpose, the purpose we have in our own lives and the purpose that we have as leaders and our ability to influence others,

I wonder for a lot of us, are we truly aligned with our purpose to maximize our

potential and that's what our company's about that's what this shows about and

that's what this particular episode is about is looking at how our purpose is aligned with not only what we're doing

every day but how we're using that purpose in order to better others and not just sleepwalk through life and

sleepwalk through our work and our professional responsibilities and our ability to influence

the lives and the careers of others.

And when I thought about this topic this past week,

I thought the person that is the right person

to speak about with this is my friend Heather Baxter.

Heather Baxter. Heather has been a coach for many years and as someone who certainly knows this topic really well,

I sat down with her earlier this week to talk about purpose. Here's

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