I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most

valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey

to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.

Success coach and co-creator of the enormously popular chicken soup for the soul series, Jack

Canfield, is here. Born in 1944 to Elmer and Ellen Canfield, Jack's parents divorced when he was young.

His mother remarried and to help make ends meet Jack worked summers at the local pool and at a shop alongside his stepfather.

He was a top student and earned a scholarship to Harvard and later went to the University of Massachusetts,

where he earned his master's degree in psychological education.

Jack's true passion is sharing a path to success

that can only be achieved by embracing the highest vision

each of us has for ourselves.

In his book, The Success Principles,

Jack says a huge step towards fulfillment

is figuring out what makes you come alive.

So you've been studying the principles of success for now, nearly 40 years. You know a few

things about it. I think so. You do. And one of the things I think that we talk about on

Super Soul all the time is being able to honor that calling and follow whatever the path

is for you. And what you teach is a path to reaching what you call the fulfillment of our soul's

purpose, which is exactly what we talk about here. And everybody has that. It's the same as a calling,

right? True. It's totally a calling. Yeah, the word vocari, vocation means to be called in Latin.

Yeah. And I believe we all have an inborn purpose that we were born to fulfill. And when we

fulfill that, then we achieve fulfillment. We achieve success. We achieve happiness. We achieve

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