303: What is Your Soul Path for 2023? Follow What’s Most Alive — With Adrian Klaphaak

Happy new year, my friends!! Transitioning from holiday time off to the frenetic energy of returning to work and regular life can be rough — so today, recurring guest (and my first career coach) Adrian Klaphaak joins me back on the pod to jam about calmer ways of reentering a new year, and recentering to decide what kind of planning and tracking is the most joyful for you. 
More about Adrian: Adrian Klaphaak is a coach, purpose guide, entrepreneur, therapist, and founder of A Path That Fits Career and Life Coaching. His coaching approach is holistic—a constant balance between getting results and a quest for meaning and fulfillment. He describes himself as “a deep seeker with a constant itch to make things happen.”

🌟3 Key Takeaways:

Goals can be a loaded concept: they can be helpful or box us in. Try exaggerating your goals so far beyond what you would set typically, and see how your consciousness and creativity change to adapt to the new challenge. 

To calculate your personal year number in numerology: Add the digits of your birthday, birth month, and year (i.e., 2023). For example, February 3, 2023. The personal year number would be 0+2+0+3+2+0+2+3 = 13 = 1+3 = 4. Then read the corresponding profile here »


Before committing to something new, ask, “Is this really necessary?” Sometimes the easiest way to find more time and ease is to simply do less. What can you do less of next year, and what might that additional time mean for you?

 
✅Next Action: Take a breath before launching into a new goal or declaration for the year. Rest and recharge, then came back to the questions of: What do I really want? What is most exciting to me? What do I most want to give my energy to? What is a project that aligns with my soul’s path?

📘Books:


Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business 

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One


Life After College 


Life Cycles: Your Emotional Journey To Freedom And Happiness by Christine DeLorey


Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins

🔗Resources:

Adrian on the web, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn


Course: Career Pathfinder


Video: Finding Your Calling by a Path That Fits


Article: Trip vs. Vacation (Why traveling with kids is never a holiday) 

Creative Numerology

🎧Related Podcast Episodes:

283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits with Adrian Klaphaak

288: Embracing Uncertainty — Mic Flip with Adrian Klaphaak

299: Juggling Risk and Pursuing Passion while Pivoting in a Recession with Adrian Klaphaak

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Free Time 123: “Pricing is Branding” — Anti-Time Management with Richie Norton


Free Time 056: Set Your Compass—Systems vs. Goals


Free Time 152: Do Less — On Entropic Bloat and Business Haircuts



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