Activation: Intentional Steps Toward Your Purpose with Dr. Pam King

With & For / Dr. Pam King

“Activate your skills, gifts, and passions for the benefit of others.”

Activation is the practical step in the cycle of 5 A’s for Agility in Spiritual Health—where we implement a practice or exercise, make a move toward our values, or experiment with something to help us grow.

In this episode, Dr. Pam King walks through the fourth step of the 5 A’s: Activate. This step in the cycle draws from each previous step, going from non-judgmental observation, internally connecting to our values, and then puts our values into action for the sake of living out our purpose.

Show Notes

  • Implement a practice or exercise, make a move toward our values, or experiment with something to help us grow.
  • “What is one thing I can do today to more clearly align my life to those values and those sources of joy and mattering  that I thought about when I was considering alignment.”
  • An attitude of discovery
  • Enacting intentional behavior; bringing our values into real life
  • “Activate your skills, gifts, and passions for the benefit of others.”
  • Activating your purpose
  • What will get us one step closer to our purpose?
  • Stay mindful of the feelings we attuned to in the first step of the 5 A’s.
  • Positive, expansive feelings
  • Small microsteps forward
  • Moving toward what matters most

About the Thrive Center

  • Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.
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About Dr. Pam King

Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.  Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For

  • Host: Pam King
  • Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
  • Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
  • Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
  • Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa

Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.

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