Harvesting the Light in Winter Darkness: Storyweaving Tips Featured in Pathways Magazine

Are the early sunsets getting you down? Now is the time to brighten your life and the world with an awareness of what the Hawaiians call your kuleana, your unique calling.

You’re born with this purpose; it’s one of the gifts that will sustains you and your community throughout your lifetime. Our kuleana is deeply connected to integrity and satisfaction in life, bringing us into aloha and balance:  community strength with individual purpose, humility, honesty, and resilience. In each of us, the kuleana is simultaneously a responsibility and a gift. It will not let us rest if we deny it. Whatever decisions we’re making (or avoiding!), from the core of our being, our kuleana will guide next steps that transform insight into actions. Find out three steps to ground yourself in your calling and identify your best next step in this January issue of Pathways Magazine!

As many of us think about the New Year’s Resolutions we might make, remembering our purpose is a helpful way to avoid tormenting ourselves with obligations that grow out of our fears and failures. A calling leads us forward, and your vision of the New Year’s hopes should lead you into possibilities that will surprise and expand your daily life. Diets, debt resolution and other drudgeries may be important maintenance tasks, but they’re not particularly inspiring to most of us. Be creative — choose a resolution that gets you revved up and on the right path.

Organizations have a kuleana as well. I’ll talk more about that in a January blog — keep an eye out for that in 2022!

In the meantime, enjoy your holidays, rest up, and spark your New Year with a vision that will fuel your creativity and joy.