Is Your Treasure Hidden?
by Paige Stapleton and Brian Stark

Back in the late fifties a Buddhist temple was being relocated to make room for a highway and one of its clay Buddha statues was being moved when is slipped from the crane and came crashing to the ground. Appearing cracked, broken and of no real value, the workers left it and moved on to their next task.

The next morning a temple monk, having had a dream about the clay Buddha, went to it. Through a crack in the clay he saw a glint of yellow below the surface. He grabbed a chisel and hammer and began to chip away at the clay around the crack. As he knocked off more and more clay, he realized that there was something very special just below the surface, and before long the monk was standing face to face with an extraordinary solid-gold Buddha.

Today that Golden Buddha resides at The Temple of the Golden Buddha in Bangkok, and is the world's largest solid-gold Buddha.

We chose to share this story with you, because it is a wonderful metaphor for so many of our lives. So often we can so get caught up in the "forward progress" of our career, our relationships, and our adult life that we create a facade that covers up our truest desires and like the workers, we fail to see the value that lies just below that facade - our dreams and our passions. Eventually our dreams and passions become discarded in the mud beside the highway of our life.

What is important for us to realize is that, like the clay Buddha, our dreams and our passions are actually our unique gifts. And as we chip away the clay that surrounds them, we discover something that has always been there, our very own golden Buddha - our Life Purpose.

We may ask ourselves, "Why is it important to know my Life Purpose?"

Once discovered, your Life Purpose gives you a solid focus for your life, a compass heading - your own unique True North. And as you come into alignment with and step into your Life Purpose, your unique gifts begin to shine, and you recognize within yourself the priceless treasure you truly are.

OUR INVITATION

We invite you to take some time to check in with yourself and see if you are tapping into all the wonderful gifts and deeper desires you have inside of you and are sharing them with the world.

You are meant to live a life with freedom and joy, not stuck and trudging through your day. Open the door to the possibilities of living a life that brings you your greatest joy, your greatest peace and your greatest love!

If you aren't sure what your deeper desires and gifts are, we have a fast, fun and easy way for you to explore them with our new "Unlock the Power Behind Your Passion and Purpose In 5 Easy Steps" audio program. For more details, please visit http://stapletonstark.com/product/unlockyourpurpose.html.

Meditation

Below is a meditation from Today's Truth about being grateful for all of life's gifts...

Life's Gifts

When we begin to treat everything coming into our life as a gift, we are able to come from a place of gratitude about everything in our life.

When we come from a place of gratitude, Life begins to give us more.

As Life gives us more, we have more to be grateful for, and it becomes easier for us to see everything as a gift.

What a perfect, uplifting cycle, and it all begins with saying, "Thank you".

By being grateful, we acknowledge the Creative Source of all things, and we stay connected to that which creates everything.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes and genuinely thank whatever comes into your mind, no matter what it is.

Allow a profound feeling of gratitude to well up within you.

Feel yourself connecting with the Divine, spend a few moments thanking It for all of life's gifts, and know your gratitude is inviting Life to bring more into your life.

About the Authors

Putting into action the very system and Universal Spiritual Principles they teach, Paige Stapleton and Brian Stark left unfulfilling careers and created a life they love. As founders of Authentic Marketing and The Authentic Marketing System™, they help other spiritual and heart-felt service-based entrepreneurs and business owners discover the spiritual path to profits so they can grow their business, attract more clients and make more money doing what they love.

Contact Paige and Brian at info@AuthenticMarketingMadeEasy.com or 1-866-999-2348.

For free tips, tools, articles and to download your F.R.E.E. Special Report: "The 3 Keys to Increasing your Profits While Staying Aligned with Your Passion and Purpose", visit www.AuthenticMarketingMadeEasy.com. Start your morning with our "Today's Truth" Meditation available at www.KnowTruthLiveTruth.com.