Exploring Life’s Pivotal Moments

Fiction writer, Sandra Kring once noted, “We work hard to disown the parts of our lives that were painful, difficult, or sad. But just as we can’t rip chapters out of a book and expect the story to still make sense, so we cannot rip chapters out of our past and expect our lives to still make sense. Keep every chapter of your life intact, and keep on turning the pages. Sooner or later you’ll understand why every scene, every chapter was needed.”

Throughout our life journey, we encounter a variety of different experiences. We meet new people, we make friends, we get an education, we take certain jobs, we change our career, we explore certain hobbies, we find love, we experience break-ups, we make commitments to life partners, we have children, we lose loved ones, we get ill……… the list goes on.

When a life experience causes you to pause on your life path and take a different turn you otherwise wouldn’t have taken on your own, it’s called a “pivotal life moment.”

When you meet a person who changes your life in a significant way – or you give birth to a child – your life purpose path is altered. It sends you in a different direction. This is also called a “pivotal life moment.”

Pivotal life moments are those moments in your life where everything is forever changed because someone or some event or some decision crossed your path at a particular point, altering your life direction.

We’ve all had pivotal life moments, some welcomed – and others not. But no matter what the circumstances were, they changed our lives forever.

What were some of your pivotal life moments?

Allow yourself to look at significant moments that gave you incredible joy and happiness – as well as significant moments that caused you sadness, pain or grief.

Ponder your life as early as you can remember – up until now. Look for those moments that caused you to pause on the path you were traveling – and that spun you around, sending you in another direction.

And pay particular attention to those moments that caused you great emotion – whether it was happiness or sadness, anger or relief, frustration or peacefulness, or maybe confusion or a profound sense of belonging.

Also, be sure to note any significant events that put you in a place of deep questioning.

As fiction writer, Sandra Kring points out – “…. just as we can’t rip chapters out of a book and expect the story to still make sense, so we cannot rip chapters out of our past and expect our lives to still make sense.”

Your life journey does matter. It carries clues that reveal your North Star – that guiding light within you that has the ability to pull you through your darker moments and into the light of possibility. It’s what I call the “full moon within.”

If you’re intrigued by the concept of pivotal life moments and how they connect to your larger life purpose, consider joining me in my Purple Possibility programs where we explore them in more depth as we connect the dots of life’s many synchronicities.

Here’s to the rich tapestry of your pivotal life moments!