What did God tell you to do?

My new hero, Iyanla Vanzant, said God told her to do four things: tell her story, teach His law, write books, and make people laugh. What are you being driven to do?

I once worked with a woman who had struggled against her gift her whole life. It made her very unpopular, she said, even with her family.

What was it?

This woman could cut through BS like no one on the planet. There was no duping her at all. Easy to see how she made people uncomfortable, isn't it? But when we think more globally, people like her are important for society. When we live in our illusions we think we are "greasing the wheels" and making life easier for everyone.

What we are really doing, however, is drawing out an already painful process. Kind of like ripping off an emotional band-aid as slowly as possible. If we all accepted our gifts and refused to be strayed from that path, each and every one of us would benefit. My client's ability to cut through BS, for example, would teach us to stop using it as a tool. We all could use a little less BS in the world, couldn't we?

I'm not sure how Vanzant came up with four, but I'll go with it - four is a pretty powerful number (think squares).

Four things God told me to do:

1. Teach people there is a better way, that struggle is not necessary.
2. Lead a life of health and honor.
3. Go forth into the world with a vision and illuminate that vision with his love.
4. Find solutions to the prickly problems that catch people up and distract them from their paths.

Now, if only I could learn those lessons myself!