The Destiny Discovery with Michelle Casto
Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 2 of the Virtual Blog Tour of author Michelle Casto whose book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success launches on Amazon on Tuesday January 17, 2012.
A renowned Life & Business Coach, Michelle L. Casto is an advocate for “everyday enlightenment”, and author of the book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success. Throughout her 20-year career, she has published over 30 life empowerment and career development books, including Get Your Career on the Fast Track. A former university lecturer and career counsellor, Michelle has worked with thousands of international clientele to find their ideal career path. A natural-born empath and healer, Michelle has become well known for her potent magic that transforms people into knowing & honoring who they are at a very deep level. Michelle’s mission is to awaken people to their soul purpose through her unique Destiny Success Process. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her beloved husband and two dogs. These days, Michelle’s mission is to awaken people to their life purpose through her unique Destiny Success Process.
Yesterday, Michelle visited Lynn Serafinn at http://lynnserafinn.com/authors/what-is-the-path-of-destiny-author-michelle-casto-speaks-with-lynn-serafinn, where they talked about What is the path of DESTINY?
Today, I’d like to share with you a recent interview I had with Michelle when I got to ask her some questions on choice stepping stone, identifying soul purpose and overcoming low self-esteem. I hope you enjoy it.
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Callie Carling: Hi Michelle, I’d love to know more about the “choice stepping stone” and how this can help us to step towards our Destiny?
Michelle Casto: Dorothy Gilman once said, “It is when we make choices that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.” and I resonate with her wisdom. In my forthcoming book, The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success, I share the idea that there are stepping stones to Destiny. Let’s look at the idea of CHOICE and remember how it gives us power in the direction of our destinies.
The Dictionary says: choice is the act of choosing, power of choosing, a person or thing chosen, the best part, care in selecting.
What it REALLY means: making a commitment to what matters to you; acting on your priorities and your values; expressing to yourself and to others what you want and need in your life.
Why it MATTERS?
CHOICE moves you from stuck into action; from uncertainty to decision.
CHOICE gives you freedom from ‘what should I do?’ to ‘What do I want to do?”
If you have a choice to make, take a moment right now to ask yourself these Self-Coaching Questions:
What CHOICE do I want to make? What is preventing me from making a CHOICE?
What would simplify this CHOICE?
Keep in mind, that choices are one of the stepping stones that lead to great opportunities for your future. So choose wisely and choose from the heart.
Callie Carling: Many of my clients are creative entrepreneurs who are really in tune with themselves: what’s the connection between our careers and our soul purpose and how can your book help us identify our soul purpose?
Michelle Casto: Every person has a uniquely encoded purpose and the real work of our lives is finding and living it. In my work as a purpose guide, I have come to see that a vast majority of us are either missing or mis-identifying our purpose, so much so, that it is a commonly undiagnosed malady in today’s society. In fact, I believe that depression could be lessened, even alleviated when people live authentically and boldly from their heart.
The challenge comes from people not knowing if they are on the “right” path. How does one know after all? Aren’t we supposed to just find a career that pays well and give us a two week vacation every year and call it “happy.” Why should we want more than that?
We want more because deep down, we know we were made for more. We live in a time where we can be and do anything.
So why do we settle for less than our heart’s desires? What I have found is that we let the “mental monsters” of fear, doubt, and disbelief make our life decisions instead of the wisdom of our soul. We tend to get caught up in the busyness of the world, and then find ourselves lost in roles and responsibilities that we have long outgrown, and end up feeling trapped. We fail to see the path that would lead us to our Greatness. Or we might see it, but not believe that we could really live the life of our dreams. Unbeknownst to us, we complicate a relatively simple concept, “follow the path with heart.” Since the ego wants to be right, it will latch onto a role or position and claim that “This is IT.” The righteous self will expand a great deal of effort forcing things and situations to work, despite evidence to the contrary.
So how do you know if you are moving in the direction of your destiny? You are feeling inspired and divinely guided, and you may not even know what to expect next, you are just following the beat of your heart.
Callie Carling: I have come across numerous people who sometimes find themselves paralysed by low self-esteem: how can we push past the fear of being “mediocre” in life?
Michelle Casto: The level of self-esteem and success one achieves in life seems correlated. The higher our self-esteem, the more willing we are to take risks and put ourselves out there. So how can we become ignited by seeing ourselves as worthy and loveable?
This inner work involves going on a journey to discover our True Selves, which is the main goal of my book, The Destiny Discovery. We must let go of the false programming we received from our childhood that we are somehow flawed or unworthy to have what we want, and this takes some personal transformation and also opening to new possibilities. I have found that denial of our Divinity is a core reason we miss the mark of Destiny. Until we can come to terms and into alignment with who we truly are: conscious co-creators on an adventure that is ours of the making, we fall into stories of “not enough.”
It’s easy to see that feeling inadequate or somehow not worthy prevents us from accessing the power within. What’s hard to see is how to ignore this illusion and see the Truth of inner being. We are so much more than our personalities, histories, failures or disappointments; we are unlimited Souls with infinite potential and a unique Purpose we can choose to fulfil. When we can see ourselves as the Divine sees us, as beautiful, wise, compassionate, and completely acceptable (warts and all), we then begin to push past settling for less, and then step into our greatness.
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I hope you enjoyed my interview with Michelle and that you’ll check out her book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success at www.liveyourdivinedestiny.com/book-launch/pages/pre-launch.html
Here’s why:
The Discover Your Divine Destiny Telesummit
How Can We Discover Our True Destiny in 2012?
12 Destiny Mentors Discuss this Question on this
FR*EE 3-Day Online Event
January 10th, 11th & 12th, 2012
10am Pacific/1pm Eastern/6pm UK
Over the course of 3 days, we’ll be exploring the journey of AWAKENING to the path of destiny, FINDING the path of true destiny, and SUCCEEDING on the path of destiny.
Here’s our wonderful guest line-up:
- Michelle L. Casto – Life & Business Coach; author of The Destiny Discovery
- Lynn Serafinn – Coach; marketer; author of The 7 Graces of Marketing and The Garden of the Soul
- Christine Kloser – award-winning author; mentor to transformational authors and conscious entrepreneurs
- Paul Zelizer – business success coach for spiritual people
- Brenda McIntyre – healer, business coach, spiritual mentor and award-winning singer
- Dee Wallace – acclaimed Hollywood actress, acting coach, internationally known healer, author of Bright Light
- Dr. Roy Martina – world-renowned holistic medical doctor, author of #1 bestseller Emotional Balance: the path to inner peace and harmony, and 40 other books
- Nan Akasha – CHT Mind over Money Coach, #1 bestselling author of Already Rich! Secrets to Master Your Money Mind.
- Eva Gregory – master coach, conscious channel, speaker and author
- Jackie Lapin – speaker, coach, transformational business consultant and mentor in Practical Conscious Creation
- Gail Goodwin – Founder of InspireMeToday.com, providing free inspiration from world-renowned luminaries every day to members in more than 120 countries
- Steve D’Annunzio – productivity trainer, life success coach, author, President of the Soul Purpose Institute, member of the Transformational Leadership Council
This special 3-Day telesummit is Michelle’s FR*EE gift to you, to celebrate the launch of her book, which is coming Tuesday January 17th, 2011.
FREE GIFTS TOO!
When you buy Michelle’s book on Tuesday January 17, 2012, you can ALSO receive the MP3 download of all 3 days of this inspiring telesummit, plus a complete library of beautiful personal development gifts from authors, speakers, coaches and other enlightened professionals from around the globe.
To claim your FREE pass to the Discover Your Divine Destiny Telesummit and read about the free gifts, go to: www.liveyourdivinedestiny.com/book-launch/pages/pre-launch.html
Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.
AND … be sure to follow Michelle tomorrow when the next stop on the Virtual Blog Tour is Mal Duane, who will be interviewing Michelle on life and soul purpose, destiny process steps and overcoming mediocrity. To visit that “stop” on the tour, go to http://alphachick.com/virtual-interview-with-michelle-casto-the-destiny-discovery.
