ALBERT EINSTEIN'S FINGERPRINTS

Life Purpose: High Achiever in the Spotlight + Mentor
Life Lesson: What I Have to Say Is Important (Will Anyone Listen to Me?)
Soul Initiation: Service

Your Life Purpose: Service in the Spotlight
By definition, your Life Purpose is that which brings satisfaction into your life. It is the fulfillment of your highest potential, what you were born to become. More than right livelihood, Life Purpose is right life. Regardless of circumstances, when you are living your Life Purpose, there is a sense of meaning and excitement to all that you do.

Your particular Life Purpose is to perform Service from a high profile position. 'Service' in this context means helping other people without any sense of "I should do it", or any desire to take control of their lives. The intention behind your actions, rather than the action itself, makes what you do a 'Service'. Your deepest sense of fulfillment comes from high visibility, in the Spotlight, acts of Service.

Some with this fingerprint chart become Hollywood directors, big name attorneys, or doctors whose medical breakthroughs hit the front page. But for this Life Purpose there is no required title or job description. What you choose to do in the world is not nearly so important as how you do it. If things are rolling along just fine, thank you, most likely you have sought and found your appropriate Service. But if you have misinterpreted your own motivations, you will find your life filled with burdensome obligation and constant sacrifice (Servitude instead of Service).

Think of everything that has happened in your life as playing a role in the emergence of your Life Purpose. Every person you have met, every success, every apparent obstacle and seeming failure has served to hone the Master of Service Genius that resides within you. Expect your life to get better and better as you recognize and express this inherent desire to help other people.

Typical Occupations: Master of Service in the Spotlight
LifePrints has found from over 70,000 cases that people who share Life Purposes tend to have the highest sense of fulfillment under certain conditions. Whatever you do, remember: your greatest satisfaction in life is to do for others from a position of high visibility. But be careful of control or burdensome obligation.

Teachers in the Public Eye, College Professors, Seminar Leaders
Passing on your interest and enthusiasm to many
High Profile Scientists, Researchers
Pursuing truths without sacrificing your principles or ethics
"Known" Artists, Movie Producers, Actors, TV Personalities
Your Art is your Service
High Visibility Sales and Business People
"Big Shot" Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Environmentalists
Public attention plus a cause equals a better planet
Politicians, Elected Officials, Diplomats
Unequaled opportunity for World Service

Key #2a. Service Done Right
Life presents you with a circumstance, and you get to do something for someone. "Thank you." "--You're welcome." All goes well, no complications. But sometimes things go awry. After all, you are in training to become a Master of Service. Let's look at this in more detail:

Key #2b. Service Error
     Step 1. Complications Arise
You do everything you can to assist, but your load keeps increasing and appreciation is not forthcoming.

     Step 2. Demand Escalates
The harder you try to meet the 'Service' requirements, the less you receive the reward you expected. Resentment and confusion build.

     Step 3. "Get Off My Back!"
Let's say you have a story like Mary's: She had told her family she wanted to go out with her friends Tuesday, but, instead of offering to make it easier for her (after all, she does everything for everybody all week long), they all complained loudly. So, to avoid speaking up for herself, she canceled her Tuesday plans. From then on, her family knew just how to manipulate her. The more she did for them, the more resentful she became ...until one night..."GET OFF MY BACK, OKAY?"

     Step 3A. Another 1 - 3 Sequence
Mary went on to do what most Service trainees do, she began the cycle all over again. After enough times around, she may escape the Service Error Cycle (Servitude) with...

     Step 4. Service Backlash, "I ain't doin' nothin' for nobody except me."
It is ironic that those on the path of Service must first master selfishness, but without a sense of self, there can be no True Service.
Mary came home one night and announced that she was going to go out on Tuesday nights. This time, when they laid on the guilt, she told them, "I'm going out anyway and I hope you will get along okay tonight without me". She had broken the blackmail cycle, and from then on, if she decided to do things for her family, it was no longer a function of their manipulation or her control, but a true gift.

"I've 'had it' with helpfulness, besides, I avoid the spotlight."
Are you uncomfortable with the mere suggestion of doing unto others? Don't be fooled. Your Life Purpose IS Service. If you are in a 'Service backlash' phase, doing mostly for yourself without an appropriate outlet for the Service minded you; something big is still missing from your life. And what's missing is Service. With this Life Purpose, the trick is not getting stuck in either a selfish life or one of constant sacrifice.
Regarding the Spotlight: when you are doing what you love, the limelight may not seem so bad after all. Finding a specific creative outlet may be your ticket to satisfaction.

Then again, you may have a personality style entirely consistent with your Life Purpose.
You get up in the morning excited with your prospects. Your intense creativity and sense of purpose insure you will never be manipulated by anyone else's agenda. You are good at what you do. Service brings you satisfaction and lots of appreciation. Great! Keep up the good work.

Some with this chart have a unique talent. Whatever gives you joy can result in Service to others. Let it carry you to your place in the sun.

Some with this chart have a disability or handicap. Whether your handicap is perceived or real, your challenge is to succeed despite the odds. Find the opportunity it presents to live your Public Service.

Some with this fingerprint chart become school teachers, yoga instructors, or sales trainers. For others, there is no formal title or position. For example, you could be a caring parent or grandparent, the team member that every one looks to for advice, or the wise elder statesperson. You are the Teacher/Mentor/Role Model when you can stand up for your beliefs in spite of any response this may bring. In doing so, you provide guidance for others to follow.

Extra Personal Growth Required This part of your Life Purpose is one of the most rewarding, but also one of the most strenuous. Much personal growth is required. Like being accepted into Harvard Law School, you must be especially qualified just to gain admission. After all, we can't have just anybody setting the standard. If things become challenging, and all indications are that they will, remember that you are honing a high level of integrity on the way to becoming a Teacher and Mentor. The good news is that you are unusually well equipped to fulfill the tasks.

Apprenticeship
As a Teacher in training, it is imperative that you find excellent mentors to help prepare you for own teaching down the road. The quality most required in these role models is their fierce adherence to high principles. You will no doubt discover if you haven't done so already, that you find it impossible to work for or with any person or organization that does not take a strong ethical stance. With these fingerprints, you bristle at the slightest signs of hypocrisy. In the long run, however, no matter how much you learn from and admire your teachers, it is your destiny to break away and develop on your own. Ironically, if you do well, you will find yourself in the reverse position: watching your own protegees breaking away from your stewardship.

Maturity Over Time Of all the parts of your Life Purpose, this particular one has the longest gestation period. The Teacher/Role Model/Mentor will probable make its full appearance later in your life. However, a close look may well reveal that the Role Model element has been in operation all along. Other people have probably already seen it. No wonder they have looked to you for advice since your early years. Be patient. If things seem to be taking a long time to blossom in your life, know you are probably right on schedule.

Your Life Lesson
People who are living their Life Purpose are at the height of their power; they feel great! In your case, this great feeling comes whenever you activate the High Profile Service that is shown in your fingerprints. However, this does not always 'just happen'.

There are specific things you must do to gain entry into your Life Purpose and get more of that "AHHH, this feels great!" experience. Until you learn how to unlock the door, the Service in the Spotlight Expert in you will be less than fully operational and your life is likely to be filled with what seems like a never-ending supply of obstacles.

The next three pages explore your personal Life Lesson, including a checklist of suggestions that will help you open the door and activate your Life Purpose.

By definition, a Life Lesson is the area of greatest resistance, one's biggest blind spot, largest obstacle, tallest hurdle. Your Life Lesson is your least evolved skill from five months prior to birth when your fingerprints took form. There is no way around it. You must contend with your Life Lesson for your Life Purpose to blossom. Your particular Life Lesson is becoming confident that you have something important to say, that there is inherent value to your communications.

This being the case, it can be assumed that you grew up feeling just the opposite, namely, that no one wanted to listen to you. Whether your parents, friends and teachers were all meanies, or there was something about your childhood that indicated to you that speaking out was not OK, the outcome is predictable: a reluctance to say your fair piece, an expectation of rebuke and devaluation that follows you into adulthood. You must overcome this issue if your Life Purpose is to come forward.

At the International Institute of Hand Analysis we call this the E.F. Hutton Challenge. E. F. Hutton is a brokerage firm that maintained a commercial on TV for over twenty years. In this commercial, important, prosperous looking types are having lunch in an important, prosperous looking restaurant. One diner leans across the table and asks a colleague what their broker thinks about a certain stock. The second diner, filled with confidence, replies, "My broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says..." At that moment, the entire restaurant, waiters included, becomes silent, each person straining with cupped ears to hear what E.F. Hutton has to say. Apparently, what E.F. has to say is important, valuable, carries weight.

Your challenge is to overcome your early experiences that indicated you were no E.F. Hutton. You might wish to use the restaurant image as a reminder to yourself. When faced with disagreement or repudiation, or if you find yourself withdrawing to avoid potential disapproval, make believe it is your advice everyone in the restaurant is straining to hear. One client reported that using the E.F. Hutton picture helped him develop the confidence he needed to become a paid public speaker.

PS. It might interest you to know of a famous person whose Life Lesson matched yours: Albert Einstein. To us, it is obvious that what he had to say was important, after all, his discoveries changed the world. But young Albert (and older Albert, too) had to climb the same hill you find yourself on. Good fortune as you continue on your life journey.

Common Challenge #2: Value Yourself
As you value yourself, your life choices improve, creating room in your life for your Life Purpose to prosper. This battle for value (an inner battle, not an outer one) is often fought in the world of money and paychecks. Asking for and being paid appropriately for your true value are important parts of your learning program.

Valuing yourself also means seeing your own role in creating your circumstances. It's up to you to care enough to confront yourself. You will know you are on target when the energy shifts: you are keeping agreements and your business partners are keeping theirs. People respond to your communications instead of ignoring them. Even the dog gets off the couch when you say to.

The next incident occurs and instead of keeping silent or apologizing for yourself, you speak up. It is this advanced version of you that is ready and willing to live your Life Purpose.

The purpose of the What I Say Matters Checklist is to help you communicate more effectively. This in turn will help you to succeed in your Life Purpose.

1. Build Your Self Esteem "My self esteem is an internal state, not an outer condition. I have no need to be constantly proving myself to an imaginary audience." No outer condition; no amount of money, prestige or status; no condition of your physical body or accomplishment in the world will make you feel Good Enough if you do not first accept yourself from within.

2. Be Accountable
With this Life Lesson, broken contracts show up in your life. Whether others do not keep their agreements, or you find yourself making agreements you cannot keep, on this path the cost of non-integrity becomes crystal clear. "My need to say I will do things I can't or don't want to do disappears as I no longer seek to get my self esteem from others."

3. Check Your Feelings
Checking your feelings helps you to be more aware of your inner alarm system. This will let you know if you have been speaking out sufficiently. No matter how you feel about things, you have every right to feel as you do. There is nothing to apologize for. This is not the same as suggesting you should tell every person you meet everything you feel. Or that everything you feel should be acted upon. The point is you have permission to be on Planet Earth, permission to see things your own way. Join the chorus. Say your piece.

4. Be on Your Own Side
Be an understanding friend to yourself, and accept yourself just as you are. There is no shame in still having something to learn.

5. Blow Your Own Horn
In a healthy conversation, each person takes turns talking and listening. A comfortable balance naturally emerges. The same is true for self promotion. Be free with your praise for others and learn to blow your own horn occasionally as well. Stoic silence is just as unbalanced as constant grandstanding.

6. Deal with Your Inner Critic
Unmask the inner voice that demeans your accomplishments --even when it seems to come from other people in your life. Criticism does not imply that you are Not OK. It just means something needs to be looked at. If something needs fixing, fix it. If not, let it go. Either way, you are Good Enough as you are.

7. Your Moment of Truth
Your moment of truth comes whenever you can face your biggest gremlin, the Not OK Self, and you accept yourself as you are. Free yourself of the guilt you have felt for just being alive, and watch your Life Purpose flourish.

8. Find Inspiration
"Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it." (--Whitney Griswold, President, Yale University)