About Larry Beckstead
As the son of a strict and successful dairy farmer I had rather limited opportunities growing up to experience much of what the world had to offer. However, I did learn to work hard and to say please and thank you, the latter being more important of the two.
At nineteen, in frustration I left home. My trail of experiences twice led me westward across Canada and as far south as the Florida panhandle before being drawn to Lanark County some thirteen years later. After finally finding a place that I could call home I thought my integrity, morals and ethics would pave the way to a good life but at thirty-nine years of age everything changed!
I believe it is our birthright to be able to experience the best that life has to offer and I now know hard work alone won’t get you there. More often than not, no matter what I was doing, I have felt there was something missing. There was an empty feeling inside which I wasn’t sure of how to fill and it seemed, happiness was something reserved for other people.
They say that necessity is the mother of invention so maybe desperation is the mother of creation. I choose to believe this because the creation of Deep on Purpose was a result of living through my darkest hour. I believe, that it is in our darkest hour that the universe tries its hardest to hand us the light. I needed to know why I was here . . . why I was alive. I was pretty sure it had to do with more than just taking up space, air and resources – only to end up being represented as a minuscule percentage point in a statistical evaluation for some marketing company’s, future planning strategy.
In 1998 I began studying a whole list of successful people, trying to discover what made their successes possible. It took me two years to get back to what I call the chicken and the egg part of life. My discovery was that if there was (one) word that could express the reason why I was here, it was “purpose”. Up until this point I had confused purpose with reason; a sure-fire recipe for disappointment! This was my Ah-ha moment which was soon followed by: “Great I have a purpose, now what is it?”
It took another three and a half weeks of ten-hour days, writing, to discover what my purpose really was. I believe this may have been the hardest thing I have ever done and I was beginning to understand why so many people don’t know what their purpose in life is! That was when it became clear that “my purpose” is to help you discover yours! Which was immediately followed by: “How am I going to do that?”
My belief was that if I could somehow separate enough truths from fictions I would find the answer. During this time I discovered there was already a word to describe my purposeful desires: it was called a life coach! My life coach at the time lived in California. He has since moved to Spain. Although, we have never met in person I see him as largely responsible for my personal advancements. His knowledge and enthusiasm breathed life into my idea and I still maintain a working friendship with him today.
Four and a half more years of studying purpose revealed to me a formula that took another eighteen months to fully understand. If there was one thing that differentiated between what made some people successful and myself, it was the decisions we made. After all, we each had twenty-four hours in which to decide.
But, it wasn’t until I learned that people make over three hundred decisions an hour that I saw how important a factor the decision-making process is in determining one’s success or happiness or anything else for that matter. From there it took two more years to create a workshop in which I could confidently feel qualified to present “The Formula” for effective decision-making. Now, after ten years of personally inspired study it is my purpose and pleasure to share this life changing information with you in a workshop called,
“Deep on Purpose, the key to effective decision making”.