By: Irene Yang
There is a question that sits at the center of most serious human lives, surfacing during the quiet moments that busy schedules are partly designed to prevent, arriving most persistently during the transitions and disruptions and unexpected reversals that strip away the comfortable routines and force a more honest reckoning with how time is actually being spent. What am I really here for? Wings of Purpose is the book that M. Teresa Lawrence, accomplished attorney, publisher, educator, entrepreneur, and President and Executive Director of The Trueness Project, has assembled to help readers not just ask that question but begin genuinely answering it, through the lived experience of twenty-one visionary contributors from across the globe who have each faced that question themselves and found their way through to the kind of clarity that changes everything.
Reading this book produces a quality of accumulated inspiration that is qualitatively different from the kind that individual motivational resources typically generate. Each chapter is the story of a real person navigating a real version of the universal human challenge of finding and living one’s purpose, and the diversity of those people, their backgrounds, their industries, their cultures, their specific stumbling blocks and specific breakthroughs, gives the book a range and a richness that no single author’s story could have produced. A filmmaker who discovered that healing could travel through a camera lens. A South African entrepreneur who chose integrity over self-preservation and walked straight into the fire. Leaders and healers and coaches and changemakers who have each found their way to the same essential truth from completely different directions. That variety of approach to a shared destination is one of the book’s most significant and most moving qualities.
What M. Teresa Lawrence has achieved in curating this anthology goes well beyond the selection of compelling contributors. She has organized their stories into a coherent journey that moves the reader from the question of purpose to the practice of it, from the initial courage required to ask what you are really here for to the specific and actionable understandings of how vision and intention actually work as forces for transformation in a real life under real conditions. The contributors were selected not to instruct the reader but to help them identify, to recognize their own experience in someone else’s story, and to find through that recognition the specific insights and the specific courage they need to move forward on their own path.
The Trueness Project’s mission, empowering individuals and communities to discover their inner truth and live with authenticity, integrity, and purpose, is present on every page of the anthology in the quality of honesty and vulnerability the contributors bring to their chapters. These are not polished success stories with the difficulty edited out. They are genuine accounts of what it actually costs and what it actually produces to live in alignment with your deepest values and your most authentic sense of who you are and what you are here to do. That honesty is what makes them genuinely useful rather than merely inspiring.
Wings of Purpose is a book that gives readers both the permission and the practical framework to take the question of their own purpose seriously, which turns out to be both more generous and more transformative than most books in this space manage to be. With ninety-five percent of proceeds benefiting The Trueness Project, it is also an act of genuine purpose in itself.
If you have been carrying the question of what you are really here for without quite finding the courage or the clarity to begin answering it, Wings of Purpose by M. Teresa Lawrence and her twenty-one co-authors is the book that finally makes both the courage and the clarity available to you. Grab your copy on Amazon today and step into a conversation that has the power to change everything about how you understand your own life and what you are building with it.
