Mapping Our Purpose REALM: The Tribe of the Cowbells

What do you need to learn about yourself to lead a full and meaningful life? How can you determine your own unique path? A loved one’s death finds seven characters at a crossroads in their lives. A graduate, a single mother, a grieving lover, a burnt-out consultant, a CFO, a successful surgeon, and a lawyer at the end of his career… The seven seek to map a way forward that talks to their individual purpose and goals. A way forward that talks to their REALM. “‘Finding your purpose’ is too complex and too overwhelming for many. Where to start? How to know it when you see it? In The Cowbells, King starts this journey in the right place: deeply knowing yourself. What’s more, he offers a really imaginative and moving way for readers to think about these things - a set of characters and narrative episodes that explore the idea of a purposeful life. King writes with fluency, humour and love.” Maybe you’ve lost your way. A relationship, a loved one, a role gone. Maybe you’ve achieved everything you set out to do. Maybe you’re looking at yourself and wondering, What next? What could make my time on this blue planet that much more meaningful…? Call it what you will – your purpose, your calling, your meaning, your contribution, your reason to get out of bed every morning... If you’re seeking to better understand who you truly are and how you could live life more fully, Mapping our Purpose REALM - The Tribe of the Cowbells offers a simple and practical structure for this search. The narrative story brings the REALM model to life through the interlinked characters and their shared wish to live better. Self-reflection questions after each chapter start you on your way. “Among my favourite reads of 2022. In a time of instant gratification, King provides an essential reminder that our journeys and reflections upon them are where our growth and learning reside. Through a poignant and amusing individual and family story, with clean reflection points for the reader, he elegantly exposes a framework to access the most powerful learning and growth available to all of us for a better future.” As a leadership and purpose coach, Julian King has partnered thousands of people around the world at all stages of their own journeys to lead a full and meaningful life. This book and the model behind it come out of the questions and challenges he sees in his work and his own exploration of our search for something bigger than us. “Seamlessly weaves the important concepts of purpose and living into an engaging story about seven characters at different stages of their lives. Heartfelt and very enjoyable indeed. The book makes you contemplate about life and the difference that you can make."