Hey guys, and welcome to this episode of Technically Short.
In this episode, I talk about the first step towards calling.
I talk a little bit about the passion is the first step towards calling.
When I realized I was passionate about something and how pursuing your passion requires sacrifice.
And then I sprinkle in some of my thoughts on pursuing the air quoted wrong things.
So if that interests you, keep on listening, get your notepad out and let me know what
you think of this episode.
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Okay let's get into this.
This is the first step towards calling.
That's what we're talking about today.
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So let's talk about passion, which is the first step towards calling.
We kind of talked about this with Leah and then we also talked about it with Rob where
we talked about passion as a potential first step.
And I would personally argue that passion is maybe not always the place to start.
Like we talked about how as Christians we believe that you should start with Jesus if
you don't know where to start.
I do believe though if you're passionate about something and you know you're passionate about
it or maybe you don't know you're passionate about it, but you're something that you keep
going back to and then you realize there's a passion that might be an indication that
something you should be pursuing.
So it could also mean it's not, but you know we're going to dive into that.
We're going to dive into all that a little bit.
I know it sounds like a lot.
I might just confuse you.
We're going to cover all of it.
So the point of this episode though, it's to encourage people like you, the listener
to start pursuing your passions or your calling, whatever you believe it is.
The point of this episode is to get you to start.
Okay.
So there's three things I want to talk about in this episode.
First point being when I realized I was passionate about something, what caused me to realize
that I was passionate and then what like when pursuing passion, talking about why I, how
passion requires sacrifice.
And then we're going to, I'm going to give you my thoughts on pursuing the wrong things.
Now in my notes, I have wrong in air quotes.
Eventually I want to have a video so you can see me doing air quotes because I have some
thoughts on that.
So let's go back to the beginning and say, when I realized I was passionate about something,
let's start there.
So you know, I've told the story before about Nick and P and ethics.
And if you don't remember that whole story, you can go back and listen to a previous episode
where I talked about it, that was Leah.
And like, but this was, it was just a smaller piece and a larger puzzle puzzle that I might
not have talked about before.
But if you know me, you've heard this story before, most likely.
So this is something I, for a little bit more backstory, I found that book through a, through
a PewDiePie video and throw hit one of his book reviews and I thought it was interesting.
So I bought the book and media, I bought the book that day and I still haven't finished
the book.
It's so, it's so dense, but it's like, it makes you think like Aristotle makes you think
so much.
It makes, and I, and I love being able to think in different ways and being shown how
you can think in different ways.
And I keep going back to it.
I, I'm, I have it on my table, on my other desk.
I have like three desks in my room.
I have on my other desk right now because I'm working on getting through this.
I I'm going to this time.
That's that that I'm speaking it and speaking it like I'm going to get it through it this
time because I want to know what is at, what is in the book that I haven't gotten to yet.
But I kept going back to it.
You can hear my voice.
Like you can hear it in my voice.
How passionate I am about like just understanding how people think.
That's what the point of this book, big chunk of that book is understanding how people think
and why they do the things that they do.
That's the biggest chunk of that, one of the biggest chunks of that book.
And we're going to, I'm going to keep going.
I'm going off on a tangent.
So I didn't know why I was going back at the beginning.
In the beginning, I just found it really interesting, you know, and I was consistent with that.
And that's, I think that's the indication that maybe you're passionate about something
is that you start being extremely consistent with it and you find it exciting whenever
you get into it.
It's consistently exciting.
That along with the feeling that I was meant for something bigger eventually led me to
want to be a life coach.
And there's a lot in between that, but we don't need to dive into all of that in this
episode.
Um, you've heard me say before that I want to be a life coach and like I realized like
as I was preparing for this episode, like I was writing my notes, like I realized that
I was, it's funny.
It's actually really, it's really funny.
And um, I realized that I was passionate about people way after I was passionate about understanding
how they think.
I'm going to say that again, cause it might've been confusing and this isn't going to be
how everything works.
Everybody works.
But for me, I, I was passionate about people after I was passionate about understanding
how they think.
And I think that's a pretty logical progression for me.
Um, because like I used to be like one of my biggest fears used to be people and I didn't
really think about it till now, you know, till like these last few, uh, few days when
I was preparing for this episode, but I didn't really think about it till now that I was
passionate about understanding how people think because like I didn't know what people
were thinking and I didn't understand and I was scared of what they were thinking of
me and like, it's so like, it's so, it's so nuts how you can just be like a 180 can happen
in your life, in your mindset, just by, um, being surrounded by the right people, AKA
get in church.
Um, I, I realized I, once I got more of an understanding, I started, I started to care
more.
It's, it's, you know, it frustrated me that so many people want to start doing big things
with their lives, me included, but they don't know how it frustrated me that so many people
want to do big things with their lives, but they don't know what to do.
They, they don't know where to start.
And so they just don't, I never understood that.
Like they'll chalk it up to a pipe dream and that's where it'll stop.
So it became my purpose to not only help some people who want to do something greater, but
who are willing to do what it takes is a fall.
It takes is a push and some new understanding, uh, and some new understandings, mindsets,
habits, et cetera.
Like I'm down for that.
Like I've grown to love to learn how to do the, I love, I've grown to love how to do
these things and I've grown to love how to teach these things to anyone.
Like I want you to be the best you can be so that you can serve those whom you've been
called to serve with your calling.
Like if this interests you, you know, shoot me a message and let's talk.
Like I already told you, my email is in the show notes.
So okay, so let's move on to the next point.
We just talked about when I realized I was passionate about something.
So now I want to dive into like that, how pursuing passion requires sacrifice and like
that might be sacrificing your money, your time.
I believe this is the biggest one is your comfort.
And this is, I think where people stop.
This is why a lot of people stop is because pursuing something that you're truly passionate
about should be uncomfortable.
And when people get uncomfortable, they decide not to pursue it because they want to stay
in their box.
They want to stay comfortable.
And inadvertently that just causes you not to grow.
So like the things I've sacrificed through this, like time, it's like time I've spent
with friends in order to take the time to improve myself in the ways and the ways that
I needed that needed to be done.
Like I decided there was many times I have either because of budget or because of me
wanting to just budget my time so I can work on my podcast or my business or whatever,
whatever, what have you on personal growth because I want to better myself.
Whenever I could work out that like that there was time when I wanted to get to the gym.
And like other times like money for me is like in order to make the financial investments
in my health and in my pursuit of knowledge and wisdom so that I can continue to grow
and continue to provide wisdom and information to the people that I've been called to serve.
Like I want to invest money into buying the books that I can read so I can grow.
I want you to do that too.
I want you to be like, you should be reading books.
I think I've talked about, I've talked about that enough in another episode, but you should
be reading books.
I know people say they're not readers, but this is such a great way to improve.
And also listening to podcasts, but if you're listening to podcasts, you should be taking
notes.
If that's all you're doing, if you're not, if you're not reading books and comfort, I
talked about comfort.
Like for me, it's like, it's like, you know, to pursue something greater than yourself,
you don't, you can't do whatever you want to do.
You can't do what everyone else is doing.
And like for me, sacrificing my comfort, a lot of the times means, you know, like I already
said, not going out to eat with people or not, um, just sitting on, sitting in front
of the TV all day and watching TV.
And it's funny now, that's for me, that started starting to become uncomfortable because I,
if I sit down and watch TV all day, I feel lazy.
And then I start doing things that are productive.
And now whenever I watch TV, it's because my legs just can't take me walking around
and doing things anymore.
So either watch TV at the end, towards the end of the day, or I'll read my book and I'll
sit down and read my book and then I'll still be doing something productive while I'm staying
still.
Um, that was like, that's more of a direct, um, example of my life because since my legs
aren't great right now, um, but you know, praying to God that we can get those, get
them fixed up.
So I kind of rushed through that one, but pursuing passion requires sacrifice, right?
It requires, yeah, it just requires you to be able to be okay with being uncomfortable
in order to pursue and live in a calling.
That's what it takes.
It's not to be discouraging.
It's to just prepare you for it.
You probably already know that.
And I feel like it's a very common thing, um, that people say that you probably already
know that it, it's an uncomfortable, the pursuing something that is greater than you, it's going
to be something as uncomfortable.
So I think one thing that you can be doing to maybe, maybe the reason you haven't started
is because you don't want to become uncomfortable in maybe that you didn't know that.
And I want you to maybe think about those things, like what things make the things that
you could be pursuing that make you uncomfortable that you haven't started yet.
Like what are those things you haven't started and why haven't you started them yet?
And write those things down so that you can visually see like, what do I need to be held
accountable for?
And then maybe reach out to a friend and be like, Hey, can you keep me accountable to
these things?
Can you keep me accountable to X, Y, and Z?
Can you, uh, can you take me to the gym?
Can we go to the gym together so you can help me get fit or that you can just be at the
gym with me so that I know that somebody's holding me accountable to my, to my goals
of being fit or, um, we were talking about calling.
So maybe you want to be reading every day.
I, uh, there was a while ago with a friend of mine, Andrew, um, shout out Andrew Regato.
We read Atomic Habits together, read 10 pages every day and we got through the book in a
month, which were like never happens for either of us.
And it was so easy.
Like, so it got, it's like, it went especially easy because we had someone in our corner
holding us accountable to them.
We would go and talk about the book and talk about what we were learning.
Um, that was a tangent, but it's it, I've like, accountability is also a necessity in
this, I believe too.
Um, so let's dive into the last point.
We're flying in this episode.
So what are my thoughts on pursuing the wrong things?
You know, sometimes you can know immediately if something is wrong, it is a wrong thing
even before you pursue it.
And I get that, like, however, I believe there's many times when you won't know until you start.
I, I, I mean, you know, I said it before I put wrong in air quotes in my notes because
there are things are morally wrong.
And then there are things are just that just happened to not be the end goal of what you're
actually going to be pursuing.
And you have to make an audible.
You have to, you have to make a change, but you have, but the only way you know, you have
to change from that thing is if you're actually going to start pursuing that thing, if you
actually start pursuing something and you realize this isn't what I, this is not my,
this is not my angle.
I've learned what I can learn from this and now I see something else on the horizon that
I'm going to head towards.
And this, this season of my life is over.
Did that make, does that make sense?
Like if that make, you know, if that makes sense, awesome.
If it doesn't, you know, shoot me a message, but then, um, like don't worry so much about
pursuing the, the air quoted wrong thing.
Like you start somewhere and you learn, you don't wait, uh, and like you learn that you
don't wait for that air quoted right thing to come along because it never will.
Like you need to start somewhere.
You start like with that thing, like with me, you just start with that thing that is,
that is positively triggering to you.
That thing that whenever you think about it, you get excited and maybe it's, maybe you're
really excited about finances.
Maybe you want to start a YouTube channel.
Maybe you, like, or maybe you're curious about doing something and you don't know how it
would pan out and you don't, you haven't started yet because you don't know how it'll pan out.
And it's funny because you will never know how it will pan out if you don't do it.
So I, that's my encouragement is to start because you don't know if it's the right thing
and you don't know if it's the wrong thing.
The only way to know that is if you start, it's if you dive in and go for it.
Like, like you don't know enough in the beginning.
If you're like me and you're someone who is sometimes too introspective, there will never
be anything that will 100% meet your standards in the beginning.
You don't know enough.
You just need to point yourself in a direction and start walking.
You just need to start walking and eventually you want to start running in a direction.
And like with me, I know where I'm heading and maybe one day I'll have to make an audible
and take life coaching.
It's not the thing.
I'm not the thing, but it taught me, but pursuing life coaching taught me so much and now I'm
heading in this direction.
Maybe that's, maybe that's what my life has for me.
But as of right now, life coaching is my goal.
And if that changes, that changes.
But the only way that's going to change is if I, if it's clear, that's when it has to
be clear.
If you're going to make an audible, if you're going to make an audible, you're going to
see something like at that point you do want to be sure.
So guys, I hope this episode, like I hope all of this made sense.
That's kind of where I'm going to end it off because it's really like, this is all about
this episode was really about the first step towards calling.
And I really hope like, cause this is something I'm passionate about.
So I really hope that you got some value out of this episode.
I really hope you got some value out of the things that I'm saying.
And hopefully they're not just things that I'm saying, but there's things that you're
taking to heart.
And if you guys, if there's some things that you want me to dive a little bit further on,
I'm going to say it again.
You can send me a message.
You can send me an email.
If something didn't make sense, you want me again, like send me a message or an email.
And we'll just have a discussion on it.
Or maybe I can make an episode directly about that because I would love to make an episode
diving into one of these topics even further.
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