1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 What's going on, pursuers? My name is Thomas Carney and welcome to the Pursuit of Calling 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,440 podcast where my goal and purpose is to provide the strategies and tools needed to successfully 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:21,000 pursue and discover your God-given calling. Today, we're talking about how to discover 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,480 your calling faster. Let's dive in. 5 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:39,000 What's going on, pursuers? Okay, welcome to this episode of the podcast. So what are we 6 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,720 talking about today? I'm talking about what I've been working on. This is usually the 7 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:48,960 recap episode for the month and there's just been so much happening. In this last month, 8 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:57,120 I really just wanted to catch you up on what's been going on with my life, but mostly with 9 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:06,120 what the vision of the podcast and my coaching is going to be or is right now. So first thing 10 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,960 right off the bat, I mentioned it before, but pursuit of calling.com is live. It's ready 11 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:16,800 to go. Guys, there's some updates that are going to be rolling out to that website moving 12 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:23,000 forward. It's ready for you to check out and to let me know what you think. But more importantly, 13 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,360 you need to go and get your free gift. It's directly from me to you. It's called the discover 14 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:33,320 your calling planning guide. It's there to unlock your true calling with you can lock 15 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:38,320 it with a free guide designed to save you time, but providing focus actionable steps 16 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:43,760 to discover your calling or your purpose faster. So guys, it's free. You just have to provide 17 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:51,560 your name, your email, and you will get a link to send you to this planning guide. It's 18 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,920 there. Just, I put it together throughout the last few weeks so that I could give you 19 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:04,120 guys more value and help you guys. Like it said, discover your calling faster so then 20 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:10,560 you can pursue it well and with excellence. So what else has been going on this week? 21 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,560 I kind of just came out. It kind of just came out with that big thing. There's, you know, 22 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,720 I've already, I've already said the name is the discovery, your calling planning guide 23 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,000 and what I've done essentially, you know, it's a list of questions. Um, you know, it's 24 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,960 not test, but it's a list of questions and prompts and reflective practices designed 25 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,040 for the help you think about your call. You're calling in a way that you never have. It's 26 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:38,920 to give you the ability to guide yourself back through your life over the things that 27 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:43,640 you like to do, the things that you're good at and find that intersecting point. You know, 28 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:48,280 I believe I've talked about it on a previous episode, but I believe your purpose is that 29 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:54,560 the intersecting point between what you're good at and what you love to do. However, 30 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,620 there's still a little bit more to it, right? There, there is still a little bit more to 31 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:03,580 it between just what you're good at and what you love to do because you can find plenty 32 00:03:03,580 --> 00:03:10,080 of things that people are good at and what they love to do, but it not necessarily be 33 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,320 the purpose that's on their lives. There's plenty of people that love playing video games. 34 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,040 I love playing video games. I don't much right now, but I love video games and that some 35 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,580 of them, I was pretty good. I don't think that that definitely wasn't the calling on 36 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:25,960 my life. Maybe it is for some people, but for me it's not right. It's definitely not 37 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,560 the calling on my life. There's more to it than that. And as I was preparing for this 38 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:36,760 episode, I was reminded of this Japanese saying or practice or word called Ikigai. I'm going 39 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:44,840 to say that again. It's Ikigai. And if I'm saying that wrong, if anybody thinks I'm saying 40 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:51,200 that wrong, you know, you're gonna check me. But Ikigai and you know, this is a Japanese, 41 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:58,880 I took this from an article I found online about Ikigai. You know, it's a Japanese concept 42 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:05,840 that unites the joy of life with a series of purpose, with a sense of purpose. My apologies. 43 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:13,080 The term is a combination of the Japanese words, Iki, to live and Gai, reason, which 44 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:20,140 together signify a reason to live. While there isn't a direct translation of Ikigai in English, 45 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:27,560 this concept encapsulates the idea of finding joy in life through purpose in a unique way. 46 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:34,640 Guided deeply in Japanese culture and history, Ikigai holds belief in the value of life and 47 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:41,120 the potential for happiness. When you're aligned with your purpose. This is exciting. This 48 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:48,920 philosophy has guided many toward a meaningful life with intention. Now, when you were talking 49 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:55,880 about Ikigai, that gives you kind of what Ikigai is and what they're talking about when 50 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,320 they say reason to live. But there's four sections that fall into this category that 51 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:08,880 make up the Ikigai. These sections are what you love, what you're good at, what the world 52 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:16,720 needs and what you can get paid for. There are the intersecting points of these four 53 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,240 things in the middle of that. That's your Ikigai. That's your reason to live. That's 54 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,200 your purpose. That's your calling. And I actually have, if I can find the tab real quick. Oh, 55 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:32,160 I guess I'm pretty sure I just exit out of it. Oh, nevermind. Where we go? So on my computer, 56 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,560 you can't see it right now, but there is, I have a diagram on my screen of Ikigai provided 57 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:46,000 by calm.com.com and it goes with what you love, what the world needs, what you can be 58 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,720 paid for and what you're good at. And now there's a few other intersecting points here 59 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,440 because this is like, you know, the circle Venn diagrams that you see. There's not just 60 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,740 the intersecting points in the middle, intersecting point one in the middle, but there's intersecting 61 00:06:00,740 --> 00:06:07,000 points between what you're good at and what you get paid for. And that's your profession. 62 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,080 There's intersecting point of what you can get paid for, what the world needs. And that's 63 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,480 your vocation. There's an intersecting point between what the world needs and what you 64 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:21,760 love. That's your mission. And then there's what you love and what you're good at. And 65 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,640 that's your passion. That's your passion. And then when you intersect all of these, 66 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,840 you bring all of these together, that is your Ikigai. That is your reason to live. And that 67 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:38,360 was a lot. That was a lot of stuff. I want you to go back and re-listen to that because 68 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,760 I also want you to look up Ikigai. I'll provide a link to the, to the article I read to learn 69 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,400 a little bit more about it. So you guys can go back over Ikigai and learn more about it 70 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:53,640 yourself and incorporate this philosophy into your life. However, I also want you to go 71 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,800 and check out, like I referenced before that free resource, because that's going to help 72 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:03,560 you find your Ikigai, find your reason to live, discover that faster than you would 73 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:13,320 have without a tool like that. So as a quick, not quick, but as, but as I want to go over 74 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:18,200 a couple of the things that are going to be in that, in that guide, so you know what you 75 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:25,560 got, what you can expect. So there's a few sections, but three of the sections are, there's 76 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:33,640 a strength assessment, a purpose reflection and values in action. So the first thing in 77 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:38,920 the strength assessment is called, it says, write down three things that you're naturally 78 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:46,040 good at. See, we're kind of on the same lines of F at Ikigai. You know, me, for me, how 79 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,040 I would work that in, I would say, how I would write those things down and say, I'm good, 80 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:56,360 I'm working, I'm good with working with technology ever since I was little. I've loved tech. 81 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:03,800 I, even on my first laptop, I don't know why I was diving into the command prompt. And 82 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:11,560 that's what I remembered whenever I was in college and was, and I was going back on my 83 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,600 life. I was currently at my freshman year college. I was an education major and I was like, I 84 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,160 don't want to be a teacher. That's not for me. And I found that out pretty quick. And 85 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:28,200 I looked back at my life and like, man, what am I actually good at? And what do I, you know, 86 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,560 and what do I get out? What do I enjoy? What am I passionate about? And I was like, well, 87 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:38,120 I've always liked computers. I guess computer science sounds cool. I didn't know what programming 88 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:44,200 was. It just sounded cool. And now I love developing. So like it all kind of falls along 89 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:49,080 in that line. Like we have these purposes on our lives, these passions put on our hearts. 90 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:55,240 And I believe that passion comes from God. That passion goes in your heart and it's meant to 91 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:01,480 guide you and influence you towards your calling. Your passion is your calling, 92 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,480 but your, but your passion plays into your purpose. 93 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:12,440 Place into your icky guy. I love that word so much icky guy. So the next thing I would say, 94 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,240 right. All the things I'm naturally good at is that I love learning. I feel I'm naturally 95 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:25,160 good at learning. And I, I, like, I believe it was kind of, kind of formed in me from a young age, 96 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:30,280 but again, from a young age by my dad, like that's where a lot of these things are going to be in 97 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,400 you. It's going to be what was I doing when I was young? What things did I do that made me 98 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:43,560 think that I was naturally good at out of the womb? And I, even though I couldn't speak well, 99 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,880 I, my dad had me, had me reading books that I have talked about this before. I have talked about 100 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,720 reading all the time. Like you need to start reading books, but I, I was reading, my dad had 101 00:09:53,720 --> 00:10:00,680 me reading books by people like Zig Ziglar and like, and these were like big, like influential 102 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:06,280 writers of their day. And I was reading books and I was, I was in like middle school. I didn't know, 103 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:11,400 honestly didn't know what I was reading, but it was planting seeds and like, and that seed planted. 104 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,080 And I'm just, you know, it just naturally, like, I think that's one of the reasons I'm sitting here 105 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,360 right now. I was talking to you through a podcast. It's because my dad had me reading books when I 106 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:24,760 was a kid. Dude, I'm talking so fast right now, but guys, like this is important. 107 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,440 So the next thing that this is where it gets difficult. You have to write down three things 108 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,160 that you're naturally good at. You have to actually think about how to, you have to, 109 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,760 you have to have to talk good about yourself for once. Man, that's kind of hard. I hope I'm not 110 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:44,280 calling anybody out, but yeah, guys, there's two and I want you guys, you know, I want you to have 111 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:50,600 two for me and I want you to think of three. Think of three things that you're naturally good at. 112 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:57,720 Next list examples of how you've used these strengths in various areas of life, really in 113 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:04,040 work, relationships, your projects. And I kind of already, I told some examples for myself, 114 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,280 like I love to learn, like I love reading books and I still read books now. I still love reading 115 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:13,240 books by like Aristotle and I can be slow at getting through the books. That's because I'm 116 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:20,120 like dissecting them, but and because there's other things to do, you know, sometimes and, 117 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:25,080 but like I love to learn out and that's not just from books, it's from people. I love learning 118 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:31,800 others, which makes me compassionate. Right? You can be, say I'm a naturally compassionate person. 119 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,120 There, there's my third thing. I'm naturally good at being compassionate. Like it sounds like 120 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,320 you're being arrogant when you write these things down, but you're not, you're just being honest 121 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:47,880 with yourself. What are you naturally good at? So then reflect on how these strengths align with 122 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:55,320 passions and talents you possess. So reflect on how these strengths align with the passions 123 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:05,160 and talents you possess. So remember your passion, what your passions are like with what you're, 124 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:12,440 what you love to do and what you're good at. So how do these strengths align with that? Think 125 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:17,000 it's reflective, write down anything that comes to mind whenever you get to, whenever you get, 126 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,360 whenever you get to that point and let's move into the next section. Purpose reflection. 127 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:28,040 For the fact on a time when you felt deeply fulfilled or had a sense of purpose. When was 128 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,880 a time whenever you just kind of had the aha moment where it was like, man, this feels right. 129 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:40,280 This is, it feels like something I was meant, I meant to be doing, or this is so like, I felt 130 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:47,080 extremely useful here. More, more, more useful than I usually feel. I felt I've done things before 131 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:53,080 and I felt useful. I'll help people out. But when I did this thing, when I did that thing, 132 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:01,480 I guess I couldn't, it's hard to put into words, but I'm asking you to, right? 133 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:09,400 Um, for me, it's when I put all those things in, I honestly think of leadership. 134 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,360 I said, and I honestly think of leadership for me. Like I love working with technology, 135 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:20,360 I love learning, I love being, and I, and I'm compassionate. And right now all of those three 136 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,280 things I wear into my leadership of the production team for our young adult group. 137 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,320 We work with technology. We have to learn about the, we have to learn about how to use 138 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,280 these pieces of technology and how to explain it to others. And then we, then we have to be, 139 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,640 then I have to be compassionate to the people that I lead whenever maybe they don't get, 140 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,120 maybe they don't get how to run it the first time or they mess up like, 141 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:51,720 and compassion in the way I explain it back to them and explain the, explain maybe how we do 142 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:57,000 it better the next time. All of those three things fall into that level of leadership in that role 143 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,880 of my life. So think about like, like how, yeah, reflect on a time when you felt deeply fulfilled 144 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:10,120 or had a sense of purpose. For me, that was, that was then, and all my strengths fall in line with 145 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:16,600 that. What are you doing? What were you doing doing at that time? Right. For me, it was, for me, 146 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:22,520 it was, it's leading the production team. And how can you use that experience to inform your future 147 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:28,040 decisions in next steps? Like for me, it's like, whenever you think about that, like think about, 148 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:35,000 like what about that did you like with all of it? Was it some of it? What parts of it, 149 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,560 what parts of it did you like and how can you use that to inform your next steps? Maybe it's in your 150 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:46,600 career path or entrepreneurial path. Think that it's important stuff guys. Next, we're going to 151 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:53,960 go to your values, values in action. You know, list three core values that you hold. For me, 152 00:14:53,960 --> 00:15:02,280 my values fall under Christ, right? My values fall under God the Father. And one of the values is 153 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,680 that to love everyone, right? Regardless of what they have done, regardless of who they are, 154 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,880 is love everybody. Show everybody love because God loves, God loves me and I don't deserve it. 155 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,680 I'm going to love everybody else, whether they quote unquote deserve it or not. Wasn't, and like 156 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:23,160 think about your core values, the thing that influenced these core values. It means like the 157 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:30,120 things that influence the things that influence everything that you do. Now, next reflect on how 158 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,840 these values influence your decisions and how they can guide you towards your life's calling. 159 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Reflect on how these values influence your decisions and how they can guide you towards your 160 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:47,320 life's calling. How do your values, like I said earlier, like whenever you go left, when you can 161 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:53,960 go left or you go right, and then you make, make the right turn. Why did you go right? What value 162 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:59,000 was causing you to go that way? What value made you, what that last time you were at a crossroads 163 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:05,320 with doing the right or the right or the wrong thing, whatever you believe those two things were, 164 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:11,640 why did you choose the right thing? Why did you feel bad whenever you did the wrong thing? 165 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:21,000 What values caused you to feel that way? And how can those values inform you about your calling? 166 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,800 All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed like me going through this quick rundown of the discover your 167 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:33,000 calling planning guide. Now there's way more in there. So you guys definitely go check that out. 168 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,320 I'm going to link to this episode. When this episode releases, I'm going to link to this episode 169 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,760 on the forum for anybody that didn't get a chance or hadn't listened to this episode yet. You can 170 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:48,360 get this explanation and a rundown of it, but there's, but yeah, I'm going to say it again, 171 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:55,160 go to that, go, I'm going to link to that link to the homepage of the website in the show notes of 172 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:01,880 this episode, or you can go to your browser and type pursuit of calling.com and get your free 173 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:07,000 planning guide. I'm really excited for you guys get this in your hands and, or I guess in your, 174 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,480 on your computers or phones or whatever, and experience for yourself. And if you like the 175 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,440 planning guide, let me know, shoot me a message on Instagram. If you think it sucks, let me know, 176 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:24,280 tell me what I can fix. If you want to tell me about this episode, you can leave comment 177 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:29,880 and Spotify, YouTube, Apple podcast, wherever you listen to your podcasts, give it this episode or 178 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:35,640 this podcast overall five story view and share it out on all your social media platforms. 179 00:17:35,640 --> 00:18:03,800 All right, guys, I'll see you next time.