Hey, Pursuers. Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal and purpose is to provide
the strategies and tools to successfully discover and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your
host, Thomas Carney, and today I'm being a little bit more vulnerable with you guys.
And real quick, before we dive into the episode, I want to say last week I talked about the
Discover Your Calling planning guide, and I've gotten some pretty good feedback on it.
If you'd like to get your own copy, head over to thepursuitofcalling.com and get it now.
All right, welcome to the episode, guys. So this week, I'm going to be honest with you.
I did not prepare as much as I usually do, which kind of led me to kind of sit down this
morning and think about what I was I going to record about today. And I decided that
it was maybe time to be a little bit more vulnerable with you guys. I woke up this morning
feeling extremely overwhelmed. I went to sleep feeling extremely overwhelmed and woke up
feeling just as overwhelmed, if I'm being honest. And the reason that is, partially,
is because I have so many things that I want to do. So many things, so many goals, like
a big giant goal that I've talked about here on the podcast before, about being a life
coach and having a successful business where I can have that be my main income. And then
the overwhelming part of that is, well, the goal is exciting. The overwhelming part is
everything that goes into that. And that includes this podcast and recording episodes preparing
for the episodes during the week and making sure I'm reaching out to guests and just line
them up for the podcast. And things like going and not just focusing on the podcast, but
also on creating things like the discover your calling planning guide, which I love
that I did and is a testament to a lot of things that I've learned. Like the last episode
I was actually really proud of. If you haven't listened to it, I really would love if you
would go back and do that. Because there's also things, I'm sending that episode out
to people directly because I know it's something that can help people. Another thing, it got
really discouraging whenever I saw my analytics, which means like my viewership or listenership
of the podcast for some reason from one week to the next, it got chopped in half and I
don't know why. And some algorithmic change or something like that, I'm not sure. And
that was discouraging, but as I was preparing for this episode, I wasn't even planning on
talking about this, but as I was planning on planning on what I was going to talk about
for this episode and I realized what was one thing that's holding me back. And this is
in my notes, but it's that I tend to want to do everything myself one, and I tend to
want to do everything myself right now. I'm probably not the only person listening to
this that can relate. There's, I like to do everything myself because I wanted to make
sure it's going to be done well, but then I also want to do everything myself because
I feel like sometimes I just suck at delegating if I'm being completely honest with you. And
so that's something that as I was writing this out, I was like, why am I so overwhelmed?
It's because I feel like there's all these things that I need to do and there's, there
is, these are just things that need done and it doesn't mean that necessarily that I have
to do them. And I'm realizing that as I was writing, as I was writing this out, things
that I maybe I've known this for a while, but as I was writing this out of having honestly
days of feeling this overwhelming overwhelming this in my body, I realized I was like, well,
I know people that may be able to help. So I started reaching out to people right while
I was writing my notes out for this episode, sort of reach out to people and ask, ask for
help. I'm going to get to the, what I'm asking for in a second, but I went also, I just wanted
to be like, say like, that's not the only thing in my life that I've been overwhelmed
by because clearly I have, you know, that I have this medical condition called muscular
dystonia and I like to do research on that, which I haven't been doing a lot of recently.
And I also like to say, I'm trying to set up doctor's appointments and make sure I'm
staying on top of that. And it's sitting on top of my vocational rehab social worker guy,
who frankly isn't that great at his job. And so I have to keep tracking him down to make
sure things get done on that route. And then I, there's just things that, that feel like
they just keep, keep getting added to my plate because then there's my full-time job with
all of that. And like, and then it's just a lot. And I'm not, I don't want to sound
like I'm, I don't, I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining to you guys. I just wanted
to be vulnerable and be like, guys, I need help. Like, um, I've been talking with my
therapist and we try and figure, we're trying to figure out like, maybe it's like, what
something I'm eating is causing me all this stress. And maybe that's potentially part
of it, but I'm thinking I'm coming down to this realization that every, I, I, every time
I get to this point in my life where I'm, I am running towards this goal of becoming
a life coach. This isn't the first time I've tried this. I hit, I hit a roadblock out.
Should not have punched my own hand. I have a condition, but the, uh, the, the thing is
like, I always hit this particular roadblock where I tried to do all these things all at
once and it baffles me. Now that I think about that, I do the same thing over and over again,
the definition of insanity and I expect a different result. I expect maybe it will go
better this next time. Whenever I try to do everything myself, now I'm not saying that
I'm doing everything myself right now. And you know, I have amazing people helping me
out like Ian Goss, who is listening to this right now before you get to listen to it and
editing it. And I get to tell him that he's awesome without, and he has to accept it because
he has to edit the audio and that without him or him or somebody editing the audio for
me, I wouldn't, I don't know how far this podcast would go because I know I wanted to,
I know what the podcast to be edited. I want it to sound good. And guys, you don't even
know the kind of stuff that he does. Like sometimes he just makes me make sense. He's
cutting words and moving them around. Like he's, I don't know how many times he's done
that, but I know he has, he's told me, um, cutting words and moving them around. So I'm
make more sense whenever I start to ramble in a random direction. So like he's helping
you guys out too, and saving you from my random rambles. But then there's Nathan Maverich
and he created the website that you guys can go to pursuit of calling.com and get your
free discovery, your calling planning guy, then you can go sign up and get that right
now. And he was the one who offered to create that website for me. And I'm so thankful for
that. And now I'm, and then there's Alex Misner who has helped me out with some social media
things that I'm sorry, man, I have not sent you, sent you much recently and I'm going
to probably send you this episode, but, but, um, at least to listen to, I haven't sent
you much recently, man. I'm sorry about that, but there's, um, you got some things in the
works and hoping to get some more people on the pursuit of calling team. So with all that
said, I just want to say if you're interested in things like content creation, whether that
be social media, email marketing or copywriting, I need your help like immensely. And like
that's, and that also, if you're more, maybe you're more managerial and you like to, maybe
you like to communicate with people and reach out to maybe would like to help me reaching
out to guests and, um, scheduling things with them on whenever, um, whenever, uh, me, the
guest and I can record, that would be a huge help. And like, I can't promise payment. I'm
going to be honest upfront with you right now, but I would just really appreciate the
help if you can offer it. There is a calling on my life and I feel like there's, I know
there's people out there that can help that can help. And I know there's people out there
are willing to help. I just have to find them. Thank God. And I have to ask, right? Who the
how am I supposed to get help if I don't ask for it? Right. That goes for everybody. How
are you supposed to get help if you don't ask for it? Like, man, I mean, that's all
I really did have prepared for you, but there's, I just wanted to be like, I just wanted to
be vulnerable with you today. Life sometimes can fake some curve balls. I'm holding back
some tears just so I can make sure I get my words out properly. Um, but yeah, if you can
help reach out to me directly, maybe I'll have a form out on pursuit of calling.com
that you can fill out and, or you can actually, yeah, just go to the contact form, go to the
contact form on the pursuit of calling.com, fill that out. And if you, if you want to
be able to help and, or if you have my number, you can text me directly. So, all right guys,
that's the episode this week. If you liked this episode, definitely share it out on all
your social media platforms, especially this one, because if you know somebody that can
help me out, that'd be fantastic. Don't forget to leave a comment on Spotify. If you, Spotify,
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guys, I appreciate you. I see you next time. Pursuers peace.