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What's going on, pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal

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in Purpose is to provide you with the strategies and tools needed to successfully discover

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and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Kearney, and today we're answering

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the question, what is purpose? Let's dive in. So guys, I might have mentioned this on the

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podcast before, but you know, I'm a lifelong learner and I love exploring different topics,

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but sometimes it can be a challenge to dive too deep in any one particular thing. A lot

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of the time it's because my brain loves to not just focus on one thing, but focus on

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10 different things at the same time. I don't know if you're like that. I'm like that. And

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so it makes it really hard to like dive deep into one thing. Like even the books I'm reading,

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like if you're, if I post this video, you'll see like I have a ton of books back there

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and on my bookshelf and my plan right now is to go through multiple, is to rotate through

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different topics, different books. And, but in reality I'm like, I know if I wanted to

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learn more about marketing or more about business and more about coaching or like, I should

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just stick to one topic and only read those books. I'm like, that sounds so restrictive.

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So my brain, I don't know if you can hear that siren, but anyway, there's like, that's

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how my brain works. They just keep bouncing around, but there, but there's a, but that's,

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but like, I love learning. Sorry, my train of thought just got fricking, it just crashed,

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but we got it back. So, but like, yeah, I'm a lifelong learner and like, but it's worth,

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for this podcast, I wanted to go back to what I love learning about the most. I wanted to

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go back to the core reason this podcast even exists. You might know where I'm going. You

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probably do because you read the title of the episode. We're going to be talking about

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purpose, not my purpose, but yours. We're pretty much everybody's essentially, you know,

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we're going to talk about what is purpose or calling. And eventually you'll answer the

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questions. How do you discover your calling? How do you know when you're living in it?

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And what can you do to pursue it with passion and excellence? So really in this episode,

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we're just going to be talking about what purpose is. You know, purpose is a hard topic.

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And honestly, it's one a lot of people stay away from. I feel like, like, not just like

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people, I'm not just talking about people making content. I'm talking about people in

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their lives tend to stay away from their purpose. And like some decide that there's no meaning

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to life and no purpose to us being here at all. So I mean here, I mean here on this earth.

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So you know, we can just live our lives for ourselves and do whatever the heck we want.

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It's hard because if you believe there is something like a purpose for your life, like

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I do, you then you might start to wonder what that means and where it comes from. Who decided

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what even needed that we even needed a purpose? Who decided that like what your purpose is

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even supposed to be? And like that is like, that's what I love to think about. It's like,

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and I believe that purpose comes from God, right? That my faith is a whole reason and

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my faith in God and my faith in Jesus, like that is where all my values come from. My

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faith in the Lord, that's my foundation for everything that I do. And you might think

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that's crazy, but I just want to let you know where I'm coming from. And you know, we're

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making it, maybe we're making it all up to give ourselves a reason to wake up in the

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morning, but I don't think we are. You know, just look at the hit. I did some research

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for this episode. And I did some research. I was like, what animals have like a really

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interesting like thing that they do all the time? Like a lot of animals like yes, they

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just kind of live out their purpose. And like they like they are born with an ingrained

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instruction manual. And like, so I was like, look at bees. Look at the bees. Bees pollinate

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the flowers. And that's a huge part of their purpose. They're programmed in a very particular

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way. They just know their purpose out of instinct, and they do it well. They don't know. They

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don't have to be trained. They just, they just hop on it. Once they're old enough. You

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know, I found an okay. So the research I did, I said I did some research and this is crazy.

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So I found this quote in my research. The common phrase is that the honeybees will work

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themselves to death. And that's what makes them so social. They put the entire colony's

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needs above their own every time. I just got chills. I got chills when I first read it.

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I just got chills again. Because like, their purpose is so well ingrained in them. Sorry,

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bumped the mic there. That they'll pursue their purpose to the point of death. Like

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I read further on, like, they'll be flying around with tattered wings until they can't

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fly anymore. And sometimes they just don't make it back to the nest. Because they have

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that ingrained purpose inside of them. Now, like, of course, our calling is nothing, isn't

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like that. Our calling wouldn't, if some people are like, man, that would be nice if I could

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just know and just have that instruction manual and not have to figure it out on my set on

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my own and not go through the personal development journey. Why can't God just tell me what my

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purpose is? And like, and I think honestly, what I think the answer this is, this isn't

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my notes. So like, bear with me. But there's my answer to that question is that the reason

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our purpose isn't full is not ingrained in us like that. Like the honeybee is because

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we are higher than the honeybee. Some people hate that I just said that. Some people put

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us and animals on the same level playing field. And I'm like, nah, nah. We are animal like

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we are made in God's image. That's what I believe. And God was God's God was like, I

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want these people to learn. I don't want them to just follow me blindly, or just follow

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a blind set of instructions that they don't even need to know that they understand it

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or why they understand that they don't need to know why they do these things. There's

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ingrained things in us already to do those things, but that's not our purpose. There's

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God wants us to discover this purpose for ourselves because then it's so much more fulfilling

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for our lives. We're not drones like a bee. There's bees that they're just called drones.

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They just go around. But we, if we're really pursuing our calling, our purpose, we're not

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going to drone around and be like everybody else doing what everybody else is trying to

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do. We're going to pursue that one thing that we're supposed to do that one thing that's

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unique to us. So like that's what purpose for one for starts. It's unique. It's unique

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to you. Your purpose. It's your why behind what you do. It's your why. It's why you enjoy

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the things you enjoy. Why you like to spend time talking about certain topics over others

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and why your strengths are your strengths and your weaknesses are your weaknesses.

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The funny thing about human being, about a human being's purpose is that, you know, I

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already said it's not like the honeybees. I got, I got, I got ahead of my notes. I'm

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going through my notes. I'm like, I already said that. Um, I was talking about the honeybee

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and you know, I definitely want to go more into this, the future and a few future episode.

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I want to go into, like, I want to answer the other questions and I maybe I'll pertain

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them back to the honeybee every single time. Then other for just as a reminder, the questions

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are what is purpose or calling? That was the one we answered. We're answering today answered

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or answering, I guess. How do you answer your calling? How do you know what you're that

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you're living in it? Like before that, that you know, if you know what it is, how do you

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know that you're actually living in it? And what can you do to pursue it with passion

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and excellence? I guess the flip side of that, of that question right before, like, uh, how

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do you pursue with excellence? Like, how do you know you're living in it? The flip side

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of that is how do you know when you're not? Like, I want to answer those quest, all these

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questions in the next few episodes coming forward. And you know, I said, like, I am

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a, I'm a, I'm a, I said, I'm a lifelong learner in the beginning. Like, I'm never going to

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stop learning. I don't, nobody ever stops learning, but I love that part of life. I

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love that there's never, there's never, you can never get too much information. Some people

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would disagree, but you can never, I believe you can never get too much knowledge, newer,

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you get too much information and never gain too much wisdom. And it's not a matter of

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whether I'm going to be learning. It's a matter of what and why. For instance, and this is

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just a tangent that I'm going to end off this episode with a little call to action. The,

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the, I said a matter, it's not a matter of what I'm learning. It's a matter of what and

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why. So I'm, you can't see them. I'm pointing over at my desk, but over there I'm reading

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Nick Bikini Ethics, which I've brought up before. The reason I'm reading that is because

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it stroke, it, whenever I first picked it up, the reason it first sparked my interest

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was because I wanted to understand, I thought it was interesting that people, interesting

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that the topic is about why people do the things that they do. And I, and I was so fascinated

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by that. And then I realized why I was fascinated by that because my goal isn't just to, I'm

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to understand why people do the things that they do. It's to provide people with the tools

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they need to discover and pursue their God given calling. And in order to do that well

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and with excellence, I need to understand why the people are, why people do what they

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do whenever they're not pursuing their calling and wherever they are. So that's why I'm,

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why I'm reading that book. That's why I'm reading it, why I'm reading it. And then there's

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so many other books, so many other topics in my life that all pertain back to this topic,

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back to my calling. But all right, guys, I said, it was going to give you a call to action.

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So based off of what I said, I'm going to go right hash what I said, what your calling

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is real quick, but based off of the, what I'm going to say in the next few seconds,

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I want you to write down, I want you to write down your purpose, what you believe it is

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right now. Maybe you're wrong. That's okay. I'm not going to say, maybe you're wrong.

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Or maybe you don't have it fully fleshed out yet. I want you to write down your understanding

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of what purpose is from this episode. So I see you're ahead. Our purpose or calling is

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your why behind what you do, why you enjoy the things you enjoy, why you like to spend

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the time talking about certain things over other other topics and why your strengths

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or your strengths and your weaknesses are your weaknesses. What are your strengths?

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What are your weaknesses? What are you? What do you like to do? And why do you enjoy do

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it? So what do you like to do? And like, what do you enjoy talking about? And then merge

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it all together and see what you come up with. Because the next episode, I really want to

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talk about, like, how do you know what your purpose is? I talked about my purpose a lot.

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I want to dive more into it just like saying, how do you know what your purpose is? How

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do you discover that part of your life? But I'll get all right, guys, I ramble a little

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bit at the end there. That's all right. If you liked this episode, please, please, please

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podcasts. And guys, don't forget, you can send me a message, you can email me at thomas.carney

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at pursuit of calling.com. And guys, I'll see you next time. See you, Pursuers.