What's going on, pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal
in Purpose is to provide you with the strategies and tools needed to successfully discover
and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Kearney, and today we're answering
the question, what is purpose? Let's dive in. So guys, I might have mentioned this on the
podcast before, but you know, I'm a lifelong learner and I love exploring different topics,
but sometimes it can be a challenge to dive too deep in any one particular thing. A lot
of the time it's because my brain loves to not just focus on one thing, but focus on
10 different things at the same time. I don't know if you're like that. I'm like that. And
so it makes it really hard to like dive deep into one thing. Like even the books I'm reading,
like if you're, if I post this video, you'll see like I have a ton of books back there
and on my bookshelf and my plan right now is to go through multiple, is to rotate through
different topics, different books. And, but in reality I'm like, I know if I wanted to
learn more about marketing or more about business and more about coaching or like, I should
just stick to one topic and only read those books. I'm like, that sounds so restrictive.
So my brain, I don't know if you can hear that siren, but anyway, there's like, that's
how my brain works. They just keep bouncing around, but there, but there's a, but that's,
but like, I love learning. Sorry, my train of thought just got fricking, it just crashed,
but we got it back. So, but like, yeah, I'm a lifelong learner and like, but it's worth,
for this podcast, I wanted to go back to what I love learning about the most. I wanted to
go back to the core reason this podcast even exists. You might know where I'm going. You
probably do because you read the title of the episode. We're going to be talking about
purpose, not my purpose, but yours. We're pretty much everybody's essentially, you know,
we're going to talk about what is purpose or calling. And eventually you'll answer the
questions. How do you discover your calling? How do you know when you're living in it?
And what can you do to pursue it with passion and excellence? So really in this episode,
we're just going to be talking about what purpose is. You know, purpose is a hard topic.
And honestly, it's one a lot of people stay away from. I feel like, like, not just like
people, I'm not just talking about people making content. I'm talking about people in
their lives tend to stay away from their purpose. And like some decide that there's no meaning
to life and no purpose to us being here at all. So I mean here, I mean here on this earth.
So you know, we can just live our lives for ourselves and do whatever the heck we want.
It's hard because if you believe there is something like a purpose for your life, like
I do, you then you might start to wonder what that means and where it comes from. Who decided
what even needed that we even needed a purpose? Who decided that like what your purpose is
even supposed to be? And like that is like, that's what I love to think about. It's like,
and I believe that purpose comes from God, right? That my faith is a whole reason and
my faith in God and my faith in Jesus, like that is where all my values come from. My
faith in the Lord, that's my foundation for everything that I do. And you might think
that's crazy, but I just want to let you know where I'm coming from. And you know, we're
making it, maybe we're making it all up to give ourselves a reason to wake up in the
morning, but I don't think we are. You know, just look at the hit. I did some research
for this episode. And I did some research. I was like, what animals have like a really
interesting like thing that they do all the time? Like a lot of animals like yes, they
just kind of live out their purpose. And like they like they are born with an ingrained
instruction manual. And like, so I was like, look at bees. Look at the bees. Bees pollinate
the flowers. And that's a huge part of their purpose. They're programmed in a very particular
way. They just know their purpose out of instinct, and they do it well. They don't know. They
don't have to be trained. They just, they just hop on it. Once they're old enough. You
know, I found an okay. So the research I did, I said I did some research and this is crazy.
So I found this quote in my research. The common phrase is that the honeybees will work
themselves to death. And that's what makes them so social. They put the entire colony's
needs above their own every time. I just got chills. I got chills when I first read it.
I just got chills again. Because like, their purpose is so well ingrained in them. Sorry,
bumped the mic there. That they'll pursue their purpose to the point of death. Like
I read further on, like, they'll be flying around with tattered wings until they can't
fly anymore. And sometimes they just don't make it back to the nest. Because they have
that ingrained purpose inside of them. Now, like, of course, our calling is nothing, isn't
like that. Our calling wouldn't, if some people are like, man, that would be nice if I could
just know and just have that instruction manual and not have to figure it out on my set on
my own and not go through the personal development journey. Why can't God just tell me what my
purpose is? And like, and I think honestly, what I think the answer this is, this isn't
my notes. So like, bear with me. But there's my answer to that question is that the reason
our purpose isn't full is not ingrained in us like that. Like the honeybee is because
we are higher than the honeybee. Some people hate that I just said that. Some people put
us and animals on the same level playing field. And I'm like, nah, nah. We are animal like
we are made in God's image. That's what I believe. And God was God's God was like, I
want these people to learn. I don't want them to just follow me blindly, or just follow
a blind set of instructions that they don't even need to know that they understand it
or why they understand that they don't need to know why they do these things. There's
ingrained things in us already to do those things, but that's not our purpose. There's
God wants us to discover this purpose for ourselves because then it's so much more fulfilling
for our lives. We're not drones like a bee. There's bees that they're just called drones.
They just go around. But we, if we're really pursuing our calling, our purpose, we're not
going to drone around and be like everybody else doing what everybody else is trying to
do. We're going to pursue that one thing that we're supposed to do that one thing that's
unique to us. So like that's what purpose for one for starts. It's unique. It's unique
to you. Your purpose. It's your why behind what you do. It's your why. It's why you enjoy
the things you enjoy. Why you like to spend time talking about certain topics over others
and why your strengths are your strengths and your weaknesses are your weaknesses.
The funny thing about human being, about a human being's purpose is that, you know, I
already said it's not like the honeybees. I got, I got, I got ahead of my notes. I'm
going through my notes. I'm like, I already said that. Um, I was talking about the honeybee
and you know, I definitely want to go more into this, the future and a few future episode.
I want to go into, like, I want to answer the other questions and I maybe I'll pertain
them back to the honeybee every single time. Then other for just as a reminder, the questions
are what is purpose or calling? That was the one we answered. We're answering today answered
or answering, I guess. How do you answer your calling? How do you know what you're that
you're living in it? Like before that, that you know, if you know what it is, how do you
know that you're actually living in it? And what can you do to pursue it with passion
and excellence? I guess the flip side of that, of that question right before, like, uh, how
do you pursue with excellence? Like, how do you know you're living in it? The flip side
of that is how do you know when you're not? Like, I want to answer those quest, all these
questions in the next few episodes coming forward. And you know, I said, like, I am
a, I'm a, I'm a, I said, I'm a lifelong learner in the beginning. Like, I'm never going to
stop learning. I don't, nobody ever stops learning, but I love that part of life. I
love that there's never, there's never, you can never get too much information. Some people
would disagree, but you can never, I believe you can never get too much knowledge, newer,
you get too much information and never gain too much wisdom. And it's not a matter of
whether I'm going to be learning. It's a matter of what and why. For instance, and this is
just a tangent that I'm going to end off this episode with a little call to action. The,
the, I said a matter, it's not a matter of what I'm learning. It's a matter of what and
why. So I'm, you can't see them. I'm pointing over at my desk, but over there I'm reading
Nick Bikini Ethics, which I've brought up before. The reason I'm reading that is because
it stroke, it, whenever I first picked it up, the reason it first sparked my interest
was because I wanted to understand, I thought it was interesting that people, interesting
that the topic is about why people do the things that they do. And I, and I was so fascinated
by that. And then I realized why I was fascinated by that because my goal isn't just to, I'm
to understand why people do the things that they do. It's to provide people with the tools
they need to discover and pursue their God given calling. And in order to do that well
and with excellence, I need to understand why the people are, why people do what they
do whenever they're not pursuing their calling and wherever they are. So that's why I'm,
why I'm reading that book. That's why I'm reading it, why I'm reading it. And then there's
so many other books, so many other topics in my life that all pertain back to this topic,
back to my calling. But all right, guys, I said, it was going to give you a call to action.
So based off of what I said, I'm going to go right hash what I said, what your calling
is real quick, but based off of the, what I'm going to say in the next few seconds,
I want you to write down, I want you to write down your purpose, what you believe it is
right now. Maybe you're wrong. That's okay. I'm not going to say, maybe you're wrong.
Or maybe you don't have it fully fleshed out yet. I want you to write down your understanding
of what purpose is from this episode. So I see you're ahead. Our purpose or calling is
your why behind what you do, why you enjoy the things you enjoy, why you like to spend
the time talking about certain things over other other topics and why your strengths
or your strengths and your weaknesses are your weaknesses. What are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses? What are you? What do you like to do? And why do you enjoy do
it? So what do you like to do? And like, what do you enjoy talking about? And then merge
it all together and see what you come up with. Because the next episode, I really want to
talk about, like, how do you know what your purpose is? I talked about my purpose a lot.
I want to dive more into it just like saying, how do you know what your purpose is? How
do you discover that part of your life? But I'll get all right, guys, I ramble a little
bit at the end there. That's all right. If you liked this episode, please, please, please
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