1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,960 What's going on, pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:13,760 and purpose is to provide you with the strategies and tools needed to successfully discover 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:20,280 and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Carney, and today we're talking 4 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:33,880 about how to pursue your calling well. All right, what's going on, pursuers? So two 5 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:40,840 weeks ago, we talked about what calling or purpose is. We defined it. Then we dived... 6 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,800 Last week, we dove into... We talked about how to discover your calling using the Discover 7 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,200 Your Calling Planning Guide, which you can get at pursuitofcalling.com or pursuitofcalling.com. 8 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,040 And if you haven't listened to those episodes yet, make sure to do so. Make sure you do 9 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,560 so before you listen to this one. Go back and listen to those two episodes to get the 10 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,840 full benefit from this short little series that I'm doing. And don't forget to get your 11 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,880 copy of the planning guide. So now that you've discovered your calling, or at least have 12 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:16,680 a better idea as to what it might be, how do you actually pursue it? You know, as a 13 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:23,400 personal example, before I recorded this episode, before I knew I was going to be recording 14 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,880 this episode, I was having a conversation with a friend and not really talking about 15 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:35,960 the podcast too much, but we are talking about our different goals, the businesses that we 16 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:44,920 have or are starting. And he made a comment that I don't think he realized that he made. 17 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:52,960 But my friend Matt, hey Matt, if you listen to the podcast, he said that like, I've been 18 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:58,120 talking about getting this entering into the John Maxwell certification program, entering 19 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:06,440 into the Maxwell team for a really long time, for probably over a year. And he made a comment 20 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:12,040 he was like, and you're going to get your coaching and then maybe one day you're going 21 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,840 to maybe you'll do the Maxwell stuff if you're actually going to do that. And he didn't say 22 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:24,600 in a condescending way, but he said in a way that kind of convicted me a little bit. And 23 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,240 so I, you know, I wanted to make sure I, and that made me realize I wasn't doing everything 24 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,240 I could be to pursue my calling well and with excellence. This is something I said I was 25 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,720 going to do for a really long time. And for a long time, it was just lip service. It was 26 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:45,480 just lip service to my calling because I said I was going to be willing one day to invest 27 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:51,720 my time and resources and money into this thing that I believe is great. But that day 28 00:02:51,720 --> 00:03:00,080 wasn't coming. When was I decide when was I going to decide that I was actually ready? 29 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:07,160 So you know, I finally decided to pay the tuition fee for that. And for the whole certification 30 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:13,080 program, I joined the team, which is only going to exponentially propel me forward and 31 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:19,120 it's going to help me provide better services and cause me to be able to serve you and to 32 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:28,240 serve my future clients at a capacity that I would never have been able to do before. 33 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:34,040 Because now I'm part of a network. There's courses I can take to gain some new skills. 34 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:42,480 There's even content that I can teach from and I can guide clients through to help them 35 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,520 grow and to help them reach their calling and pursue their calling, live their calling 36 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:53,080 well with excellence. That's the whole point of this podcast. So the reason I bring this 37 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:58,800 up at all is because I truly believe the only way that you can actually pursue the calling 38 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:05,680 that God has on your life is to be willing to take action by putting your time, money 39 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:13,160 and other resources to work. Yesterday I was on a call that a part of which was a part 40 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,920 of this backfill leadership program. They have these calls that and you don't have 41 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,360 to hop on them. They could go on it, but because I want to get my money's worth and I want 42 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:28,200 to, which I already have, but I want to make sure I'm doing everything that I can to make 43 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:35,280 this investment in my future that I made worth it for myself because now it's up to me, right? 44 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:42,120 I put in the money and now it's up to me to reap the benefits that are, that are right 45 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:52,240 there in front of me for me to receive. And you know, I was on this call and it was the 46 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:59,840 topic of the top, the topic of the call was talking about overcoming the overwhelm. Really 47 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:07,720 it was talking about how to take action whenever the, whenever there's so many reasons that 48 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:13,920 you feel like there are not to like a personal example for me is I have so many ideas. I'm 49 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:18,260 an ideal person. I don't know if you ever heard of the six working geniuses. I recommend 50 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:24,360 you look it up. Yes. Google six working geniuses at the $25 course and believe not my code, 51 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,880 but you can use the code secrets. I believe to get $5 off. Thanks to Russell Brunson. 52 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:37,160 Don't thank me. And so then it's only $20 and it's a hundred percent worth it. But the, 53 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,520 the reason I bring that up, the reason I bring up the six working geniuses is because through 54 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:48,400 that whole process, uh, it came out and told, gave me like a classification of the creative 55 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,320 dreamer. Essentially my head's in the clouds and I come up with a ton of ideas. That's 56 00:05:53,320 --> 00:06:00,200 like the very rudimentary, not complete story of what that is, but it's true. I come up 57 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:06,480 with so many ideas and that causes me to almost get that shiny object syndrome. Cause I love 58 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,880 all of these ideas and then I just don't move because there's two, I can, I try either I'd 59 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,040 move, either I don't move because there's too many things to choose from, or I try to 60 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,600 do all these things at once. Cause this is a shiny object. This is a shiny object over 61 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,840 here. So I try to take little bite-sized pieces out of each idea. And then you get absolutely 62 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:30,800 nowhere when you do that. So this, which, you know, inevitably to tie it back to the 63 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:36,840 call I was on, like it causes me to get really overwhelmed. Cause there's so many things 64 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:41,840 I could be doing and partially sometimes feel like I should be doing, but if I really want 65 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,840 to make progress, if you really want to make progress, you have to focus really on one 66 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:51,560 goal and one trajectory. And one great thing that they said during that call, that the 67 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:57,680 speaker said during the call was you take action by trying something new that you have 68 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,240 never tried before. You take action by trying something you never tried before. You just 69 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,360 start. And like, you don't have to know everything before you get started. They said, you're 70 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:13,280 going to mess up. And that's one huge way we learn. I think I brought that up sometime 71 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,720 before on this podcast that it's in failure. A lot of the time is whenever we learn the 72 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,800 biggest lessons, because you can look back on your failure and realize why did I fail? 73 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,520 What caused me to stumble? And how can I, what do I need to do to not do that the next 74 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:34,160 time? Or what caused me to mess up and how, or what caused this not to be as good as a 75 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,440 result of this not to be as good as I thought it was going to be? And how can I make sure 76 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,440 that it's a better result next time? And you can tie that into success too. Like why did 77 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:50,080 I succeed? But this was just within the topic of what they talked about. So your dreams 78 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,920 and like one thing I thought about during all of that, and I think of another speaker 79 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:59,040 on another different call said this, they go, your dreams, goals and visions do not 80 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:04,880 do you any good if they stay in your head. Like this is just, I'm just speaking to you 81 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:11,040 right now directly. It's time to, it's time to turn your internal goals in these intuitions, 82 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:17,080 these dreams, these visions into an external result. It's time to take the internal and 83 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,560 make it external. You know, out of these, out of these mere concepts that are just in 84 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:29,920 your head and turn them into reality. It's time to make it tangible. So the pursuit of 85 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:38,480 calling is all about taking action. You like, you take, you start, you take the first action 86 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,640 and then you, even if you fail, you take the next action, you figure out what you need 87 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,120 to do next and you just keep, keep, and you just keep going. And there's what, and that 88 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:52,720 might sound overwhelming to you. Like, yes, rest is a giant virtue, is a huge virtue and 89 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:58,240 you should rest, but you can't just rest. You have to take action. If you want to pursue 90 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,240 your calling, if you want to live in it, well, you want to live a life that God has destined 91 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,320 for you to live. You got to take action to pursue your calling. You have to take action 92 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:15,680 and pursue, actually pursue your calling. Pursue is not a passive term. Passive is active. 93 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:23,080 Call is active. So think, I want you to, okay, this is a time for you. If you don't already 94 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,280 have a pencil, a pen and a piece of paper or maybe a note, sap or whatever, get that 95 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,920 up right now. And I want you to write down, I want you to start thinking about ways that 96 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:39,280 you can be applying your calling as a way of service to others. Why do I say that? Because 97 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,600 your calling isn't just for you. Your calling isn't just for you. Write down like minimum 98 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:49,200 three different things that you can be doing to make your, turn your calling into an active 99 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:56,640 service. Who can you serve with this? Who can, who would benefit the most? I'm not talking 100 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,320 specifically about businesses. Everyone is called to serve. That's the only reason we're 101 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:07,160 on this planet. Like we're on this planet to serve. We're here to serve God and to serve 102 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:15,520 others. And you want to know how we serve God? We serve God by serving others. Like that 103 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,560 is like a concept I think so many people, and this is like, it like actually irritates 104 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:26,480 me a little bit, not in my notes, but it irritates me that people don't get that. People think 105 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,320 when they start a business that it's just about making money. And there's, they couldn't 106 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,920 be more, it couldn't be more wrong. Anybody that says business, starting a business, an 107 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:43,280 internship is anything but service to others is completely, it's just, it's just wrong. 108 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:49,800 They are incorrect, full stop, period. No doubt. Only reason to start a business is 109 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:55,320 to serve others. It's not about the money. The money is reward. The money is a reward 110 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:01,360 for the service you provide. It's not, it's not the, it's not the end. It's not the end 111 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:07,880 to the mean. Man, sorry, that was a whole tangent, but, and even though you're, let's 112 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:14,320 get back to like, not just business though, you with your, you, how can you serve others 113 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,960 in your community that would apply to the calling that you have on your lines, the calling 114 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:26,760 that you have in your life? How can you serve people in your workplace? How can you make 115 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,280 your job more enjoyable by applying your calling to it? We've talked about your calling 116 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:37,200 doesn't just go, isn't, isn't a vocation. It's not, your calling isn't a job. It's 117 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,640 not a career. It's not a business. It's a way of life. So how can you apply this way 118 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:47,320 of life, this new way of living that you've discovered to your job, to your career, to 119 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,480 your business, to your church community, to the community that you live in? How can you 120 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,440 apply, how can you serve others through this calling that you have now discovered that 121 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:03,760 you have on your life? And this is like, this is awesome stuff guys. Like I really hope 122 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,920 you're listening to it. I really hope you're like picking up on laying down right now. 123 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:13,360 I want you again, if you get, again, go back, rewind, we'll just say that again. If you 124 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,920 haven't written your things down yet, but now I want you to write down three things 125 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,120 you, that you can do in the next month and in the next 30 days to pursue your calling 126 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,600 well. Now this could be doing research. If we're going with this get super, uber practical. 127 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:33,920 This could be doing research. It can be reading new books, listening to some new podcasts, 128 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,040 you know, purchasing a program, you know, that you've had your eyes on for a long time 129 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,360 and start, and you can start that process. You know, that kind of, you know, that works 130 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,920 out pretty well. It like, it actually is pretty exciting. I know. And, um, but like I bring 131 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:50,420 all these things up because like I, I've told you before, I love reading and I know 132 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:55,320 Craig or shell set has a, has a phrase as a saying that's the best leaders are the best 133 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,000 readers. If you're not reading, you're not like, you're not learning as much as you could 134 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:07,000 be learning. And there's so many books for every topic out there written by people that 135 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 you're not going to get the same same value out of a podcast, even though podcasts are 136 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,800 fantastic and you can listen to those whenever you want. And like a book, like though it 137 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,800 takes that same information that a lot of people are talking about in their podcasts 138 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,720 and can, and expands on it in a way that you can underline and take notes on it. You can 139 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,920 take notes on a podcast too, but like, like this gives you a whole different medium and 140 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:34,800 a whole different way to learn that not enough people take advantage of. It's time to start 141 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,880 reading if you're not already. I don't know if I don't know if I have the video up. I 142 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,840 don't know if it's on YouTube or not, but I'm telling you, I have this massive bookshelf 143 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,880 behind bookshelf behind me. Some of it's books for pleasure. A lot of it's books for pleasure. 144 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:52,840 Like store fantasy books and things like that. Other than the other 50% of the books are 145 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,120 about personal development, about growth, about business, about philosophy, about philosophy. 146 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,720 And all these other things that interest me that you wouldn't think had anything to do 147 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:08,900 with anything that I'm doing, but they all do. And I could explain each and every book 148 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:15,760 to you and how that I've read. I haven't read all of them and tell you how they, how they 149 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,120 apply to my calling because how, because these things that interest you, your calling is 150 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:25,920 unique to you. I'm going off a random tangent. I'm off my notes. My notes are done. Now I'm 151 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:32,560 just speaking from my heart. Like your calling is unique to you. All these books that I'm 152 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:38,440 reading, I'm into philosophy, the philosophy books, the philosophy books, the personal 153 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,280 development books, the books about habits and about how to manage my time better. Like 154 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,280 all of these books. And then there's books about like the hobbit. I have the hobbit out 155 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:53,960 there too. And guys, it's weird, but like I use that just for pleasure. I use that to 156 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:59,280 read and to rest. And I'm sure there's some lessons in there too. I'm sure there's some 157 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:04,000 lessons in there too. I haven't dove too far into it in that way yet, but you know, one 158 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:11,400 day maybe. Guys, everything you do from this point on that you've discovered your calling 159 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:18,080 and are on the pursuit should be to pursue your calling. You might think, be like, eh, 160 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,160 not all the time. I don't have to be, you know, always pursuing. No, no, wrong. You 161 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,640 always should be pursuing your calling. That's the best thing on your life. The only thing 162 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,600 that's like worth doing is the pursuit of calling. Now there's obviously there's an 163 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,160 infinite amount of things that you can be doing, which is the exciting part. And there's 164 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:39,560 infinite amount of growth that can happen in your life. But like, like, and you can 165 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,880 say rest is good. Rest is part of the pursuit. Rest is part of the pursuit, hanging out with 166 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,280 friends and making sure you're not going to drive yourself insane by just, sorry, just 167 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:56,400 about the microphone by just being on this pursuit. But guys, like it's the most important 168 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,800 thing in your life. God gave you this calling. Okay. God's the most important thing in your 169 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:08,400 life because God gave you this calling most important thing that is yours. Right. It's 170 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:19,040 this calling. Ooh. So people might disagree with me on that. And, and, uh, but guys, I'm 171 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,760 gonna leave it there. Cause I just kept rambling, but I thought it was all, I thought it was 172 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,560 all good because of course I didn't, I said it, but if you agreed or you disagree with 173 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,000 me, let me know in the comments on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or wherever, wherever you 174 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,200 listen to your podcast, wherever you listen to your podcasts, give this podcast, the whole 175 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,200 podcast, the whole five star review, because we don't want your one stars because you have 176 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,000 nothing to say. Don't say anything at all. You know, like it's like, it's not helpful 177 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,920 for you. Not helpful for me. And, but yeah, give it a five star review, comment, share 178 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,520 this episode out with anybody, anybody like you don't have to share on social media. You 179 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,840 can just send the link to a friend that you think this would be beneficial towards. I 180 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,640 feel like this episode would be beneficial to a lot of people. So please share it with 181 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,560 a friend, share it with a family member, share it with your cousins or aunts or dog. If they 182 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:13,040 can read, who knows? And, and guys, I'll see you next time. Keep pursuing.