What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit
of Calling podcast, where my goal and purpose
is to provide you with the tools and strategies
needed to successfully discover and pursue your
God -given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Carney,
and today I'm heading to the International Maxwell
Conference. What is something that you're looking
forward to? I want you to pause and think about
that for a few seconds. All right. Something
I learned recently in my coaching training is
the power of positive psychology. Having things
that you're looking forward to is one of the
many things that can bring happiness and propel
you to action towards your goals. Something I'm
looking forward to is IMC. or the International
Maxwell Conference, which is through the Maxwell
leadership. And it's part of my coaching training.
I need to go to one of these in order to get
my certification as a Maxwell coach. And what's
really nice is that it's in Florida. So I get
to spend most of a week of this coming week in
Florida. I guess when this episode releases.
I'll be on day two of the actual event, which
I'm super excited for. And I'm not sure really
what to expect besides the fact that I'll grow
as a result. I'll learn a lot of new things.
I'm going to be able to network with a lot of
great people. But the best thing I think I'm
going to benefit from the most is I'm going to
be surrounded with a lot of like -minded people.
Something that I really loved, and I'm going
to make a whole episode about this soon, about
a mastermind that I was a part of for four weeks
with people from the Maxwell team, other people
that had joined recently and wanted to then be
part of this free mastermind. So on our last
session, everyone that was on was a person of
faith. And so we got really Bible -heavy. We
were all like -minded. We all wanted to grow.
Some people were coaches. Some people wanted
to be speakers. And it just felt right. It felt
like I was home talking with these people. So
I can't wait to be around thousands of people,
of like -minded people. That's what I'm most
excited for. You know, I've already started to
network with some people. Some people that one
that you heard on on previous episode, Jesse
McKellar and. But others that are around my age
and are going to be at the conference and my
hope, my goal and my hope is that we we. create
an atmosphere within ourselves, within these
new relationships, to be able to give each other
advice and propel each other forward in our goals.
Because the thing I love the most about the Maxwell
team is that everybody is for everyone. That
everybody wants to help each other grow. That's
the mentality of the Maxwell team members. So
every time I talk with somebody, whether it's
through a message, like I'm messaging people
on Facebook, or I was messaging some people on
Facebook for this, and they're asking me questions
about, what's my avatar for my business? Have
I niched down enough? I was trying to figure
out how I wanted to say the word niche. I don't
know. I don't know if there's a right way to
say it. And it's these types of conversations
that I need to be having with like -minded people
with like goals that I can mastermind with. And
that's a whole other topic. I can't wait to go
into that episode with you guys, the mastermind.
I'm not even going to go down that rabbit hole
right now because it has nothing to do with what
I'm going to talk about now, but it's going to
be a good episode. No, this is my second conference
ever. And it's not going to be my last. The last
one was back in like 2021 and with Funnel Hacking
Live. And that was amazing. That was fantastic.
And I, guys, like this episode, I guess it's
more of a, it's an update of what I'm doing to
propel myself forward so I can serve those I've
been called to serve. Well, serve them at a higher
capacity, I should say. There's... So much joy
I get around personal growth, development, but
not just personal growth and development, but
intentional growth and development. Spending
time learning and growing on the things that
are going to propel me forward into my calling.
So I'm going to ask you another question. I asked
you, what are you looking forward to? What's
something that you're looking forward to right
now? It doesn't have to be something that is
necessarily like a conference. It could be that
you're looking forward to a birthday party. Maybe
you're looking forward to finishing a book that
you're going to read. Maybe you're looking forward
to meeting up with a friend later today. But
what are you looking forward to? What are the
things happiness propels us forward? The happier
you are, the more successful you're going to
be. It's not the reverse. So I want you to think
about what you're looking forward to. However,
I also want you to think about what are you doing
to propel yourself forward intentionally towards
your goals. What is a way that maybe there's
a conference you can go to, maybe there's somebody
you can reach out to that you can network with
that has similar goals to you that you do. I
think that was English. And you can network with
them and maybe swap ideas, get a better understanding.
This is huge. To understand that your calling
isn't for you and you don't have to pursue it
by yourself. And that's the great thing about
entering into networks and Facebook groups of
like -minded people. So guys, short episode today.
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guys. Keep on pursuing your calling and I'll
see you in the next episode. All right. See you,
pursuers.