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What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit

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of Calling, the podcast that provides you with

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the strategies and tools needed to successfully

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discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's

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through inspiring stories, thought -provoking

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interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on

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personal growth and development, we've got you

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covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy

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the episode. All right, what's going on, Pursuers?

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When I was a kid, I would say a lot to my dad

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in multiple different areas of my life. You probably

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said it a lot, too, growing up. You would go,

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Dad, I'm doing my best. You might even say it

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now. I don't know if your dad ever said this

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to you, but my dad would tell me a lot of times

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when I would say that, he'd come at me with the

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phrase, Thomas, you gotta do better than your

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best. And in my little child brain, that made

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no sense. I didn't understand how can you do

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better than your best? How can you do better

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than what you've already established to be your

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best? It didn't make sense in my mind. And now

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being an adult, I'm not an advocate for personal

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growth. I can now say I know what that means.

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I understand that now we're not just talking,

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when we're talking about doing better than your

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best, we're talking about the pursuit of excellence.

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I believe my dad planted a seed within me, a

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seed of excellence within me, even if he didn't

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know it. And I'll be honest with you, at times

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I think he did know it at a lot of those times,

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but I don't think he knew whether it was taking

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root or not. And now being an adult, And being

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here, Advocate for Growth, everything I've been

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doing with this podcast and my business, I can

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say that it has. I can say that it's definitely

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taken root. You know, what's great about looking

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to do better than your best in an area that you're

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looking to grow in is that you're continuously

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raising the bar or expanding your own capabilities.

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In chapter six, the law of environment in the

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15 invaluable laws of growth, John Maxwell says,

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significant growth will not occur in your life

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if you are not continually challenged in your

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environment. Set specific goals for yourself

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that are beyond your current capabilities. So

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think about that. I'm going to read that last

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part again. Set specific goals for yourself that

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are beyond your current capabilities. You want

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to raise the bar. You want to do better than

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your best. So for instance, I have two examples

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here. There's an example of health. Maybe you

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run a 10 minute mile. Let's be really practical

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here. Maybe you run a 10 minute mile and you

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want to run a nine minute mile. That nine minute

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mile is now outside of your capability. It's

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outside your capabilities. And so now that's

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your goal. Then there's personal growth. Maybe

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you're only reading 50 % of a book a month, or

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maybe you're not reading any book a month, maybe

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not reading at all, and your goal is to read

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one book a month. That reading one book a month

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right now is outside of your capabilities. So

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remember that this is a continuous cycle. Some

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of these goals may seem small. However, each

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time you raise the bar, each time you do better

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than your best, you get a new goal that is outside

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of your new capabilities. You get a new best

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that you can now do better than. You're going

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to be surprised at how far you can go just by

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using this mindset. This podcast is all about

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giving you the tools needed to successfully discover

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and pursue your calling. And just using this

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method is going to get you leaps and bounds above

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where you are right now. Being able to do better

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than your best in the area that you're looking

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to improve in, that you're motivated to improve

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in, and every time you do these incremental improvements,

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incremental upgrades to your capabilities, you're

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going to get more motivated. I think one thing

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that I'm thinking of now before I dive deeper

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into my notes is that these goals, they might

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seem small. This actually is my notes. They might

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seem small. But there's a reason for that. You

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know, I said it's continuous. So let's go, it's

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a continuous, like you're not going to set, instead

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of reading, you're at zero books a month, and

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maybe your goal could be to read five books a

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month, but then there's all these other little

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goals inside of that. There's these sub -goals.

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Okay, now, before I get to five, I have to read

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one. Then the next goal that's outside my comfort

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zone is two or one and a half. You make these

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incremental steps up the ladder to reach this,

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what I like to call your big goal. Some people

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call it your big, hairy, audacious goal. It's

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already a BHAG, as some people call it. Also,

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these goals, they don't go on forever. I think

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you can probably guess that you're never going

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to be able to run one mile a minute. No matter

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how many times you raise the bar on yourself,

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you're never going to be able to do... You're

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never going to be able to raise the bar so high

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that you become the flash. And you can only read

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so many books a month before you actually start

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spending too much time reading and not enough

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time applying. So what do you do next? Maybe

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you're satisfied with where you've gotten. So

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what do you do now? Do you stop? No, no, no,

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you don't stop. You don't stop. What do you do?

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You pivot. Or you go to whatever the next logical

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step would be, the next logical thing to do to

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help you get from where you are to where you

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want to be. Yeah, maybe reading one book a month

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is good for you in one area or subject, and you're

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happy with that. And you said, okay, maybe your

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goal is to read five books a month. But what's

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the next subject to learn about so that you get,

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what's the next subject to learn? Or maybe you're

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good with one book a month. You're satisfied

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with one book a month. And now it's time to apply

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what you've learned to your life and making goals

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around that outside. I'm going to guarantee you

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that if you haven't applied what you've learned,

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applying is outside your comfort zone. I am a

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testament to that. I love learning. Applying

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is hard. You know, I realized recently that the

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goal of me starting my business is not for me

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to leave my job. But to actually, it's to have

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the option to do so. So what is the next logical

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thing for me to do once I've gotten, I say my

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goal is to get six paid coaching clients. I have

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three clients right now. What would it take?

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Outside of my comfort zone, it's six paid coaching

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clients. What's the next logical step for me?

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Maybe it's to start a merch store. Maybe that

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would help me get closer to my goal of having

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the option to leave my job. Or maybe it could

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be to start masterminds that lead me into more

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one -on -one coaching clients. Remember, and

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don't forget, remember I said masterminds? Remember

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about the mastermind that is dropping on April

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27th. Don't forget about that one. That's my

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birthday. It's my gift from me to you. I'm saying

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I'm going to give this mastermind, I want to

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gift a mastermind, a four -week mastermind on

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the 15 valuable laws of growth. So if you're

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interested, let me know. I'm going to, you know

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what, I'll even drop a Google form. into the

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show notes so you can show your interest and

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tell me what you want to learn, what you would

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expect to get out of it. This podcast is about

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pursuing your calling and formulating the goals

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and habits in order to do that. So right now,

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I'm going to give you a little bit of an application.

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Write down one thing you're going to do this

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week to raise the bar, to do better than your

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best in order to pursue your calling well. All

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right, guys. Thank you for listening to this

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episode of the Pursuit of Calling podcast. If

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