WEBVTT 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:11.509 What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit 00:00:11.509 --> 00:00:14.710 of Calling, the podcast that provides you with 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:17.609 the strategies and tools needed to successfully 00:00:17.609 --> 00:00:21.190 discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's 00:00:21.190 --> 00:00:23.609 through inspiring stories, thought -provoking 00:00:23.609 --> 00:00:26.530 interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on 00:00:26.530 --> 00:00:28.929 personal growth and development, we've got you 00:00:28.929 --> 00:00:32.729 covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy 00:00:32.729 --> 00:00:41.200 the episode. All right, let's get into the episode. 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:45.619 But before we do, I want to say don't forget 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:47.539 that you can get three free coaching sessions 00:00:47.539 --> 00:00:49.600 by just clicking the link in the description 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.000 and signing up for your first session right now. 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.679 So, you know, last Monday I did a random quick 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.799 episode that I recorded and posted that same 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.219 day because I just felt I wanted to try something. 00:01:02.259 --> 00:01:04.400 Like I said in the episode, I wanted to try something 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.000 different. I wanted to... I had an idea, and 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:09.840 I wanted to immediately execute on that idea. 00:01:10.099 --> 00:01:13.900 I probably have done that before, but not in 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:15.939 that context. I have never done that with a podcast 00:01:15.939 --> 00:01:20.719 before. It's very rare for me. I'm not doing 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.620 the same thing today, but kind of the same format. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:26.519 If you already noticed, there is some editing 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:31.700 on this episode. There's an intro. Last week, 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:33.819 I talked about some of the worries that I've 00:01:33.819 --> 00:01:35.959 been experiencing recently around my coaching 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:39.579 practice and how I want to gain more clients. 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:45.640 Obviously, I'm running a business, and it's hard 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.319 to have a business if you don't have clients. 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:56.599 I get in my head a lot. I can think of many negative 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.950 reasons why I don't have clients right now. Some 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:02.010 of them are definitely things that I could be 00:02:02.010 --> 00:02:05.170 doing better. And there are some things right 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:06.969 now that I am doing that I need to keep doing. 00:02:08.969 --> 00:02:15.270 And that's what we're talking about today. As 00:02:15.270 --> 00:02:19.169 I was sitting earlier this week, yesterday actually, 00:02:19.330 --> 00:02:23.610 I was sitting yesterday with my peer coach, Paul 00:02:23.610 --> 00:02:25.689 Emery, who I've talked about before on this podcast, 00:02:25.949 --> 00:02:29.789 I believe. He asked me what I wanted to talk 00:02:29.789 --> 00:02:32.169 about during our coaching session. I told him 00:02:32.169 --> 00:02:35.449 that I wanted to focus on getting more clients, 00:02:35.569 --> 00:02:38.409 just like I mentioned on Monday. He asked me 00:02:38.409 --> 00:02:41.169 the question, like he asked me what I'm currently 00:02:41.169 --> 00:02:44.110 doing and then what I could be doing differently. 00:02:45.949 --> 00:02:49.030 Or even what I could be doing that I'm not doing 00:02:49.030 --> 00:02:53.150 right now. You know, one of the things, interestingly 00:02:53.150 --> 00:02:56.889 enough, is starting a small group mastermind. 00:02:57.289 --> 00:03:00.870 or mastermind at my church. And this is just 00:03:00.870 --> 00:03:03.949 an idea right now, but I would do it starting 00:03:03.949 --> 00:03:07.930 with the 15 valuable laws of growth. And I want 00:03:07.930 --> 00:03:10.250 to apologize because this might sound familiar 00:03:10.250 --> 00:03:13.569 that I said I was going to do this a while ago 00:03:13.569 --> 00:03:16.710 and nothing ever came of it because I was worried 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:22.210 about spreading myself too thin. However, I think 00:03:22.210 --> 00:03:26.330 that right now what I want to do with this idea 00:03:27.849 --> 00:03:31.169 Go through the content that I'm given, actually 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:33.889 finish reading the book, and then present the 00:03:33.889 --> 00:03:36.409 idea to the people at my church who would make 00:03:36.409 --> 00:03:38.250 the decision whether it could happen or not. 00:03:38.430 --> 00:03:43.009 It would be more of a personal development small 00:03:43.009 --> 00:03:48.310 group where I would try to structure them in 00:03:48.310 --> 00:03:53.590 a mastermind format where maybe we wouldn't read 00:03:53.590 --> 00:03:55.650 books all the time, but we'd start with books. 00:03:56.300 --> 00:03:59.960 Like 15 valuable loss of growth or atomic habits, 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:09.580 things like that. The reason I bring this up, 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.460 it's not only because I have goals, but because 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:16.920 I know you do too. So just like Paul asked me, 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:24.180 I want you to ask yourself these questions. What 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:26.800 are the things that you're doing right now to 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:31.639 achieve your goals? And what else could you be 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.500 doing? Not in the sense of putting too much on 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:37.759 your plate or spreading yourself too thin. What 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.439 realistically could you be doing? Or even better 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:43.680 yet, we can say realistically, but we can just 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.100 say what could you be doing? And then you pick 00:04:46.100 --> 00:04:48.500 the realistic things out of that. You start with 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:50.839 just brainstorming, whether they're realistic 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:58.000 or not. I could quit my job, and I could just 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.879 try to coach full -time. That's one thing I could 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:03.500 do. Is it realistic? No. But me, I would think 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:06.180 about that, write that down, and then probably 00:05:06.180 --> 00:05:07.699 immediately cross it out because I know that's 00:05:07.699 --> 00:05:14.920 not a realistic idea. And if there's things that 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.779 you are doing that you are doing right now, why 00:05:17.779 --> 00:05:21.160 is it working? Or even why is it not working? 00:05:22.410 --> 00:05:25.089 For something that wouldn't be working, for instance, 00:05:25.370 --> 00:05:27.870 it doesn't necessarily have to be something that 00:05:27.870 --> 00:05:30.089 you're doing to reach the goal. It could be doing 00:05:30.089 --> 00:05:31.829 something that's getting in the way of reaching 00:05:31.829 --> 00:05:36.529 the goal, like a bad habit. For me, as I was 00:05:36.529 --> 00:05:38.149 preparing this episode and writing out my notes, 00:05:38.189 --> 00:05:41.050 I immediately thought about my habit I've gained 00:05:41.050 --> 00:05:43.370 back of watching too much TV. And I think I've 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:46.480 talked about this way back. where I actually 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.819 had stopped watching as much TV and watching 00:05:48.819 --> 00:05:51.040 one episode a day, and I was able to consistently 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.459 do that so I could keep working on my goals that 00:05:55.459 --> 00:06:00.660 I had. And recently, TV has been more of a distraction 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:05.639 for me. So that's one thing that I'm personally 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:12.579 holding myself accountable to. You know... I 00:06:12.579 --> 00:06:14.579 think I have it in my notes here. I already said 00:06:14.579 --> 00:06:17.420 it, but everything that you wrote down, everything 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:20.040 that you're writing down that you could be doing, 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.000 you don't have to do them all at once. You know, 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.519 like I said, with starting my small group, there 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:29.720 are multiple things to do to get that idea started. 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:32.699 And I'm not going to be able to do them all at 00:06:32.699 --> 00:06:36.199 once. There's a level of priority and a level 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:40.639 of realism to every task. Like something might 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.120 not be realistic right now, but it could be realistic 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.560 down the road. There's also other things I want 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.100 to do for my business. I was thinking about it 00:06:50.100 --> 00:06:55.560 on my walk today. I was thinking about, man, 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.600 I want to do merch. I want to do merch for The 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:02.779 Pursuit of Calling. I have ideas around the text 00:07:02.779 --> 00:07:05.339 that would go in the front and maybe some... 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.740 some, uh, some phrase that would go in the back. 00:07:08.779 --> 00:07:11.160 There may be some shirts would just say pursuer 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.800 or pursuit of calling with the, uh, kind of rolling 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:21.180 rock style text. Uh, and to me, that sounds really 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:24.079 cool. And I know I can make money doing that 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:30.259 because I've done it before. And that would be 00:07:30.259 --> 00:07:33.199 able to, like, this isn't a bad idea. Like I 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:38.560 could use that idea to, uh, That idea and those 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.040 funds from that idea to then fuel other things 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.240 like maybe a rebrand or hiring somebody to do 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.199 my social media for me. That's something I should 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.680 be doing to get the word out about my podcast 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.360 and about my coaching so that other people can 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.259 hear more about what I'm doing. And hear the 00:07:58.259 --> 00:08:01.579 love I have for this and the love I have for 00:08:01.579 --> 00:08:04.939 the people that I do it for. The people I'm serving 00:08:04.939 --> 00:08:12.829 through it. So guys, that's pretty much what 00:08:12.829 --> 00:08:16.569 I got for you today. I want you to think about 00:08:16.569 --> 00:08:21.670 those questions. What are you doing right now 00:08:21.670 --> 00:08:24.009 to achieve the goals that you have set out for 00:08:24.009 --> 00:08:27.529 yourself? What's working? What's not working? 00:08:27.790 --> 00:08:30.930 And then what could you be doing? What else could 00:08:30.930 --> 00:08:34.389 you be doing in order to achieve that goal? Not 00:08:34.389 --> 00:08:38.509 to spread yourself too thin. But not to spread 00:08:38.509 --> 00:08:42.090 yourself too thin, but to realistically think 00:08:42.090 --> 00:08:44.490 about the things that you could be doing in order 00:08:44.490 --> 00:08:48.330 to achieve the goal that you're looking to achieve, 00:08:48.370 --> 00:08:51.649 to get you from where you are to where you want 00:08:51.649 --> 00:08:56.450 to be. I'm going to leave you with that. Everyone, 00:08:56.570 --> 00:08:58.809 thank you for listening to this episode of the 00:08:58.809 --> 00:09:02.730 Pursuit of Calling podcast. 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