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discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's
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the episode. Hey guys, how's it going? Welcome
to this episode of the Pursuit of Calling podcast.
To be honest with you, I really don't want to
be recording right now. Life has been feeling
really hectic recently, and I can kind of hear
my voice breaking and cracking. I've been feeling
overwhelmed. And I wanted to give myself an excuse
and say it's okay for me not to record today,
but even though I don't have a large following,
I wanted to at least, at the very least, one,
stay consistent. And two, just be honest and
vulnerable, since I'm at a point. right now where
i feel ultra ultra vulnerable um a lot of things
a lot of moving parts i feel like in my life
right now with the move with moving um trying
to get merch going like i said last week and
if we tell you i'm excited about i actually got
the uh the samples in today and they look pretty
good uh I'm excited to, I'd be wearing it right
now if I would have thought about that. But it's
also really hot in this room. And like I said
last week, and it's like 90 outside, it's 80
in this room and I'm sweating. Which is why I
have not been in this room since this morning,
since I woke up. But anyway, I really just wanted
to come on here real quick, make a quick episode.
Something that popped in my head while I was
thinking about this and not wanting to make this
recording is seek first his kingdom and all else
will be added. Seek first his kingdom and all
else will be added. Because if I'm being honest
with you, what I'm seeking right now, I'm seeking
his kingdom. And I have hopes of what will be
added, like financial freedom and a relationship
one day. I guess maybe you could consider them
things that the world would consider success.
Things I've been wanting for a long time. I just
get to this point sometimes where I'm like, I
need to start reevaluating and making sure that
my priorities are right. And now I don't know
if I'm saying, I'm not saying that I'm going
to stop the podcast or stop pursuing, pursuing
business, pursuing coaching. I just need to make
sure. And I want you to do this for yourself
as well. Like, make sure that what you're pursuing
and how you're pursuing it. If you're a Christian
that is putting God first and yourself last.
The shirts I have. The shirts that I'm selling,
on the back it says, you were made for more.
And the idea that the people that wear them want
the person behind them to know that they were
made for more. And I think that's the way I want
to serve others. I want others to serve others.
And I think that's part of what I'm meant to
be doing. Was merch the best way to do that?
I don't know, but it's the way I chose. I was
talking with my friend Andrew last night. Shout
out to a few past episodes of the Technically
Short podcast. Last night, and he was telling
me about a Bible study that they were going through
at work, and the study was all about analysis
paralysis, having too many things to do at one
time, and essentially seemingly having so many
things to do and then not doing anything. And
that's kind of where I felt like I was. And he
was like, you just got to kind of... Like, what
they just learned was, like, you got to do something.
Even if, like, do something. If you have a goal,
do something to achieve that goal. And if it's
wrong, if it's the wrong thing, if it flops,
at least you tried. And that's kind of what I'm
doing with this merch. I don't know what's going
to happen with it. I have a list of people I'm
going to reach out to and ask about and reach
out to and pitch the kind of. I don't know, maybe
pitch it, but also ask if they would like one.
And pitch the shirt, pitch the idea around it,
around the values that it entails of it. And
in the hope that the people that wear the shirt
are pursuing their calling. Or that at least...
uh motivates other people around them people
that i don't know to at least think about pursuing
their calling more pursuing what they were made
for as you were made for more that to pursue
what they were made for more uh strategically
or more effectively whatever however you want
to say it i know this is a different episode
and it's a short episode i'm almost done um But
guys, I honestly just want to come on here and
I just want to come on here and encourage you
to pursue your calling well. It's going to be
hard. Sometimes life sucks. And we kind of get
on our own heads like I feel like I've been doing.
I feel like this podcast is kind of like therapy
for me. I kind of hop on sometimes and just vent.
I didn't want to not do it because this was a
moment where I'm like, I know other people are
or have been. And this doesn't mean you're pursuing
business, right? When you get overwhelmed, you
could be just pursuing your career and not knowing
what you should be doing next and then get all
frazzled because every job you've ever had, you
never liked and you're worried. that you're never
going to find that job. One thing that encourages
me, though, is that I shared a picture of the
merch. I'm going back to the merch. I know this
is a very topsy -turvy episode, but I'm hoping
you're getting something from it. If you're...
I posted a picture of the merch on my store on
Instagram. And a guy I coached years ago, years
ago, liked it on Instagram. And I went to his
profile because I hadn't really talked to him
in a while. And I could see that he's still pursuing
what he was pursuing like three, four years ago.
The guy is in Africa and wanted to remotely learn
how to be a web developer. And he's still doing
it. And he's still doing what he believes he's
called to do. And it made me so happy just to
see that. Just to see that he's still going for
it. I'm going to send this episode to him because
I want him to know that I'm proud and I'm happy
that he's still doing what he's doing. oh man
his name's alu no no one here has ever met him
most likely but if you have cool but alu i can't
i i'm gonna send you this episode and i uh i
hope you will listen to the end here because
this is where i talk about you um yeah guys thank
you for listening to the episode this episode
of the pursuit of calling podcast if you liked
it definitely share it out Get ready for the
merch. I'm going to post the link down below
again for the pre -order form. You can tell me
what shirts or merch you would like. There's
a coffee mug too, so that's kind of cool. And
guys, if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you're
feeling overwhelmed, if you feel like you don't
know what life has for you, maybe I'll post the
Discover Your Calling planning guide. I know
that has helped other people before. So yeah,
I'll post the Discover Your Calling Planning
Guide down below so you can fill that out. I
know it has helped people kind of get their mind
figured out on what they want to pursue and why
they want to pursue it. So go ahead and fill
that out. And let me know what your answers were.
Let me know what your thoughts are on that form.
If it helped you at all. If it didn't, that'd
be great to know. All right, guys. Thanks. See
you next time. Keep pursuing your calling well.