What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit
of Calling, the podcast that provides you with
the strategies and tools needed to successfully
discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's
through inspiring stories, thought -provoking
interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on
personal growth and development, we've got you
covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy
the episode. All right. How's it going, pursuers?
If you don't know, I'm a certified life coach.
Maybe you can call that a career coach. I call
it a calling coach. I think a career coach is
probably what you're maybe most familiar with.
Essentially, I help people take the goals that
they believe they've been called to pursue but
are stuck, like you might be. Getting from I'll
do it one day to I'm doing it today. Something
big. So you can pick something big or small,
but if you're ambitious, you're going to be making
this something big. What's that thing for you?
Picture it in your mind. Imagine what it would
be like to accomplish this goal. Okay, hold it
there. Let's dive in. And so instead of telling
you what coaching is, which isn't really that
helpful, I want to show you. So you know... that
goal that you've been having that you have already
have in your mind wouldn't you love to have an
actionable plan that you can use to get you from
someday taking action to taking action today
yeah me too so let's start let's do that right
now the whole point of this episode we're going
to go through three separate questions and we're
going to be building out a the start of your
actionable plan to accomplish that goal that
you've always wanted to achieve These questions
are going to seem simple, but they're intentional.
So question one. What do you need to learn in
order to accomplish your goal? Sounds fairly
simple. Sounds fairly like, duh. If you immediately
just thought, like, I don't know. Well, how about
we start with, what do I know? What do you know?
And write those things down. If you don't know.
what your next step should be. Maybe you actually
can't think of anything. Well, who do you know
that would know? Someone that has been where
you are, a mentor, maybe an author of a book
that you've been wanting to read, or others in
your field. Notice we're not even talking about
achieving that goal right now. We're aiming at
gaining momentum. So now question two, out of
all of those things mentioned, what is the best
thing that you can do this week in order to get
started or take the next step? Maybe that's reach
out to a mentor. Maybe that's buy a book from
that author that you were just thinking about.
Or maybe get an online course. Maybe it's hire
a coach to figure out what are the things in
your life What are the things you can be doing?
What are the things that you do know? Maybe you
need somebody to pull out those things inside
of you that you do know. That's what the goal
is right now during this episode. Or maybe you
do know the action that you need to take right
now. Maybe it's something that you've been thinking
about this whole time. Maybe it's something you've
thought about for a long time that, okay, all
I have to do to start is do this. You start there
this week. The reason I said, the reason the
question led with what is the best thing you
can be doing? It causes you to filter through
all of the other things that are good and for
you to focus on the best. Question three, when
will you do this? This is probably the most important
piece because if you don't say. If you don't
hold yourself accountable to an actual time frame
to when you're actually going to accomplish something,
but to when you're going to do it, it's going
to be a lot harder to actually get this thing
done. So give this a date and a time. Again,
I have in my notes, this is a great way to hold
yourself accountable. You might be thinking this
whole podcast. is about the pursuit of calling
so why are we talking about achieving goals and
that's because your calling yes it goes with
you everywhere that you go and it also but i
also believe we have these goals on our lives
these goals that we want to pursue for a reason
and our calling and these goals that we want
to do these goals that we're looking to achieve
is a way for us to live out our calling That
make sense? You have a calling on your life and
there's ways to apply it. That's the goal of
making this actionable plan so you can achieve
a goal and live out your calling. So usually
I like to leave you guys with an actionable thing
for you to do and it's kind of already done.
Take everything you learned for the day and take
action. Make the lists out. Choose the best thing.
Seek out the mentors. And the only person to
blame if you don't is yourself. So once you're
done with this and you want to take the next
step, you can sign up for a free introductory
course coaching session with me. Again, like
I said, it's free. Don't even ask for your card.
It's 30 to 45 minutes of your time. And you're
going to be able to schedule that at the link
in the show notes. It's going to be a very obvious
link right at the top of the description. You
can't miss it. All you have to do is scroll down
a little bit, tap the link, pick the best time
that works for you, and I'll talk to you soon.
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