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
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interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on
personal growth and development, we've got you
covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy
the episode. Welcome to this episode of the Pretty
Pursuit of Calling podcast. Thank you for joining
me. Ignore the tissue box and the Blue Yeti microphone
in the background. Can I point to it? There it
is. If you're watching the video on YouTube.
Well, now you're seeing where I'm pointing. If
you're not, what are you doing? Get to YouTube.
It helps out the algorithm. You should watch
it on YouTube too, you know. And you can see
my beautiful face. Anyway, let me stop being,
um... What's that called? I don't know, self
-aggrandizing or I don't know. That's a big word.
I feel like I use the right word. Anyway, welcome
to this episode of the podcast. We're actually
on part two of a two -part series I'm doing.
So if you didn't listen to part one of the Keep
Running series, go back to the last episode and
listen to the top reason, top tools I've used
to keep running. towards the calling that God
has put on my life and what I believe others
can use in order to pursue their calling with
excellence. All right. Let's dive into part two.
This is the flip side of what we talked about
last week. And this is the number one reason
why I've stopped running and what I believe actually
is the top reason why everyone stops running.
I know that's a blanket statement. Dangerous
to say that. But I believe this is the number
one reason why people stop pursuing their calling.
Why you stop running towards it. What is that
reason? Complacency. Thomas, you're supposed
to do a dramatic pause there. Sorry, didn't do
that. Complacency. In Merriam -Webster, I looked
it up to see what the definition was. Merriam
-Webster says complacency is Satisfaction or
self -satisfaction accompanied by unawareness
of actual dangers or deficiencies. The second
definition of that is an instance of usually
unaware or uninformed, pay attention to that,
self -satisfaction. I think that second definition
is probably my favorite one out of the two because
You're unaware, uninformed of what the first
definition said of your deficiencies. You're
unaware or uninformed about the deficiencies
in your life. So then you're complacent in the
circumstances that you're in because you don't
know that there's actually something better and
that you're actually deficient in the abilities
that you currently have in order to pursue the
calling well. You have goals. Everybody has goals.
Why do we not always pursue them? I believe it's
because we could become complacent in our circumstances
and we decide that, well, this is good enough.
For me, complacency does show up when I look
at my income, I look at my job, I look at my
current life. And I start to believe, like I
said, that this is good enough. I don't need
anything else. And while that is true, I believe
God's calling me higher. God's calling me. You
know, my merch says you were made for more. It'll
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When I start to think about my future, my future
goals, aspirations, I tend, when I'm complacent,
I tend to think in them in terms of my current
circumstances, like I just said about my income,
my job, or even my pain. I can believe that I'm
going to be in pain the rest of my life. And
while that could be a reality, I also stopped
doing research to see if there's any other things
happening, any other research being done that
would show that, oh, maybe I don't have to be
in pain the rest of my life. And there might
be, actually. I found something recently. Maybe
more than come on that. Not going to shout it
from the rooftops just yet. But what do I mean?
What I mean by saying I think of my future in
the respect of my current circumstances. I mean,
when I think of when I'll be able to buy a house,
because that's a goal I have, I think, well,
if I can only save up X amount of dollars a month
with my current income, it would probably take
me a much longer time to buy a house than I would
like. But, you know, that's OK because, you know,
that's my reality. You know, that sounds reasonable.
It sounds reasonable, sounds good on the surface,
but I have goals. To have my own self -sustaining
coaching business and to be self -employed, to
have more income than I have now, if those are
my goals, why would I think of my future as if
it's already written in the context of my current
circumstances? Instead, something I'm trying
to do is this, and I want you to try to do this
too. Call yourself out. in this call yourself
out where where you're complacent i want this
to and then try this instead this is flipping
what i just said on its head when my current
income with my current income i can save x amount
of dollars and will be able to buy a house by
some specific date as further out that i would
like and since my goal is to increase my income
i'm going to take action to change my circumstances
And find ways to do that, to increase my income
because it becomes self -employed and buy a house
faster than I could otherwise. It's a mindset
shift. And it takes work to take action and to
be intentional and to know the actions to take
and be okay with making mistakes. And then being
able to learn from those mistakes and keep moving
forward. All of that takes effort. It takes time.
It takes work. It takes intentionality. Guys,
it's worth it. Doing this is what I mean when
I talk about pursuing your God -given calling
with excellence, pursuing it well. Guys, where
are you complacent? Are you complacent in your
current circumstances? I want you to write that
down. I want you to write down. where you're
currently complacent in your life. And I bet
if you go to your accountability partner that
we talked about in the last episode, or go to
your coach, I bet they can help you out. I bet
they can point out an area in your life where
you're complacent. Or you can ask them, where
are my blind spots? What do I miss? You ask them,
where am I falling short? Because your accountability
partner is somebody that you trust. I want you
to do that this week. Write down who that person
is, if you haven't already, and write down where
you're falling short and how you can have a mindset
shift to pursue your calling with excellence.
And if you're somebody who's stuck and you have
accountability partner, but you want something
more, you want the next level, you want the next
step, I want to give you a gift. It's a one hour,
one -on -one coaching session where this coaching
session is all about you. We get to talk about
your goals, about how you're going to achieve
them, which is crazy. And by the end of the hour,
like the goal is to give you a action plan for
your next week, for how you're going to achieve
or pursue, I should say, pursue the calming.
the goals that God has put in your life. Is that
worth one hour of your time? I can't be the deciding
factor in that. That's you. If you want to pursue
your calling, get from where you are to where
you want to be faster than you would otherwise,
because nobody needs coaching, but to get to
the end goal faster and to help somebody and
to get structure, around the goals that you're
aiming to achieve, what you do is hire a coach.
You go to a free discovery coaching call. Guys,
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your calling well. Do it with excellence, intentionality,
and intentionality. All right. Peace. See you.