WEBVTT 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.160 What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.339 of Calling, the podcast that provides you with 00:00:14.339 --> 00:00:17.239 the strategies and tools needed to successfully 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.820 discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:23.239 through inspiring stories, thought -provoking 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.160 interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.579 personal growth and development, we've got you 00:00:28.579 --> 00:00:32.340 covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:42.460 the episode. I got two weeks, guys. Pursuers, 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:45.500 I got two weeks left until I leave my full -time 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:51.659 job. I'm excited. I'm scared. I'm talking to 00:00:51.659 --> 00:00:54.619 prospects. I'm not making money yet. This is 00:00:54.619 --> 00:00:58.759 all the I am statements right now. I've overspent 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.140 at the grocery store. I'm out of coffee. I've 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:09.010 been inconsistent with my physical therapy. Like 00:01:09.010 --> 00:01:12.670 this intro, I feel like I'm a little scattered. 00:01:14.189 --> 00:01:19.530 You know, I'm not living the dream yet. And I 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:23.109 won't be living the dream in two weeks. But this 00:01:23.109 --> 00:01:25.049 is what's called the transition. It's called 00:01:25.049 --> 00:01:29.750 the training ground. Hmm. So what does this transition 00:01:29.750 --> 00:01:35.049 actually feel like? This transition is, it's 00:01:35.049 --> 00:01:39.670 where, in transition, And life is where you build 00:01:39.670 --> 00:01:43.409 habits that can truly secure you for that next 00:01:43.409 --> 00:01:51.870 season. And it's not going to be a perfect, a 00:01:51.870 --> 00:01:55.909 perfect ride because life isn't perfect. And 00:01:55.909 --> 00:01:57.209 that's something I think I need to remember, 00:01:57.290 --> 00:02:02.689 right? Because I'm, I'm perfectionist by nature, 00:02:02.769 --> 00:02:09.990 a bunch of uncertainty. Like I said, I'm not 00:02:09.990 --> 00:02:11.389 making any money yet. And it's like, I don't 00:02:11.389 --> 00:02:13.930 know when I'll start making money. And things 00:02:13.930 --> 00:02:17.590 are happening, though. I'm getting excited because 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:19.509 there's a conversation happening. I said I'm 00:02:19.509 --> 00:02:23.830 talking with prospects. But now in this season, 00:02:24.009 --> 00:02:26.069 like I said, I'm buzzing around a little bit, 00:02:26.090 --> 00:02:29.169 but it's time to tighten up on my disciplines, 00:02:29.330 --> 00:02:31.689 time to tighten up on my priorities and the habits 00:02:31.689 --> 00:02:34.780 I want to instill in myself. I mentioned those 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:36.580 things. The thing I mentioned was we're very 00:02:36.580 --> 00:02:39.060 specific, even the coffee. We'll get into it. 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:41.319 So one of the things I really want to tighten 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.759 up on this season is I need to tighten financially. 00:02:44.659 --> 00:02:46.919 I'm going from having a full -time income for 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.620 eight years, going from honestly making $75 ,000 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:54.819 a year to make it a heck of a lot less. So I'm 00:02:54.819 --> 00:02:57.000 trying to figure out how I can tighten my budget 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:05.930 so that I can viably live day to day. but still 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:10.930 be treating God's money with respect. Now I need 00:03:10.930 --> 00:03:14.330 to lock in what I, like I said, what I'm spending 00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:16.969 at the grocery store. I overspent this month. 00:03:16.990 --> 00:03:18.849 I overspent yesterday, the other day, I won't 00:03:18.849 --> 00:03:20.990 spend $70 at the grocery store. You might be 00:03:20.990 --> 00:03:22.150 wondering, why am I talking about the grocery 00:03:22.150 --> 00:03:29.210 store? It's important guys. Just hold on. Cause 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:33.240 I'm, you know, I'm out of coffee again. I get 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:37.439 left field, hold on, because I bought coffee, 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.639 realized I overspent, went back to the grocery 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.639 store and returned it. I'm like, okay, I'm really 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.659 trying to hone in on the disciplines I set out 00:03:44.659 --> 00:03:48.759 for myself. I've still overspent a bit, and I'm 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.360 still paying for that. But I was like, okay, 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:55.039 let me overspend a little bit less. Spiritually, 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.639 I know I'm spending more time with God than I 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:03.080 used to, but in this season, where I'm going 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.860 to have all the time that was taken up by a full 00:04:07.860 --> 00:04:10.159 -time job, I'm going to have to do whatever I 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.280 want, and that's the dangerous part, but I want 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:16.019 to be able to put a big portion of that time, 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.740 or at least I want to put a portion of that time 00:04:18.740 --> 00:04:22.079 to just pure worship, pure prayer, studying the 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:23.959 word, getting to know more about who Jesus was 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.240 and who he is. And I want to grow spiritually. 00:04:28.139 --> 00:04:30.819 So that other areas of my life thrive. I believe 00:04:30.819 --> 00:04:33.040 whenever you go spiritually, the other areas 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:37.920 of your life that need to thrive in order for 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.379 you to pursue your calling well, will. And sometimes 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:43.120 other areas of your life that don't need to thrive 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.040 will anyway. Because God's a good God. He doesn't 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:49.759 just give us what we need. Sometimes he gives 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.779 us what we want. And I want to start thriving. 00:04:53.779 --> 00:04:57.519 I want to start holding in physically. I've been 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.660 off of my physical therapy schedule. I'm supposed 00:05:01.660 --> 00:05:03.199 to be doing things every single day, and I've 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.259 been doing it every other day or sporadically. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.100 And right now for my jaw and for my legs, and 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:12.879 my legs feel it way more than my jaw. But it's 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.680 been a struggle. And that's just one area where 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:21.560 I'm really wanting to hone in on. And yeah, I 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.079 want to apologize if I'm a little scattered. 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:24.939 It's kind of been the theme the last couple of 00:05:24.939 --> 00:05:28.019 days. Give me some grace. I'm doing my best. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.480 And I think the biggest thing that I'm actually, 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.100 again, a little bit of a shift, the biggest thing 00:05:34.100 --> 00:05:38.480 I'm trying to grasp is no longer being a full 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.220 -time employee and being a full -time entrepreneur, 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.319 being a full -time looking to figure out how 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.500 I'm actually going to be making money. I have 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:49.740 an idea. I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:57.250 pursuing. And I know what my offer is. I know 00:05:57.250 --> 00:06:00.230 all the business things, some of the marketing 00:06:00.230 --> 00:06:02.949 things. But, like, man, there's so much opportunity. 00:06:04.949 --> 00:06:08.730 And it's exciting. Again, I said this before. 00:06:08.850 --> 00:06:14.110 It's exciting. It's nerve -wracking. But my rhythm 00:06:14.110 --> 00:06:18.209 is changing. My habits have to change. My focus 00:06:18.209 --> 00:06:20.370 is going to be on something that I've been wanting 00:06:20.370 --> 00:06:23.660 to focus on for a really long time. And again, 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:24.920 like I said, in the beginning of the episode, 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:27.759 it's not going to be perfect, but it's going 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.160 to be what it needs to be. And I'm going to do 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.819 what I need to do in order to get it in order 00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:38.399 to continuously improve my structure and my systems 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.759 so that I can live the life. I believe I'm being 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:50.519 called to live. Hmm. So one thing I'm doing is 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.480 to prepare. for this season is I'm talking with 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.680 potential clients. I talked with a guy the other 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.259 day who was a referral and I just think that 00:06:58.259 --> 00:07:03.300 was a lot of fun. And this is really more less 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:07.060 of a teaching episode, more of a, how's my life 00:07:07.060 --> 00:07:13.899 going episode. And I think that's okay. I've 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.060 I talked with this guy the other day. We had 00:07:17.060 --> 00:07:18.699 a good conversation. It wasn't coaching, but 00:07:18.699 --> 00:07:20.540 I wanted to build a relationship with him because 00:07:20.540 --> 00:07:23.300 I think a big part of coaching is a relationship. 00:07:23.339 --> 00:07:26.620 It's a relationship business. So I want to be 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:28.040 able to build a relationship with the people 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:29.759 I want to coach because I want to know who they 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:35.180 are. I'm practicing my coaching. That's another 00:07:35.180 --> 00:07:37.480 thing I'm doing by coaching my sisters, coaching 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:38.860 other people in my family, coaching friends. 00:07:39.579 --> 00:07:42.480 And getting better at what I do, getting better 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:43.879 at explaining what coaching is and what it's 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.459 not. It's not therapy, it's not counseling, it's 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:51.740 not mentorship. It is a thought -provoking conversation 00:07:51.740 --> 00:07:54.620 where I ask more questions than give answers. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.139 Because in coaching, the client has the answers, 00:07:59.379 --> 00:08:01.500 or at least it's the client's job to find them 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:05.139 if they don't. Which I think is a lot of exciting, 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:07.800 really exciting, because my job is just to ask 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.069 really good questions to be curious. And that's 00:08:11.069 --> 00:08:12.910 just, that's just who I am by nature, guys. I, 00:08:12.910 --> 00:08:17.290 I, I'm a naturally curious person to a fault. 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:19.689 That's why I'm like shiny object syndrome, because 00:08:19.689 --> 00:08:21.110 I want to know, like, I want to know how things 00:08:21.110 --> 00:08:22.750 work. I want to know why they, I want to know 00:08:22.750 --> 00:08:24.970 why things work, why things don't work. I want 00:08:24.970 --> 00:08:28.329 to know, like, like guys, sometimes I feel like 00:08:28.329 --> 00:08:30.050 I want to know everything and that's kind of 00:08:30.050 --> 00:08:35.610 dangerous sometimes. And I want to know everything 00:08:35.610 --> 00:08:37.490 about my clients. Everything I possibly know 00:08:37.490 --> 00:08:39.289 about my clients and the goals they want to achieve 00:08:39.289 --> 00:08:42.009 because that is how I'm going to guide them to 00:08:42.009 --> 00:08:44.950 actually achieve it. And it's crazy, guys, because 00:08:44.950 --> 00:08:49.269 you know more than you think you do. When it 00:08:49.269 --> 00:08:50.549 comes to the goals you're aiming to achieve, 00:08:50.730 --> 00:08:52.649 you know more than you think you do. And it happens 00:08:52.649 --> 00:08:56.509 every single time I coach somebody. Every single 00:08:56.509 --> 00:08:59.149 time. Whether it's a small goal, like I want 00:08:59.149 --> 00:09:02.149 to go to the gym more, or a big goal, like I 00:09:02.149 --> 00:09:12.610 want to become financially free. The pattern 00:09:12.610 --> 00:09:19.929 happens every time. The pattern happens every 00:09:19.929 --> 00:09:24.669 time. Where the person who I'm coaching knows 00:09:24.669 --> 00:09:28.009 more than they thought they knew. And then they 00:09:28.009 --> 00:09:30.169 leave the session with an action plan to be able 00:09:30.169 --> 00:09:32.330 to achieve it. And stuff that they've already 00:09:32.330 --> 00:09:38.840 knew. So cool. Okay. But. One thing that I'm 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:43.460 really honing in on, well, not honing in on, 00:09:43.539 --> 00:09:46.279 one thing I'm really thinking about recently, 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:50.399 this last Sunday, a couple days ago, the lead 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.919 pastor of Amplified Church, Pastor Ed, talked 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.379 about the story of Jonah. And the whole point 00:09:56.379 --> 00:10:02.529 of that story is, like, if... you're going down 00:10:02.529 --> 00:10:04.230 the wrong path. If God's calling you, you're 00:10:04.230 --> 00:10:06.710 going the other way. And you're deciding that 00:10:06.710 --> 00:10:08.649 what you know, what you're doing is better than 00:10:08.649 --> 00:10:11.169 what God's calling you to do. Or you're tricking 00:10:11.169 --> 00:10:12.590 yourself into believing what you're doing is 00:10:12.590 --> 00:10:15.049 what God wants you to do. Then God's going to 00:10:15.049 --> 00:10:19.049 redirect your steps. God's going to redeem that 00:10:19.049 --> 00:10:21.590 decision, that incorrect decision, that sinful 00:10:21.590 --> 00:10:23.629 decision. And that's exactly what happened to 00:10:23.629 --> 00:10:26.149 Jonah. I'm not going to go into the whole story 00:10:26.149 --> 00:10:32.159 right now, but I... I pray for God to be able 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:33.980 to do that in my life if this is the wrong decision 00:10:33.980 --> 00:10:37.139 for him to redirect my steps. Like, God, redirect 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:40.840 my steps if this is the wrong decision. If this 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.500 is the wrong decision, show me, like, cause me 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:46.360 to crash and burn and need to go get a job again. 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.220 Man, that hurt to say. But if I'm wrong, that's 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:52.639 what should happen. If I'm wrong, God's going 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.220 to use it. He's going to grow me. He's going 00:10:55.220 --> 00:10:58.440 to show me what is better than what I think I 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:04.460 need to be pursuing. Guys, I'm going to end it 00:11:04.460 --> 00:11:07.779 there. That was a lot. Kind of a jumbled mess 00:11:07.779 --> 00:11:11.259 of an episode, if I'm being honest. Kind of feels 00:11:11.259 --> 00:11:16.299 like my brain sometimes. Guys, if you liked this 00:11:16.299 --> 00:11:18.220 episode, thank you for listening and go ahead 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:19.779 and share it out on social media, on Instagram, 00:11:19.860 --> 00:11:22.379 Facebook, X, wherever, whatever social media 00:11:22.379 --> 00:11:24.019 platforms you share with your friends and your 00:11:24.019 --> 00:11:26.080 family. And guys, I also want to offer you a 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.740 free coaching session. If you are experiencing 00:11:30.740 --> 00:11:34.320 a circumstance, if you are experiencing a chronic 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:39.080 challenge in your life, chronic health condition, 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.000 something that is outside of your control. but 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:44.840 you know God's calling you higher, you know he's 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.480 calling you to more, I'm going to offer you a 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.620 free coaching session. It's one -on -one so that 00:11:50.620 --> 00:11:53.039 you can get to know me, I can get to know you, 00:11:53.159 --> 00:12:00.039 and we can start to create an action plan for 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.519 you to achieve what God is calling you to achieve. 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:05.779 All right. Thanks for listening to the episode. 00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:09.159 Give this episode a five -star review. Give it 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.159 a thumbs up if you're watching on YouTube. And 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.720 guys, I'll see you next time. Keep pursuing your 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.220 calling. Do it well. All right. Peace.