The Mindset Mentor - The Lie of Finding Your Passion

Episode Date: October 9, 2019

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Today I'm going to be talking about finding your purpose. Now one thing that I've noticed with a lot of people, and I mean a lot, is there seems to be a lot of people that are really down on themselves. And the reason why is because they feel like they haven't found their purpose. And they feel like their purpose is the thing that they have to live and die by. The thing that it is the hill that they will die upon. It is everything that they're alive for the reason why they're alive. And it stresses them out because they feel like they haven't found their purpose. They haven't found that one thing, the one thing that makes them

feel alive. And if they have, they feel like, Oh my God, I don't know how I'm going to make money off of my purpose. Two things I want to say around that. There's jackhammers in this world, which is very rare. And there's hummingbirds in this world, which is definitely a lot more hummingbirds than there are jackhammers. Let me explain both of them to you. A jackhammer is, is someone like me. I happen to be lucky enough to, to know the one thing that I'm alive for. The one thing that I feel like I would die for. And that is what I'm doing now. That is the purpose, the mission that I'm on to spread my message and to help people learn how to remove themselves from their own mental suffering.

Now, everybody thinks that that's how they have to be. I'm lucky enough to have found it, but most people are not like that. So if you're out there and you're thinking to yourself, holy crap, I've been trying to figure out what it is that I'm so passionate about. I've been trying to figure out what it is that I'm alive for. Maybe you're not a jackhammer and that's okay. A jackhammer is like me where it's just like, you know what it is and you're just going to bash your face in into the ground, into the wall, whatever it is until you break through to the other side because you know exactly what that thing is that you're willing to push and push and push and push and push for,

just like a jackhammer would be. Now, most people on the other hand are hummingbirds though. Now a hummingbird, if you've ever watched a hummingbird, it goes and it flies and it's on the flower for a little while and then it flies away and it goes to another flower for a little while and then it goes to another flower for a little while. And I think that that's how most people actually are. And that's how you are with your passions. And that's completely okay. When you have your passion, it doesn't have to be something that you do until the day you die. I think that most people, what it is, is it's something that you do for two, three, four years, like a hummingbird. You're at one flower for a little while. And you're like, you know what? Yeah. I feel like I've gotten enough from this flower. I'm going to go to

the next one. And you have a new passion and you stay around that one for a little while and you stay for three, four, five, six years, maybe. And you're like, okay, you know, I've, I've got enough from this flower. I'm going to go to the next one. And you might spend two years on that flower. And then you go to the next one. Your passion doesn't have to be something that you're just going to live and die by. And so if you're out there and you feel like that's what you've been searching for, take a deep breath and realize that maybe for you, it's just that you're a hummingbird. You're going to go to one thing for a little while, and then you go to another thing for a little while, and you're going to go to one thing for a little while and then you go to another thing for a little while and you're going to go to another thing. But all that really matters is

that while you're there, you're putting a hundred percent into what it is that you're doing. Don't be a hummingbird that's, you know, putting 50% of what you're doing into one flower and then 50% of one thing into another flower, just in case the first flower doesn't work out because then you're never going to get anywhere. If you're a hummingbird, if you feel like that's you, well then put 100% of your focus into the one flower that you're on right now, the one passion that you're on right now before you switch over to the other one. And then after you feel like you've gotten all of the nectar that you can get out of a flower, you've gotten 100% of it out, Then you go into the next flower, right? And so if you're out there and you've, you're like, I hope this for some of you, you're going,

wow, holy crap. This is exactly what I needed to hear. This is literally the way that I feel because I don't have something that I think I'm willing to die for. And I hear about a bunch of people out there that saying, Oh, I need to figure out something I need to die for. No, you just need to find something that you're absolutely in love with right now. Don't do it for two months and then switch to the next thing or do 50% of it now and 50% of it later, put a hundred percent of it right now into what you can. And what happens is this, you'll eventually find one thing, one flower where you're like, Hmm, this one, this one hits in this one I could do for a long time. And maybe you do it for the next 10 years, next 15 years, and that's okay. But you don't have to feel like

it's something you have to do forever. Another misconception that I find with people and their passions is that they feel like they have to make money off of their passion. That's the one thing where people are like, oh, I see people like this person and they're making so much money doing this and they're so passionate about it and it's literally what they're alive for and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Number one, I don't even know what the hell I'm passionate about. Number two, I don't know how the hell to make money off of my passion, right? Sometimes what you have to realize is that your passion might be something that you make no money off of and that's okay.

It's the thing that you absolutely love. Most people think that they need to make money off their passion. You don't have to, but you can make money, your job or your, your company. If you own the company, whatever it is, whether you work for someone else or whether you work for yourself, that should provide the money and the freedom that you need to have as much time to put into your passion as possible. So maybe you're just really passionate about horses, right? Let's just say you're really passionate about horses. You're like, Oh my God, I just love horses so much. I just don't know how to make money off of horses and it drives me crazy. Maybe you don't have to make any freaking money off of horses. Maybe you have a job that gives you enough money and gives you enough

freedom to be able to spend time with a horse, with your horses, with extra horses, whatever it is. And therefore you have to find out that, oh my gosh, I don't have to have a job that is also my passion. If you can find that amazing, great. That's what everyone's searching for, but it doesn't have to be that way for everybody. You know, you're on Instagram and you see all the people that are like, oh, follow your passions.

I love what I'm doing. I'm traveling the world right now and I'm making millions of dollars traveling the world. And you're like, what the hell am I doing with my life? I just love horses. How the hell can I make a million dollars off of horses? All you need to do is this. Two things that I want you to get from this. You're either a hummingbird or you're a jackhammer.

Figure out which one you are now. Think about it for a second. or you're a jackhammer figure out which one you are now think about it for a second your intuition is gonna automatically tell you which one you are and it's okay both of them are just fine and the next thing is find out what your passion is and realize that you don't have to make money off your passion it's not a requirement to make money off of your passion it's just just a bonus. But sometimes you can make a lot more money and get a lot more freedom by doing something else. And that freedom and that money can be used for your passions. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you have not done so, please share that with someone that you know and someone that you love,

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