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ROP Solo Episode 36 You Are Always Supported · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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What if one of the things you've been praying for, looking for,
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and maybe even desperately trying so hard to find is
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something that you already have? What if you already being something?
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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast. I'm your host, John Street,
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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast. I'm John Street, and today
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I want to talk to you about something that has become very real to
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me recently, and it is this: support is not something
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that we have to obtain. Support is something that we exist
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within. You see, think about how often we approach life
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from the opposite perspective. We pray for support. We search
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for support. We ask God to support us. We ask
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God to send us support. We look for the person, the opportunity,
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the money, the answer, that breakthrough we so desperately
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need. And there's nothing wrong with asking for those things.
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But I've started asking a different question lately. Instead of
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asking, where is my answer and where is my opportunity? When is God
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going to show up? I've started asking what support is
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already here that I have not recognized yet,
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because I think so many of us move through life feeling like we
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are walking on a tightrope without a net. I know that feeling because
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I've actually used those exact words to describe my own
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life before. But what if that's the wrong picture? What if
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we're not walking a tightrope without a net at all? What if we've been standing
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on steady ground all along,
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but we've assumed that fear, that limiting belief,
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that at any point we could fall off that tightrope and, and plummet
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to our death. That's the type of support I want to talk to you about
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today. So let me start by getting a little bit personal. If you've been following
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my social media over the last couple of weeks, then you may already know that
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I recently lost one of my closest friends. Uh,
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she passed away suddenly with an accident and
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it is, uh, it has been a tough several weeks for me, but I'm not
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going to make this episode about grief. I've been grieving, but what
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I want to talk to you about is something different. It's, it's what that grief
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has actually taught me over these last 2 weeks. There are certain
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things that we can believe when life is going well that become much harder
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to believe when life is not going the way we want it to.
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It's so easy to say everything is working for me when everything
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seems to be working for me. It's easy to believe that
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you're supported when the opportunity comes through or when the money arrives or
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when prayer gets answered the way that you hoped it would,
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when that door opens. But it's a different thing to ask,
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do I still believe I'm supported when life starts
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hurting? And recently I found myself realizing something that has
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become incredibly important to me. I don't have to
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pray that I will be supported through this time because I already
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am. I'm already being held by my
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Creator. I'm already surrounded by people who love me.
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I am surrounded by the presence of Source,
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of God, of the universe. I'm already breathing.
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I am being present in that support. And out of that came
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4 simple statements that I've started using to ground myself
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when I felt like I was being overtaken by grief or anxiety
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or depression or all the things that come with the sudden
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loss of a 20-plus-year friend. And I'll remind myself of
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these 4 things. It's simple. It's, I am here, I am breathing,
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I am supported, and that is enough. Now,
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being supported does not mean that everything happens the way that you want
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it to happen. It does not mean that you avoid pain, you avoid
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loss, struggle, uncertainty, or seasons when you genuinely do not
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know what comes next. Support doesn't mean life will
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always feel supportive. It does mean that even in
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the moments when life doesn't feel supportive,
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you are not existing somehow outside of that
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support. And the more I've thought about that, the more that I've realized this
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goes far beyond grief. It applies to our dreams, to our businesses,
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our relationships, our finances, our purpose, our desires.
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Not too long ago, when I was attending an event in Toronto,
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uh, for mindset speakers at, at that point, I had been
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dealing with the fact that I was building the business, we were very much focused
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on growth. And I just kind of kept thinking about the unpredictability
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of where we were, you know, like, I had left the W-2 job. So I'm,
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you know, speaking full time, and I'm coaching full time. And I've got
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the podcast going. And I had just taken like what seemed
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like another huge step after huge step after huge step in my business.
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And I remember people asking me, John, it's so good to see you.
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How is the business going? How is speaking going? How is coaching going?
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You know, how, how does it feel to be the CEO of John Street Global?
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What is this like? And I just confidently said, well, I feel
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like I'm walking on a tightrope without a net. I said it over and over
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again. And to me, it sounded so courageous.
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I was like, look at me describing faith. I'm out here walking
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on a tightrope. Without a net. I left the
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security of my W-2 job. I left the security of selling real
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estate on the side all the time, and I was betting on myself. But eventually
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I realized what I was actually saying was not some valiant
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statement about how my faith was so strong because I'm walking
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on a tightrope without a net. What I was saying was I'm lacking faith
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that I'm actually supported. Underneath that statement was
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clearly a limiting belief saying, I'm scared
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that at any moment I could fall off this tightrope. At any moment
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I might plunge to my death and lose everything I
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have with no one to catch me. Every time I repeated that statement, I was
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reinforcing a picture of myself as being unsupported.
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So thankfully in that conference, I had a shift in my own
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mindset. I stopped saying it. And more importantly,
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I stopped believing it and I chose a different picture.
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I am not walking on a tightrope without a net. I am walking
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on steady ground. I am supported by the entire universe.
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There is a cosmic conspiracy at work that is working all
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things together for my good. In addition, I'm supported by the people
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that, that God has put in my life. I'm supported by ideas,
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by giftings, by opportunities that I may not have even
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recognized yet. I'm supported by abilities
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inside of me that I may not have even fully awakened to yet.
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I am supported. And here's why that matters. The belief that
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you are supported changes the way you move through the world.
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When we don't believe that we're supported, we become desperate.
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Our attention narrows around what's missing. I don't have enough.
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I don't know enough. I can't see the way.
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I don't have the right person or the right opportunity.
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But what happens when we shift the question from,
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where is the support I need, to, what support is
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already within me that I just haven't awakened to or recognized
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yet? That question, that changes what you're looking for.
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And when you change what you're looking for, you start noticing different things.
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Your perspective shifts. Maybe the support is a person.
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Maybe it's an idea or a conversation. Maybe it's something that someone
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said 6 months ago that suddenly makes sense today.
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Maybe it's a skill that you've been undervaluing. Maybe it's an opportunity
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that you overlooked because it didn't look like the way you expected
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the answer to look. Maybe it is a closed door that is
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finally forcing you to walk toward another door.
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How many times do we keep going up to closed doors and trying to
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open them again and again because they're familiar?
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Sometimes we just have to accept that door is shut and it's time to
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look in a different direction. Maybe the support is simply enough
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clarity to take the one next best step,
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because sometimes that's all we're given. Not the whole plan,
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not the entire road, just enough light for that next
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best step. And I know someone listening to this today
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may be thinking, but John, you don't understand my situation.
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And I get it. Maybe the money really is not there. Maybe you've lost
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your job. Maybe the relationship ended. Maybe the business is
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struggling. Maybe someday, maybe somebody that you love really
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is gone. Maybe you lost one of your closest friends that was there
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for 20 years. Maybe you've prayed and prayed and
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prayed, but you feel stuck and nothing seems to be changing. I'm not
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asking you to pretend that any of that is not real.
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I am asking you to shift the
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way that you see it, to shift your perspective.
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I'm not asking you to die— deny the pain. And I'm definitely
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not asking you to, to just paste a positive affirmation over
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a situation that genuinely hurts. You have to process the pain of
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what you're going through, and then start to shift the perspective to
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gratitude. Because gratitude does not require us to deny what
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we've lost. We can grieve what is gone and still become
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aware of what remains. We can acknowledge what isn't working
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and still recognize what is. We can say, I have no
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idea how this is going to change, and in the very
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next breath say, but I believe change is possible.
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Those 2 statements, they can coexist together.
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Gratitude is not pretending the circumstance is different.
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Gratitude changes the place from which we respond to
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the circumstance. And this is where support becomes more than
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something we feel. It begins changing who we become
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in the circumstance. You know, everything I teach is really based
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in identity. So if I really believe that I am supported, then I don't
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have to wait for my circumstances to change before I
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change how I show up out of that identity of someone who is
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supported. I can ask, who would I be right now if
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I knew that I knew that I knew I was supported by
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God, by the universe, by my higher power? How would
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that version of me think? What conversation would that version of me have?
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What would that version of me stop tolerating? What would that
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version of me do today, the next best step.
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And then you do that. You take that action. You make the call, you send
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the email, you have the conversation, you apply for the job,
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you start the business, you ask for help, you create the thing.
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And if it's rest you need, if it's recovery that you need,
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then that is what is required. But take that next aligned
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step, not because you have a guarantee about exactly what that action will produce,
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but because you trust Trust that you are supported as you produce
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it. I've been thinking about this so much as the desire
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and the design. I believe that when God places the desire
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within us, that it is connected to our purpose, and we can
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trust that we will be supported in awakening to the design that
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allows us to participate in creating it. But here's where we get stuck
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so many times. We, we want the design before we'll trust the
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desire. So God, show me exactly how this is going to happen.
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Show me the full staircase before I take the first step. Show me where the
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money comes from. Show me who the person is. Show me how I'm going
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to get there. Give me the entire blueprint and then I'll
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go. But y'all, that's really how purpose unfolds.
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Sometimes you awaken to the desire long before you can see
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the design, and that's where faith comes in. Trust the
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desire. Then awaken to the design. An architect
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is not given the blueprint. The architect creates the blueprint.
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And maybe you don't know right now what your first question even
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is. Maybe you don't know who that person is that you need to connect
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to. But the answer begins with the divine.
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Whatever language you use for the divine, that's where the deeper question
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is, whether you believe you are moving through life alone or not.
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You've got to first accept that there is something greater than you.
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And then there's another who— another question that matters just as
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much, and that's asking yourself, as I move through this
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life with something and someone greater than myself, who am
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I becoming? Because being supported doesn't mean sitting around
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waiting for your new life to be delivered to the front door. That's not what
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co-creation looks like. That's not what purpose looks like.
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You do participate. You awaken to what's possible.
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You begin becoming the person who can live that reality.
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You take the aligned action as that person, and those
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actions begin creating something different. And then you see new evidence.
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You awaken to something even bigger, and then you just keep going.
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It builds momentum over time, and soon that outcome begins
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looking a lot more like gaining the power of your identity and
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actually believing in yourself. Than looking at the things that you've lost.
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One rejection does not mean that you're a failure. One client
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saying no does not mean your business is not going to work. One closed
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door does not mean that there isn't another door. One difficult
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season does not get to define your entire life because you stop
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asking every important individual circumstance to
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prove whether or not you're supported instead of every circumstance,
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like weighing 1,000 pounds and that being the one thing
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that's going to finally make you believe in yourself.
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Instead, you're like, you know what? I know who I am. And I'm
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going to trust that I'm supported before I see the outcome.
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And sometimes you have to say that to yourself and say it out loud and
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say it over and over and over again until you
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start to believe it. We shift our paradigm of thinking through repetition of thought
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and emotional catalysts. Start to feel like that person
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that knows you're supported. Start to feel like that person that has the confidence
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that you really can create the desires that are in
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your heart, that God will give you the design to make those things happen.
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It doesn't mean that disappointment disappears. It just means that when you
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see disappointment, you see it differently. You see it as something that is working for
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you instead of happening to you. So wherever you are
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right now, whatever you're trying to create, whatever you're trying
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to move through, whatever answer you've been waiting for,
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I want you to remember this. You don't have to
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see the whole way to know that you are supported as
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you move forward. You don't need to see the entire
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road. You just need enough faith for the next step.
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And ask yourself, if I genuinely believed that I was supported,
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what would I do next? And then do that. And the next time
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fear tells you that you're walking a tightrope without a net, change that
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picture. You're not dangling above the ground, hoping somebody catches
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you. You're standing on steady, solid ground.
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You may not see every answer yet. You may not know where the next
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opportunity is coming from, and you may not know how the story turns out,
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but you are not walking through it alone. And you keep your goal card,
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you keep your vision of the wish fulfilled front and center
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in your brain. So then when you can't see the whole way, you can
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breathe. And say, I am here. I'm standing in
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my vision. I am breathing. I am present. I am supported.
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And that is enough. And then take that next step
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toward your goal, because support isn't something that you have to spend your life
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trying to obtain. You simply have to awaken to the support that has
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been standing with you in all of this all along.
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I love to picture the support that I've been experiencing since my friend
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passed. As like an engulfing support, like God
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the Divine has been wrapping me in his arms,
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almost like I'm sitting in God's lap
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like a recliner, but he's wrapped all the way around me. That support from our
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Creator is loving on us and supporting us from the bottom,
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from the top, from the outside in and the inside out.
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You are not separated from it. And once you realize that you cannot
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fail, because the creator of the universe, that victory lives within
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you, then that gives you the confidence to
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know that you are supported. I'm so glad that
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you tuned in for this episode of Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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And until next time, keep living your personal
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revolution of purpose. Thank you so much for spending this time with me
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