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In this Lessons episode, discover why shifting focus from conventional greatness to unique talents unlocks true purpose. Learn how aligning what you do best with what you love produces meaningful results. And understand how redefining success on your own terms transforms both your work and life. You know, there's. You mentioned something because even when you went on this journey and you found all these different components of what you wanted to include in your. In your. In your vocation, in your job, in your life, there's still so many outlets for that. I mean, like, broadcast is like 70% aligned, and then there's all. And then maybe a fun podcast could be 80% aligned, and then maybe live coaching is like 90 to 95% aligned. But even doing the work, like the fact that you were able to get to the point where you could look at this plethora of different careers and then start to see where you wanted to fit, that's already more work than most people do in their entire life. And you probably see this all the time. And I'm very curious in this post, Covid Gig Economy, people were laid off in masses. People are comparing themselves to individuals on social media. I would assume that a lot of the people that you deal with are just tired, stressed, depressed, confused. What is the climate like right now for. For the majority of professionals and people that are just trying to figure out their life, does it seem like this. Am I correct in assuming that it's much worse than it was five years ago? Like you, you're front line. So I'm just, I'm trying to understand where people are at in 2024.
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Yeah, well, simple answer is the data is showing us that the world of work is getting worse. And just this is Gallup. I mean, Gallup is the gold standard. I read everything Gallup puts out. Every year. They put out a state of the America workplace. And I read through it like it's the Bible, because it's the Bible as it relates to what America workers are saying. So there's no question that the environment of work. That's what I mean when I say world of work, it's gotten worse. There are a variety of reasons for that, and I could go down any tributary you want. But to answer your question very specifically, yeah, it's worse. And so what people want is autonomy. Now, autonomy, fancy word, just means freedom. And you know, Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He stole the idea of the pursuit of happiness. That was not. That was not his wording. He got that from John Locke Great British Enlightenment thinker Locke got it from Socrates and Plato and all of the Stoics. I mean, so this idea of the pursuit of happiness tied to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, it's a. It's all one phrase. So he says life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty is very much tied to pursuit of happiness. And what he was saying comes from, again, all these great Enlightenment thinkers. And I've read all this stuff, so I don't want to nerd out too much on this, but that's where we see and understand autonomy. I want to live my life. One of the top five regrets of the dying as. As written in a runaway bestseller by an Australian hospice nurse was, I didn't live the life that was really true to what I wanted to live. So when I say autonomy, I want to back. I've given you context, and let's get back right into that. Okay? We want to feel as though our day at work, that we are doing something that we are good at, we are doing something we enjoy, and we are producing a result that matters. This is what we want, and we want to be recognized for it. So to the extent that that's not a present opportunity for workers, that's why we see the data year after year after year from Gallup. It says 68 of the American workforce is not engaged. It doesn't mean they hate their job. They're just not engaged. That's why Quiet quitting took off that term because people just went, you just described in one sentence how I feel I'm going to do an adequate job so I don't get fired, but I'm not coming in fired up, ready to go. Like you'd see a professional football player, professional athlete that's coming in at 5am to hit the gym, studying film all day long. Why does it, why does an NFL player do that? They love the game. They love the game. They want to be good at the game. They want to stay at the top. All right, There are American workers that are like that, but the majority are not. 68% says that the majority are just kind of making it through. The reason behind that is, is the. Is the context that I just gave you a couple of minutes ago. Inherently, we desire to make a mark, and we want to be recognized for that mark, and we want to care about that mark. And. And so it's gotten worse. It's gotten worse and worse and worse because we have a leadership crisis in the American workforce. Because the, the mo in American work is you do a good job and you keep doing a good job. At some point I got to promote you. And after about two or three promotions, I put you in a leadership position that you might not want, you might not be wired to do it, and we're not even going to train you how to do it. And so this keeps perpetuating itself, but we wonder why people don't want to go into work. So I gave you a lot there, but I'm trying to answer that as holistic.