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B (9:47)

And then I would say question number one okay what do I love? What turns me on? What brings me joy? Move in that direction for me. As a kid we lived behind my father's church. We didn't have a lot of money. We lived behind my father's church. My bedroom was so small you could Barely put a one single person bed in it and walk in the room. I had all of these big dreams. So as a kid, I would sneak inside my father's church in the middle of the night. 8pm, 9pm, 10pm and every day, I often don't talk about this, but every day, imagine this kid, 1112 year old kid. I would speak, Scott, I would speak to the empty chairs. I would give seminars for two hours a night, an hour a night. I would give seminars to the empty chairs. Imagining, right? Imagining I was inspiring people from around the world. I was inspiring people in the US for free. You know, for me that's what lit me up, that's what turned me on, that's what brought me joy. I would do that for free. I've done it for free. I get paid now, but it didn't matter. And so when you find that joy, go in that direction. You don't have to know the how. So what turns me on, what sets me on fire, what do I love? Number two. But that's not enough. You have to ask yourself, let's make it more practical. What specific skills do I have? What specific, like I love Formula one racing, okay? This is one of them. I love it, but I'm, look, I'm never going to be Lewis Hamilton in this lifetime. I'm not going to, it's not going to happen. The kid is, the dude has been doing that stuff for, he's 37 years old, since he was like three. Okay? And so it takes a level of actual competence and skill to be able to perform. That's a reality. But if we look in our lives, so many people say to me, I don't know what skills I have, just look at your life, look at every shitty job you've been through. Sometimes the jobs that you have that you need to work in, sometimes the jobs that present themselves to you, they're not your purpose. But sometimes you're put there because there's a necessary skill that you're meant to learn in that job. And you're going to need that piece of the puzzle, that skill to be able to be the person who's able to then fully fulfill your purpose. And I always tell people, when you're working a job, even if you hate it, do it with ultimate excellence. When you do that job with excellence, then you're able extract the skill. You become more, but you're able to extract the skill that gives you part of the ingredients to prepare you for your purpose. So look at all of the jobs, all of the situations, all of the experiences, all of the traumas, all of the breakups, all of the failures that you've been through, and look at what specific tangible skills that you learned. Those skills are going to be a part of your purpose and can point you in the direction of perhaps what you're meant to do lies. Number three, what unique gifts do you have that you're able to solve a unique problem? Another way of asking that is, what is the unique problem that you're able to solve? I always tell people, when you think of what to do, don't simply focus on how do I make the most money. You might make money, but often you'll be miserable. And if you're miserable, you'll sabotage it. If you're miserable, it won't sustain. I work with so many people, one on one, in groups, small groups, large groups, billionaires that have made so much money, but they don't feel any purpose, don't feel any connection, and they end up sabotaging what they've created or they end up not having the motivation to continue. So I always tell people, don't focus on money. Instead realize that money is a byproduct of adding value. And when you add value, you add value by solving someone's pain, someone's problem, or someone's challenge. And so when you're able to, then ask yourself in question number three, what is the. What is the pain problem or challenge that I'm uniquely able to solve based on my gifts, based on my skills? Because when you solve someone, pain, problem or challenge, you're being of true service and money is just a byproduct of being of service. Number four, I would invite people to really think about, on a practical level, which group of people do I feel a connection to? Which group of people do I feel an affinity to? Maybe you feel a connection to the teenage pregnant girls. Maybe you feel a connection to the physically challenged. Maybe you feel a connection to the elderly. Maybe you feel a connection to, you know, I mean, fill in the blank, the whales. Maybe. Whoever you feel a connection to, the group of souls, people that you feel a connection to, will often also, it might point you in the direction of where your service and where your purpose or what you're meant to do and where you're meant to share your gifts. Where that lies, you don't have to know where you're going to end up. But that can start giving you a directional navigation in terms of where to go. And don't wait. Look at Oprah. There's no way Oprah could have planned her life. Yeah, I'm going to plan. At this age, this is going to happen. And by the time I'm 30, 40, 50, 50, 50 years old, 60 years old, I'm going to be the most powerful media mogul woman in the world. You can't plan billionaire. You can't plan that. But she loved communication. She loved communication. She didn't sit on the sideline until she was a billionaire. She loved communication. So she became a newscaster. As she became a newscaster, she had too much compassion. So she would cry while reading the news. This wasn't a good thing to do. And so they fired her. They gave her a job. I think it was on a talk show in Baltimore. It might not be Baltimore, but I think it was Baltimore on a single station. Now, her compassion and her sensitivity was able to be married with her love for communication. And the most compassionate she was for people, the more successful her show became. Boom. Syndication boom. Number one show, boom. 25 years later, Oprah, look at Obama. I mean, how does Obama love him or hate him is irrelevant to me. But look at Obama. How does this guy at age 19 go, yeah, I'm going to be president of the United States. But he started somewhere and that led him. And so I really believe that if you follow your soul, follow the nudging. Follow the nudging. It doesn't always have to make sense. If you follow that nudging of your soul, your soul has an intelligence. It will guide you. And that's when you will often end up. Where you will often end up. When you allow your soul to guide you will be beyond what your mind can manufacture and create on its own.

A (16:10)

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B (16:22)

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