You've probably often heard that you need to know your purpose, but rarely does anyone show you how to find it! This changes in today’s episode. Tune in to to unlock a practical way to seek and connect with your purpose so you can authentically commit to the life you truly want to live. 

Timestamps: 

08:36 What is G.R.I.P?

10:25 The first step towards achieving your goals. 

10:53 What if you don’t know what your purpose is? 

14:30 Find your purpose through this exercise.

17:49 Being resilient in the face of stress through purpose.

19:06 How most people react when they are asked, “what is one thing you really want to do” and why.

20:55 How you can engage a different part of your brain. 

21:26 Where do you stand in the conversational dashboard and what is a fear-based conversation?

25:53 If you want to learn more about the neuroscience of fear and trust, tune in next week. 

27:04 Do this practical visualizing exercise with Coach Elix now.

31:00 After the exercise, Steven articulated this purpose for the FIRST time.

34:04 How you can change the neurochemistry of your mind. 

34:54 What Mark visualized during the exercise.

36:36 How often you need to do the visualizing exercise.

39:21 Coach Elix’s self doubt story.

41:12 Should you fake it until you make it? 

42:08 Comparing yourself with others is toxic. 

42:41 A caller: What if people don’t like what I do? 

48:26 Listen to this if you say, “I can’t because I don't have money.”

Key Takeaways: 

G.R.I.P. stands for Greatness Requires Intention and Purpose, it is a 4-step methodology giving you access to move towards your goals. 

Only once you connect with your purpose will you be able to commit to your goals. Not having a purpose is like driving a car without a destination and just burning gas along the way.

When you start connecting with your purpose, you start to desire more out of life. 

Questions you can ask yourself to start discovering your purpose: "When do I feel most vibrantly alive?" and "What do I feel drawn to?"

When most people are asked “what is one thing you really want to do” they begin to resist even committing to something because fear is so strong in the background.

Learning to visualize your purpose is a practical way to move yourself away from fear and engage in trust instead.

When you talk about your future and think about what is possible, you change the neurochemistry in your mind and body. 

Training your brain to visualize your future requires practice, it is not a one time practice, it is an exercise you need to engage with regularly to get more intimate with your purpose

If you fake it until you make it for long enough, your brain will begin to think it is real. You can approach fulfilling your purpose in that way. 

Some people may not like what you do, that’s ok. Concern yourself with the people who do like what you do. 

Fear is designed to keep you safe and when you are safe nothing happens. But, that’s the issue: nothing happens. 

The words you say to yourself have the power to change your fate.

This is the power of the words you tell yourself: 

“There is an abundance of everything, an abundance of opportunity,  you just have to learn to speak it. If you don’t believe me, tomorrow morning wake up and say “Today I’m going to have a shitty day” and let me know how that day works out for you.” - Coach Elix

What did you visualize when you did the exercise with Coach Elix? What did you learn from doing the exercise? 

If you are interested in learning more about moving from fear-based conversations to trust-based conversations, grab a copy of Changing Conversations for a Changing World here: https://www.amazon.ca/Changing-Conversations-World-European-Collective/dp/1735358525 

 

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