IN THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTICES CATEGORY…

One of the most painful experiences of my professional life happened when I allowed comparison and jealousy to tear down my self-worth.

Many of us have lost someone we loved when they left us for someone else. We’ve seen others get the promotion we were hoping for. For me, it happened on the day one of my favorite clients moved his business to my competitor.

It might not sound terrible compared to other betrayals, but for me, one of my best clients calling to say he was leaving felt like A KNIFE IN MY HEART.

I asked if I had let him down in any way.

“No, never,” he said. “We love you.”

Completely confused, I asked if the competition was offering better protection for the organization? Was it less expensive? Were they geographically closer? The answer was no to all of those questions.

I hesitated— I genuinely did not know what to say. Finally, I asked if there was anything I could do to persuade him to stay with me and my team.

That’s when he told me how my competitor had successfully won my him over (and was planning to win many more).

He told me that Anthony, a competitor who had only recently entered the foster care risk management space that I had devoted my life to, had written a book.

“A book about what?” I asked, trying to understand how that had anything to do with my client leaving me for the competition. I assumed that he had written some clever risk management strategies specifically for foster care organizations. If that were the case, I thought, why didn’t I think of that?

But no.

My client explained that Anthony had written about his childhood.

My head started spinning.

Did he have a more sympathetic story than I did? Was I supposed to be telling my own story to gain sympathy from others? I hated pity. Was pity the thing costing me this account?

Then my client explained that Anthony had written about growing up in a middle-class family and not having what the other kids had. He wrote about how his family hadn’t been able to afford sports uniforms.

I could literally feel heat rising up in me as I listened.

The people I lived with couldn’t afford food (somehow they always had cigarettes and alcohol and the occasional baggie of pot or pills).

As I listened, I felt my face getting red, and I thought that my hair might spontaneously combust.

I had chosen to protect and defend foster care organizations because I had been one of those kids—NOT because it was an “untapped market segment that had profit potential.”

I had experienced abandonment, neglect, abuse, homelessness at 8 years old, and poverty before I emancipated from the foster care system at 16. Because of what I experienced, I dedicated myself to creating the first risk management organization in the United States dedicated solely to protecting organizations that cared for abused and neglected children. I had an intimate understanding of the ways to prevent tragedy in foster care because I had been one of those children. And now my client was leaving because my competitor had written a book about not having sports uniforms? Seriously??

I was overcome with what felt like a hurricane of disappointment, anger, envy and, yes, self-pity. I had worked hard for this client. I had negotiated the best coverage and premiums, and had provided risk management strategies that came from my personal understanding of why children get injured or killed in foster care. I knew intuitively about actions child welfare professionals could take to begin to heal the hearts of the children in their care to influence them to want to behave and appreciate the safe haven they’d been provided. But I wasn’t able to say any of that in the moment.

My client thanked me for everything I had done for his organization, wished me well, and was gone.

Before I could process what had happened, I learned from other clients that my former favorite client had purchased copies of Anthony’s book and was sharing them with his friends, many of whom were also my clients. He was promoting the competition!

I could not sleep.

I would like to say I couldn’t eat either, but that isn’t true. I sat on the floor of my kitchen that night crying so hard I could barely breathe while somehow managing to eat two entire packages of cookies.

While I was on the floor with mascara running down my face and cookie crumbs all over me, all I could think of was my competitor who had parachuted in out of nowhere to the national child welfare scene wearing custom-made Italian suits that probably cost more than I had paid for my first car.

I compared everything about my work to his, and the comparison that lead to full blown jealousy was stealing my joy, obliterating my peace, and destroying my confidence.

Notice who was destroying me? It wasn’t my client. And it wasn’t my competition. They were at home living their lives completely oblivious to the fact that I was on the floor covered in cookie crumbs. I was the one doing the comparing that manufactured the jealousy that was killing me.

That realization taught me something that changed my life.

I learned that jealousy could destroying me

After I’d had a chance to process what happened, I was able to think more clearly. More strategically. I was still angry and disappointed, but fueled by those negative emotions, I developed a plan.

I realized that I needed to figure out how to communicate my story and the perspective that I brought to my clients that no one else could bring. I was going to earn my client back—and many more! My book would be so much better than Anthony’s. It would be my most powerful sales tool. I WAS FIRED UP! So I sat down to write.

I wrote two and a half pages before I completely ran out of things to say.

I tried so hard. I even went to Barnes & Noble and bought a book about how to write a book. It did not help.

I had written the chronological facts of my life, but I had no idea how to tell the story that turned my pain into my purpose and how my purpose could help others.

Since then I’ve written 15 books, including books featured on the “Today” show, “Ellen,” and other television and radio shows, podcasts, newspapers, magazines, and blogs.

What changed?

I learned that I cannot write for the wrong reasons. I cannot write while driven by negative emotions. And, most importantly, I learned that

comparison and jealousy are poison.

I realized that there will always be people with a bigger house, a better car, the promotion we wanted, the beautiful relationship that appears flawless, or the life that seems easier than ours.

If we spend our lives focused on what others have, we will completely miss the blessings we already have. And we can miss the good things that we are capable of doing in our future. Had I remained jealous, I would never have written the books that have positively contributed to the lives of others.

Comparison and jealousy torture us because those negative emotions cause us to focus on what is missing instead of what is present. And the moment gratitude disappears, joy goes with it.

Instead of obsessing over what somebody else has (or appears to have), let’s look around at the blessings we already possess that millions of people around the world would give anything to have. (The most precious of those blessings have heartbeats.)

There is no finish line where comparison and jealousy finally stop. If you allow yourself to live that way, you will spend your entire life chasing a moving target called “enough.” And you will never arrive.

Peace, joy, and purpose begin when jealousy is replaced with gratitude.

What destructive emotion will you replace?

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What we say about people when they aren’t there reveals a great deal about our character.

We’ve all known people who “dish” about others who aren’t in the room. Sometimes they’re trying to be funny. Sometimes it’s a way to fit in. Others claim they’re just “venting” or “sharing.”

But regardless of the justification, gossip is unfair, potentially damaging, and wrong.

Gossiping says a lot about the person doing it. Why do they feel the need to tear down someone else? What’s lacking in their life? What insecurities do they have that makes them feel better after they’ve violated a confidence or exposed the worst thing about someone else?

Do they not have anything more meaningful to talk about? No interesting ideas? No good accomplishments? No issues about which they are passionate? No places they’ve gone, things they’ve learned, or books, music, and experiences worth discussing?

Gossip tears people down, destroys relationships, and reveals some of the worst parts of our character.

So let’s define it clearly.

Gossip is talking negatively about another person without that person present to defend themselves.

In practical terms, gossip is deeply unfair.

When we talk negatively about someone who is not present, they are not there to explain themselves, defend themselves, or give the context behind their words, attitudes, or behaviors. We do not walk in other people’s shoes. We often have no idea what pain, pressure, fear, heartbreak, trauma, exhaustion, or circumstances may have influenced the way they acted.

And it is not our place to judge.

We can usually recognize gossip by its purpose. If the goal of the conversation is to damage the way others see someone, elevate oneself in the eyes of others, gain sympathy from the listener, or all of the above, it has crossed the line into gossip.

That can cause real harm.

Words are powerful. Once an opinion about someone is planted in another person’s mind, it can be very difficult to undo. Reputations can be destroyed. Relationships can be damaged. Trust can be broken. Entire groups of people can turn against someone based on one side of a story.

But let’s also be careful not to confuse all conversation with gossip.

Not every discussion about another person is wrong.

If you share information because you genuinely want others to celebrate someone, support them, pray for them, help them, protect them, or better understand a situation in a healthy and constructive way, that is very different from gossip.

It all comes down to our intention in sharing information.

Before sharing something about another person, it’s wise to pause and ask ourselves a few important questions that could prevent enormous damage:

* Would I say this if they were standing beside me?

* Would I want someone saying this about me?

* What do I hope to accomplish by sharing this information?

* Is it helpful?

* Could it be hurtful?

* Am I speaking from love, wisdom, and concern—or from insecurity, frustration, pride, jealousy, hurt, or a desire for attention or sympathy?

If after considering all these questions, you still want to talk to someone to help process feelings or strategize about an approach or some other constructive conversation about an issue you have with someone, then do so with a trusted friend who can help. The intention here is to resolve an issue—not to throw someone under the bus.

Wise people understand that protecting another person’s dignity says just as much about us as anything we could ever say about them.

Lastly, but certainly not the least is that the Bible tells us that gossip is one of seven things that God hates. That alone should make us stop and think carefully before we speak negatively about another person. Proverbs 6:16–19 says, “There are six things God hates, and a seventh He detests: pride, lies, murder, people who pursue wickedness, people who rush into mischief, false accusations, and those who gossip.”

Has someone talked about you behind your back?

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There comes a point when the relentless motion of life—the notifications, the arguments, the outrages of the day—begin to corrode your peace. We live in an age of unprecedented noise. Not merely the sound of machines, but the clamor of minds that cannot stop thinking, scrolling, calculating, fearing. The modern disease is not scarcity of information but the overload of it, and the anxiety that comes from believing that we are personally responsible for controlling all of it.

But if you really want to withdraw—not to abdicate, not to throw in the towel, but to reclaim your sanity, get your footing and begin again with fresh energy and perspective—three things are required.

First, you must believe in a Creator.Not a vague spiritual energy, not some moral abstraction—but a Mind that intentionally brought forth this ordered cosmos. The atheist believes that existence is a cosmic accident. The believer, however, believes that it is a cosmic act of love. One worldview breeds the pressure of responsibility and restless self-reliance; the other, profound peace. When you see purpose behind the stars, the burden to control every storm of your small existence begins to ease.

Second, you must believe that this Creator is good.This is the hard part. To believe in God is intellectually respectable; to believe that He is good, when evil so evidently exists, is the leap of faith that divides cynics from saints. But consider the alternative: a world where power is random, where suffering is meaningless, where justice is an illusion. If the Creator is good, then chaos is not final—it is only apparent. Then even the detours of our lives are not derailments but design.

Third, do your best—and then rest.The modern mind does not rest because it does not trust. It labors endlessly to secure what only faith can guarantee. But if there is Divine order—if the universe is not a cruel joke but a moral story—then we can release the illusion of omnipotence. We do our part, and the rest belongs to God. The Christian narrative is not one of resignation, but of redemption: a God who, when things went wrong, entered His own creation to set it right.

And so, amid the noise of the present, remember: this life is temporary. It is a corridor, not a kingdom. The next life—that is the country of permanence. That is where every wrong is righted, every question answered, every restless heart finally home.

Peace, then, is not found in escape from the world, but in entrusting it to the One who made it.

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There is no greater scandal than evil. I’m not referring to the petty troubles of daily life, but to the monumental horrors that scar the human story: Auschwitz. The killing fields. Children sold into slavery in the shadows of our cities. These are not mere inconveniences or unfortunate accidents. These are intentional, cataclysmic denials of human dignity. And they pose, inescapably, the ancient question: If God there is a God, is He good? Is He all-powerful? Is He sovereign? If all these things are true, then how can such evil things happen?

Is God powerless to prevent these evils? Is He apathetic towards the evil that threatens to kill, steal and destroy? Is the fight between good and evil an equal match that could ultimately end us all?

These may be the single most common questions that lead to the abandonment of faith.

If there is a God who is good and all-powerful, why would He allow pain and suffering?

The Christian answer begins with a distinction. God is sovereign, yes. But sovereignty is not tyranny. The Creator of the Universe is not a cosmic puppeteer pulling strings. Scripture insists on two truths held in tension: God reigns, and man is free. Horrors like the Holocaust and child trafficking are not authored by God. They are authored by humans, exercising the very freedom that makes us capable of love but also, tragically, of inhuman cruelty.

This concept is called the mysterium iniquitatis—the mystery of evil. Mystery not because it is inscrutable nonsense, but because evil is irreducible to mere biological, psychological, or sociological factors. There is no logical syllogism that can make the trafficking of children “make sense.” To demand such a thing is to trivialize both the crime and the suffering.

And yet Christianity refuses despair. It insists on a paradox: that even the most hellish evil does not stand outside of God’s providence. He permits it, not because He delights in it. He does not. And not because He is weak. He is not. He permits evil to exist because He respects the terrifying dignity of human freedom. And because, in ways hidden from us, He can and does draw good even from catastrophe. The Cross itself is the supreme proof. The greatest moral crime in history—the torture and murder of God’s innocent Son—becomes the door to our redemption.

This is no excuse for evil. It is a summons. If Christ identifies Himself with “the least of these,” then every victim of trafficking, every child cast aside, is, to us, Christ in disguise. To serve them is to serve Him. To fail them is to fail Him. Providence is not an invitation to sit back and observe. It is a mandate for action.

Great or small, there is something that each of us is called to do.

We will never eliminate all pain and suffering in this life. That will happen in Heaven. For here and now, evil remains. But that doesn’t mean that we can shrug our shoulders and declare that nothing can be done. Just because every evil cannot be destroyed in this life does not mean that something cannot be done.

The promise of Christianity is clear: Evil does not win. God’s sovereignty assures that those involved with Auschwitz, child trafficking, and every unspeakable violation will be brought to justice. At the final judgment, no perpetrator will have the final word. The last word belongs to the One on the throne, the One who will wipe away every tear.

That is not cheap consolation. It is a statement of faith, one tested by the fire of history. To believe it is to fight evil without illusion but with hope—hope that justice will be done, and that love, not horror, will be the final verdict on humanity.

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Rhonda Sciortino, author of 30 Days To Happiness, 30 Days To Love, Succeed Because Of What You’ve Been Through, and many other books, does her best to help people through her podcast, blog articles, videos, online courses and social media. To expand her reach to help others, she founded Successful Survivors Foundation, the Love Is Action Community Initiative, and she co-founded the Alliance for Child Protection to protect children from predators, traffickers, and drug victimization.

Bible Scripture References

Psalm 103:19, “The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.”

Proverbs 16:9, “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”

Deuteronomy 30:19, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live”

Romans 1:28–32, “ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; hey have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”

2 Thessalonians 2:7-8, “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.”

Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Genesis 50:20, “You intended to do evil to me, but God decided to make it serve a good, to fulfill that which today has come true: to keep alive a numerous people.”

Acts 2:23–24, “By the set plan and foreknowledge of God, he was handed over into the hands of lawless men. Crucifying him, you killed him. However, God raised him up, releasing him from the pangs of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.”

Romans 5:8, “Thus, God proved his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

Matthew 25:40, “And the King will answer, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brethren of mine, you did for me.’”

John 16:33, “I have told you this so that in me you may be in peace. In the world you will endure suffering. But take courage! I have overcome the world.”

1 Corinthians 15:54–57, “When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then will the words that are written be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Revelation 21:4, “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will no longer be death. Neither will there be any mourning or crying or pain, for the old order has passed away.”

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Once upon a time, we called this tolerance. Live and let live. That quaint notion has apparently been retired. Consider the reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk—and, in another case, of Iryna Zarutska. The most disturbing thing is not only that such murders occurred, but that there are those who rush to justify them. Worse still, some celebrate.

The rationale? That Kirk’s words—labeled “hate speech”—made him fair game. As if speech, however disagreeable, were a capital offense. As if the self-appointed arbiters of virtue are entitled to be judge, jury, and, in theory at least, executioner. “That’s what he gets,” they say. Really? For words?

It is impossible to make moral sense of this. Killing someone for their beliefs or speech is barbarism. Killing a young refugee for nothing more than seeking legal sanctuary in the United States is equally incomprehensible.

What explains this descent? Perhaps it is the corruption of a moral category. We once understood disagreement as a matter of error—someone misguided, someone wrong. Wrong could be corrected, debated, argued against. Wrong could be persuaded.

But once you declare the other side not wrong but evil, the ground shifts. Evil is not debated. Evil is not persuaded. Evil is eradicated.

This is what turns a subway car into a killing ground. This is what leads a young man in Utah to etch “Hey, fascist, catch!” on a bullet casing before murdering Kirk. The word “fascist” once meant something precise—Merriam-Webster’s sober definition includes autocracy, regimentation, suppression of opposition. Today it has become a catch-all epithet, a synonym for “evil,” flung at political opponents with reckless abandon.

And so the progression is tragically predictable. If Kirk is a “fascist,” then he is evil. If he is evil, then killing him becomes, in the murderer’s twisted logic, not just permissible but virtuous.

But look at Kirk’s work. Hundreds of public debates on faith, family, and conservative values. Sometimes confrontational, often spirited—but never evil. Evil does not engage in civil discourse. Evil does not invite opposing voices to the microphone. Evil silences. Kirk did the opposite: he challenged, he provoked thought, he defended his ideas. Whether you agreed with him or not, he modeled debate in its most democratic form.

Speech is not violence. Words are not bullets. To confuse the two is to march down a path that ends in justifying murder for opinion. That is not the road to justice. It is the road to tyranny.

Rhonda Sciortino

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It's been awhile, and for that I apologize. This episode is about what I've been doing you're doing and what I hope you will do to be the agent of your own uplift in the pursuit of your higher calling. That's what your purpose really is--it's your higher calling. I hope you'll dial down the noise of the world around you and give yourself a mini-vacay of about 30 minutes, and listen to this and consider what you can do to come up higher, to reach for your calling, and to take a BIG STEP out into the deep where you either live your purpose or give up and flail in the waters of mediocrity. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast

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This is the third in a series of questions you can ask yourself that will lead you down a path of self-exploration, the purpose of which is to discover the clues to your authentic identity and the unique purpose for your life.

I encourage you to give yourself permission to take time to really contemplate these questions because your responses may uncover clues to your purpose that are waiting to be found,

Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.

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This is the third in a series of questions you can ask yourself that will lead you down a path of self-exploration, the purpose of which is to discover the clues to your authentic identity and the unique purpose for your life.

I encourage you to give yourself permission to take time to really contemplate these questions because your responses may uncover clues to your purpose that are waiting to be found,

Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.

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Every day that goes by, you hear new information that forms opinions and perspectives and informs your attitude, words and actions.

Think of the things that you take into your eyes and ears as lenses through which you see the world.

As the days, weeks, months and years pass, you continue to take in new information which changes you and the way you see the world. You learn and grow.

So, what does all this have to do with your purpose?

The point is that if you asked yourself questions of this nature in the past, your answers then may be very different from your answers now.

Value yourself and your purpose enough to take the time to really consider your current answers to these, and all of the other questions, in this series.

Hopefully your answers will create a path that you can follow toward your unique-in-all-the-world purpose. There are people who need you and what you can do and what you know and the value you bring. They're waiting.

Find Your Purpose Now

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It's time to revisit the things we're interested in, our opinions, judgments and about specific details about yourself.

Before you swipe away thinking this isn't necessary, consider that you know more now than you ever have. You've changed. You've grown. You've learned some things you didn't know before. You've experienced some things that changed your perspective and put context around things that didn't make sense when you were the younger you.

This is the first in a series of 50 questions that you can ask yourself to take inventory on the details of YOU, the more mature, adult you.

If you will invest the time in yourself, you will find clues that lead you to some discoveries about yourself that will help to shine light on the path toward the purpose for your life.

Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.

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