REWIND: This is How to Discover Your Life Purpose
08/26/21 • 44 min
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We have a special treat for you this week! We’re REWINDING one of our most popular episodes of all time.
We know you’re going to love revisiting this very special episode. ENJOY!
Do you ever wonder... what’s the point? Why am I here? What am I really meant to do? What’s my PURPOSE?!
Maybe you’ve been there, done that, know it’s time to reinvent yourself but you don’t know how to start, where to begin or feel as though it’s too late or too hard...
What would you give to be able to FINALLY figure out what your life purpose is OR your “next purpose”?
You are not alone. Many, MANY of us have struggled with the very same questions and it can be SUPER frustrating, anxiety-filled and frankly, pretty depressing.
Don’t worry... Gay and Mike are here to help guide you through the process and figure it out.
Today on The Big Leap podcast, Gay Hendricks is going to tell you about the moment he finally figured out what his life purpose was and how it’s affected every moment of his life since. Needless to say, it was a major turning point.
Mike is going to share some of his big leaps and some of the reinventions that he's gone through throughout his life because for him, he hasn't had just one big leap... he's had a bunch.
Their goal is to give you the tools, resources, and guidance to get you to where you want to be, so let’s dive in!
The moment Gay figured out his life purpose happened at a time where from the outside, it looked like he had it made. He had jumped to a “new level” in life, (but as he points out in The Big Leap book,) oftentimes when you have a big upsurge of love, money, or fame, it trips old mechanisms inside that bring up fears and then you shut yourself back down.
Since Gay was 15 years old, he wanted to be a university professor but didn't know exactly what he wanted to teach. When he was 22 he was bitten by the psychology bug, got his master's degree in counseling, then his Ph.D. from Stanford, and landed his first job as a university professor at the University of Colorado. He had made his dream come true.
And yet, a week before he was supposed to start his new job, (he had already moved to Colorado, rented a cabin in the woods, and was having a great time communing with nature) he had a panic attack when he realized, “Oh my God, I know all the textbook stuff but I don't know anything in my heart about what it takes to have human beings transform their lives.”
In graduate school, he learned dozens of different marriage counseling techniques, and dozens of different anxiety treating techniques but he never had a real person sitting with him where he did his own, natural work and had them change. That’s when he knew there was something missing.
Then he had a once in a lifetime experience. Standing out in the woods, he said out loud to the universe and himself, “what is the essence of human transformation ?” What is it that we do that darkens ourselves rather than enlightens ourselves? He stood there for a while and felt the question rather than trying to work it out in his mind... then the magic happened.
He got this amazingly powerful roar of energy through his entire body and mind that seemed to come from the ground up. It was like a freight train of white light and it felt good. Like a rolling wave of energy that passed through him and after it did, he realized that it had answered his question.
The information it left behind was this; the thing we do wrong as human beings that keeps us stuck, is we resist what's going on inside ourselves and the feedback that's coming in from the outside. We take a stance of resistance towards the world and out of that stance, our experience gets rougher. Life starts to treat us more harshly, simply because we closed down that part of ourselves. We’re not open to learning. It's this defensive posture that keeps us stuck.
He realized that the only way to transform is to let ourselves be exactly where we are and love ourselves for being there. Instead of judging or shaming ourselves, we simply need to feel where we are, and then love ourselves for being there.
So that’s what Gay did. He simply wandered around the woods for a while loving all the parts of himself that he’d never been able to love before until that moment.
He ended up in a beautiful state of being, both open to himself and the world around him. It was this magical moment of being completely free of his programming and having no expectations of the future that left behind a meta-t...
We have a special treat for you this week! We’re REWINDING one of our most popular episodes of all time.
We know you’re going to love revisiting this very special episode. ENJOY!
Do you ever wonder... what’s the point? Why am I here? What am I really meant to do? What’s my PURPOSE?!
Maybe you’ve been there, done that, know it’s time to reinvent yourself but you don’t know how to start, where to begin or feel as though it’s too late or too hard...
What would you give to be able to FINALLY figure out what your life purpose is OR your “next purpose”?
You are not alone. Many, MANY of us have struggled with the very same questions and it can be SUPER frustrating, anxiety-filled and frankly, pretty depressing.
Don’t worry... Gay and Mike are here to help guide you through the process and figure it out.
Today on The Big Leap podcast, Gay Hendricks is going to tell you about the moment he finally figured out what his life purpose was and how it’s affected every moment of his life since. Needless to say, it was a major turning point.
Mike is going to share some of his big leaps and some of the reinventions that he's gone through throughout his life because for him, he hasn't had just one big leap... he's had a bunch.
Their goal is to give you the tools, resources, and guidance to get you to where you want to be, so let’s dive in!
The moment Gay figured out his life purpose happened at a time where from the outside, it looked like he had it made. He had jumped to a “new level” in life, (but as he points out in The Big Leap book,) oftentimes when you have a big upsurge of love, money, or fame, it trips old mechanisms inside that bring up fears and then you shut yourself back down.
Since Gay was 15 years old, he wanted to be a university professor but didn't know exactly what he wanted to teach. When he was 22 he was bitten by the psychology bug, got his master's degree in counseling, then his Ph.D. from Stanford, and landed his first job as a university professor at the University of Colorado. He had made his dream come true.
And yet, a week before he was supposed to start his new job, (he had already moved to Colorado, rented a cabin in the woods, and was having a great time communing with nature) he had a panic attack when he realized, “Oh my God, I know all the textbook stuff but I don't know anything in my heart about what it takes to have human beings transform their lives.”
In graduate school, he learned dozens of different marriage counseling techniques, and dozens of different anxiety treating techniques but he never had a real person sitting with him where he did his own, natural work and had them change. That’s when he knew there was something missing.
Then he had a once in a lifetime experience. Standing out in the woods, he said out loud to the universe and himself, “what is the essence of human transformation ?” What is it that we do that darkens ourselves rather than enlightens ourselves? He stood there for a while and felt the question rather than trying to work it out in his mind... then the magic happened.
He got this amazingly powerful roar of energy through his entire body and mind that seemed to come from the ground up. It was like a freight train of white light and it felt good. Like a rolling wave of energy that passed through him and after it did, he realized that it had answered his question.
The information it left behind was this; the thing we do wrong as human beings that keeps us stuck, is we resist what's going on inside ourselves and the feedback that's coming in from the outside. We take a stance of resistance towards the world and out of that stance, our experience gets rougher. Life starts to treat us more harshly, simply because we closed down that part of ourselves. We’re not open to learning. It's this defensive posture that keeps us stuck.
He realized that the only way to transform is to let ourselves be exactly where we are and love ourselves for being there. Instead of judging or shaming ourselves, we simply need to feel where we are, and then love ourselves for being there.
So that’s what Gay did. He simply wandered around the woods for a while loving all the parts of himself that he’d never been able to love before until that moment.
He ended up in a beautiful state of being, both open to himself and the world around him. It was this magical moment of being completely free of his programming and having no expectations of the future that left behind a meta-t...
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The Art of Collaborative Experiences
Imagine being able to solve ANY problem or challenge that comes your way, effortlessly.
Entrepreneurs LOVE to express themselves creatively and invent new things.
One of the best ways of doing this is with Collaborative Experiences.
Today, Mike and Gay will show you how to use the power of shared consciousness to make miracles happen with ease and clarity.
They'll talk about collaborating and how to get the most out of working with someone else.
Mike is also going to introduce something he calls the “Reverse Mastermind.” (It's a really powerful way to get decades of wisdom from super smart people with improv.)
This is a BIG topic and really worth paying attention to because when collaboration goes well... magic happens!
Listen or watch this episode to learn the ART OF COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCES.
Gay and Mike agree that, “You get to success as much by saying no, as you do by saying yes.”
Learning how to say an enlightened, “NO” is one of the hardest things to do, but once you do, your life will get infinitely less cluttered.
Gay has had experiences in the past where he didn't do enough emotional due diligence with folks he started collaborating with, so when stuff came up, he didn’t know how to deal with it.
Consequently, he’s spent a lot of time learning how to spot and say no to things that are going to be trouble later on.
Here's the best thing he’s learned about collaboration:
“The more I can be in touch with the things that are driving me, being aware of my intention, of things I'm afraid of, of that inner world, the more I'm open. It becomes easier for me to collaborate with other people, because I'm open to them.”
You know the old saying, “Never love another person, unless you love yourself first.” That goes way beyond loving relationships. It applies to business, too.
The major thing that goes wrong in business almost never has anything to do with business.
It's not because of a clash of the numbers or budget. It’s because one person has dug into some old issue that goes way back into the recesses of their early life and an old trauma explodes into drama.
Mike recently hosted a mastermind group called “Fishy Business” where he created the concept of REVERSE MASTERMIND.
He asked everyone, ”How could we make this experience an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10?”
They went around the room and one person said, “I would love to find a way to invent something, and collaborate together. Something we all walk away with.”
It created a higher level of thinking in the group for everyone to find opportunities together.
The BIG IDEA here is Shared Consciousness.
Humans actually share consciousness. It’s just a quirk of our minds that makes us think of ourselves as individuals.
If we can let go of the idea of our individuality, our ego, and own that other part of ourselves that's connected to everything in the universe. It's a much better place to collaborate from and helps us understand ourselves better and certainly helps us open our hearts and minds to other people.
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Living in "Easy World"
Mike and Gay's guest, Troy Lavinia, says there is a lot of work we can do to help people see the intersection between entrepreneurship and spirituality.
The world is changing and growing really quickly.
We’ve never been more inundated with information or more stressed.
Yet SO MANY of us have an incredible desire to do something creative or entrepreneurial AND are super open-minded to spirituality.
This episode will show you how AND how to take it further.
Listen to this episode to learn how you can operationalize spiritual principles to create great organizations and LIVE IN "EASY WORLD".
Mike and Gay don’t do a lot of interviews on the Big Leap so when they do, it’s always with someone really special.
Gay has known Troy for over a year and has been really impressed with the way he goes about his business.
His company is Mosaic Research Management, and they’re what's called an “expert network.”
Essentially they’re a matchmaker between investors at institutional investment firms.
For example, they may have a client who is a hedge fund analyst and thinking about investing in Nike. They may end up taking a $100 million position in Nike, so they really want to do their homework.
They'll read everything there is to read but they also want to talk to “on the ground sources”.
Troy’s company might go find the former CFO of Nike, who understands that business and its drivers, or they might find competitors of Nike who can talk about on the ground competition.
They put those people as advisors in touch with their clients for one on one telephone consultations.
By speaking with those industry experts, their clients get more knowledgeable about the business, fortify their investment thesis, and have more conviction in their investments.
Then, about a year and a half ago, they started a subsidiary business, which is recordings and transcripts of those calls.
With the permission of the experts and analysts, they’re recording and transcribing those conversations and putting them in a library so that you can go in and read them.
So if you're an analyst who wants to do the research on Nike, you can go in and read the interviews that other analysts have done about Nike to get smart on that company really quickly.
They’re advertising and monetizing this subsidiary through a subscription.
There is SO much more valuable information on this episode including Troy’s first Big Leap that involves his concept of MIDNIGHT PIZZA. (You're not going to want to miss this... it’s life changing!)
PLUS you’ll learn about creating great organizations through spiritual principles and operationalizing them AND how to start living in “EASY WORLD", where everything IS easy.
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