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The World's Noisy - Embrace The Silence!

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Our team thought it was a great idea to start rewinding previous (but timely) episodes of our show during the times that Mista Yu is away from the microphone. All of these beautiful Blasts from the Past were previously broadcast, but we are sharing them with you at a time when you might need them most. Hope you enjoy the review!

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Purpose shouldn’t be a whisper under the noise—it should be the compass that sets your direction. We open with a quick update and gratitude for our community, then get straight to the heart of the matter: why the world keeps de‑emphasizing purpose and how that quiet drift costs us our time, freedom, and joy. Together we challenge the shallow questions—Is this worth it? Should I be doing this?—and replace them with a better one: does this move me closer to my end game or pull me away?

We unpack the hard truth about “furniture” in our lives—habits, expectations, and distractions that feel permanent because we’ve stopped confronting them. You’ll hear a simple decision filter that helps you say no without guilt, plus a candid look at why chasing recognition or empire-building often leaves you busy but misaligned. If you’ve ever wondered why success can feel like a golden cage, we talk about the time‑freedom tradeoff and how purpose realigns your work with your values.

From there we get practical. We explore the role of mentors, the power of disciplined habits, and why miracles tend to meet people in motion rather than on the couch. Expect direct questions you can apply today: define your end game in plain words, remove one fixture that steals focus, and pick a mentor whose habits you’ll copy for 30 days. The goal isn’t a motivational spike—it’s sustainable direction, the kind that lets you decline good offers to protect your best work.

If you’re ready to move from average to aligned, from noise to clarity, hit play and take one brave step today. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review telling us the one distraction you’re confronting this week. Your next yes starts with a better why.

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Hey friends and families, it's Mr. You. Now, I do want to try something fresh and something different, especially during our slower months of the season. So, starting this season, we're gonna release random but timely episodes from our first few seasons, which I gotta tell you are the most popular seasons of our entire podcast brand history. I think when you hit them, you'll know why they're so popular. It's gonna be great for new listeners and great also for longtime listeners who've been following us for a while. So stay tuned. I thank you for watching us and for listening. Hope you enjoy this new experience. We're going into the archives. Here's a blast in the past right now. I think you'll enjoy.

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Have fun.

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Hey, welcome back to the all-purpose, powerful, and all-purpose life wherever you are and however you're hearing. They call me Mr. You the podcast. Thanks again for making us a part of your morning, your day, and your week with your weekly marriage before you go change the world. Of course, you can find us on most of our social media platforms. You can definitely find us on our YouTube channel. Love for you to subscribe there. And of course, we're on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course YouTube. Um it's overwhelming. 2023 was an incredible year. I can't get away from saying that. A lot of strides were made that I kind of didn't expect to happen so quickly. So we're pretty grateful for the success of the show. I'm grateful for all of our media partners that have allowed me to be a host and co-host on their programs, excuse me, in their podcast. Thank you again, guys, for your support. And of course, big shout out to my guys Herman Rodge, of the Herman Raj podcast, which comes on, of course, every Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. EST. And of course, Football Talk with Bo. My guy. He has multiple shows throughout the course of the week, especially Hawk Talk every Friday morning and the Wednesday wrap-up on Wednesday, both, I believe, at 9 p.m. EST, I believe. But they're both a big part of what we do at the Carmi Mr. U. And of course, we're all together Monday mornings at 9 a.m. EST. So thank you again for your support there. And I thank you for your support for our Tuesday and Thursday episodes. We do provide content content throughout the course of the week. It's more of an inspirational family and life in nature, but we thank you for support nonetheless. And, you know, I've been hearing from you guys a lot of the questions that you guys posed, a lot of the things that you complain about. I've been listening. I've been receiving the messages and the comments and tweets. And, you know, I kind of want to touch on this topic today, just really briefly. I guess because it's relevant. It's universal to all of us, but it's just it's just flat out relevant. It matters. And I think we're getting to the point where we're starting to see a society that almost makes it as if it doesn't matter. And it's being de-emphasized. I think that's probably one of the scariest things about the world that we live in. That this particular topic can be de-emphasized so easily. It's pretty scary to me. It's basically a horror film in real life. And that's the topic of purpose. Purpose is a question that I discuss with people all the time, probably more than any other. I talk about finance, entrepreneurship, goal setting, dream building, family life, personal development, etc. etc. Everything in the realm of any kind of coaching or mentoring, I'm probably talking to somebody about it at some point in time. I do have background in the area. That's why it's kind of near and dear to my heart. But purpose is a question that's been discussed, I don't know how many times. It happens so often that it's almost a daily, weekly thing now. It comes, the question comes in the form of relevance in workplaces, building businesses, excuse me, investing time in charitable pursuits. At the end of the day, it's all really about purpose. Why am I here? What's my deal? What's my thing? I want to try to help out with that today. Uh, I'm not promising I can tell you what your purpose is. It's a lot of you out there listening. I can't promise that. But it is sad when we stop asking. It's great when we hang around long enough to get the answers. I'll say that again for those in the back. It's really a sad commentary when we stop asking about our purpose. But it's wonderful when we hang around long enough to get the answers. I mean, we got bright-eyed young people trying to start something new, maybe even a new startup business, a new side hustle, something to provide income to their family. You got seasoned vets looking to transition from their careers. They've been in the uh corporate sector for 25, 30, even sometimes 40 years. They want to just try something new. Do something different, try a different career. Just kind of shake things up. Add some variety to their life. And there's people that's somewhere in the middle who become weary with the status quo. They're looking around, they're seeing the signs, and they're like, man, this ain't gonna work out for me. I know this is what mama and dad said, what grandma and grandpa always uh spouted, but this isn't gonna work for me. I gotta find a different path. This path I know it's not gonna work. And you have all this different mix of people with thoughts and ideas and plans and hopes and goals. And they're all eventually saying the same thing, just kind of without saying it. Is this worth it? Is this right for me? Should I be doing this? I know what's good for Bob and Mary and Emily and Sam, but is it good for me? These questions are asked a lot. Is it worth it? Should I be doing this? Is this right for me? But they're never the question. And that's where I believe we have taken some steps back in society. We've taken some steps back in our quest for relevance and success and just being, you know, that kind of civilization. I think we've taken some steps back because we won't ask the question. If each of these knows their purpose in life, all the examples are gave the bright-eyed, the young people trying to do a startup, these invets trying to transition in their career, or people somewhere in the middle who are aware with the status quo and they don't know what it is they want, but they know there is something better than what they have. If each of these knew their purpose in life, or at least their current focus, I think that eliminates most of the conundrum that these people groups find themselves in. I was a member of all of these people groups. And it most definitely was a lack of focus. It was most definitely a lack of purpose. If somebody offers for me right now to restart working in a corporate government sector, I can safely and unequivocally decline to do so because I know that's not my focus. It won't be a hardship. I won't lose sleep. I can easily decline because I know that's not my focus because I have a handle on what my purpose should be. It's not all fleshed out. I'm not doing something that hasn't been done anywhere else in the world and in life. These people out there are way smarter than me, way more spiritually evolved than me, and figured out stuff that I'm still trying to figure out. But I can decline that offer hypothetically because I know it would deter me from my focus. A great friend tells me this all the time. And he says, no, gauge every opportunity as whether it takes you closer to your end game or if it takes you further away from it. I'm gonna say that again for those in the back. I think you need to hear this. A really great friend of mine tells me this often. Gauge every opportunity that comes, every moment, as in one of two ways. One, do they bring you closer to your end game, to your ultimate goal, or further away from it? Now, I know that sounds really easy. It's easier said than done, no question. But most of that is because we refuse to accept that there's some things in our life that don't do that. That don't bring it closer to our goal, and we have never dealt with it. It's become so much of a fixture in our life, it's so much part of the furniture in our lives that we haven't even dealt with it. We've accepted it as furniture. We've accepted it as a fixture in our life and we haven't even dealt with it. Haven't even addressed it, haven't even looked at it. It's so uncomfortable that we don't even want to deal with it. And that's the problem. It's hard to find purpose when you got all these other things that are accompaniments and issues and fixtures in our life that we haven't even dealt with. It's really hard to escape having to deal with those things. We gotta confront. I mean, an old mentor always told me you can't conquer what you won't confront. Those elephants in the room are starting to get bigger and they're making more of a mess, and they're taking up more space. We gotta run them bad boys up out of here. Or we'll never ever get to the place where we'll experience the kind of purpose that I think we're willing to do. I know a lot of folks that are idealistic, and I talk to them all the time. Talk to them at coffee shops and in marketplaces and over the phone and on teleconferences, and it's always the same thing. They want something so big, but they refuse to make the small changes, to address the small adjustments. People want to change the world. It's one of our models for our show, go change the world. We talk about that for a reason. We believe that the potential to change the world is inside of you. It doesn't matter if it's 40% or 70%, you got potential inside of you to change the world. And if we can help inspire you to do that, I think that's great. That's something that I can't say I've always had in my life. So I'm glad if we represent that kind of opportunity. But are you ready to do something that will turn the world against you? You're talking about going to change the world. Are you ready to do something that would turn the world against you? When you walk in purpose, you're entering into that kind of category. Or do you prefer the safe comfort of friends and being accepted and liked? And not being anything different, just being, dare I say it, just being average. Right there in the middle. Not too far to the left, not too far to the right, very safe. As Switzerland as possible. Are you comfortable with that? Or are you ready to do something that's gonna turn worlds upside down? Excuse me. Are you willing to do that? Do you really want to change the world? Is that what you want? How do you do that by building your own empire? People talk about purpose and stuff, but a lot of times they don't mean that, they just mean self-success. Breaking out of whatever kind of life and upbringing they came through. And they want to have their name in life. They want to be known and they want to be special, they want to be unique, they want to be lauded and applauded. How do you change the world by building your own empire? I'm just asking that. Is it a good change or is it a change that's just good enough for you? Is the opportunities that you're seeing bringing you closer to your ultimate goal or further away? Do you even have an ultimate goal? Do you even have a plan? If there's no plan, I doubt there's a course of direction because there's no plan. You don't know where you're going. It's not difficult to understand, but it's really hard to maintain when you got distractions in life, elephants in your room. If you know where you want a trying to go, common sense, and I've learned this from people who are way more successful than you and I. And they build lifestyles that even the richest person would envy. I tell folks all the time, and I know they don't always agree with this, but I don't care, I'm still right. The richest persons that you've ever seen, whether they're on TV and media, whatever it is, no, they don't have, they don't have time. They're wealthy and they have all these obligations, they don't have time. That's a lifestyle that you can't beat. They don't have the kind of freedom that they should have with all of the means that they have financially. They got to make this appearance, they got to do this show, they got to have this interview, they got to do this, they gotta go check on these companies and their holdings. They're not all living fancy free and not doing anything. They have a lot on their plates. They don't all get to sleep in. They're up early. They're up as early as you are in a lot of cases, because they don't have time and they don't have freedom. They have money and they got money tied up in assets, but they don't have time and freedom. And it's really hard to know where you're going and have direction when you don't have that purpose, when you don't know why you're doing what you're doing. Some successful folks, like I say, way more successful than you and I. One of the things that they talk about all the time is if you want to be successful, what do you do? You surround yourself with people who have been there, wherever there is for you, and learn from them. Sit at their feet, get engaged, understand, learn, seek information, seek wisdom. You shape your life around disciplines and habits that help you get to where you want to be at. A lot of folks that I talk to, a lot of them are young, admittedly, and they're young in their mind, too. They're as green as a new$2 bill. But they don't have mentorship, they don't have education, they don't have even, they don't even have information. They have little tidbits of things that they try to piece together to try to forge a successful life out of it. Yeah, good luck with that. Without disciplines and the kind of habits that change you, your circumstances are not likely to change very much. Lazy people can fall victim to this all the time, and they do. They sit and wait for an epiphany. They're on couches with hot Cheetos, waiting for something big to happen, waiting for that big breakthrough to come through. If it's gonna take a miracle for you to achieve what you're looking to accomplish, then you know it's big, then you know it's good, you know it's bigger than you. That's a good place to be. But miracles are never found, they never found anybody on the couch. People who found miracles, even in scripture specifically, or maybe even in some of the success stories that you've heard. How did it happen? I believe the miracles come from God. I don't know whether it comes from a man or from just a simple opportunity. But where did it happen while the people were in the pursuit? They were in the hunt. They were good fortune, if you will, was chasing them down. Purpose is gonna find you when you're seeking it like you really want it. I'm gonna say that again for those in the back. I don't want you to miss this. Purpose will find you when you're seeking it like you want it. If that was not true, purpose would have found most of us way early on in the game, even in our adolescence, and we'd never be able to shake it. But that's not where we are, is it? People go 30, 40, 50 years, even more. I know people who've gone even farther, and they have no idea what their purpose is. They go to church and do good things and they give and they serve, and they're part of the committees, but they don't even know who they are. I know people who are in the corporate world that have been there for a long time, can't even retire just because of the economic status of our world today. And don't even know what their purpose is if you ask them. Just working a good job and just hoping that you know something good comes out of all of this. That's the extent of their quest for purpose. And it's sad, but it's a reality. Do you know what your purpose is? Do you know why you're here? Do you even care anymore? It's just something to think about. It goes beyond whether this is worth it or not. If this is right for me, should I be doing this? But why are you here? What are you supposed to be doing? If you don't know, who do you go to and ask to get the answer to this question? These and questions like these will be answered. I hope. Whoever you are today and however you're listening to the Call Me Mr. You the podcast, we thank you once again for making us a part of your morning, your day, and your week with your weekly mirror check before you change the word. Hope you enjoyed the episode. Thank you for continuing to support our show.

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