Peace & Prosperity Podcast
In the Peace & Prosperity Podcast, Jason Phillips, licensed therapist and life coach, shares personal experiences that force you to think deeply about your values, beliefs, and behaviors to ensure you achieve peace, happiness, and success in your life.
Peace & Prosperity Podcast
Finding and Operating in Your Purpose - Episode #72
The Peace & Prosperity Podcast is a bi-weekly conversation with Jason Phillips, LCSW, licensed therapist and confidence expert in Raleigh, NC, discussing all things related to self-love and self-confidence, and how we can improve ourselves personally and professionally.
Feeling stuck in your career or personal life? In this episode of the Peace and Prosperity Podcast, Jason guides you through breaking free and living your purpose by overcoming societal pressures and embracing what truly makes you happy. We’ll explore strategies to manage high-functioning anxiety and empower you to conquer the fear that holds you back from change and fulfillment. Join our community—like, share, subscribe, and share your thoughts or topic suggestions. You’re not alone on this journey, and we're here to support you every step of the way.
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All right, y'all, welcome to another episode of the Peace and Prosperity Podcast. I'm your host, jason Phillips, licensed therapist, confidence expert, and today we're talking about how to find and operate in your purpose, because it's not enough just to find your purpose, but you want to be able to operate in your purpose too. So this is going to be the conversation for you if you feel stuck in your career or stuck in your personal life too. So what gets in the way of you finding your purpose? What are the roadblocks, what are the mindset barriers? How come?
Speaker 1:This seems to be a challenging issue for a lot of us, particularly those of us who really want to do things right, like there's. We are the people who our parents told us hey, get a job, retire, raise your family, call it a day. And I know for myself, operating in my purpose one has been the best thing that I can do, like being able to talk to you, being able to serve clients, being able to speak on stages, being able to have a voice in the community is something that I would not trade for anything. Like my wife knows that she's like you love to work and I do, but that's because I love to serve and I'm operating in my purpose, so I could do this all day long. I truly could.
Speaker 1:But how do you get there? The first thing you have to do is let go of the expectations that other people have for you. You may be someone who is good at a lot of things. You're good with your hands, you're good with people, you're good with systems. All of these things are great and you could excel at each and every level but where is your true passion at? Let me run this back again You're good here. You can, you can do this, you can do that, but what brings you joy? So you have to let go of the expectations that other people have for you, and now you have to think about what are the expectations that you have and that you want for your life. It's almost like when you're young, your life story is written out for you from your parents or people who raised you, and then your job seems to be that you go and play out that life story to the T. You may tweak it here and there and enhance it along the way, but essentially, what you're trying to do is live out what everyone has told you. You should do so if there is a family tradition of going to school, working in education and then raising a family. That's essentially what you may find yourself doing going to school, getting a degree Maybe it's not even the degree that you wanted, but it's the degree that everybody said you will be good at and what happens is you leave that experience feeling unfulfilled, like you want more, but you're good at what you do. So that's where it becomes really challenging to let go of these expectations, because you are performing well to someone else's standards, but what about the standards and expectations that you have for your life? So if you find yourself stuck, not operating in your purpose, the first thing I want you to do is let go of other people and their expectations for you. The second thing I want you to do is I want you to choose happiness.
Speaker 1:Now, that may seem existential, it may not seem tangible, but you have to get super clear on what happiness means and what it looks like for you. So if that means staying in the career that you're at, if that means staying in the city that you live in or continuing to do the things that you do on a daily basis, then great. But if it means that you need to pivot and do something else, then I want you to give yourself permission to do so. You're not a kid anymore. You don't have to do everything that your parents have told you to do. If you are a kid listening to this podcast, at some point you will be able to make your own decisions. So you might as well start thinking like yourself now.
Speaker 1:Choose happiness and operate from a sense of your own self-worth and what you want for you, not what everybody else wants, and that could be. It could be challenging, because maybe you don't want to let somebody down. You think, if I do choose myself, then what does that look like? You may be really afraid of success. If you do, pivot, because right now, if you have not let go of expectations, you've not truly chosen happiness for yourself. You probably are stuck, but you are probably also comfortable. See, we don't move until we get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:When you decide to make an extreme decision for your life, it's typically not because things are going a little bit wrong. It's because things are going way off and you're at the point where you have to do something differently, like you can no longer function at this rate anymore. So let's back it up, let's slow things down and let's look at what choosing you and choosing happiness for you and your life truly looks like. Hey, peace and prosperity, family. I want to take a moment to talk about something vital for all organizations employee wellness. I focus on tackling issues such as low morale, burnout and helping teams thrive by improving their employee wellness. Here's what some of the past organizations have shared about their experiences.
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Speaker 1:Then Jason's session today, and I just took away a lot of invaluable information to bring back to my shop. You're interested in investing in your team's mental health? Visit Jason L Phillips dotcom or visit the link below, and let's talk about creating a thriving work environment for your organization. Now back to the episode. The third thing I want you to do is stop comparing yourself to what someone else is doing. It's going to be hard for you to choose happiness for you. If only if, like your measuring stick is someone else's life. You don't even know if that person is truly happy, but you're measuring yourself up to what they are doing. That's not. That's not healthy. It is not healthy for a number of reasons, because that person could be living a facade and then, ultimately, you truly don't get a chance to blossom and do what you want. See, people will put a lot of things on you and they'll tell you you know, go this way, do it this route. But if, innately, you know there's something more that you desire, then you have to. You have to do it. I don't think you're going to be truly fulfilled. I'm not even going to say happy because I mean happy could be, it can come and go, but I mean fulfilled. It's like you're walking in your purpose because you know when you get up in the morning, hey, it may be tough, it may be rough, but I'm doing exactly what I'm called to do. And this is where the spirituality piece comes into it, because now you get a chance to combine, like your thoughts, your internal feelings, but also you can mix your spirituality or your religion, your faith, into your calling. And once you start operating from that lens, all the fear that you have, all the worry about failing it starts to disseminate or decrease. I want to make sure I don't want to say disseminate it starts to go away. That worry starts to go away. And now you still show up, despite of Like, if you're doing something and you're scared, you still show up. You have a fear that it may flop, you still do it anyway. That's not only when your confidence starts clicking, but it's also when you really start to move into your sense of purpose.
Speaker 1:For me, being a therapist, being a speaker, being a professor, these are all things that I wanted for myself. But in order to move into these spaces, I had to let go of expectations that people have for me. Some people wanted me to just stay in a clinic the rest of my career. Some people may have wanted me to just stay in a classroom for the rest of my career. Some people may wanted, wanted me to just stay in a classroom for the rest of my career. Some people may want me to only speak. But I had to think about what does Jason want for himself or for myself?
Speaker 1:And then, once I started to do that, all the pressure started to alleviate. I started to feel more relaxed. I could show up, even on the days that I didn't feel like it. I knew I was operating in my purpose. So think about what is it that you want to do? What is it that you're being called to do? What are some of the roadblocks that are stopping you from showing up as your full self? How can you eliminate those things or those people from your life so that you can live and be within your purpose? So that you can live and be within your purpose?
Speaker 1:Y'all this is that what some people call heart work, because it's deeper than just something that you can do on the surface. It takes time, it takes energy and it takes a lot of grit and confidence to say I'm going to push back on what you're saying and I'm going to follow my own heart, follow my own mind, follow my own passion, and I'm going to do it. Own heart, follow my own mind, follow my own passion and I'm going to do it, despite the anxiety. Like, the anxiety may still be there, but I know at the end of the day, when I wake up and do everything throughout the day, when I lay my head down, I've done exactly what I am supposed to be doing. And when you operate from that sense of confidence and that sense of purpose, it's like things just start clicking. Opportunities start coming to you, relationships start blossoming, your health starts to improve. But we don't always do it unless we feel compelled or typically when something goes terribly wrong and now we feel like I have to make a change. But I want to leave you with this Don't wait until things get that bad Like. Start making changes now and set yourself up for your future, you know later. Don't wait until it's that bad. You have the aptitude, you have the tools to start living and operating in your purpose to the fullest day. All right, y'all Listen. I want to hear from you. Let me know how it's going, what decisions you're making, what changes are you going to implement so that you can start to really show up as the true and authentic version of yourself? All right, be blessed Peace.
Speaker 1:Thank you all for listening to another episode of the Peace and Prosperity Podcast. Again, if you are feeling like, hey, I'm experiencing high functioning anxiety, don't beat yourself up about it. It is okay. We all experience anxiety from time to time and I gave you a couple of things that you can do on your own, but don't hesitate to reach out to a professional to better manage what you're going through. Okay, and lastly, make sure, if you have not like share, subscribe to the podcast and send this out to a friend, and if you want to hear certain episodes or have certain conversations, let me know. You can shoot me a DM or just leave a review and I will definitely follow up. All right, y'all, be blessed Peace.