The Undeniable Sign You’ve Found Your Purpose | The Alignment Method for Doctors Part 5

Are you still struggling to land on the direction that feels like a full-body yes?

You have some scattered ideas, maybe you’ve tentatively committed to a new plan — but if you are being honest you still haven’t found the thing that truly feels like a fit. You’re stuck in your head- feeling lost, aimless and second guessing your direction.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• exactly what it feels like when you’ve found your purpose- so you can’t miss it
• the key to moving from scattered ideas to a clear focused vision
• the surprising side effects of connecting to your purpose

Tune in to discover the feeling that makes your next step undeniable.

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Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Transcript

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In this episode, you'll learn how to uncover the missing piece that makes everything click, so you finally feel clear on your direction and so lit up as you are pursuing it.

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Welcome to Life After Medicine, the podcast helping millennial health professionals leave the system and build a fulfilling career. I'm your host, Chelsea Turin, residency Dropout turned six, figure entrepreneur and World Traveler. I'll help you discover your unique path to making an impact without the burnout, because you were meant for more than 15 minute patient visits under fluorescent lights.

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Welcome back to the Alignment Method Aligned Girl summer edition, in this audio series, I am walking you through my six part system, the six steps to take to move into alignment, to have meaningful work and a joyful life, and to just have this sense of. Rightness that kind of permeates your whole existence. And so today we are going into a step four, which is connecting to your purpose. So connecting to your purpose is, it's what helps you see like what you're building the bridge to, right? So initially you create the career bridge. And that's sort of this exit that kind of, you're building a survival bridge. You don't necessarily know where it's going, but you're like, I know it's going out. I know it's not here. And so Career Bridge helps you with that. That's great. It creates breathing room. You got space to start making your transition. And then connecting to your purpose is when you really identify your direction. Right? And so it's. When you identify like what you're here to do, who you're here to be, and how you're here to live, and I say these three things because that is what happens when you connect to your purpose. You have an understanding of these three things, but you might not always be able to articulate that in your word language, right? Because connecting to your purpose, what it really is, is it's this energetic shift. It's something that you feel, and I see it in my clients as they like come alive inside the programs. Like they'll connect to their purpose and I'm like, Ooh, there, that's it. And I can like point to it and I can tell when it happens. Because when you're connected to your purpose, it's like you have a vision of like what this alignment looks like for you. It's meaning you have this vision of kind of. Where you're headed, like the meaningful work, the joyful life, like what it all is gonna look like for you. And you have this more solid and tangible direction and it's a direction that feels authentic that you're excited about. And it's this, yeah, it's like this energetic shift. It's this moment that happens. Where you're like, oh, it's like something clicks. This, this is my path, this is my thing, this is what I'm gonna do. It's specific enough to give you that like sense of excitement and direction and possibility, but it's not always like a fully mapped out plan. So like for me, I felt this, the moment I was like. Travel, blogging and life coaching. There was just something about that that really clicked. Even though I didn't know like exactly what my business model was or how I would find clients or what's the name of my business. Like none of those things were clear yet, but I was just like that. Those two, the combination of these things, there is something in this for me, like coaching and blogging. And sometimes I didn't even know if it's like travel blogging and or life coaching. I was just like coaching and blogging, like those two together. That's it. Like that's the click. And so when do you need this? Like who needs this step? Who needs to like work on this step? Honestly, it's you're feeling lost. You feel like you don't know what you wanna do. Okay, so you don't have a clear direction, like maybe you have different ideas and like different hobbies and like scattered interests, so you might not be totally like brain dead burnout. But you're struggling to bring them together into this grounded vision. You're struggling to move from like those scattered ideas to a focused vision. Right. If you don't know your next steps, if you don't know your path, if you're not like clicked into something and working on something, then we need to connect to your purpose. Another part of it is not feeling motivated, right? Not feeling like you have like a fire in you. Like maybe you mentally are like, okay, this is the direction I could do, and you're kind of walking towards that zombie style, but you're not really like clicked in or motivated by it. And so, like I said, for me it's like I was feeling lost. I was feeling aimless. I was feeling like, I know I'm pretty sure I don't wanna do residency anymore, but like, I don't know exactly what I wanna do. But the moment I was connecting to the idea of blogging, coaching, doing it remotely, starting my own business, like working online, the moment like that was all in play. And I decided to let myself pursue that.'cause initially I was like, ha ha, I wanna be a travel blogger. Like what a joke, LOL. But the moment I let it all be a real thing. I was like on a mission. I was like literally burnt out one week. And the next week I was like, I'm gonna stay up all night designing my blog and writing blog posts. And I was still working in the hospital at that time. But, and I like actually came completely off Adderall too, which is wild. So it's like I was on Adderall'cause I have like an A DHD diagnosis and I was still like, I was so burn out and exhausted still on Adderall. And then I like came off of it and I was like tired initially.'cause it's like during my leave of absence. But then I didn't go back on it when I went back to the hospital and I was like. Lit up and energized and I was like, oh, I didn't know I could be energized without my Adderall. So, but here I am, like writing blog posts and I just felt this like fire and this aliveness. And it's not like that all the time. Like, I mean, you still sleep, but it's almost like when you have a new crush at the beginning and, and you have this all this extra energy and you're just like. I don't know, like, what is that movie where it's like the Can't Eat, can't Sleep, reach for the Stars World Series kind of feeling. It was like that. I felt that with my purpose, it was like smitten with my purpose. Um, I had like butterflies and just like, ugh, excitement and possibility. And that's what happens when you connect to your purpose. You have more energy. You're motivated, you have this clear direction, and you're moving towards it. And so if this is where you need support, right? If you're in this place where you're, you're feeling lost, you don't really have your direction, or maybe you like have picked a direction, but there's not that like fire and aliveness inside of it, then that means connecting to your purpose is something that you need. And we do that obviously in my program, pathway to Purpose. That is like my big program where we really do this and like lock it in for you. And if you're not ready for pathway to purpose yet, then we also have the purpose prequel, which is a way for you to sample and understand how I teach purpose. It's a way for you to start getting connected to your purpose and it's something you can do on your own time, on your own terms. It's in Telegram as well, just like. The intuition kickstart, and so it's something you can just, you download the Telegram app on your phone and you just listen to these. It's almost like a private podcast feed of a ton of really good audio about purpose. And so if you're not quite sure. If you want help connecting to your purpose, like from me, then start with purpose prequel. But if you're like, no, I know, like I, I want your help. I want you to help me connect to my purpose. Then come join Pathway to Purpose, and you can jump into the next cohort. When you sign up, you'll automatically get access to Purpose prequel. So you can start binging that, and then as soon as the next cohort starts,, then you can join Pathway to Purpose.

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So if you are still waiting for clarity, still trying to force motivation or just still wondering why nothing feels right, none of the paths or the scattered ideas that you have really feel like this full, full body. Yes. It's just because you haven't connected to your purpose yet. Purpose really is the ignition. It's like this energetic shift I can see and I can feel in my clients, and it's when everything clicks, you get the direction, you get the activation, the motivation. It's like the moment you really lock into what it is you are here for, your whole system turns back on and you come alive.