A Saints Journey

Progress Is The Point, Purpose Is The Path

• KENDAWIZ

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Feeling lost is easy; staying with your purpose takes real work. We open with a gut-level check-in and move straight into what purpose actually looks like when life is messy: not a single calling, but a steady direction you choose daily. Ken shares how he’s still learning at 35, why honesty beats posturing, and how the things you think about most—plus the ways you help others—point toward the work that matters. You’ll hear the “richest graveyard” metaphor, a reminder that buried ideas are a cost none of us can afford, and a practical way to return to your core self when stress and scars crowd out your voice.

We talk about progress as fuel. Through an athlete’s lens, Ken explains why the joy is in the training, not just the win: reps build identity, and identity sustains you when doubt whispers. Expect setbacks like you expect wins; preparation turns challenges into part of the plan instead of reasons to quit. We also connect purpose to service with simple, powerful examples—a server who delivers a moment of peace, a kind word that steadies a stranger—because your skills aren’t meant to sit on a shelf. When you share them, you start a domino effect that travels further than you can see.

There’s inspiration here, but also proof: the Squid Game creator’s long road from rejection to global impact shows how loyalty to your idea can outlast a hundred closed doors. If purpose is your gold, treat it like treasure—protect it, invest in it, and put it to work. By the end, you’ll have a clear charge: believe again, choose the next small step, serve someone today, and keep going when it gets hard. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review to help more people find this message. Your next rep might be the one that changes everything.

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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of a next turn.

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Tell me what it's like and look at the flowers.

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Oh no, but I'm a bit good. I'm a kid.

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I'm a good Yo yo yo. It's your boy Ken the Whiz. Guys, we made it.

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We made it through another week, another long, extensive week. I would like to take this opportunity to remind us that there's always problems. There's always issues. And there's always ways of allowing those situations to overtake your mind and overtake your attitude towards whatever that might be. I encourage you to always stay positive, always stay active, and understand that just because things is probably not going your way right now, it will go your way eventually. And never get discouraged, things don't last forever. So here's a big cyber hug. And anybody who's listened to this podcast, which again I want to deeply thank you guys for listening and tuning in, giving me your precious time to you know unravel and dedicate your alone time. Or wherever you might be, you know, in the car, at home, or in the closet. Because we all have those moments. Um, I would like to talk about in today's episode about purpose. I think we all get the I think we all get purpose kind of confused, and I'm also talking to myself when I say this that we allow certain things in our life that dictates our choices, and those choices are either connected or not connected to what we feel our purpose is in life, and let's face it, not every day is gonna be good, peaches and roses, but we try our best to live each day with the best intentions with our purpose in mind. Now, you will ask, Ken, what does purpose mean? Well, for my time and living my thirty-five years, I don't really know fully myself. I'm being extremely transparent here when I say that purpose can be defined by whatever that you feel uh that is appropriate at the time. Uh I'm still learning that myself, you know, but here's my take that purpose can be directed towards what you want to accomplish, you know, like what is the goal or your dream that you want to fulfill, right? Or you can make it on a spiritual purpose, which is also nothing wrong with that, is but as well, you know, each one of us have to know that there's a higher calling to what we feel is, you know, like important, our morals, you know, our attitude towards things, you know, in top of your environment. Like I said, we're all still learning, and if a person says they figured it out, they're definitely a liar. I always want to be a hundred percent accurate when I say I'm still a student, and I I also don't want to, I don't know, uh, be labeled like, oh well, you know, Kenya figured it out. No, I haven't. I'm still, I'm still, I'm still a walking canvas just like the rest of you guys, but I want to be different, I want to be able to at least express this to you guys, you know, level with you, to say that again the purpose of this podcast is to allow people to understand that there are others out in this world that are just like you, and there is no way of saying that your circumstances is the only circumstances that anybody hasn't dealt with before. So, going back to the topic, the definition of purpose, in my view, will only be directed towards what you feel that you find one most gratifying, and two, the things that you think about the most. What is in your innermost heart? What is in your innermost brain? The stuff that you ponder on, the things that you feel that is somewhat beneficial to somebody else, neither be a skill, service, or just an act of love. Sometimes you might not even be good at anything, but somebody's always good at something. I've said this in my past in my past podcasts uh the richest place on earth is the graveyard. A purpless a perp perp per brain fart. A per a purposeless driven place. See, told y'all, I'm not perfect, and I'm not even gonna edit that out. That place, either they actually did what they were sent out to do, or what they felt that it was within their power to accomplish, they did, or they died without even trying, and let's take a minute to really think about that for a second. You have an individual who in all the count probably had the same amount of time that we have today. Now, whether it'd been a little bit more hostile or it would have been a little bit more peaceful, who knows. But if you really sit back and you really think about it, the time that they spent on Earth before they passed away, I can guarantee that the majority of them did not accomplish what they were sent out to do, and that's kind of a scary thing, guys. Like, we wake up every day and we feel that whatever our situation is, there's no way out, and that is crazy to really think about. I myself have those thoughts sometimes where I just sit there and I'm contemplating the the what-ifs and the what buts. Always asking myself, am I enough? Am I afraid? Am I giving excuses to the things that I feel that I can't do? And and guys, like, you know, there's this way that we forget, right? And the way I'm talking about is a is a kid-like mentality. When we were kids, guys, like for real, think about this for a second. I mean, really think about it. When we were children, most of us, anyway, so I'm not gonna speak to the majority like I know everybody's situation because everybody's situation is different, but the but most of us, we we really did not care about things. Our way of thinking was one way, right? And we was only thinking about playing, eating mud pies, playing in dirt, going bicycle riding, going skateboarding, going rollerblading or skating, just hanging out with friends, enjoying our moment, and what happened? We get out into the world, we start liking people, we start getting relationships, start making money, we start getting our identity, and I will say, from my perspective, like from my own experiences, we have been scarred in so many ways, and the thing that I feel that can be the most alarming thing is that we forget the core us, the core being of what makes us, our individuality, and the crazy thing about that also is not only do we forget, but we replace it with stress, we replace it with the people that has hurt us the most. Now we don't replace it with the good stuff, which is kind of insane. We always like forget the good things that has happened because when the bad stuff happens, it overshadows it, and so what happens? We forget our purpose, we forget the main reason of who we are. Now it's never too late, though, right? Because we still alive, we're still able to breathe, we're still able to make choices, we're still able to mess up and fix. The people who have passed away, they no longer have that choice. The events that has always happened, or that continues to happen, or that will happen, we cannot allow that to change who we are at our core. What do I mean? We have to search ourselves daily, we have to remind ourselves daily that she and he are amazing. That we're able to accomplish anything that we really do set our minds to. And and you look if you don't believe me, right? Think about the times that you was the most excited, and I mean the most excited, like there was nothing else that can deter you from that feeling, not your parents, not your friends, not even yourself, because that thought that you had that image, that feeling of excitement. Do y'all remember that? Because I can't. When I had that feeling, I remember accomplishing something that was worthwhile because I believed in my heart, core value, I believed at my core that that excitement I was going to manifest. Now, you want to know the kicker to that. When that happened, like when whatever that event happened, whatever whenever you accomplish that goal, we get that sense of accomplishment. We get that sense of wow, I really did it, and then something bad happens in the midst of us of our accomplishment, and then we start to down talk ourselves. Wow, was I not supposed to do that? Was I not meant to do that? Was there another way? Did I talk to somebody I wasn't supposed to talk to? Did I share something I wasn't supposed to share? What went wrong? And then we realize, oh well, everything that good happens, bad always follows. Everything that bad happens, good always follows. What makes things work and what makes things worthwhile is the thought process that happens after say event. What do I mean? For example, as an athlete, right, when I used to box, the greatest got the greatest gratification I've ever gotten wasn't the fact that I was actually in my match where I'm actually fighting the person, right? That gratification wasn't what excited me. What excited me the most is I can see my progression via each training regimen that I did. I felt myself getting stronger, I felt myself getting faster, and then with there, and then within that you know that time, even though I was faster and stronger, there was always that doubt, right? That lingered in the back of my mind. But see, as an athlete, any athlete, as a fighter, you fight through that. Because we know that any negative thought can deviate you from the path that you actually set yourself on. Say, accomplishments, say goals. And if I knew that I had that one negative thought, I already lost the match. So I found gratification in the progression, in my sparring, in my own elevation at that time, because the whole point of me training was for the fight that was coming, and I knew once I got to that fight, I have done everything I possibly can in the allotted time to see this goal finished. I say when I won, it was so exhilarating because I know the type of work and my mindset and my progressions that led me up to this event, that led me up to this moment. So I say to you guys, when we are in our moment, when we are in our purpose, expect the bad to happen. Because you already expect the good to happen, right? It's a counterintuitive, right? When you already know that good it will happen, you're already prepared for the bad to come. So that means you're even more prepared for the bad to come because now you're mentally ready. That is what purpose is knowing that there's gonna be something that you have to accomplish, but you find joy in the progression, you find joy in the preparation, you find joy in knowing that by each passing moment you are stronger than you was a second ago. Purpose is what's what is what allows us to be positive. Because guess what? You are yourself, there's nobody in this world who is like you. So it is your job, and it is your duty that within your God-given talents, or within your God-given rights, or within your God-given skills, that you owe it to the world to present yourself with something that can help somebody else. Because ultimately, when you have a skill, it's not meant for just you, it was never meant for just you, it's meant to be shared, it's meant to allow you to socialize with another person, it's meant for you to be stronger than that other person. Because guess what? Somebody might have the same skill you have, but you can do it better, and you can show them how to do it. Because within one skill, another person can overlap that and make that skill even better. Imagine you start a domino after a while. That one domino, the one that started it, did not know that their choices would dictate the 40 other dominoes that fell right after him. He couldn't see that far. But with one domino effect, it created a whole pattern. See, they couldn't do it individually, right? They had to do it as a collective. So your one purpose skill, your one purpose-driven event or whatever, can be that one domino effect that can affect thousands. So you're holding on to you're holding on to that purpose. I say that's very, very selfish, and you're telling yourself you can't do it. Why? Why would you do that? Why would you bring yourself down? There's there's so many other things out here in this world that could bring you down. Why yourself? Why be so hard in yourself? Purpose is meant to be hard. It's not meant to be easy. What's easy? You already have the skill, right? It's already you've already been born with it. The hard part is cultivating that skill, allowing it to work for somebody else. I worked at restaurants, I never had the restaurant skills, but I had the personality, and I was able to talk to so many people because that was something that was already in me. Right? So it was a skill that was already in me, so now I have to cultivate it with something else to make it even better, so others can partake in it. So when I go to a table and serving food, not only am I just getting their order, but I'm allowing them to laugh and I'm allowing them to woos out because they're coming to a restaurant to have a break, to have, to have a meal with their family, to be at peace. Not here just to be rude to them, because you never know another person's situation. So my job was to make sure that the little bit of time that I had with them, that it was very special and rememberable. Now, I cannot be the only one that thinks like this. There are a lot of selfish people out here that only thinks for themselves. They only look at a restaurant business as a server or you know, as a server, it's just for money. No, no, no, it's not just for money. You are giving a portion of yourself to other people, to a family. How you think we get regulars? How we think we get repeated customers is because they found someone in that place that they don't want to forget, and you became that person for them. So that was your purpose for that moment. Our purpose changes, it's not just one purpose, our purpose changes based on how we grow up. You know, we change over time, we're never the same person. But we would like to think that we are, you know, core value-wise, we're always gonna be the same. A person, to me, doesn't really change, they just adapt to the a different environment. So the only thing you can change is the things that you feel like you want to change. That just comes down to choices. So within your choices, your purpose changes as well. Because before you probably wanted to be an astronaut, but now, since you're in the world and things are too heavy for you to carry, now you just want to be a clerk at a grocery store because you felt that everything else is too hard. That you giving up on yourself, that you making excuses for yourself. And I get it, you know, like we we all have our demons that we all gotta work with. I too. But how can you allow that to stop you from being who you are, for being the person, the man and woman that you were called to be. That's a selfish mentality. You have failed yourself, you have failed your family, you have failed the future you that you have seen yourself before. There's nobody else that can that you can blame but yourself, and and again, we all try to like you know, make excuses because it's easier to deflect. It's never easy to really look at yourself and be honest, to know that the purpose that you had for yourself before has changed because of your mentality and the environment. The unrequited love that I talked to talked about in my last episode, you can also you know have unrequited love for yourself. You gave up on yourself, you don't love yourself, you cannot do that. That's a selfish way of looking at it because you can be a blessing to somebody else. That one idea that you had that was so exciting, and I know you know what I'm talking about, that one minuscule idea that you felt that won't be nothing. Do you know that most successors, and I'm if not 99.99% of them failed multiple times? The guy who created Squid Games, did you guys know that he was broke? He lived with his grandmother. He sat on that story, Squid Games, for years. After turndowns and turnarounds, shutdowns, he felt that nothing in this world would except this one little story, but he kept pushing. He sold just so he can eat, and that same laptop had his story on there, and then one day, here comes this big old nice little network called Netflix, came around because they wanted something different, they wanted something innovative, something that wasn't what they have seen up till now. So when he pitched it to Netflix, Netflix took it. Only imagining it was only gonna have this amount of views, but it wind up being the most successful show on that platform. Why am I talking about that? It's because you can have the one purpose, the one thing that you felt that nobody, and I'm talking about you have tried so many times, but that one time can make a difference if you don't give up. You're not dead yet, you still have an opportunity to fix things. So if you're sitting here listening to me right now, I implore you don't give up on yourself. Consider that purpose to be gold. And if you have gold, if you have gold in your hands, what would you want? To do with that gold, hmm? Don't you want to spend it? Don't you want to know how much it's worth? So wouldn't you do everything you can to accomplish that? So you can get that money, so you can spend it, so you can share it. Imagine that one purpose that you have that you feel that you have tried over and over and over and over again, and you had failed. That 999th time that you gave up. If you try it one more time, I guarantee you that one thousandth time it will multiply. So understand this, boys and girls, community, kin's world, patreons. This will be a turning point for you to stop what you're doing and believe in yourself, believe in your purpose, believe in the skills that you have cultivated throughout your time on earth, and believe that it can make a difference, even if it's just one person. Does it matter? Have that domino effect, have that athlete mentality. Have that go-getter, and I'm gonna make it happen no matter what. And if it fails, try it again. Because at the end of the day, who are you failing? Alright. You shouldn't be losing anything. You shouldn't even really be trying to figure things out. Just you never know. When I started this podcast, I didn't expect you know anybody to listen to me, to be honest. But people listen to me worldwide. So that lets me know something. That lets me know one, I'm on the right path to something. A Saints journey is only for people who need to listen, who needs a pick-me-up, and I don't want to be the person that holds my experiences and my knowledge only to myself because it doesn't really do me any good. Because I already know because I'm talking about it. But even though I'm talking about it, I too still struggle. So you're never alone in this fight. But I do want everybody to understand that without your purpose, you are nothing but just flesh walking around as a mindless zombie. You might as well be on the walking dead. And you might as well just go ahead and just dig yourself a grave and just lay in it. Cause without purpose, where is our individuality? So I leave you with this, guys. Never stop. Never surrender. Always accomplish and always finish. Because at the end of the day, you will feel that accomplishment. And when you look back, you will see the impact that you had on the lane. Either via people that's around you or people from afar. Alright. So this is King. This is your boy from across the pond. The big blue pond or in your neighborhood. I want you guys to understand that I love you and I appreciate you guys. Until next time.

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I'll pick you up.

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Peace. You know I'm here for you. And I'll never stop fucking through the wheel for you. I'll never stop being for you. That's just what it is for you, no matter if the lights go out. All the stars come down. I'ma always be right. I'ma always be right here. I'ma be rider.