29. TRU Awakening pt2

Our journey of self-discovery continues as I explore the broader theme of personal growth, reminding us that the pursuit of improvement is a shared endeavor. This episode's reflections highlight the importance of gradual learning and the dangers of misinformation, particularly in areas where inexperience might lead us astray. Together, let's embrace the joys and challenges of self-discovery, learning to appreciate the journey alongside the destination. 

Chapters

• 0:09 Discovering Your True Self Through Passion
• 12:27 Navigating Learning About Self-Discovery

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:09

Jason Pizzi-Frer. I'm a speaker, I'm a podcaster and my life's work is centered around allowing the world to meet the true you, by helping you think, speak and eventually live better than yesterday. We do this first by establishing a good reason why, a strong and powerful motivation to keep going when the going gets rough. Second, we need awareness and acknowledgement of what's holding us back. And third, we need scalable steps forward as a reliable bridge between who we are right now and who we need to be tomorrow and the day after that, and the day after that and the day after that. This, my friends, is how you go from stuck to thinking as, speaking as and living as the true you. Hello and welcome back to the True you Podcast. This is part two of the three, maybe four, part series or mini series called True Awakening. Now let's jump right into quote number two, because I'm going to assume I am speaking a little fast here. Assume I am speaking a little fast here, sorry, I'm going to assume that you've already listened to part one, going over quote number one, and you have the full context as to what's happening in this mini series and why it's set up the way. It is okay, so let's move on quote number two by Kristen martz. They said we lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there too. I'll read it again we lose ourselves in things we love, we find ourselves there too. Now, I think this is a wonderful quote because more often than not I see examples of people leaning to one edge of it or one end of it and not really grasping the other, and vice versa. I see people essentially discovering that they lose themselves in the things that they love and they see it as an escape, and only as an escape, and in some ways it can become a crutch. But then I also see people who see it purely as a way to discover themselves and find themselves in what they love, and they're passionate in their pursuit of only things that they outright love, they don't care to. Maybe I'm going into a bit of a different tangent, so let me let me pedal it back, backpedal it a little bit. Let's say this it's a great way to discover and raise proficiencies in as much as it is a way to discover and shore up liabilities. That's my personal take and breakdown of this quote. I'll say that again, it's a great way to discover and raise proficiencies, as in raise how good you are or your skills, in as much meaning in the same way that it is also great for discovering and shoring up or mitigating liabilities or weaknesses. So the thing you love tells you a lot about what you're good at, but it can also tell you a lot about where your blind spots may or may not be.

Speaker 1: 3:50

Passionate focus is indeed important for growth, but overindulgence is never a good thing. In the things we love, we can find ourselves per the second part of the quote. That can be passionate focus right. But the first part of the quote that can be passionate focus right, but the first part of the quote we lose ourselves and things we love. I'm sure they were talking about mainly how just time flies and disappears when we're doing something we love. But, as I mentioned earlier in my attempted explanation of it being used as a crutch, overindulgence is not a good thing.

Speaker 1: 4:27

If you are overly indulgent in, say, for example, painting, because you're an artist and it's something you love, if you overindulge, that automatically means that you are drawing from either attention, money, other resources, whatever you are drawing those resources from other things that need those resources or other areas in your life that need attention as well in order to pour into your painting or whatever it is, insert whatever creative or non-creative activity that you genuinely love and enjoy. Overindulging your time or your resources in that creates a blind spot, that creates a weakness. And if it becomes your escape from problems in your life that you don't feel prepared to face or you just don't outright don't want to face or you're running away from, that becomes an escape and a crutch. It becomes, it can even become an addiction. It can very easily become a blind spot in that if you're always chasing what you love to do, I don't think you can ever truly become financially free.

Speaker 1: 5:44

And I'm preaching to the choir right now because I'm not quite yet at a place where I am quote unquote financially free. I'm not in the worst financial situation that I've ever been in my life Absolutely not, by any means, not even close. I used to have a ton, ton more debt than I have right now, but I am in the process of clawing my way out of that and towards not just financial like security in that I have a nine to five job or something, but I want financial stability in that I get to decide how my money is spent, where it goes, and I'm not as often forced to put my money somewhere that I do not want it to go or that I do not want it to be, and that goes beyond just being an employee, and this is my, you know, exposed to the cash flow quadrant self-talking right now. That's a book that I've been reviewing recently, by Robert Kiyosaki the rich dad, poor dad, gentlemen, and so, with that being said, wait, I think I kind of lost my train of thought there, unfortunately, so let me circle back to simply addressing the quote, and then we can wrap it up with that, because I think this one will be much, much more of a short one as opposed to part one of True Awakening.

Speaker 1: 7:10

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there too. We find ourselves there too. It's a good clue to discovering who you are and how you function. When you're able to lose yourself in something completely Like, don't just run from it and be scared of it because of what I'm saying here. Overindulgence is indeed not good, but there is something to be said. When time just disappears and you are truly living your best life, doing what you love to do, it is a great clue as to what your overall purpose for life might be or what your destiny, what you are destined to do, what you are called to do might be. Please do not fall into the trap that I fell into in thinking that the first thing that I was passionate about or that I love to do excuse me, for long periods of time with no pay was my purpose or was my destiny.

Speaker 1: 8:16

It turns out that I'm a seasonal performer, in that sometimes it's my music that I'm that I lose myself in. Sometimes it's visual graphics, video production, that I lose myself in. Sometimes it's straight up video games I lose myself in. Sometimes it's physical activities or working out or going outside that I lose myself in. None of those are singularly my purpose. What that tells me, as a person that has multiple areas or multiple talents in which I can invest time, is that whatever I'm called to do in the future is going to require some semblance of competence in all of those areas.

Speaker 1: 8:56

I'm not just going to be a specialist in economy, or I'm not just going to be a specialist in psychology. I am going to be, in some way, shape or form, an all-arounder, and that means that I'm going to likely be surrounding myself with specialists that do things in one particular area much better than I ever could, and that's another lesson, by the way, for those of you that feel like you have to be an all-arounder, or that you feel that, instead of an all-arounder, you would prefer to be a specialist Be who you are. Improve in the places that you think you can, but don't fight your DNA. That's what networking and that's what relationships are for. That is, by the way, what unlocks true success in business, and that's not me speaking from experience. That's me speaking from just what I've seen and information as far as, like principles that I've read or videos that I've watched, and it's obviously worked for others, so it's something credible enough that I can speak on it.

Speaker 1: 10:04

But what truly makes you successful in business or in any sort of organization, or even like family, is being open to the fact that how you are isn't the only thing that is going to bring about success in an organization with multiple people. There has to be variety in that. You can't just have a really good accountant and that's all you focus on in business. You need somebody that's really good with customer service. You need somebody that's really good with administration. You need somebody that's really good with taxes. You need somebody that's really good with cleaning, cleanliness, all that.

Speaker 1: 10:47

So ultimately there is a boss or there is a top brass, manager or whatever, but they surround themselves with specialists and use all of that, all of this that I've just talked about, to guide you and to educate your opinion of yourself in whatever it is that you are losing yourself in lately. I hope it can be valuable to you as not an end-all, be-all rule. This isn't a rule that I'm giving you necessarily. I want this to be treated more so as a guide. That way, I'm not telling you who you are supposed to be. I'm just giving you one or two extra tools for your tool bag, for your tool belt, on your journey of compiling, crafting, on your journey of compiling, crafting, discovering and shaping and forming yourself into who you are meant to be.

Speaker 1: 11:47

Because, as per episode one or part one of True Awakening, it's not just about self-discovery, it's about self-mastery and self-control as well, in tandem or in connection with all that. Hopefully, that makes sense, and I wasn't too back and forth and back and forth. If I was, I'm sorry. That's how my brain works sometimes and I've definitely. Well, that's how my brain works all the time and, believe you me, what you've dealt with in this episode is is the short version of what I could get into, because I'm always tempted by my own thoughts to explain every single little thing.

Speaker 1: 12:27

Well-intentioned in that it's because I don't want misunderstandings to take place or to give you guys the wrong impression or to misinform you based off of my own inexperience. But ultimately it is something that I myself am learning not to overindulge in, and that means I'm going to cut the episode off here so I don't keep rambling. Okay, we're all learning, guys, and that's the fun part. We're not alone. I'm not alone, you're not alone. No one's perfect, but we are following, or at the very least I'm doing the best that I can to follow the one who is. So I hope that makes sense and I hope this has been a blessing to you again. Don't just lose yourself in things that you love. Find yourself there too, and understand yourself there too. Okay, thanks for listening.