EMPOWERING RESILIENCE with Rhonda Sciortino

I emancipated from the child welfare system at 16 with nothing.Years later, I returned to my high school reunion as a successful business owner, real estate investor, national child advocate, professional speaker, author of 15 books, founder of Successful Survivors Foundation, and a woman on a mission to help others, especially survivors of childhood trauma, find and fulfill their purpose and experience their own authentic success.What happened between those two moments matters. But the deeper story is found in the character and personality traits and survival skills that helped me create personal and professional success. Those things that you already possess can help you too.Your character, personality, values, beliefs, attitude and abilities are among the most valuable assets you can possess. They can help you build a successful life regardless of where you started or what you have endured.The best part is that they cost nothing. And you may already possess far more of them than you realize.CharacterCharacter is revealed through the choices you make, particularly when those choices are difficult, costly or unseen. The following traits contribute to success in every area of life:Honesty is telling the truth even when a lie would be easier. It is saying, “I made the mistake,” before someone else discovers it. Honesty may cost you comfort in the moment, but it earns something far more valuable: trust.Integrity is doing what is right when no one is watching and no reward is guaranteed. It is returning money when you have been overpaid or keeping a promise after it becomes inconvenient. Integrity aligns your private decisions with your public values.Courage is not the absence of fear. It is taking the next right step while fear is still present. Courage is applying for the job you don't feel qualified for, leaving a harmful relationship or speaking up when remaining silent would be safer.Perseverance is continuing after the excitement has faded and the work has become difficult. It is submitting another proposal after several rejections or returning to school after an unsuccessful semester. Perseverance understands that a setback is an event, not a verdict.Work ethic is consistently giving your best effort, whether the assignment feels important or insignificant. The employee who arrives on time, prepared, solves problems, avoids drama and conflict, and completes what needs to be done becomes someone others can depend on.Determination keeps your destination in sight even when you must change your route. When one door closes, a determined person looks for another door, builds a door or finds a completely different way forward.Resilience is the ability to recover, adapt and rebuild after hardship. Resilience does not deny pain. It refuses to allow pain to have the final word.PersonalityYour personality influences how you experience life and how others experience you. You do not need to possess every desirable personality trait. You do need to understand your natural tendencies and learn how to use them wisely.Ask the people who know you best which qualities they see in you. Their answers may reveal strengths you have overlooked.A healthy sense of humor helps you keep difficult moments in perspective. When plans fall apart, the ability to laugh at the situation — and sometimes at yourself — can release tension and help everyone begin again.Optimism is the expectation that something good can still come from an imperfect situation. An optimist who is turned down for an opportunity does not pretend the rejection feels good. Instead, that person asks, “What can I learn from this, and what opportunity might still be ahead?”Hope is closely connected to optimism, but it reaches deeper. Hope allows you to imagine a good future before you can see evidence of it. It gives you a reason to take one more step when everything in you wants to stop.An even temperament helps you respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively. When you receive a harsh email, emotional regulation is the wisdom to pause before replying. Disappointment is inevitable, but allowing disappointment to control your behavior is not.AttitudeThe importance of a positive attitude cannot be overstated. This can be difficult for people who naturally tend toward pessimism, but a positive mental attitude can be developed through intentional thought and practice.A positive attitude does not require pretending that everything is fine. It means refusing to believe that one painful moment will define your entire life.We cannot always control the first thought that enters our minds, but we can decide whether we will entertain it, challenge it or redirect it. We do not have to become prisoners of every negative thought that appears.When your mind says, “I failed, so I am a failure,” you can challenge that thought with the truth: “This attempt did not succeed, but I can learn, adjust and try again.”When you lose an opportunity, you can spend months asking, “Why did this happen to me?” Or you can ask, “What can this teach me, and what can I do next?”That shift does not change the past. It changes what the past is allowed to do to your future.Values and BeliefsYour values identify what matters most to you. Your beliefs shape what you accept as true about yourself, other people and what is possible for your future.Together, your values and beliefs create guardrails. They help you remain within the boundaries of the life you want to build and become the best version of yourself.Imagine being offered a profitable opportunity that requires you to mislead a customer. If honesty is one of your core values, the decision has already been made. Your values protect you from trading long-term peace and credibility for short-term gain.Values and beliefs also help you decide who belongs in your inner circle. A person may be charming, successful or exciting, but if that person repeatedly mocks your convictions, violates your boundaries or pressures you to compromise, closeness to that person can derail your life. That is too high a price to pay.Boundaries are not punishments. They are filters that protect what you value most.AbilitiesYour abilities include the things you have learned in classrooms, workplaces, relationships and difficult life experiences.You may have survival skills, conflict-resolution skills, communication skills, friendship skills and abilities you developed simply because life required you to figure things out. You also have natural talents that were present long before you recognized their value.Some survival responses require healing, but others can be refined into powerful abilities. A child who learned to read a room may grow into an adult with exceptional situational awareness. Someone who learned to accomplish a great deal with very little may become an unusually resourceful entrepreneur. A person who frequently helped others resolve disagreements may have the natural ability to lead, negotiate or build strong teams.You may be a gifted listener, organizer, teacher, encourager, problem-solver, storyteller or peacemaker. Because these abilities come naturally, you may assume they are ordinary. They are not. What feels effortless to you may be exactly what someone else needs.Purposeful Practice: Take Inventory of What You Already PossessCreate five headings on a piece of paper:CharacterPersonalityAttitudeValues and beliefsAbilitiesUnder each heading, list the assets you possess. Beside every asset, write one example of how you have demonstrated it.Do not merely write, “I am resilient.” Write the evidence: “I rebuilt my life after losing my job.” “I raised my children while going to school.” “I survived something that could have destroyed me, and I am still moving forward.”Then circle one asset you have not been using fully and identify one way you can put it to work this week.You may not have started life with money, connections, encouragement or opportunity. But that does not mean you started with nothing.When you recognize, develop and intentionally use the assets already within you, you can create a purposeful life and experience the five facets of real success: healthy relationships, peace, joy, wellness and the financial provision needed to do what you are uniquely qualified to do.Your past may explain where you began. It does not get to decide where you finish. Get full access to Rhonda Sciortino's Wounds to Wisdom Diary & Podcast at rhondasciortino.substack.com/subscribe

For most of my life, I held on tightly.I wanted more time. More accomplishments. To help more people. To advocate for more children. To protect more children from abuse. More security. More certainty. I wanted the people I loved to stay safe, healthy, and close. I wanted to protect them from pain, from loss, from bad decisions, and from all the things that can wound a human heart.I also cared far too much about things that, in the end, simply don't matter very much.Our culture teaches us to value beauty, popularity, money, fame, power, influence, athletic ability, success, and status. We spend extraordinary amounts of time pursuing things that disappear almost as quickly as they arrive. Scripture calls it “vanity”—a chasing after the wind.The older I get, the more clearly I see that it really is.I'm not saying those things are evil. Some can even be used for tremendous good. But they make terrible gods because they were never meant to satisfy the human soul.The only One who can do that is God.As I find myself in the fall—or perhaps even the winter—of my life, something unexpected has happened.My grip is loosening. Not because I've given up. Not because I've become discouraged. Not because I want this life to end. Quite the opposite.I'm simply beginning to see this life for what it is: a temporary assignment, not my permanent address.For those of us who belong to Christ, Heaven isn't wishful thinking. It is home.If we truly believe that Jesus conquered death, if we truly believe there is no more sorrow, no more suffering, no more tears, no more sin, and no more separation from God, why do we cling so desperately to a place that was never intended to be our forever home?Jesus never promised that this world would satisfy us. He gave Himself. He promised eternity. He promised that He was preparing a place for us. And that changes everything.Perhaps the greatest freedom for me has come in releasing the people I love.For years I carried the weight of believing that somehow their future depended on me. I prayed, worried, advised, protected, intervened, and hoped.I still pray. I still love. I still show up whenever God gives me the strength and opportunity. But I've finally realized something profoundly comforting.God has loved them longer than I have. He loves them more perfectly than I ever could. He knows every wound they've carried, every decision they'll make, every heartache they'll experience, and every opportunity they'll have to know Him more deeply.He alone has the power to walk with them every moment of their lives—including the day each of them makes the same transition every one of us will eventually make.Helping my loved ones through to the end of their lives was never my job. It was always His. Turns out, I am not Jesus Junior! There's only one savior, and I'm not Him! So I'm learning to open my hands. To love deeply without trying to control outcomes. To serve faithfully without believing everything depends on me. To trust the One whose hands are infinitely stronger than mine.I'm grateful for every sunrise God gives me.I'm grateful for every conversation, every opportunity to encourage someone, every chance to love well, to forgive quickly, to laugh, to learn, and to serve.I want to stay exactly as long as God has work for me to do. Not one day less. Not one day more. When my assignment here is complete, I won't see death as the end. I'll see it as graduation. I'll finally meet face to face the Savior I've loved but never seen. I'll discover answers to questions I've carried my whole life. I'll understand things that have puzzled me for decades. I'll see justice made perfect. I'll see love without any selfishness. I'll experience goodness without corruption.I'll finally be Home.Until then, I hope to live fully. To love extravagantly. To forgive freely. To serve faithfully. To hold this world loosely while holding Christ tightly. Because the older I become, the more convinced I am that the best is not behind us.For those who belong to Jesus… the best is yet to come.One Action: Open your hands today. Think of one person or one burden you've been gripping too tightly, and consciously place it into God's care. Pray, “Lord, they have always belonged to You. Help me trust You more than I trust myself.”One Prayer: Father, thank You for reminding me that this world is temporary and that my true home is with You. Help me live each day with purpose, love well the people You've entrusted to me, and release them into Your perfect care. Keep my eyes fixed on eternity without neglecting the work You've given me today. May I finish my race faithfully, trusting that Your plans are always better than mine. In Jesus' name, amen.One Declaration: I will live fully for Christ today, hold this world loosely, trust God completely with those I love, and look forward with hope to the eternal home He has prepared for me.This life is good. Eternity with Jesus is better♥️ Get full access to Rhonda Sciortino's Wounds to Wisdom Diary & Podcast at rhondasciortino.substack.com/subscribe

One day, a little boy became separated from his parents in a crowded store.Within minutes, he was frightened and confused.A store employee noticed him crying and knelt beside him. “What happened?” she asked.“I can't find my mom and dad,” he said.She gently asked, “What's your name?”He answered.Then she asked, “Who do you belong to?”The boy immediately said his parents' names.In that moment, something changed. He became a little more calm.He still didn't know where he was.He still didn't know how to find his parents.But he remembered who he belonged to.His circumstances hadn't changed.His identity hadn't changed either.He wasn't a lost boy.He was a cherished son who had become temporarily separated from the people who loved him.The truth about who he was had never changed. He had only forgotten it in a moment of panic.Sometimes life does the same thing to us.We spend years trying to figure out who we are.We search for identity in our accomplishments, our careers, our titles, our income, our relationships, our family background, our successes, and even our failures.Many of us also define ourselves by the painful things that have happened to us, resulting in us seeing ourselves as victims, broken or even irreparable.But while those experiences shape our perspective, they do not define our identity.The greatest danger is not that we underestimate our own power.The greatest danger is that we forget whose we are.Scripture tells us: “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are.” — 1 John 3:1Notice that John doesn't say we might become children of God. He doesn't say we must earn the title. He doesn't say it depends on our accomplishments. He says, “That is what we are.”Before you achieved anything. Before you failed at anything. Before you were praised. Before you were criticized. Before you were wounded. Before you were healed. God knew you. God loved you. God called you His.The world teaches us to build our identity on what we do.God invites us to build our identity on whose we are, and that one distinction changes everything.Because what we do can change. Titles come and go. Money comes and goes. Relationships begin and end. Health rises and falls. People's opinions of us change. But God's love does not—it never will. Trauma often distorts our identity. It whispers lies. “You are damaged.” “You are unwanted.” “You are unlovable.” “You are nothing.”God speaks the truth: “You are Mine, you are cherished, you are precious.”When we truly understand that truth, something remarkable happens. We stop living for approval. We stop trying to prove our worth. We stop measuring our value by our accomplishments. We stop allowing our wounds to tell us who we are.Instead, we begin living from the security of knowing that our value was established by God long before we ever accomplished anything.That's what happened to me. Before I knew Jesus, I thought—I knew because I was told—that I was not wanted, not loved, and shouldn't have even been born. I lived as one told those things would—trying to be unnoticed, head down, standing in the back, hiding in the shadows. Then I was introduced to Jesus. Because I didn't understand how a good God could let bad things happen to a little girl, I looked at Him as the “clockmaker God,” as someone who created the world and everything and everyone in it and then stepped back to watch the chaos that ensued without interfering. After years of reading my Bible and listening to good Bible teachers, I experienced an inexplicable, supernatural, resolution to a seemingly impossible situation—otherwise known as a miracle. (I'll tell the whole story in a different article and video.) I knew then that God was not standing back, detached and uncaring about His children.I had always been a hard worker, but after that first miracle, I raised my head and looked to God for specific direction. I quit my job, started my own business, and began to work hard to glorify God—no longer to earn my right to live, but to love God and His people. A life of miracles ensued. I went from believing that the strength we search for is not found in ourselves. It is found in the God who created us, loves us, and calls us His own.We often think our greatest problem is that we don't know who we are. But more often, the real problem is that we've forgotten whose we are.You are not your success.You are not your failures.You are not your title.You are not your income.You are not your trauma.You are not the worst thing that ever happened to you.You are not the worst thing you have ever done.Your deepest identity is this: You are a beloved child of God.And that changes everything.Reflection QuestionWhat would change in your life if you truly believed that your worth comes not from what you do, but from whose you are? Get full access to Rhonda Sciortino's Wounds to Wisdom Diary & Podcast at rhondasciortino.substack.com/subscribe

IN THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTICES CATEGORY… One of the most painful experiences of my professional life happened when I allowed comparison and jealousy to tear down my self-worth.Many of us have lost someone we loved when they left us for someone else. We've seen others get the promotion we were hoping for. For me, it happened on the day one of my favorite clients moved his business to my competitor. It might not sound terrible compared to other betrayals, but for me, one of my best clients calling to say he was leaving felt like A KNIFE IN MY HEART. I asked if I had let him down in any way.“No, never,” he said. “We love you.”Completely confused, I asked if the competition was offering better protection for the organization? Was it less expensive? Were they geographically closer? The answer was no to all of those questions.I hesitated— I genuinely did not know what to say. Finally, I asked if there was anything I could do to persuade him to stay with me and my team.That's when he told me how my competitor had successfully won my him over (and was planning to win many more).He told me that Anthony, a competitor who had only recently entered the foster care risk management space that I had devoted my life to, had written a book.“A book about what?” I asked, trying to understand how that had anything to do with my client leaving me for the competition. I assumed that he had written some clever risk management strategies specifically for foster care organizations. If that were the case, I thought, why didn't I think of that?But no.My client explained that Anthony had written about his childhood.My head started spinning.Did he have a more sympathetic story than I did? Was I supposed to be telling my own story to gain sympathy from others? I hated pity. Was pity the thing costing me this account? Then my client explained that Anthony had written about growing up in a middle-class family and not having what the other kids had. He wrote about how his family hadn't been able to afford sports uniforms.I could literally feel heat rising up in me as I listened.The people I lived with couldn't afford food (somehow they always had cigarettes and alcohol and the occasional baggie of pot or pills).As I listened, I felt my face getting red, and I thought that my hair might spontaneously combust.I had chosen to protect and defend foster care organizations because I had been one of those kids—NOT because it was an “untapped market segment that had profit potential.”I had experienced abandonment, neglect, abuse, homelessness at 8 years old, and poverty before I emancipated from the foster care system at 16. Because of what I experienced, I dedicated myself to creating the first risk management organization in the United States dedicated solely to protecting organizations that cared for abused and neglected children. I had an intimate understanding of the ways to prevent tragedy in foster care because I had been one of those children. And now my client was leaving because my competitor had written a book about not having sports uniforms? Seriously??I was overcome with what felt like a hurricane of disappointment, anger, envy and, yes, self-pity. I had worked hard for this client. I had negotiated the best coverage and premiums, and had provided risk management strategies that came from my personal understanding of why children get injured or killed in foster care. I knew intuitively about actions child welfare professionals could take to begin to heal the hearts of the children in their care to influence them to want to behave and appreciate the safe haven they'd been provided. But I wasn't able to say any of that in the moment. My client thanked me for everything I had done for his organization, wished me well, and was gone.Before I could process what had happened, I learned from other clients that my former favorite client had purchased copies of Anthony's book and was sharing them with his friends, many of whom were also my clients. He was promoting the competition!I could not sleep.I would like to say I couldn't eat either, but that isn't true. I sat on the floor of my kitchen that night crying so hard I could barely breathe while somehow managing to eat two entire packages of cookies.While I was on the floor with mascara running down my face and cookie crumbs all over me, all I could think of was my competitor who had parachuted in out of nowhere to the national child welfare scene wearing custom-made Italian suits that probably cost more than I had paid for my first car. I compared everything about my work to his, and the comparison that lead to full blown jealousy was stealing my joy, obliterating my peace, and destroying my confidence.Notice who was destroying me? It wasn't my client. And it wasn't my competition. They were at home living their lives completely oblivious to the fact that I was on the floor covered in cookie crumbs. I was the one doing the comparing that manufactured the jealousy that was killing me.That realization taught me something that changed my life.I learned that jealousy could destroying meAfter I'd had a chance to process what happened, I was able to think more clearly. More strategically. I was still angry and disappointed, but fueled by those negative emotions, I developed a plan.I realized that I needed to figure out how to communicate my story and the perspective that I brought to my clients that no one else could bring. I was going to earn my client back—and many more! My book would be so much better than Anthony's. It would be my most powerful sales tool. I WAS FIRED UP! So I sat down to write.I wrote two and a half pages before I completely ran out of things to say.I tried so hard. I even went to Barnes & Noble and bought a book about how to write a book. It did not help.I had written the chronological facts of my life, but I had no idea how to tell the story that turned my pain into my purpose and how my purpose could help others. Since then I've written 15 books, including books featured on the “Today” show, “Ellen,” and other television and radio shows, podcasts, newspapers, magazines, and blogs.What changed?I learned that I cannot write for the wrong reasons. I cannot write while driven by negative emotions. And, most importantly, I learned thatcomparison and jealousy are poison.I realized that there will always be people with a bigger house, a better car, the promotion we wanted, the beautiful relationship that appears flawless, or the life that seems easier than ours.If we spend our lives focused on what others have, we will completely miss the blessings we already have. And we can miss the good things that we are capable of doing in our future. Had I remained jealous, I would never have written the books that have positively contributed to the lives of others. Comparison and jealousy torture us because those negative emotions cause us to focus on what is missing instead of what is present. And the moment gratitude disappears, joy goes with it.Instead of obsessing over what somebody else has (or appears to have), let's look around at the blessings we already possess that millions of people around the world would give anything to have. (The most precious of those blessings have heartbeats.)There is no finish line where comparison and jealousy finally stop. If you allow yourself to live that way, you will spend your entire life chasing a moving target called “enough.” And you will never arrive.Peace, joy, and purpose begin when jealousy is replaced with gratitude.What destructive emotion will you replace? Get full access to Rhonda Sciortino's Wounds to Wisdom Diary & Podcast at rhondasciortino.substack.com/subscribe

What we say about people when they aren't there reveals a great deal about our character.We've all known people who “dish” about others who aren't in the room. Sometimes they're trying to be funny. Sometimes it's a way to fit in. Others claim they're just “venting” or “sharing.”But regardless of the justification, gossip is unfair, potentially damaging, and wrong.Gossiping says a lot about the person doing it. Why do they feel the need to tear down someone else? What's lacking in their life? What insecurities do they have that makes them feel better after they've violated a confidence or exposed the worst thing about someone else? Do they not have anything more meaningful to talk about? No interesting ideas? No good accomplishments? No issues about which they are passionate? No places they've gone, things they've learned, or books, music, and experiences worth discussing?Gossip tears people down, destroys relationships, and reveals some of the worst parts of our character.So let's define it clearly.Gossip is talking negatively about another person without that person present to defend themselves.In practical terms, gossip is deeply unfair.When we talk negatively about someone who is not present, they are not there to explain themselves, defend themselves, or give the context behind their words, attitudes, or behaviors. We do not walk in other people's shoes. We often have no idea what pain, pressure, fear, heartbreak, trauma, exhaustion, or circumstances may have influenced the way they acted.And it is not our place to judge.We can usually recognize gossip by its purpose. If the goal of the conversation is to damage the way others see someone, elevate oneself in the eyes of others, gain sympathy from the listener, or all of the above, it has crossed the line into gossip. That can cause real harm.Words are powerful. Once an opinion about someone is planted in another person's mind, it can be very difficult to undo. Reputations can be destroyed. Relationships can be damaged. Trust can be broken. Entire groups of people can turn against someone based on one side of a story.But let's also be careful not to confuse all conversation with gossip.Not every discussion about another person is wrong.If you share information because you genuinely want others to celebrate someone, support them, pray for them, help them, protect them, or better understand a situation in a healthy and constructive way, that is very different from gossip.It all comes down to our intention in sharing information.Before sharing something about another person, it's wise to pause and ask ourselves a few important questions that could prevent enormous damage:* Would I say this if they were standing beside me?* Would I want someone saying this about me?* What do I hope to accomplish by sharing this information?* Is it helpful?* Could it be hurtful?* Am I speaking from love, wisdom, and concern—or from insecurity, frustration, pride, jealousy, hurt, or a desire for attention or sympathy?If after considering all these questions, you still want to talk to someone to help process feelings or strategize about an approach or some other constructive conversation about an issue you have with someone, then do so with a trusted friend who can help. The intention here is to resolve an issue—not to throw someone under the bus.Wise people understand that protecting another person's dignity says just as much about us as anything we could ever say about them.Lastly, but certainly not the least is that the Bible tells us that gossip is one of seven things that God hates. That alone should make us stop and think carefully before we speak negatively about another person. Proverbs 6:16–19 says, “There are six things God hates, and a seventh He detests: pride, lies, murder, people who pursue wickedness, people who rush into mischief, false accusations, and those who gossip.”Has someone talked about you behind your back? Get full access to Rhonda Sciortino's Wounds to Wisdom Diary & Podcast at rhondasciortino.substack.com/subscribe

It's been awhile, and for that I apologize. This episode is about what I've been doing you're doing and what I hope you will do to be the agent of your own uplift in the pursuit of your higher calling. That's what your purpose really is--it's your higher calling. I hope you'll dial down the noise of the world around you and give yourself a mini-vacay of about 30 minutes, and listen to this and consider what you can do to come up higher, to reach for your calling, and to take a BIG STEP out into the deep where you either live your purpose or give up and flail in the waters of mediocrity. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast

This is the third in a series of questions you can ask yourself that will lead you down a path of self-exploration, the purpose of which is to discover the clues to your authentic identity and the unique purpose for your life. I encourage you to give yourself permission to take time to really contemplate these questions because your responses may uncover clues to your purpose that are waiting to be found, Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1 and www.youtube.com/@rhondasciortino. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

This is the third in a series of questions you can ask yourself that will lead you down a path of self-exploration, the purpose of which is to discover the clues to your authentic identity and the unique purpose for your life. I encourage you to give yourself permission to take time to really contemplate these questions because your responses may uncover clues to your purpose that are waiting to be found, Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For the video version, join me on www.youtube.com/@rhondasciortino Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Every day that goes by, you hear new information that forms opinions and perspectives and informs your attitude, words and actions. Think of the things that you take into your eyes and ears as lenses through which you see the world. As the days, weeks, months and years pass, you continue to take in new information which changes you and the way you see the world. You learn and grow. So, what does all this have to do with your purpose? The point is that if you asked yourself questions of this nature in the past, your answers then may be very different from your answers now. Value yourself and your purpose enough to take the time to really consider your current answers to these, and all of the other questions, in this series. Hopefully your answers will create a path that you can follow toward your unique-in-all-the-world purpose. There are people who need you and what you can do and what you know and the value you bring. They're waiting. Find Your Purpose Now To watch the video version, go to www.youtube.com/rhondasciortino or www.rhonda.org/purpose. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

It's time to revisit the things we're interested in, our opinions, judgments and about specific details about yourself. Before you swipe away thinking this isn't necessary, consider that you know more now than you ever have. You've changed. You've grown. You've learned some things you didn't know before. You've experienced some things that changed your perspective and put context around things that didn't make sense when you were the younger you. This is the first in a series of 50 questions that you can ask yourself to take inventory on the details of YOU, the more mature, adult you. If you will invest the time in yourself, you will find clues that lead you to some discoveries about yourself that will help to shine light on the path toward the purpose for your life. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Tomorrow is a brand new day, so start fresh by saying YES to opportunities to use your strengths and abilities to help others. Forget what others will think or say. Set your fears aside. Have faith in the truth that there is a good purpose for your life, a purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. You are qualified. You are equipped. You have everything you need (or access to what you will need). Run with reckless abandon toward the good purpose for your life... well, be responsible, but say YES to helping others, and let me know about the amazing things that happen in your life. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

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If you hate yourself, there are three things you can do TODAY-- First, figure out where this feeling originated. Think about where you first felt this feeling. What do you remember people saying about you or to you? Did the people who were supposed to love you fail at that? Who did something to you or failed to do something for you that left you feeling unliked, unwanted or unloved? Think about that person or people. Were they intentionally mean? Were they wounded and broken? Were they not in their right mind? Were they mentally ill or under the influence of something that impaired their thinking? Whatever it is, the problem is with them, not with you. THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM. When we're young, we have no ability to put the words and actions of others into proper context and perspective. We automatically feel that if one person doesn't like us, no one will. If someone mistreats us, we think we deserve it. If you can trace your memories back to what happened as the mature adult you are now, you can put context and perspective around your current feelings. The people who contributed to negative feelings about yourself DON'T KNOW THE REAL YOU. Even if they were there since you were born, or they're the people who brought you into the world, they don't know who you really are. They don't know all of the good that's in you. The second thing you can do is to make a list of all of those good things about you. A quick internet search of personality traits, character traits and types of intelligences will reveal a list of words that can help you describe the goodness inside of you. After you've found these words, the third thing is to think about all you've survived and the things that you've achieved or accomplished that you didn't think you could do. Give yourself credit for all you've lived through and for all that you've learned along the way. When you do all three of these things, write down the words that describe you, the things you've survived or achieved, and the things you've learned along the way. Look at all of those good things and you can see who you REALLY are. From there, you can open the door to your potential which is where you purpose lies. Hopefully you can eventually forgive those people who didn't like you. They probably didn't like themselves either. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Yep, there's no way around it--your purpose involves interacting with others. Have you noticed that it's so much easier to be kind, loving, and forgiving when no one is around?! The people in your life who are difficult aren't a hindrance to fulfilling your purpose--THEY ARE PART OF YOUR PURPOSE. They're in your life for a reason, and you're in their lives for a reason. We all want people in our life who care about us, who treat us well, who are sincerely concerned about our emotional and physical well being. If we're honest, most of us would say that the people in our lives fall short. They don't understand what we're trying to say, they get offended or hurt, they're demanding, their expectations of us are too high (don't they understand all the other things we have to do besides meet their needs?)... etc. But let's flip the script on this and consider that instead of hoping that others will be kind and loving to us we can be the ones to show kindness, love, patience, gentleness, generosity, mercy and all of the other things that we would like others to give us. When we do that, we model for others how it's done. Yes it's difficult, but by putting up with people and all their idiosyncrasies, we develop the good character traits within us, while at the same time, literally changing the atmosphere around us. Yep, dealing with difficult people with love and kindness (even if we have to do it through gritted teeth) makes us better people. If we do it long enough, we become the best version of ourselves. When we are our best possible selves, we attract good people into our lives. The irony is that even if the people to whom we show loving kindness cannot or will not be kind to us, others will come into our lives who will care about us. When we're at our best, we attract others who share the same love and kindness. In this episode of the Find Your Purpose Now Podcast we talk about shifting our mindset from expectations of others to caring for others expecting nothing in return. More irony--It's when we do this that things start changing. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

We, being created in God's image, possess an immense capacity for creativity. Creativity comes in various forms and everyone is expected to use their unique creative skills. We have a shared responsibility to create positive relationships in our families, our neighborhoods, and in our communities. We can do this through small acts of kindness and by fostering connections. This may involve standing up against inappropriate behavior in our families, workplaces and neighborhoods. We can boldly set the tone for a positive atmosphere! (Think Rosa Parks--we can do what's right regardless of the bullies who behave otherwise!) Too many people leave their Christian faith each year. Instead of Christians influencing the culture, the culture is influencing us. Small compromises in behavior, such as engaging in inappropriate humor, watching explicit content, or listening to certain music, can slowly change a person's values and beliefs, leading to a departure from those values and the faith from which they emanate. It's incumbent upon each of us to live our faith and to share its benefits, even amidst challenges. We need not impose our faith on anyone but we should instead demonstrate it through love and good deeds. A person, a neighborhood, a workplace or a community that is characterized by faith and love is attractive and inspiring to others. Our purpose is found in our creative ability to influence the people around us in a positive, helpful way. To do this, it's helpful to find purpose and service in one's work, rather than viewing work as a necessary drudgery. Consider how your work benefits others, rather than focusing on your own personal gain. Think of ways to help the most vulnerable in your community. For example, collecting sweaters, coats, and blankets for the homeless, or asking for volunteers to join existing community projects. Check to see what opportunities to serve already exist in your area, but you don't have to wait for someone else to come up with an idea. You can take the initiative to serve. Helping others can be life-changing for the people you help AND FOR YOU! It can lead to unexpected friendships and enriching experiences. It's not always easy, and it's possible that we'll face obstacles but our perseverance in doing good will pay off! The importance of creative expression of love can provide a stable sense of worth that cannot be taken away. If you will adopt a mindset of putting your love into action, especially with people who cannot reciprocate, you will be influencing the culture for good. You don't have to be a Christian to do this, but Christians are supposed to be known for our love and kindness. Let's influence the culture rather than confirming to it by withholding our charitable actions from those who need them most. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

In this episode of the Find Your Purpose Now Podcast, our guest Michelle Glogovac, shares how she found her purpose when she was faced with unemployment. Her life is so much more joyful now than before the adversity she experienced. Michelle created a lucrative business around what she loves doing, so every day is filled with the things that make her smile. Michelle gives her best advice on how to figure out how to find your purpose and how to make it work financially for you. Michelle Glogovic is the founder of the MLG Collective, which is a podcast PR business that helps people create and grow their podcasts to get their messages out to their audiences. She is also the host of her own podcast called, My Simplified Life. You can learn about Michelle and her awesome purpose at themlgcollective.com. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

In this week's episode of the Find Your Purpose Now podcast, I share my story of going from homeless to home owner, from foster care to business owner, from being depressed to joyful, chaotic to peace-filled, from alone to loved by a beautiful group of family, friends and colleagues, and from being raised by atheists to being adopted by a loving God who has made miraculous arrangements for my life. I decided to share my story here as an example of what God can do. What happened in my life is not a result of my brilliance, talent or luck. It has everything to do with God's purpose for my life, the purpose for which He created and perfectly qualified me to be able to fulfill. All I did was say YES to God. I showed up and did my best, and God somehow, despite all my faults and failings, worked it all together for good. As of a result of the businesses that God led me to start, Human Services Insurance and Child Welfare Insurance Services, millions of dollars were put back into the budgets of private, non profit child welfare organizations throughout the United States. Those are dollars that were spent on kids instead of on insurance policies. We improved insurance coverage, and we defended the good people and organizations that care for children who have been abused. But most importantly, we analyzed the ways that kids get injured or killed in foster care, and we used that information to create risk management training programs that kept kids and their caregivers safer. I didn't have the pedigree or education to make all this happen. It happened because God arranged for me to experience childhood trauma, including a time of homelessness as a result of an uninsured fire. When I was 15 and was hired by an insurance agent, I couldn't believe there was such a thing as insurance that would have kept us from living in the park, eating out of trash cans, and wearing the same dirty, worn out clothes day after day for months. I became passionate about insurance. And when I found out that child welfare organizations were required to carry insurance and were often miscategorized and overcharged, my personal experience and my passion intersected, the result of which was God's life assignment for that season of my life. God didn't cause the hardships I experienced. Human beings did that. But God saw me through, and He worked every bit of it together for good. Homelessness taught me gratitude for hot running water and everything else we tend to take for granted. Abandonment by my parents taught me to be independent. Poverty taught me to handle money wisely. Abuse gave me a burning desire to protect vulnerable children. The miracles I saw as I navigated through the hardships of my life gave me faith in my Savior Jesus who will never leave nor forsake me. There's so much more but you get the picture. God can take everything you've experienced and use it for His good purpose for your life. Your part is to say YES, show up, do your best, and trust Him to do the rest. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

There are seven basic human emotions that we all experience at some point in our lives. Some are not much more than a bump in the road, but others can distract us or deter us from finding and fulfilling the purpose for our life. The degree to which we live out our purpose determines the degree of peace and joy and wellness we enjoy in our lives. So it's critical to identify these 7 wounds and have a strategy for countering them when they show up in our lives. The seven basic human wounds are: REJECTION—feeling unloved and unwanted SHAME—believing there's something bad about you HOPELESSNESS—feeling like nothing will get better ABANDONMENT—a sense of being unseen and alone FEAR—leads to self protection and distrust POWERLESSNESS—feeling trapped and vulnerable CONFUSION—can't make sense of things or have trouble figuring things out Any one of these can trip us up, but if we know how to counter these 7 wounds, we can find and live our purpose. In fact, when we go through the process of healing these basic wounds, we can emerge from the process stronger and wiser than before the pain. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Most of us are walking around feeling like we're not good enough. If only we were better (cuter, smarter, more talented, more educated, in better shape, blahblahblah), we'd be loved, we'd be accepted, we'd be valued, and we'd be happy. Social media posts tell us we're enough, but we don't believe it. Why? Because we depend too much on the acceptance and love of others. We get our self-esteem from others. So if they like us, we're good. If they don't like us, we're not. If our boss tells us we're doing a great job we are OK. When we make a mistake, we feel like losers. But do our mistakes define us? Are we really only as good as our worst day? The answer is a definitive NO. Your true identity is awesome. You are enough and you do matter but you're never going to believe it until you take a good look at who you are and embrace yourself flaws and all. When you embrace YOU, everything changes. When you do that, your purpose will open up to you. When you decide to BE YOU and let people who don't like the real you fall away, you make room for the people who will think you're awesome to come into your life. And that's when life gets really good! In this Find Your Purpose Now podcast we're talking about being you, embracing the real YOU, and what that means to your future. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose.  So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

In this episode of the Find Your Purpose Now podcast, we talk about the distractions to fulfilling our purpose and what you can do to eliminate them--self-care being the first! How long can we sit quietly with God and listen really listen for his direction and leading? How many times in say a 30 minute would you pick up your phone to check for texts emails calls or would you even have it on silent and just be continually interrupted? If you had Jesus in front of you in a meeting, would you keep your phone on? Would you pick it up while He's talking to you just in case you might have a text from a bigger name? I am not anti-technology. I'm probably as addicted to it as the next person, but I am trying to be aware of the capability of technology to distract us into oblivion so that at the end of our lives, we look around and wonder where the time went and what we really accomplished. It's sad to get to the end of life and not have the sweet feeling of accomplishment and contentedness that comes only with the fulfillment of one's purpose. We can only know that feeling for sure if we've spent time really listening to God direction. It is said that there are one hundred billion stars in the universe and multiple universes, yet the Bible tells us that God names the stars. How can He be so vast and yet so intimate, knowing every tear we've cried. To get to know anyone, we must spend time with them. Carve out some time to disconnect from technology and spend time with God. When you do, you'll hear from Him about ideas, thoughts, suggestions etc that move you into the beautiful plan He created just for YOU. Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose.  So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

You have a great deal of power. Think about it. You have the power to see, to think, to communicate, to choose, and so much more. But as much power as you have, it's insignificant compared to the power you gain access to when you cooperate and collaborate with the Creator of the Universe, God, and His only Son, Jesus. (Don't roll your eyes.) Until you've suspended disbelief and really tried working with God on His perfect plan for your life, you haven't lived! In this episode of the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast, we're talking about the power of God to change your life. We never have to beg God to help us do what He created us to do! Your purpose is His plan. He created you with exactly the character traits, talents, abilities and everything else that you would need to fulfill the plans He created for you. (Check out Ephesians 2:10--YOU are His masterpiece!) When you connect with God and His power, you do what you can and He does the rest to fulfill your purpose. It's the best possible partnership. He's the best business consultant, coach, mentor, leader, CEO and everything else you could possibly need for your purpose, your peace and your joy. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose.  So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.     If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

YOU, yes you, are on a mission from God. We all are. You might have one mission throughout your life, or you might have many, varied missions throughout your life. Your mission is time-sensitive. There is a deadline. If you don't do it, it won't get done. Do you know what it is? If not, do you know how to figure it out? Almost every mission involves addressing a challenge or solving a problem. So look around and determine what the problems are. Your mission may involve an innovation or invention that helps someone else in particular or is very broad in scope that serves the greater good. In this episode we talk about identifying the challenge or problem that you are uniquely equipped to address, studying the issues, communicating your thoughts on the issue to others, building a team of collaborators who want to help, brainstorming possible solutions, finding funding (if necessary), launching a test run to see how well your ideas work, and then measuring effectiveness and making necessary adjustments. When you know your mission from God, you develop a sense of urgency powered by passion. You can do this! There has never been another time in human history when this has been easier. Technology makes it possible to build a team of people all over the world, gather information from people who understand what you hope to do, solicit help, measure effectiveness, etc. YOU CAN COMPLETE YOUR MISSION FROM GOD. You're made for it! In fact, with God on your side, you can't lose! Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠ For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Let's talk about YOUR POTENTIAL to fully self-actualize, meaning, let's explore your unrealized potential to be all you can be and to do all you were born to do. Each of us has untapped potential. We literally cannot know what our potential is until we begin to try to access it. In this episode we're talking about taking care of our basic needs while moving forward with exploring our potential. Taking the time to consider our potential and taking the steps to learn what we're really capable of is one of the most significant things we can do with our lives. If we fail to do this, we can live out our lives with a vague sense that something is missing. We feel that because until we know and actualize our potential, something IS missing. Most people spend more time planning a vacation than they do planning to find out what they're truly capable of doing and becoming. Don't be like them. Take this step. You won't regret it. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose.  So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

So how in the world are you supposed to find your purpose when you're stuck in a job you hate or in a relationship with someone who's not supportive, or in any of the other hard places we find ourselves? In today's episode of FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast, we talk about finding our purpose in EVERYTHING we do and in every aspect of our lives. It's in the difficult, even dead-end-feeling situations that we learn the lessons and acquire the character traits and abilities that we will need for the next chapter of our lives. When we focus on the details of everything that frustrates us, we have small perspective and small power, but when we back up and look at the bigger picture and find meaning in the work we're doing or in our relationships, we gain a larger perspective which is accompanied by more power. Perhaps the most important aspect of this conversation is that when we say to God, "Your will be done," we can be assured that every situation we find ourselves in can move us closer to our purpose. Pause and think about that for a moment. When you embrace where you are, try to make the best of it, find meaning in it, and learn all you can from it, God will move you through it and on to the next step on the path towards fulfillment of your purpose. This is true even for the most difficult situations. Even those things that are consequences of our own questionable choices can be worked together for our good so that they become stepping stones to His perfect plans for our lives. Whatever work we do gives us dignity. If we will find the meaning in everything we do, we can enjoy even the difficult aspects of our lives--we can laugh without fear of the future! Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose.  So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠  For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Marcy Weinstein has represented more sales volume and set more sales records than all other real estate agents in the history of Newport Coast in Southern California. Her clients and friends include some of the best known celebrities in the world. She's a joyful, fun, powerhouse, so much so that you would never know that she's intimately acquainted with pain. In high school, Marcy's civics teacher, convinced her to enter the Miss San Marcos pageant because it led to a seat on the city council. Marcy wanted to do what she could to improve her community, so she signed up. She won that contest and was automatically entered into the Miss California Universe pageant. Her father was in the military and her mother was a homemaker, so they didn't have money for a fancy dress. Marcy's mother had taught her to sew, so Marcy set out to make her dress from a design she created. Her very unique dress hung from her neck suspended by her grandmother's pearl necklace. One of the judges of the pageant happened to be the world famous winner of eight Academy Awards for Costume Design, Edith Head. Ms. Head approached Marcy to ask who had made her dress. When Marcy told the famous designer that she did it herself without a pattern, Ms. Head saw to it that Marcy enhanced her natural talent through an education at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. Marcy carved her niche in the garment business and then used her talent to pivot to design large luxury office projects. She traveled the world overseeing her projects, when one day there was a horrific fire that covered almost 60% of her body with 2nd and 3rd degree burns. While in the hospital still wondering if she would survive, her fiancé told her that no one would be able to take care of her or love her. Marcy's reply spoke volumes about who she is. While trying to breathe, not knowing if she'd live or be able to walk again or live a normal life, Marcy said, "Well, God and I both love me, and I see how beautiful I am, and I can take care of myself." In this episode of the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW podcast, Marcy Weinstein shares her best advice, the values she's passed on to her children, and a powerful thing that you can do with the people you love empower them to be themselves and to know their value. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠ For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Adam Tallamy, a purpose coach and teacher in London, gave up everything to follow his dream of helping people to not just find their purpose, but to live it. In this episode of FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW, Adam shares that many people who figure out their purpose are held back from moving forward in living it because of fear. Adam shares a powerful tool for overcoming the fear that can hold us back and destroy our purpose. (DON'T MISS THIS TOOL! And please share it with anyone you know who is held back by fear. Fear can be overcome!) Adam also makes a terrific FREE offer for YOU! To connect with Adam visit his website, ⁠www.adamtallamy.com⁠, or find him on Instagram here ⁠www.instagram.com/adam.tallamy/⁠ Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠ For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Today I'm talking to Adam Tallamy, a purpose coach and teacher in London who gave up everything to follow his dream of helping people find their purpose. Adam shares what it was like for him when he gave up everything follow his intuition. It was hard, but he says it was necessary. Now when he coaches and teaches others, he's doing so out of his own lived experience. In part 1 of our interview Adam talks about his experience of helping people find their purpose being easy, but the hard part being actually taking the leap of faith to live it, and how he helps people do that. To connect with Adam visit his website, www.adamtallamy.com, or find him on Instagram here www.instagram.com/adam.tallamy/ Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things.  Your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠.⁠ For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

We become like the people with whom we spend time. Think about the people who go out and get the newest haircut, the skinny jeans, the blue hair, the nose piercing, the tribal tattoo, or whatever other thing that happens to be "in" at that moment. And what about the people who go into debt to buy the Rolex watch, the Louis Vuitton handbag, the Christian Loubitan shoes or the Mercedes Benz? It's usually not that we consciously decide to be like someone else, but these types of things are often influenced by what the people around us are doing. "Everybody" wears skinny jeans, so we run out and buy skinny jeans --even those of us who have no business wearing skinny jeans. "All" of our friends drive Teslas so we long for the day when we too can buy one. And on and on it goes. But if we weren't around those people, would we really want those things? Would we wear those clothes? Would we run out and get that new hairstyle? Our adaptation to the people around us doesn't end there. Many people tend to adopt the values and beliefs of the people who influence them. Your boss is Muslim so you begin to read the Quran. You go to your neighbor's "Crystal Party" where someone is going to tell everyone their future. Your co-worker rants about the politician he personally can't stand to the point that you begin to think he may be right. Of course we want to be interested in the lives of others, but how many of us, over time, begin to adapt to the people around us? If you conform to others to the detriment of your authentic identity, you will miss your purpose, and those who need the influence and inspiration of the authentic YOU will miss out. Instead of adapting to the point of conforming to others, let's do these things: Know who you are and what you stand for. Have a solid understanding of your values and beliefs (so that you don't sway with the wind). Intentionally choose your mentors--good people who hold the values and beliefs that are important to you and who exemplify the character traits you want to have. If you will be the best example of your authentic self to everyone within your influence, you will be the light that shines brightly showing the way to others. When you have the courage to be your authentic self without being an inferior imitation of someone else, you will have the courage to step out and live your purpose. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

We want the people in our lives to be moral, ethical, kind and loving. We don't love it when people are immoral, unethical, unkind and hateful. In our culture these values are typically referred to as "Christian values." (To be accurate, these values are Judeo-Christian values.) When people say that they espouse "Christian values," they're saying that they are moral, ethical people. So what's wrong with that? Aren't these values a good thing? Of course, these values are good, and we want to aspire to live up to these values. But let's be clear. There is an enormous distinction between Christian values and being a Christian. Christians have access to the power of God, the Creator of the Universe. This cannot be underestimated. God's power is alive and real. People who live with Christian values but who are not Christian do not have access to God's power, wisdom, patience, peace, joy and all of the other aspects of His character that is made present in the person of Jesus Christ, His only son. They are never able to fully plug their "natural" into God's "supernatural" for the maximum fulfillment of God's plans for their lives. They may have a moral compass, but it may not be pointing "true north." Let's talk for a minute about people who profess to be Christian who don't conduct themselves morally, ethically, etc. Of course, no one is perfect. We all make mistakes, but we've all known people who check the box as Christian or who wear a cross around their necks who act like jerks. Just to be clear, these people aren't doing Christianity right. Let's not get confused about this. True Christ followers can be identified by the good things in their lives, which just so happen to be the same measurements of fulfillment of one's purpose. They are healthy relationships, peace, joy, contentedness and financial provision. True Christians do their best to love God and love others. The best way to do this is to actively seek and follow the leading of God's Holy Spirit every day. THIS IS THE ONLY shortcut to finding and fulfilling God's perfect purpose and plans for you. If you aren't a Christian, give Jesus a chance. Suspend your disbelief or doubt and choose to believe, give Him a fair shot at directing you to the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched, and then watch what happens. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.    Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

There are five ways that we can know when we're really living in our purpose. Every one of these measurements will have an ebb and flow throughout our life. What we want to aim for is a balance of all five of these indicators. When one of them is out of whack, it's a really good sign that a course correction has to be made to get yourself back on track. So what are these indicators? 1. Healthy relationships with good people. We're dealing with human beings here so don't expect perfection. Every relationship has its ups and downs, but healthy relationships are a good indicator that we're on the right track. 2. Peace. This doesn't mean that there is no chaos or dysfunction in our lives. It simply means that we have peace within, even in the midst of chaos or dysfunction. Part of our purpose can be bringing peace to dysfunctional and chaotic people and circumstances. 3. Joy. Joy is internal. Happiness is largely controlled by external circumstances, so let's not confuse happiness with joy. Happiness is great, but joy is sustainable, so shoot for a smile even in the midst of a mess. 4. Wellness. When you're in your purpose, you will feel a sense of wellness, like all is well with your soul. You won't feel dissatisfaction, angst or anxiety. 5. Financial stability. When you have what you need to live your purpose, you've got it made. When you don't, it's time to make a change of either your goals or your source of income. Take a measurement of your life at least twice a year. Some people do it much more frequently. When you do this, ask yourself honestly if what you're doing, the ways you spend the finite days of your life, are giving you a healthy measure of each of the five indicators above. These are the five points of real success, of true prosperity that are available to each of us. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  ⁠www.rhonda.org/connect⁠. For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Have you ever known anyone who seemed to have a "cake and ice cream life," where the worst thing that ever happened to them was getting their hair wet as they walked from the car to the department store? Ya, we've all known someone who seems to have a much better life than we do. They have more money, take better vacations, have "better" families, blahblahblah. Meantime, we're on what seems to be a never-ending roller coaster of one hard thing after the next. It's so easy to find ourselves envying the life assignments and purposes of others when theirs seems so easy and ours seem so hard. We think, "IT'S NOT FAIR!" And the truth is that it's not fair. We're all as different as our fingerprints, with different purposes for which we were created and perfectly matched. If you happen to be someone who's going through a hard thing now, or you're someone who has a hard life all the time (not just going through a rough patch), this episode is for you. As hard as it is, you can embrace your purpose, trust God to get you through every minute of every day, and experience the peace, joy, healthy relationships, wellness and financial stability that accompany even the hardest of life assignments. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or a message at  www.rhonda.org/connect. For other PURPOSE resources go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

When we spend the finite time of our lives angry, hurt, or offended, we're missing windows of opportunity that we could be living our purpose and loving our life. When you have the opportunity to take offense, DON'T DO IT. Every minute you spend with feelings of negativity is a minute that you are not living your purpose. You can never get those minutes back. We each get 1,440 minutes every day. When they're gone, they're gone forever. So instead of squandering time, let's invest it! When you invest time in helping someone else, you move into your purpose, you make someone else feel better, and you make yourself feel better. This is a much better, higher way to live than in the gutter of negative emotions. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.    If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.   If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.   #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess #succeed #success #live #love #thrive #happiness #peace #joy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

You may not feel like a genius, but there is a genius within you. Your genius is your "secret sauce" that equips you to do things that you never went to school to learn. This is the combination of things that adds "super" to your "natural that equips you to live your best life, at your highest level, and fulfill your unique purpose. When you tap into your genius, you know it because you can feel it. You feel good when you are using your genius. Other people can see it too. But your genius can lie dormant your entire life if you don't intentionally look for it and access it, and then utilize it regularly. In this episode we talk about how to find it and tap into it. Do this work because it can change your life like no other step of the process can. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.   If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on ⁠YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

For most of us, finding and living our purpose is a process that happens over time. Very few of us know exactly what we were born to do and do that to the exclusion of all else. Most of us sort of wander through life in the job that we were hired for, with the friends we randomly met, living in the place that was affordable, none of it the result of our deliberate choices. Of course, none of that is wrong. But without deliberate effort, we may spend our whole lives wandering around without purpose. According to our guest, Bret Magpiong, author of the book, The Delta Theorem, an innovative framework for becoming fully alive and truly wealthy, this linear approach to finding and living your purpose leads you to feeling fully alive and having everything you need. The Delta Theorem is a logical method of navigating the life-changing work of identifying your unique purpose. It's about identifying your "why", your priorities, your principles (what you stand for), your passions (the desires of your heart), doing something to act on the place where all of those things overlap, and learning from your failures. All of this leads to "Delta," which Bret defines as having an impact and making a difference in the world, ultimately giving our life meaning. Bret says that The Delta Theorem results in what he calls "true wealth" which he defines as relational, temporal/time, physical and financial. If you'd like to learn more about Bret Magpiong or The Delta Theorem, go to www.connecwithbret.com. Living your purpose every day for the rest of your life is your antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.   If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Many of us think we're too old to find and live our purpose because we took a wrong turn. We did too much wrong. We made too many mistakes. We missed the "right" path toward our purpose, and now we're just stuck with this life that's less than what we could have had. If that's you, I want to respectfully tell you that this is wrong thinking! You are still breathing, so you're till in the game of life. As long as you're alive, there is a good purpose for your life. It doesn't matter what did or didn't happen before, what choices you made or failed to make that set the trajectory of your life in the direction of where you are now. What matters is TODAY and the opportunity that is before you to live your best life from this day forward. You have more wisdom and perspective than you've ever had before. In this episode we talk about how instead of dreading your birthday, you can see it as an opportunity to evaluate where you are and where you want to be. You can rearrange your life so that the best is truly yet to come. What more important thing do you have to do? LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.   If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

What's God got to do with it? You can live out some of your purpose without God because you can use your talents, personality, character traits, etc., all of which are there specifically to equip you and qualify you to live your purpose. But when you cooperate with God (the one who planted all those good things in you), you are choosing to add "super" to your "natural" which empowers you to do more than you ever could on your own. In this episode we talk about the 5 reasons we need God to truly fulfill the good plans and purpose for our lives. Our identity is God-authored. The unique-in-all-the-world-for-all-time identity that you have is not random. You are not an accident. You are not merely a product of biology. Everything about you was intentional and deliberate. No mistakes were made. The paths toward the purpose of our lives were carved out and set before us along with the free will that allowed us to choose the paths we wanted to take. Our family, neighbors, friends, teachers, and every other influence were part of the plan for the formation of our perspective, worldview, values and beliefs. The people who have hurt us exercised their own free will to do that. The harm didn't come from God, but we need God for the fulfillment of our purpose because He specializes in working all things (including the most painful things) together for our good. We get the choice to cooperate and collaborate with Him to mine the lessons out of the painful events of our lives and then to allow those lessons to qualify us to do what we were born and equipped to do. There is a limit to how far we can go without faith in God. It is inevitable that we will hit obstacles that we can't blast through or go over, under or around on our own. That's when our faith comes in. God will not intervene without our permission. We give Him permission to do amazing things in our lives when we decide to suspend our doubt and disbelief, and humbly ask for help. We cannot FULLY accomplish God's plan without his intervention. He can open doors that no man can open. Conversely, He can close doors to keep us from walking down paths that would distract us and diminish the fulfillment of the good plans and purpose for our lives. He will only do these things for those of us who will trade our free will for His will and His purpose.  The whole point of this is to say that God's plan is better than anything we can come up with! He knows better than we do what we were born and perfectly equipped to do. Suspend your doubt and give God a chance to point you in the direction of His beautiful plans and purpose for your life. LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.   If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠.   Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1.  If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

How do you feel? Are you exhausted? Or are you energized? Do you feel empty? Or do you feel exhilarated? Do you feel like you can't take it another day? Or do you feel like you can't wait to get back to it? Do you feel alone? Misunderstood? Left out? Or do you feel seen, heard, and understood by people who truly "get you?" Checking in with yourself to see how you're feeling about your job, your relationships, your circumstances, and your life can help you figure out what's working and what's not on your journey toward fulfillment, peace, joy, healthy relationships, wellness and financial provision--all the things that accompany living your purpose. It's important to do the work of gathering and analyzing your data in as objective a way as possible. It can be especially challenging because you're dealing with feeeeeeeelinnnnnngs, and feelings are fickle. You can feel pretty good one minute, and get one call or text and feel entirely different the next minute. In this episode we talk about the importance of gathering your data and then figuring out what it means to you on your journey toward fulfillment. For example, if you feel exhausted, take note of that. If you feel misunderstood, take note of that. If you feel like you're in a situation where you don't belong, take note. These are all data points. Once you've considered your feelings with various people and situations, think about each of those feelings and try to discern what the data is telling you. For example, if you're feeling exhausted, drill down on that and ask yourself if you feel exhausted and depleted or empty, or if you feel exhausted but exhilarated and fulfilled. There's an important distinction between these two feelings. Exhausted and empty is a pretty good indicator that whatever is wearing you out is outside of your purpose. On the other hand, if you're exhausted yet feel exhilarated or excited to get back to it next time or feel a sense of fulfillment for having made the effort, then those are a pretty good indicators that what has exhausted you is in your wheelhouse and part of your purpose. If your feelings don't lead you to clear discernment, ask yourself (and ask God to help you figure out), "What am I supposed to learn here? What's the lesson?" Then be still and quiet thereby making space for the thoughts and ideas to come to mind. Some situations are helped greatly by finding your people and asking them to help you navigate through this data gathering and collection work. A good friend may see through something that is a blindspot for you. If you haven't already, find your people and do this together. LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠.  Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please send a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Have you ever had the experience of someone's face lighting up when you walked into a room? When you were little, did anyone's face totally light up into the biggest smile when you walked in? Or have you had the experience of walking into a room to meet angry, frustrated or disgusted expressions? We get our self-esteem from the expressions of the people we care about or those who are in authority over us. Those of us who have felt that horrible feeling of others being disappointed, angry or disgusted with us know how awful it feels. Regardless of whether or not anyone has ever delighted in you, YOU can be the one who delights in others. If you will do this one thing, it can change your life and the lives of others. But what if someone you care about walks in when you're in the midst of something that is completely frustrating, anger-inducing or disappointing? Whatever negative expression and emotion is on your face in that moment is going to splash up on anyone who is nearby. But it doesn't have to... You can learn to control your emotions by learning to change the channel on your mind so that you can delight in whoever is near you even in times of the worst anger. Learning to control your emotions is an incredibly valuable tool because it only takes a moment to allow anger, frustration, sadness, depression, anxiety, worry or any other negative emotion to derail your purpose train. In this episode we talk about taking control of your thoughts and emotions by changing the channel of your mind. Unless you control your emotions, you run the risk of missing entirely the remarkable purpose for your life. That's where your happiness will be found. Don't miss it. Don't sabotage it with negative emotions. LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠⁠⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠⁠⁠ and on YouTube ⁠⁠@rhondasciortino⁠⁠.  Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders... the list of the things that diminish our sense of wellness, goes on and on. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America estimates that 264 million people struggle with depression and that 40 million people struggle with anxiety. If you deal with these things, you're not alone. Mental illness has a deleterious affect on our peace and joy, two of the most beautiful benefits of living our purpose. We can safely conclude, then, that mental illness diminishes the fulfillment of our purpose and literally steals our joy. In this episode, I talk about these important points: Mental illness can affect any of us. It can be triggered by trauma, illness, genetics or a variety of reasons. DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE WHO DEAL WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. There is no stigma around heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or flu, etc., and there shouldn't be stigma around mental illness either. Shame and stigma is why many people don't seek the help they need. Show kindness and love to people who are struggling with mental (or any other kind of) illness. This is how each of us can help eliminate the stigma and feelings of shame that often accompany mental illness. We live in a broken world and evil is real [explicit comment warning in this section]. I share some personal, heart-wrenching experience with navigating serious mental illness in the lives of people I love. THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO TO ACTIVELY FIGHT MENTAL ILLNESS. I talk about some of these things. If you or someone you care about is living with mental illness, SEEK HELP. Many mental health services are available now online or via text. Call 2-1-1 or go to https://www.211.org/ to find nearby help. I talk about what the Bible says about mental illness--you may be surprised to learn that the Bible talks about it! Love helps to heal broken hearts, wounded souls, and brains that aren't firing properly. So let's turn to God and his Love, love ourselves and love others as best we can. It's in our efforts to show love in our own unique ways that we often discover our purpose. LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at ⁠www.findyourpurposenow.org⁠ and on YouTube @rhondasciortino.  Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Our guest today, Elizabeth Rosenberg, CEO of The Good Advice Company, shares three specific, actionable ways to find ways to do what you love to do, utilize your strengths, and make an impact in the world, which she interprets as living your purpose. Elizabeth's 3 pieces of advice are: Figure out what you are passionate about that brings you joy. Figure out what you can do that makes you money that incorporates what brings you joy. Figure out what you can do that makes a positive impact in the the lives of others. Elizabeth suggests that the first step to finding and living our purpose is finding the people who like the authentic version of us because they can help us navigate the steps toward finding and living our purpose. Life is far easier when we are the most authentic version of ourselves. This is not to be mistaken with the best version of ourselves. The authentic version is flawed. It's when we put down the mask and we're not working hard to be the person who is perfect and likable. We have to give ourselves mercy and accept ourselves as we are. When we do that, the people who accept our authentic version will still be with us. The people who do not, will fall away, and that's OK. More priceless tips from Elizabeth are think of ourselves in terms of who we are rather than what we do think about the legacy we want to leave when we're gone (not the STUFF we've acquired, but what we want people to remember about us like our kindness, love, or whatever else we want people to associate with our memory). community is everywhere, and it's important that we find it. learn from our failures. remember that everyone is going through something it's not all about you LIVING YOUR PURPOSE is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things. Living your purpose is real success, and it includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  If you haven't already done so, PLEASE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND SHARE wherever you get your podcasts, at www.findyourpurposenow.org and on YouTube @rhondasciortino.  Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Think about your childhood, your teenage years, and all the years up until today. What are the moments that stand out? What did you accomplish that you didn't think you could? What did you do that came easily to you? What did you celebrate? What did you overhear that you wish you hadn't? What did you go through that you would have done anything to prevent? As those things come to mind, think about what you learned about yourself, about others, and about how the world works from each of those experiences. The experiences that stand out to us have influenced us in some way. They can inform the way we think and feel. They can give us confidence for our future or they may make us fearful of what is yet to come. Perhaps those things that come to mind now do so because you're better equipped to deal with them now than ever before. The point of all this is to peel back the layers of the onion and learn more about yourself. When we gain a deeper, fuller understanding of who we are as a result of all we've heard, seen and experienced, we learn about our true identity and become more comfortable in who we really are. We don't have to exaggerate or lie to make ourselves seem better than we are. We don't need surgery to be different. We don't need to strive to be something else. When we embrace our authentic identity, our purpose will become apparent because we'll be ready. Although all we've learned and become through the experiences of our lives has been there all along, it's not until we discover and embrace the ways we've been influenced and changed that we begin to understand and appreciate ourselves. It's at this point that we no longer envy others. We can be happy for others while embracing our own unique and precious purpose. That's when life gets fun and divinely rewarding! The antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is LIVING YOUR PURPOSE and enjoying the real success that accompanies it. That real success includes healthy relationships with good people, peace, joy, wellness, financial stability and a sense of contentedness that cannot be attained any way other than through living your purpose. So please listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE on YouTube @rhondasciortino ⁠⁠ and wherever you get your podcasts and get the clues to YOUR PURPOSE. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please join the conversation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.#purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

We are all influenced by the people around us. They evoke emotions within us, they teach us, they can provoke us, and if we're honest, they can also encourage and empower us or they can lead us down the wrong paths. Whether we admit it or not or like it or not, we are all influenced by lots of different people and things. We remember what a teacher said, what a friend or family member said to us or about us, the review our boss gave us, we sing along with lyrics in songs, we watch TV shows, movies and videos, listen to podcasts, and on and on. The things we see and hear evoke emotions in us. A mean comment by a family member can hurt us deeply causing us to withdraw. A friend, neighbor or co-worker gossiping about us can hurt causing us to lose trust in others. A teacher complimenting us in front of all the other students can make us feel great. You get the point. We are influenced, for good or bad, by all of the people in our lives (real and virtual through media, books, etc.). Good influence can move us toward a fulfilling life. Bad influence can move us toward destruction. So whose influence are YOU under? Have you changed your way of thinking or the things that you do because of the good (or bad) influence of someone? Influence can be a good thing if you are being influenced by people of good character. It can be a devastating thing if you are being influenced by people who are on the wrong path. In this episode we talk about the distinction between being informed and being influenced. Most importantly, we talk about the most important influence for finding and living our purpose. The key to real success and the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is LIVING YOUR PURPOSE. So please subscribe, share and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU.If you haven't already done so, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE here  @rhondasciortino  and get the clues to YOUR PURPOSE. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

There is A LOT of confusion about success. People on social media who post about their beautiful, amazing, nothing-ever-goes-wrong lives appear to have it all, but do they really? Are they really that shapely? Is that really their car? Is that really a picture of a fabulous vacation in Hawaii or just a fake background they dropped into Zoom and snapped a pic (like my background today

D's & F's diminish or destroy our purpose. What are we talking about? Doubt, Discouragement, Distraction, Fear, Frustration, and Failure, just to name a few. All of these are threats to our purpose.  Doubting yourself discounts and diminishes your abilities. Discouragement happens when we don't get the results we expect. Too much discouragement results in depression and feelings of failure.  Depression steals our hope and ambition by dragging us down into a dark hole and keeping us there under the weight of painful memories.  The good news is that there is an antidote to every one of these purpose killers!  In this episode we speak to ⁠Dr. Rosemarie Downer⁠, retired university professor and social science researcher for the United States federal government. Rosemarie is the author of ⁠Above Defeat, The High Call of Forgiveness, D's & F's Won't Do⁠, and many more books that help people find hope and purpose. She is also the host of the All Things Faith Walk Podcast. Dr. Downer shares her "antidote" against all the D's & F's. It's free. It takes less than a minute to "take in" every day. It is the power-filled word of God as recorded in Philippians 4:8 which says, “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.” Dr. Downer recommends taking this scripture like we would a vitamin every day! Finally, Rosemarie shares a special message for anyone who is doubting yourself, is discouraged, distracted, depressed, fearful, or frustrated. If this is you, don't miss this. YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU, and when you find and live in your purpose, your life will be better, and your corner of the world will be a better place. Best of all, you will have peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot get any other way.  By listening to the ⁠FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast⁠, you're moving toward your PURPOSE, MEANING AND CONNECTION, which is the antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that accompany those things. So please subscribe, share and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  If you prefer the video version of the podcast, you can find many of our episodes (and much more) on Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino⁠. Please join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠ OR send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

"Resilience is being proactive, absorbing shocks, growing through trauma, building supportive networks, and being proactive," says Brad Hook, author of Resilience Mastery--11 Keys To Upgrade Human Performance and host of the Resilience Podcast. In this episode, Brad joins me to talk about living for more, sharing our gifts, having empathy for others, and perceiving everyone as being connected. Brad has interviewed professional athletes and other masters in their field and in this podcast he shares some keen insights into the patterns of purposeful people. He has also interviewed many survivors of heart attacks who made dramatic changes in their lives following their near death experiences, and he challenges us all not to wait for an event to prompt us to make life changing (possibly life saving) decisions about our lives. The antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is PURPOSE, MEANING AND CONNECTION. So please subscribe, share and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to Find Your Purpose Now podcast and to the videos on Youtube⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino,  and get the clues we provide in the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast to finding and living the good purpose for your life. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please join us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

We all experience loss and the grief that accompanies it at some point in this life. It always feels unfair. Many of us don't see it coming so it feels like a completely unexpected punch to the gut. It's when we're down, at the most painful and raw point in our suffering that we have a choice--a choice that will change our lives forever. In this episode of FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast, we talk about responding to grief and loss in a way that can change the trajectory of your life and lead you into your purpose. It's about learning what you can out of the thins you can't change and then using what you learn to do something good for others. (Doing something good for others is a sure way to help yourself. Trust me on this.) Ultimately, we each get to decide if we're going to allow loss and grief to keep us down and hold us back from the purpose for which we were created and perfectly matched--the purpose that will give us the peace and joy that we've hoped for all our lives OR if we're going to learn what we can from each loss, incorporate the lessons into the fabric of our being and become better for it, and use what we've learned as the stepping stones to the good life of our purpose. The antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is PURPOSE, MEANING AND CONNECTION. So please subscribe, share with others, and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. So do what you need to do to FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW. Please go back and listen to older podcasts and gather the clues to your purpose.  The FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast is here to help YOU find and live the good purpose for your life. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please find us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Finding your purpose sounds like an impossible thing when you're barely surviving. Living in survival mode is difficult. It's exhausting. And it can push us past what we think our limits are. We can find ourselves in survival mode through no fault of our own or as a result of the choices and decisions we've made. Either way, it's up to its to get through survival mode to being a survivor. When we're on the other side of survival mode, we can learn from everything we've gone through, and use the abilities, survival skills and character traits we acquired to work towards thriving, and ultimately to becoming a successful survivor. In this episode, we talk about the five ways to get through survival mode so that you can move forward with living your purpose. They are: BELIEVE THAT THINGS WILL GET BETTER. This is temporary. It won't always be this way. DON'T SABOTAGE YOURSELF BY SELF-MEDICATING or making decisions or choices that will make your situation worse than it already is. DO HEALTHY THINGS: BREATHE, PRAY, DRINK WATER, MOVE, EAT as healthy as possible. OFFER TO HELP OTHERS. The fastest way to help ourselves is to help others. FIND WORK OR CREATE WORK. Whether you start a business or a side hustle, earn money doing what you can (that is legal, moral, and ethical) for people who need what you can do. USE GOOD WORDS ABOUT YOURSELF. Think about and write down the good things about you. Your good personality traits, character traits, and abilities. Never, ever use negative words about yourself. CONNECT WITH OTHERS. Don't isolate yourself. Isolation makes everything worse. It doesn't matter if you don't have the right clothes or don't look the way you would like to look. Go to a local church. Meet the pastor. Ask if there is anything you can do to help. Meet People. Smile. If you don't like the first church, try another and another until you find a place where you feel comfortable. This is how you create connection and community for yourself. The antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is PURPOSE, MEANING AND CONNECTION. So please subscribe, share and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. So do what you need to do to FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW. Please go back and listen to older podcasts and gather the clues to your purpose. The FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast is here to help YOU find and live the good purpose for your life. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please find us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

The first step to moving forward with your purpose is to get a clear picture in your mind of what you would LOVE to be doing, how you want to spend your days. To do that, think about things that you've done, experienced, or accomplished that made you feel really good. Think about what you would have to do to re-create that feeling. When you have a picture in your mind, start talking about it. It doesn't matter if you don't know how you could make it a reality in your life or how you can make a living doing it. Just start talking about it to trusted people. Listen to their feedback. Take criticism as advice. Consider the opinions of well-meaning people. It could just be that someone will say or do something that moves you in the direction of making your purpose a reality! The antidote to depression, sadness, despair and all the problems that can be associated with those things is PURPOSE, MEANING AND CONNECTION. So please subscribe, share and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to ⁠ @rhondasciortino ⁠ and get the clues we provide in the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast to finding and living the good purpose for your life. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else.  Please find us on ⁠Facebook⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Linkedin⁠ @rhondasciortino and on ⁠Pinterest⁠ @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Suicide. It's a hard, deep, dark subject. But the flip side is that suicide prevention work is "deeply entrenched I'm hope," says psychologist, Morganne Reid. Many of us have experienced times in our life that were just too hard, when the pain was just too deep, or when hopelessness felt like it was never going to go away. You may feel like that now. Or you may know someone who does. In this episode we talk to a very special psychologist who gives us PRACTICAL ADVICE for dealing with these feelings and helping others who may be considering ending their lives. Dr. Reid shares REAL, AUTHENTIC things that we can say to others--not just stale phrases to memorize. She also gives us specific things we can do and why those things can be THE THING that helps someone decide to stay. If you, or someone you know, is considering suicide but will also consider searching for purpose and meaning, please share this podcast. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to  @rhondasciortino  and get the clues we provide in the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW Podcast to finding and living the good purpose for your life. When you live your purpose, you will find peace and joy and a sense of contentedness you cannot find anywhere else. Please find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin @rhondasciortino and on Pinterest @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠⁠www.rhonda.org⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

Most of us aren't going to have a purpose that makes headlines or tons of money, but every one of us has a purpose that is significant. Many of us make the mistake of thinking that we have to find a cure for cancer or invent something that makes a zillion dollars before we can really feel like we're fulfilling our purpose. That's just not the case. For most of us, our purpose is at the intersection of seemingly ordinary things that are easy for us to do for people who need what we're able to do. When we do those things that are easy for someone who desperately needs help, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Think about times that you've comforted someone who is going through a hard time. It might seem inconsequential to you, but for the person who is hurting, it means the world. In this episode we talk about how the ordinary becomes extraordinary. To watch the video of the podcast as well as many other videos that provide actionable steps to creating personal and professional success, go to Rhonda's YouTube channel. If you, or someone you know, is searching for purpose and meaning, please share this podcast. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched.  You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. Please find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin @rhondasciortino and on Pinterest @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠⁠ or send an email to ⁠rhonda@rhonda.org⁠. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to ⁠www.rhonda.org⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message

If you are doing the work of finding and fulfilling your purpose WE CELEBRATE YOU! In this episode we talk about the excitement and the incomparable feeling of contentedness that comes from living your purpose. There's literally no better way to live than living your purpose. To watch the video of the podcast as well as many other videos that provide actionable steps to creating personal and professional success, go to Rhonda's ⁠YouTube⁠ channel. If you, or someone you know, is searching for purpose and meaning, please share this podcast. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. Please find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin @rhondasciortino and on Pinterest @rhondasciortino1. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to  ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message⁠⁠ or send an email to rhonda@rhonda.org. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For other PURPOSE resources or FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to www.rhonda.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message