People think that when you find your purpose in life and you find your calling,

yeah, these the angels come around. That's when the challenges sometimes begin. That's when the difficulties begin. And many times when people are faced, when they make that choice and they go in the direction of their souls purpose and they make that choice and the shit hits the fan, things start brought on the part, the challenges begin.

We make the mistake sometimes of thinking, oh I made the wrong decision.

But I actually find that it's more a sign that maybe you made the right decision because now you're moving in the trajectory of your purpose

your soul our soul has to go through

certain experiences and hurdles and lessons to develop the sort of portitude, the resilience,

the mental, emotional muscle so that we are actually capable of fulfilling the vision and the dream that we have been given.

And I think that dreams and visions are evolutionary in that they will take us on the journey

of having to evolve into and become and develop into the person that is capable

on the human level of fulfilling that dream in the vision. Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins Show. I'm Light Watkins and I have

conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their

path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life.

And today we have another bite-sized plot twist episode.

Again, a plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares

the story of that they

they were feeling truly called to do.

And the idea behind sharing these plot twists is to inspire you to lean into those plot twists when they happen in your life because usually

when you get turned around from what you thought your path was in life what's actually happening is you're being detoured towards your actual path.

And sometimes that looks like being betrayed, sometimes it's getting fired or losing your money, or in the case of author and speaker

Koot Blackson it was realizing that he didn't want to take over his father's

church and instead he wanted to go to America even though he didn't have the

necessary paperwork to become the next Oprah Winfrey and so in this episode

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