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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

3 Reasons Why Finding Purpose Feels Like An Impossible Fantasy

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Ken Coleman Show is here to help answer your questions about career, passion and talent so you can maximize your potential and get closer to landing your dream job. Do you have a question for Ken? Call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com. Helpful Resources: Free Guides & Resources The Proximity Principle Facebook Community Subscribe to The Newsletter Articles by Ken Learn more about your ad choices. https://megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

Does the phrase finding your purpose feel big, unattainable, and scary?

0:11.3

It does for a lot of people, so I'm going to walk you through three reasons why purpose

0:15.5

feels like an impossible fantasy, and then what's the truth, and what do we do?

0:25.6

Helping you win in your work life so that you're winning in other areas of your life.

0:29.8

I'm Ken, this is the Ken Coleman Show, I'm part coach, counselor, and cheerleader.

0:36.2

So when you hear someone talk about purpose, or you hear the phrase find your purpose or

0:43.5

find your calling, what does that do to you emotionally?

0:48.5

What does it conjure up?

0:50.7

Does it feel like a unicorn dancing through the clouds, an impossible goal, sure, Ken?

0:59.2

Yeah, send me the unicorn in the mail, and after that I'm going to start working on

1:02.4

being the number one draft pick in the NFL.

1:04.3

It's just fantastical, it's not real.

1:09.4

I think this is what a lot of people think of when they think of, when they hear the phrase,

1:14.0

or when they interact with the phrase, calling, purpose, dream job is another one that I think

1:21.5

for so many people just feels like an impossibility that gosh would be nice.

1:29.6

But I'm not going to think about that.

1:32.5

It's the idea of when you drive past the lottery board, anybody out there ever drive past it,

1:36.7

you'll see $440 million and you sit there and you go, the chances of this happening are zero.

1:45.2

There's no chance I'm going to win it, but gosh, wouldn't it be nice to have all that money?

1:49.2

Is that the way we look at living your calling, finding purpose,

1:56.5

being who you were created to be?

1:59.0

Is that how we interact with that phrase?

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