Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast.

This solo episode is about devotion and the difference between devotion and commitment.

Now look, you might be trying to achieve something in your life.

You might be trying to find a partnership, create a business, make money, whatever it is.

And in doing that, there's a difference between being committed to your goals

and being devoted to them, being devoted to a relationship, being devoted to your mission,

your purpose. Now, I really believe that if you want to find the way to actually change,

to go past the place that you have been sort of

stopped before, where you've been frozen, where you've ended up in indecision, where you sabotage

the thing, where you maybe even choose people or jobs that never allow you to ever get the

thing you desire because it's easier to live in that tolerable level of disappointment

because it's familiar to you,

then actually get all the things that you've always wanted that you've been grieving your whole

life, right? Like, that's a bit of a mind F to think about, that if you actually got the thing,

you'd no longer have an excuse for the limitations of your life. That's a big thing to think

about. Look, everyone has challenges in their

life. No one has a corner on that market, and certainly we wouldn't want one. But there is an

opportunity for you to step into the transformation by finding something that matters more to you

than your excuses, more to you than your suffering. And none of

this is negating your suffering. We get stuck there like you're not validating my victim experience or my

trauma. Validate the crap out of that. And yet, you still want to create something with your life.

And yet, you still want to become something. And yet, you don't have the relationship you something and yet you don't have the relationship you want yet you don't have the money you want yet and you notice that all of

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