Goals vs Growth: Which Provides You With More Fulfillment?

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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I hear from more and more people who just enjoy the journey of personal growth. They almost feel guilty about it, especially if they are mostly around others who seem content to just maintain life. They wonder why they have this insatiable appetite for more insight about themselves and life. Of course, I resonate with them. Over the past years I’ve realized that what I value most is not going after any specific goals, but just always having a goal to go after. My experience is most goals we achieve are anti-climactic if we think they alone will finally satisfy us. And again, I’m brought back to realizing what gives me the most fulfillment is having goals to go after, every day, all the time, so that…I enjoy the daily journey of life. It’s the overall hope of discovering some new insight about myself or life that I can apply and find joy in. And then continue the next day on the same path to a new, inspiring destination. I wanted to talk more about it and invited my best friend, Randy James, to join me. Randy is a medical doctor and Functional Medicine expert who you can find at truelifemedicine.com. What drew me to him 15 years ago, I now realize, was how we resonated in a desire to pursue personal growth. Randy is insatiable with new information and always excited to talk about a new idea and concept. Though not just for the sake of the idea. He’s excited about a new insight he can apply to his own life or the life of a patient, his family, or his friends. Like me. Following is our conversation about this concept of growth and the joy in the growth, even more than the goal. Got a comment or question about an episode? Want to ask a question about your drive? Email me. I don’t want to just talk to you here, I want to talk with you. [email protected]. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to sign up for your FREE 60-day trial. Sign up for AromaTru's Insider Club and today you'll receive a FREE Waterless Oil Diffuser and a FREE lemon eucalyptus oil - that's over $200 in savings. Head to aromatruorganics.com/kevin to take advantage of this exclusive offer. Kajabi is offering a free 30-day trial to start your business if you go to Kajabi.com/kevin Get 20% off any AquaTru purifier today! Visit AquaTru.com and enter code "KEVIN" at checkout. Go to Quince.com/drives for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Go to cozyearth.com/driven and use code DRIVEN for an exclusive 40% discount Join thousands of parents who trust Fabric to protect their family. Apply in minutes at meetfabric.com/WHATDRIVESYOU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the What Drives You podcast. I'm Kevin Miller. I produce this show to help us all continually
0:07.0	discover where we want to go, why, and how to best get there. All the while enjoying the daily drive as much as the destinations
0:15.7	we want to reach, which is actually the topic of this show. I'm going to make a quick note too as more of you
0:21.9	guys are watching on YouTube and seeing these videos
0:26.2	that I'm often recording from different places. I'm actually in Leadville, Colorado at about
0:30.8	10,000 feet in a cabin where I've been camping and mountain biking.
0:34.3	You can see some of my paraphernalia behind me.
0:36.4	So as the videos change, I thought I'd just go ahead and address them.
0:39.7	I've heard people say, hey, let us know where all these crazy places are that you're having these
0:43.5	adventures. So there you go. In this episode, goals versus growth, which provides you with more fulfillment.
0:54.0	So I hear from more and more people who just are enjoying the journey of personal growth.
1:00.0	They almost feel guilty about it, especially if they're around other people who's in content to just maintain life and they wonder why they have a sensational appetite for more insight about themselves and about life and that they're so so inspired by it.
1:14.4	Well, I, of course, resonate with that.
1:17.2	And over the past years, I've realized that what I value most
1:20.2	is not going after any specific one goal, but just always having a good goal to go after.
1:27.0	And my experience is goals that we achieve are somewhat anticlimactic if we think that they alone will finally satisfy
1:35.1	them if it's all just for that goal.
1:37.7	And again I brought back to realizing that what gives me the most fulfillment is just having
1:41.8	goals to go after every day all the time so that I enjoy the
1:45.4	daily journey of life. It's overall hope of discovering new insight about myself or life
1:51.8	that I can apply and find joy in and then continue the next day on the same path to another new inspiring destination.
2:00.0	So I wanted to talk more about it and I invited my best friend Randy James to join me.
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