Hey good morning Spartans, Brian Sean Tust here on the Spartan Up podcast.

I'll be coming at you every Monday now with a new show called Spartan Stand.

Here I'm going to leverage 21 years of a Marine Corps career and a few other endeavors I've had that will help you take a stand.

Take a stand for yourself,

take a stand for your happiness,

and take a stand for success.

So the first episode we're going to talk about

is not needing permission to be yourself. all hyper aware or maybe not all of us I am at least hyper aware of am I living a

purpose-filled life how do you live a purpose-filled life people are flooding the

bookshelves with tips and tricks or strategies or things that you need to do to find

your way, what's your why, live a purpose-filled life, what's your purpose.

And all great stuff, all great stuff all great stuff and I've spent a lot of time

thinking about it why can't I find my purpose why can't I stick with the purpose that

I thought I had and I've drifted into two little

avenues sort of parallel but maybe not quite so much and in the first one is I started asking like well who's

who's authority is whose whose purpose isn't it's my purpose I'm trying to live my

purpose filled life so whose authority then is it to give me that purpose?

Whose authority is for to approve whether or not my purpose is good or not?

I mean, it's mine. If it's nobody else is but

mine, then why am I always constantly seeking somebody else's approval for what I'm doing and that comes in the term of feedback,

hey good job, good job, you're doing well or it comes in the feedback of

oh I don't think you should be doing that, you're not not normal and it's like well why and the funny

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