00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 48 on the power of belief. I'm RJ Jackson, the courage giver. I encourage you to have the courage you need to live your calling. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this. The inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott made her Believing you're a writer and writing are two different things,
00:00:36 but it becomes a feedback loop. If you begin to say that you're a writer and then you actually sit down and write, then you are affirming that affirmation and making it sink in deeper. If you say that you're a productive person and then you actually get up early and do the hard work and get things done and you become more productive. Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts.
00:01:03 If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calm in the inspired stewardship podcast who learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you impact the world. And tonight, Saturday night special. I talk with you about the power of belief,
00:01:32 why affirmations and belief do actually have a backing in neuroscience and why belief comes from action. Not the other way around now. One area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion.
00:02:03 That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality.
00:02:29 Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com
00:02:52 slash launch belief has power. You know, the truth is that we both limit ourself and we make ourselves Excel in part, by what we believe about ourselves. We, we limit the way we interact with others in part, because of what we believe about them, the power of belief, what we believe about the world has an extreme influence on what we do,
00:03:24 what we say, how we act and exactly what we do in the world and what we accomplish. I think most people would agree with that statement, at least at a logical level. But the truth is that this idea, the power of belief and how it affects us affirmations and how they affect us. When you get up in the morning and you say,
00:03:45 I am a writer, does that make you more likely to become a writer? And these things are actually things that are studied in psychology. There there's actually research around whether or not the power of belief and the power of affirmations have a true effect on us or not. And the research says that they do now don't get me wrong. This isn't it.
00:04:09 It sounds so. Woo. Woo. It sounds so, you know, it's like the secret. If you put it out into the universe, it will all come back to you. And I will tell you the truth is I don't believe that in that sort of way. I don't believe that the world works or God works as a cosmic vending machine,
00:04:27 where if we put good things in only good things come out for one thing, I've seen way too many people who struggle despite the fact that all they do is put good out into the world. It's entirely possible for that to happen. And I don't believe that we're somehow cursed by our own sin or the sin of our parents to always struggle. And this karma,
00:04:50 this idea that the universe works that way is too simplistic for me. But at the same time, the idea of having positive affirmations actually has some research behind it. And I've seen it myself where both because I use them myself and because I've used them with clients, I've seen their positive effect. The truth is that we all have negative unhelpful beliefs. We all have negative thoughts about ourselves.
00:05:17 From time to time, we all have negative thoughts about others and about how the world works and positive as affirmations and practicing. These can begin to break that down and help motivate yourself and bring up your self esteem and your self talk and turn it more positive. You can begin to unconsciously, break down those subconscious patterns and replace them with much more positive ones,
00:05:44 positive affirmations, make long lasting change in how you think and feel. But it's not by magic. It's by psychology. It's the way our brains work. So there's a theory called self-affirmation theory and there are empirical studies about it. You can go look them up and it's basically relates to our ability, our beliefs and our abilities of controlling who we are and what we believe about ourself.
00:06:16 See the truth is if you believe that you're a good person, then you tend to try to tell yourself a story in which you're the hero, where you're the good person. If you believe you're a bad person, then you tend to tell yourself a story where you're the villain. You're the bad person. And the truth is when your self concept is threatened.
00:06:36 When something shows you that maybe you aren't a good person, even though you believe you are. We try to move back in alignment with our self identity, either by denying the truth of it or by changing our behavior and our actions. So the self-affirmation theory believes that we have this global story. We tell about ourself. We tell ourselves who we are and that self identity is instead.
00:07:08 Basically, you know, it, it can have flexibility. It can change. We can, we can define ourselves in different ways, which is good because it means we can change how we feel about ourselves. It's being in integrity with who you think you are. It's not about being exceptional. It's not about being perfect. It's not about being excellent in any way.
00:07:31 It's just about being adequate and competent in certain areas. And it believes in its authentic nature, it believes that we act in a way that is authentic with ourself. And the truth is that when you begin to affirm yourself, a certain role, your, your neurochemistry begins to change. The, the neurons make new connections. You begin to break down old connections.
00:07:59 And over time, the stress of saying, I am a writer. I am a writer. I am a writer begins to build up until when you do things that are not in alignment with being a writer, it causes you stress and strain. And so it's easier to then write and be the writer. If you want to say, you know, I am productive,
00:08:20 I am productive. I am productive. It helps you become more productive. But the truth is in all of these things, you want to know what reinforces that affirmation it's action. Because saying I'm a writer and writing are two different things. Believing you're a writer and writing are two different things, but it becomes a feedback loop. If you begin to say that you're a writer and then you actually sit down and write,
00:08:51 then you are affirming that affirmation and making it sink in deeper. If you say that you're a productive person, and then you actually get up early and do the hard work and get things done and you become more productive, then it begins to sink in that you're a productive person and you continue to snowball in a positive way. On the other hand, if you sit down and you say to yourself,
00:09:16 I'm lazy. Then over time, if you sit around and do nothing, that affirmation becomes solid and firm and you get lazier and lazier and lazier. See the truth is we can change the direction that we're going in part based on the affirmations that we make about ourselves. But only when we actually put them in action. That action leads to belief which leads to action,
00:09:44 which leads to belief and belief can lead to action, which leads to belief, which leads to action. It's a big circle. It's not a line. So as you sit down on this holiday weekend, I hope you enjoy some time with your family. If you're in the United States, this is the 4th of July. And I hope you're enjoying some time with your family.
00:10:04 Maybe eating some good barbecue or some good food or watching some fireworks, but wherever you are, I hope you stay safe. And I hope that you can begin to affirm who you are and change your identity little by little, in a positive direction. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener,
00:10:34 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively, listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoyed this episode, please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time,
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00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 47, easy answers. Aren't always right. I'm Joseph LCI. Hi from the stacking Benjamins podcast, I encourage you to find ways to be inspired, to find financial freedom. And one way I do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friends, her, And the truth is even knowing that you have this bias,
00:00:33 you have a tendency to still exhibit it, even if you're told about it. And you're told this is a specific example of it, we still have a tendency to show it. All of us do. It's part of the human condition. This is another reason to surround yourself with accountability, to surround yourself with independent decision makers. Welcome, and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts.
00:01:00 If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true color. In the inspired stewardship podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can. And tonight's Saturday night special. I talk with you about why the quick and easy answer.
00:01:30 Isn't always the best one. I use an explain as cognitive bias known as the substitution bias and why this applies. And I talked to you about what you can do about this to help overcome it. Now, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really,
00:01:58 really tough. I've got a porous called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality,
00:02:29 because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com
00:02:52 slash launch all too often. Our brains try to always look for the easy answer. You know, the truth is that we are lazy creatures for lack of a better word. We, we have a tendency to shortcut our decision making. There's actually a fancy name for this. It's the attribution or substitution bias, depending on which set of papers you're reading,
00:03:24 that really captures a whole lot of different ways that our brain shortcuts decision-making, you know, basically what happens is we tend to look for the simplest answer. We even codified this in science. We talk about Ockham's razor, Ockham's razor. This idea of the easiest explanation, the simplest explanation is usually right. And there's truth to that. You know, often if you have to spend this long complex story to explain something,
00:04:00 then odds are good. There's a simpler story that would explain it just as well. But here, what I'm talking about is the idea that we have an intuitive brain. We have the ability to make snap judgements. And sometimes what happens to us is we'll make a simple decision based on the availability of information, based on the fact that we have certain beliefs,
00:04:25 we have certain histories, we have things that we know and things that we don't know. And because of that, we'll jump to a solution without actually stopping and thinking it through. We don't use our logical mind to slow ourselves down and think about it. And there's a benefit to this. This intuitive decision making is fast and it's easy. And so when it comes to things like our safety,
00:04:54 when it comes to making a decision about doing something, to protect ourselves, being able to make that decision quickly and easily, and unconsciously is important. It's a survival characteristic. But oftentimes when we apply that same decision making to other kinds of decisions, as an example of that, people were given a choice. They could purchase insurance. And this was shortly after the 2011 terrorist attacks here in America.
00:05:23 And so they were offered insurance while they were going to travel abroad that were protect them against death, by terrorist attack. And they were offered insurance that was described as it would cover death of any kind during the trip. And what was interesting is people actually were more likely to purchase the insurance that covered them specifically for terrorist attack, even though by definition,
00:05:49 the other insurance protected them as well by terrorist attack. But because it wasn't called out, they didn't have that fear. And because they didn't have that fear, they didn't make that quick decision. They were actually purchasing the insurance because of fear, not because of any sort of logic we use these kinds of emotional decision-making oftentimes stereotypes that we believe about certain groups are based on these sorts of decision-making morality,
00:06:19 fairness decisions are based off of this kind of decision making. The more familiar something is the more likely we think it's true. The more attractive something is, the more likely we think it is true. All of these things are various versions of this substitution bias. This idea that our mind doesn't like to slow down and spend the time. What's funny. If somebody is good at something we attract,
00:06:52 we ascribed to them. Good at many different things. If they're good at piano, we think that they're a nicer person, even though they may be a total jerk, we have a tendency to see people with a halo based on our limited interactions. This is also part of this decision making. So what can you do about it? I mean, why should you care?
00:07:16 Well, you need to care because the truth is when you make these sorts of knee jerk reactions, when you decide something based on limited information and based on biases, you can, by definition, make decisions that are not as beneficial. And the truth is even knowing that you have this bias, you have a tendency to still exhibit it, even if you're told about it.
00:07:46 And you're told this is a specific example of it, we still have a tendency to show it. All of us do. It's part of the human condition. This is another reason to surround yourself with accountability, to surround yourself with independent decision makers, to surround yourself with people that aren't in the emotional center that you're in. Because as you do that,
00:08:10 those folks begin to be able to help balance some of your decision making. They're able to look at you and say, Hey, I understand, but think about this and that slows you down. And as you slow down, your logical mind can begin to take over. And instead of making a knee jerk decision, based on these simple brain tools, you can begin to really look at the situation and think about the reality of it.
00:08:44 The truth are the falseness of it. Now it's not foolproof. The truth is you're going to exhibit this bias no matter what, but it helps you begin to do. And I've seen this show up time and time again this week when we talked about needs versus wants the decision making we make, there is often based on this kind of thinking. And when we talked about time and the Dunning Kruger effect and planning your day,
00:09:13 again, part of the reason why is because when we talk about time, we have a tendency to use this substitution type thinking instead of slowing down and thinking it through and really being logical, we make snap decisions and move forward too quickly. So the number one thing you can do slow down a little bit in your decision making, not too much, you still want to move forward and you want to do it relatively quickly,
00:09:41 but you don't want to do it with those instantaneous snap decisions if they're subject to bias. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoy this episode,
00:10:12 please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time, invest your time, your talent and your treasures, develop your influence and impact the world.

00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 46. I'm Wade Galt. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to live to work instead of working to live is key. And one way to be inspired to do that.
00:00:25 Listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader. How do you know if you're growing or not first off are you setting goals? And secondly, are you achieving them? That's really the measure of whether or not you have growth. It's not just about are you setting the goals and it's not just about, are you achieving them?
00:00:53 Are you going through life passively? Are you sitting back and letting life happen to you? Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast, you will learn to invest in yourself,
00:01:20 invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. And tonight's Saturday night special. I talk with you about why your growth is the real key, how to recognize if you're really growing or not, and what you can do about it right now. Now one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity.
00:01:54 Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done.
00:02:20 What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality. Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work,
00:02:43 but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com slash launch. Let's talk about self-improvement growth development, learning, whatever name you want to give it. This idea of spending time and energy and money on getting a little bit better each and every day is a really important one.
00:03:15 When it comes to taking control and stewardship of your resources. The truth is that growth is a key. You might've heard the expression if you're not growing, you're dying before. And I really, I really agree with that. I believe in that this idea that we've got to constantly be adding new growth, we've got to be lifelong learners. Lifelong growers is so important to me.
00:03:42 And I want to distinguish a few things here. First off, this idea of growth versus just learning. You know, the truth is that you can learn a lot in a passive way, but growth means something different. And we'll talk a little bit about that during the podcast today. And the truth is that you could continue to develop yourself, but that's not always growth.
00:04:06 Either growth has something to do with both learning and development. Let's look at just a few facts for a minute. Uh, you know, if you look at different surveys on how much money Americans spend on different things, you can find that the self-improvement industry, the self-development industry, the, the books and the courses and all of this sort of stuff is right around $10 billion a year.
00:04:36 Now I've seen estimates a little higher than that. A little smaller than that, but let's just say it's around $10 billion a year. That seems like a tremendous amount of money. And I mean, if you take that there's roughly 350 million people in the U S and you divide that, you know, on average, people are spending a good amount on self-improvement products,
00:04:56 books, and other courses and learnings and trainings and education and all of these sorts of things. It's a massive industry, but here's, what's interesting. If you look at things like music and films, that is roughly $61 billion a year, it's around $60 billion a year. It's six times as big, and the beauty industry makeup and cosmetic surgery and all of these different things that make up the beauty industry is roughly $260 billion a year.
00:05:33 So the idea that we spend a lot on self development, well, yes, we do, but we spend over 30 times as much on entertainment and appearance. We spend more money on things that make us feel good, or look good than we do on things that make us grow over time. And that's kind of interesting because a lot of times people will say that one of their priorities is learning and growing and getting better.
00:06:04 And, you know, having a better job, learning to communicate with their family, better, all of these sorts of growth type goals. But the truth is we aren't putting our, our, you know, our wallet behind our words. We aren't putting our money where our mouth is. We're not actually showing that in our behavior and in our dollars.
00:06:25 Why should you worry about it? Why should you worry about growth? Because growth is the way towards having better relationships, having less stress in your life, having improved health, having better productivity, all of these sorts of things come from growth activities. The truth is if you want to have success, no matter how you define that word, you gain it through growth.
00:06:51 You gain it by identifying very specific goals and activities and things that you want to accomplish, and then setting out and learning and developing. So you learn knowledge and you develop skills so that you can achieve those goals. That's what growth is. Growth is moving in a direction. So moving towards something, it's an active process. How do you know if you're growing or not first off,
00:07:17 are you setting goals? And secondly, are you achieving them? That's really the measure of whether or not you have growth. It's not just about are you setting the goals and it's not just about, are you achieving them? Are you going through life passively? Are you sitting back and letting life happen to you? Are you stepping forward and happening to life?
00:07:37 You're setting out, this is what I want to achieve. This is what I want to achieve. This is what I want to achieve. And then you're working to achieve those things. So if that's not true, if you're struggling in those areas right now, if you have things that are holding you back, then you're not growing, but what can you do about it?
00:07:58 Why should you care? And what can you do about it? Well, you should care because again, that's the path to those success markers that we talked about, no matter how you define success, that is the path to success, but as well, you should care because that's the way that you continue to grow better over time. And to me,
00:08:17 at least that is a goal in and of itself. So what do you do about it? Well, you step back, you evaluate again, where am I at? And where am I going? What do I want to be? When I grow up, what do I say is success? What do I value? And then evaluate what you're actually doing.
00:08:36 Look at where you're spending your time, look at where you're spending your money. Is it in alignment with those things that you say you value? And if it's not, then you need to begin to work to change that. Now that's what I do. As a coach, I help people figure out the systems and processes and routines and structure so that they can find important to them.
00:08:55 And then they can go get it. So it might be that your personality is such that working with a coach is really good. It also might be that you need to take an online course or read a book or go back and enroll in school again, to begin to learn the skills and the knowledge and motivate so that you can follow through and begin to identify and achieve real goals in your life.
00:09:20 But one way or another, you need to grow. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively, listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoy this episode, please, please do us a favor.
00:09:52 Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time, invest your time, your talent and your treasures, develop your influence and impact the world.

00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 45 Here on the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Wayne Titus author of the entrepreneur's guide to financial wellbeing. I encourage you to be inspired, to become a better steward through financial wisdom. By listening to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader I looked up every morning and it was the thing that excited me,
00:00:32 and then begin to build in a little bit of time for that. There's all sorts of activities that you can do. You can Google passion project and find list of things that, you know, if you're a do it yourselfer, here's some examples. If you're someone who likes to write, here's some examples. If you're someone who likes to teach, here's some examples.
00:00:54 Welcome, and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true color in the inspired stewardship podcast, who learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world In tonight's Saturday night special.
00:01:27 I talk with you about what a passion project really is. I share why it's important to find your own passion project. And I give you some tips on what you can ask so that you can find your own passion project. Now, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done,
00:01:53 but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality.
00:02:27 Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com
00:02:51 slash launch, Finding your passion. And what's your passion project. These are that quite frankly, if you Google that, if you put it in to a search engine, you'll find millions and millions of results in mere seconds, because it's talked about a lot, but I wanted to talk a little bit about why it's important to actually find a passion project and what a passion project is.
00:03:20 I mean, even if you're doing something that you love, even if you've got a career that you love a family that you love, even if you feel like you've got all of your time filled with activities that are positive and allow you to serve others. Well, I still think that sometimes it's important to spend some time and energy finding a passion project.
00:03:43 So what is a passion project? It's anything that you work on oftentimes outside of your regular career path or your regular job that gives you satisfaction, happiness, and that can help get you into some sort of state of flow. You know, that, that moment when you're working on things and time seems to disappear in some ways it's kind of like a hobby,
00:04:08 right? I mean that that's a similar definition to a hobby. So what's the difference? Well, to me, the key difference is that a passion project can often kind of pay for itself. It's not necessarily that you make huge amounts of money with it, but it can kind of generate enough time and income benefits that in the long run, it,
00:04:31 it takes care of itself where hobbies to me are often the things that you kind of spend money on, just because you get joy out of it, you know, collecting a collectible or spending time and money fishing or barbecuing, which is one of my hobbies, these sorts of things. They take time, they take money and yes, you enjoy them and you get enjoyment from them.
00:04:55 But my passion projects often are the things that I focus on, not just spending money on, but I actually try to turn them into something that at least makes enough money back that they pay for themselves. They become, self-generating not right away, but over time. So for instance, one of my clients, his passion project is actually wood-turning and he's now making these wooden pins that are really awesome.
00:05:22 In fact, I'll, I'll put a link to his Etsy store in the show notes from this, and you can go check them out, but he doesn't do this just a, you know, it's not going to make him rich. It's not replacing his income from his day job, but he makes enough money with it that it kind of pays for the hobby itself.
00:05:39 It pays for it as it goes. So this is more of a, to me that's more of a passion project. So why should you have passion projects? It actually turns out that when you have a passion project, it shows all sorts of benefits in your life. It lowers your stress. And at first that sounds funny because you're like, wait,
00:06:00 I'm going to be spending time doing this other activity when I'm already stressed out about not having time. How does that lower my stress level? And the truth is it does because these are the things that you can get into as a flow state, where energy comes back to you, you can actually learn and begin to develop the habit of getting into that flow state.
00:06:22 You can recognize what it is, and then that gets you into that state easier and other places, because it lowers stress. It can lower other negative activities like bingeing, Netflix, or overeating and stress eating. It helps break your mood up and get you into a better mood. And it helps you build talents that ultimately may turn into an alternative career path or a second source of income.
00:06:49 So it also helps you diversify your skills and your abilities and your income and diversification spreading it around is always a good thing because you never know what's going to happen. I've seen several people, friends of mine who had a career and had a passion project on the side, and then something happens to their career. You know, maybe the company closes down,
00:07:13 maybe, uh, the, the business is bought out by somebody else and their job and their position is no longer available. Maybe they just retire, but then they take their passion project. And because it was already up and running and they already had that skill and they already had that talent, they could grow it into a business relatively quickly. They could begin to open up and say,
00:07:36 Hey, there's new things that I want to do here. And I want to take this skill that I have and grow it into something that at least supplements my retirement income or supplements by side income, or even turns into a career. That's the interesting thing about having a project that actually kind of pays for itself beyond a hobby. You know, to me that,
00:07:58 again, the big difference is hobbies, cost money while passion projects generate some level of money. And that doesn't have to be a lot of money to still be a passion project, but enough to kind of pay for itself. So how can you find your own passion project? Because see, that's one of the biggest problems people oftentimes say, I don't know what it is that I should be doing on the side.
00:08:24 So one thing you can do is spend some time in silence, spend some time where you meditate and think, and you're introspective ask yourself, what is it that people constantly come to you for? What skills and knowledge are you constantly sharing with people where you're kind of the go to person for that reconnect with your inner child? Why you sit in silence,
00:08:48 think about what did you want to be when you grew up? What were the things that fascinated you, you can also look to your pain, look to things in your journey that you struggled with because odds are really good. If you struggled with it, other people did as well. And you might be able to turn that into a passion project. Think about expanding your perspective.
00:09:11 Looking outside of the normal, begin to ask the question, what problem can this solve? What pain can this relieve? What pleasure can this give to someone? Those sayings are often a source of a passion project. Try to find something that allows you to contribute to something bigger than you to it's often serving the larger, good that we find our own passion.
00:09:41 So ask the question, you know, what else do I want to do? What do I love as a child? What was my purpose as a child where I looked up every morning and it was the thing that excited me and then begin to build in a little bit of time for that. There's all sorts of activities that you can do. You can Google passion,
00:10:03 project and find list of things that, you know, if you're a do it yourselfer, here's some examples. If you're someone who likes to write, here's some examples. If you're someone who likes to teach, here are some examples. The truth is my coaching business grew out of a passion project. It started as a side passion project, and now it's my full time job.
00:10:23 And I love it. So spend some time in silence, ask yourself these questions, find your passion project, and then go and begin to do it. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling.
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