All right, guys. I've got a story for you real
quick. There's three bricklayers that are
asked the question: what are you doing?
The first bricklayer responds and says
that I'm laying bricks. The second
bricklayer responds and says that I'm
building a church. Then the third
bricklayers responds and says that I'm
building the house of God. Now, out of
those three different bricklayers, the
first one that says I'm just laying
bricks, that one has a job.
They have a job. The second one that
says that I'm building a church, they
have a career. The third one, the
third bricklayer that says that I'm
building the house of God, they have a
calling. I believe that most people
we identify with having a job or
a career, but there's very few people out
there that identify with having a
calling in their life. A calling is
your mission in life. It's your purpose. It's
something greater than yourself. I
think it's something that we all ideally
want. Everybody wants to find their
purpose. I did a great video on my
YouTube channel that shares how to find
your purpose in life. I recommend looking
that up. How do you find your calling?
How do you associate to that?
How do you associate to a higher purpose?
These three bricklayers, they're
all doing the same activity. They've all
got the same "job"
where they're laying bricks, but each of
them had a different perception of it.
You can find your calling
from experimenting, and trying
different things, and learning,
and self-discovery, all those different
things that I recommend that you do.
What if you just find a deeper purpose
and meaning in what you're already doing?
Whatever you're doing right now, the job
that you might have that you might despise
or nine to five,
what if you find a more empowering meaning
and purpose in it, something that would
associate more joy, more fulfillment to
what you're doing? For most
people, they are in a job where they hate
what they're doing but it's often times
just because they haven't
associated a meaning to it. They haven't
found an empowering meaning.
Without an empowering meaning in what
you're doing, then it's not going to give
you any fulfillment. If you're
maybe a janitor, you work at a school,
you're a janitor, you could view that as
I just cleaned the school, I cleaned the
bathrooms, or you could realize that your
role as a janitor, even though it
might be a job that's not
very prestigious or anything like that,
but realize that you're making a
difference beyond what you recognize.
Realize that you're creating an
environment that is supportive to the
education and the well-being of children, and
helping them grow, and develop themselves
and their lives. That's not
just being a janitor. You're doing
something bigger than that.
I sell cars for a living. You
do something more than that, man. If
you're selling cars, you've got a bigger
purpose than that. You're changing
people's lives. You're providing a
vehicle, a method of transportation for
someone's family for the next 10 or 20
years that is going to create incredible
moments and memories for people's lives
for many years to come. You're not
just selling a car. You're doing
something bigger than that.
You see, I believe the ultimate calling
that we all have is making a
contribution beyond ourselves. The
reality is every job that exists on this
planet involves making a contribution
because the only way to make money is to
contribute. Every job, you're contributing
in some way. You're contributing to your
employer but you're also contributing to
a company. Every company, every
business has a vision, a purpose. It makes
a bigger contribution. If you
associate work to that, the vision, the impact
that you're making already because you're
already making an impact. You're already
making a difference in people's lives.
I don't care what you're doing.
Whether you're a janitor, you're making a
difference or helping people. You're
making an impact. Whether you're
selling a product, or service, or
providing a service,
whatever that is, you're making a
difference. Again, most people, they
don't associate with that. They don't
realize the meaning in it and realize
the power that they have already. If
they were just to change their
perception and realize that you can go
from laying bricks to building the house
of God and have a different meaning and
purpose behind what you're doing, what
would that do to your happiness? What
would that do to your life? What would
that do to your sense of fulfillment?
A lot of people, they're waiting for
this big purpose just to show up in
their life. When this big purpose finally
appears, then I'm going to finally be happy
and that's going to be ... I'm
going to live my life on my purpose. They
don't realize that you could live your
purpose in all the little things. All
the little things that you do serve a
purpose, and they contribute. For me,
my life, there's many things I do
throughout my life but I make sure and
identify in everything that I do as
associating with a higher purpose. The
food that I eat and put in my body is serving a
higher purpose because when I put
healthy food into my body, I'm nourishing
my body and cleansing my body. I'm giving
it the vitality, the energy, the love,
whatever it needs to help me operate at
a higher level so that I can do what I
do serving you guys in this video. I can
be around to a hundred years old and I'm
going to have the energy, the passion to be
able to make a difference. When I do a
mastermind event and I go all day
speaking in front of an audience is
because of that food that I put in my body,
the supplements, all those little
things. The water that I drink, that
serves a purpose to contribute beyond
myself. Everything serves a
greater purpose. When I read books, I'm
not just doing it for myself. I'm doing
it so that I can serve. I can make a
bigger difference and make an impact.
Even when I watch TV, if I play video games,
you know what? That still serves a purpose
because that serves the purpose in
allowing me to relax, and disconnect, and
escape in many different ways so I can
recharge myself so that I can put
myself back into the world, and I can
fill myself up so I can rip open my
business and change other people's
lives. When I go to sleep at night for eight
hours, that serves a purpose, an
empowering purpose. I'm not just sleeping.
I'm recovering my temple, my body, this
vehicle that I express life through
that allows me to be able to do what I
do and serve people at a higher level.
When you realize that everything has an
empowering purpose, you no longer dread
things. You no longer view things as a
chore. You view it as a gift. You view it
as something that is just a
stepping stone that has a bigger meaning,
a bigger purpose that's part of your
calling.
If you can find that purpose in
everything that you do, your current job ...
Maybe you can go from hating your job to
actually enjoying it, actually maybe
realizing there's a lot of benefit
that you're getting from this, not just
financial, but you're making a difference,
and you can associate to that difference
that you're making. You could feel proud of that.
You can see the impact, the results that
you're having or you could just have
faith and know that you're making a
difference in the world.
I make an impact in people's lives.
Most people that watch my videos, they
don't leave a comment. Most
people are very passive.
Usually only like less than 10%
of people actually will comment or send
an email and share. Most people you're making a
difference for, you don't even know that
you are. Maybe it's people that are
buying a book that you might have,
or a resource, or a product, or whatever it is.
You might not directly hear from them, but
you can have the faith that you know
that you're making a difference. There's many
people that have come up to me and said, "Stefan, my
God. You've changed my life so much." I'm like,
"Wow, really? I had no
idea." People out there that exists I’m like,
wow, cool. I'm making a difference I don't
even necessarily sometimes even know it.
There's people out there
maybe right now that are watching videos
that I've had many years ago. They are
receiving value from me. My point is
it's just finding it and associating to
it. It's as simple as that, guys. How can
you, not only find your purpose and
just continue on that path as well,
but how can you find the calling, the
purpose, the mission
in what you're already doing, the
meaning, the empowering meaning in what you're
already doing? You can always
find the empowering meaning in whatever
life offers. It's up to you to find it.
It's there. You just got to dig deep enough
for it, and realize it, and associate to
it. Thank you, guys, for watching this
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