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We are gonna cover Marcus sores.
, we're gonna talk about some stuff from an amazing lecture, from somebody
who was faced with imminent death.
And we're gonna talk about purpose time and the brick walls and barriers
that, uh, make life so challenging, but may have a message for us.
So, first I wanna jump into today's quote from Marcus Aures it's a good one.
Let's do it.
People who labor all their lives, but have no purpose to direct every thought and
impulse toward are wasting their time.
Even when hard at work.
Okay.
Such a great quote.
We've been talking about this a lot in recent weeks.
It's the concept of, do we, or do we not need to have an overarching sense
of purpose that directs as Marcus Orelli says every impulse and every thought?
Yes, I think we do.
I think if you read that particular quote today too, literally, it's gonna
sound like everything we do all the time, everywhere in the podcast version under
here, I talk about, you know, does it mean if we go to a theme park with our
family and we're on a roller coaster that we need to be directing every impulse and
thought to our overarching life purpose?
Well, probably not.
But I think this is what I refer to as a vector of aspiration, a, a general
guiding, uh, global operative principle.
If you like, what I call an operative principle, a principle that operates
across all the different factors, uh, and sort of areas of your life.
Do we, do you have an overarching sense of purpose?
Because he's sort of saying that if we don't have it, then no matter
what we are doing, even if we're working really hard at something.
He says it doesn't even matter.
I think it's a great question to think about.
I think it's a question that many people never seem to really think about.
You know, you think of Aristotle's quote that the unexamined
life is not worth living.
It's such a powerful quote that we need to be thinking deeply about what
it is that we are here to accomplish.
What are we trying to do?
Contribute?
What's important to us in our lives.
I said in the podcast that, um, you know, I've been coaching
Olivia's soccer team this year.
And there are times here, cuz it's winter here and it's like
bleak and cold and freezing.
And I never grew up with soccer.
So there's been a lot of YouTube research done lately, but my
overarching life principle is as something, you know, liberate people's
potential liberate people's potential.
As I filter things in my.
I'm constantly asking that question, liberate PE, am I liberating?
People's potential.
So when I get to soccer, even if the environment is difficult and cold, even
if I've gotta, you know, push myself to learn the drills and all that sort of
stuff, I know that I'm directing my energy towards this sense of purpose that I have,
that then operates in different places, doing these messages each day, when I'm on
stage, all these different experiences in.
Constantly are embedded in this sense of purpose.
So I wanna put that on your radar.
I think that it's something that we really need to be thinking about because our
culture's so fractured and fragmented.
It's so distraction oriented that it is easy to roll through life and, uh,
just not have a deep guiding sense of what it is that you're here to.
the second thing I wanna share with you today is kind of related it's
from a very powerful lecture given by an American, uh, professor called
Randy Porsche, P a U S C H or pouch.
Um, It's the anniversary of his death today, he died.
I think about maybe 10, 15 years ago now.
And his last lecture is pretty extraordinary because he has terminal
cancer and he knows that he's gonna die.
He knows that he has a very short space of time left to live, and
he's a young man still, and he gives this remarkable lecture.
About what he's learned and how he thinks people should go about life.
And it's quite beautiful.
So I'll put a link here under it.
So I want you to go check that out, but let me give you a couple of quotes from
Randy here that are kind of related to this discussion from Marcus Ellis
around purpose and how we use time.
So let's do it.
The key question to keep asking is, are you spending
your time on the right things?
Because time is all you have brilliant insight.
Are you spending your time on the right things?
Because really time is all you have.
And I said in the podcast that whether you are real on Musk with a personal fortune
of 210 billion, or whether you are the president of a country, or whether you're
living in complete poverty in a remote jungle, the one thing that you all share.
Apart from your humanity is that you all get 24 hours in a day.
It's a very leveling phenomena of life.
Isn't it?
That everybody gets this exact same amount of time.
So Randy Porsche, as he faces the end of his life is, is, is exhorting us is, is
challenging us to think very carefully about what we're doing with our time and
are we spending it on the right things?
And again, like I just said in a distraction oriented culture, in a
consumption based culture, it's very possible to waste very significant
amounts of time, very significant amounts of time on the wrong things.
What are the wrong things?
Things not aligned with your deeper sense of purpose.
That's what wrong things are.
So.
If your purpose is to liberate people's potential and you spend all your time
not doing anything related to that.
Well, then someone like me would be wasting their time.
If I went and worked, you know, um, An engineer or an architect where
you could make a, a long argument and say, well, maybe your designs are
gonna liberate people's potential.
Yeah, it's a pretty big stretch.
But, um, no matter how wonderful an architect I might be, if that
was contrary to a deep sense of purpose, I would be wasting my time.
All right.
Now I wanna give you Randy.
Porsche's other quote, which I think is also really good.
Let's do that one.
Now the brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls are not there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something
because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
They're there to stop.
The other people, I really like this idea, this metaphorical concept of brick walls.
And when we hit them, we can so easily feel that if we're trying to do something
in life, experience something in life that these barriers and blockages that we
all face are some kind of cosmic message that we're trying to do the wrong thing.
And I wanna tie this all together with purpose and time.
What Randy Porsche is telling us here is that when we encounter difficulty.
those walls are just there to test us.
And those walls are there to keep out everybody else that
doesn't really want it that badly.
Cuz imagine if there were no brick walls in life, no boundaries and
barriers that everybody could have everything they wanted all the time.
Well, things like effort would probably disappear.
Mastery would probably disappear.
Those things will begin to vanish.
If everything was just instantly available, you know, it's one of the
problems with, you know, Just on a side note, the vast growth in government,
in intervention, in our lives, all over the world, you know, this focus
on things like UBI, universal, basic income, like it's like let's allow
government into every single area of life so that they become kind of the
cosmic wish granting fairy that, um, that there will be money for every
possible thing in our lives handed to us.
And I don't wanna lose you on this tangent, but I'm saying is that when
that happens, then individual agency, the striving of life, the pu, you know,
because if we stop striving and pushing and everything's just handed to us,
we kind of give up, we become sheep.
We become basically easy to maneuver and manipulate.
So I think the fact that life can be difficult.
The fact that we have to strive and push and really try and make things happen.
, he's not necessarily a bad thing at all.
So let's put these things together.
We've got Marcus Aurelia's concept of purpose and that if we're not operating
in a sense of purpose, then we're wasting our life and wasting our time.
Even if we're working hard on stuff.
And then we've got Randy Porsche's idea that we need to
be working on the right things.
And we put those things together.
We've got purpose, we've got a respect for time.
And then we know that when we encounter boundaries and walls, That that's okay.
That those are an invitation to grow to Excel, to develop.
So there's a few thoughts for you today.
It's not easy to do this stuff, you know, I, I think it's to, to start
to think about these deep issues to start to think carefully about
your life and what it is that you're trying to do in the context of time.
Because if you get a sense of time, if you actually go hang on,
there's gonna be a time when I don't have time, when it stops.
And that should not be a cause of anxiety or stress.
It should give us a deep gravitas, a, a deep sense of seriousness about okay.
If my time is finite, what am I here to do?
And.
Am I honoring the gifts I've been given in the time that I've got.
And what if I surrendered my excuse making?
When it comes to obstacles and barriers and walls, I'm talking to myself here.
You can almost sense it.
I think I'm just like constantly going.
Okay.
What are the barriers?
What are the walls?
What am I doing?
And then to keep moving forward.
Oh, God bless everybody.
Um, hopefully I'll remember to put Randy's lecture here.
It's uh, it's worth checking out.
Uh, you can book me to speak and get free access to my book, please
make sure you've subscribed.
God, bless you.
Go find that purpose.
Go respect time and push through those walls.
They're not there to stop you there to keep out the people that don't wanna do
the work that you are prepared to do.
God bless everybody.
My name's Jonathan Doyle.
This has been the daily message and you and I are gonna talk again tomorrow.