Inspiration Station - Life's Daily Gamble

Purpose is that elusive concept we all grapple with at some point in our lives. Despite quick affirmations that we're living purposefully, many of us have unknowingly abandoned the quest to discover what we were truly born to do. This thought-provoking episode challenges the common misconception that stability, longevity, or even enjoyment automatically equates to purpose.

Drawing from personal experience and spiritual wisdom, I explore how our talents—like my early gifts in singing and writing—can actually distract us from our authentic calling. While these abilities might earn validation and make us feel temporarily special, they often lead us to stop searching for our true purpose. The uncomfortable truth? We all desire to be known, to matter, to walk in relevance—yet we settle for alternatives that merely look good on the surface.

What have you sacrificed for the path you're currently walking? Are you living below the standard you once set for yourself, or have you reached what you thought was the pinnacle only to feel there must be something more? Each morning we wake up presents a choice: continue gambling with directionless living or reignite the search for what you were uniquely designed to contribute to this world. Your purpose was established before you were born—isn't it time to discover it? Listen now to spark that fire within and stop settling for anything less than the authentic purpose that awaits you.

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Chapters

• 0:36 Welcome to the Inspiration Station
• 1:31 Are You Living With Purpose?
• 3:31 Known Before Birth
• 4:36 Talents vs. Purpose
• 6:23 What Have You Sacrificed?
• 8:24 Taking a Daily Gamble
• 9:25 Final Thoughts and Sign-off

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:36

Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to the Inspiration Station. We thank you again for following our show and for tuning into this. We definitely appreciate all your support on all of our social media platforms and, of course, on our YouTube channel, youtubecom at theycallmemisteru. Thanks again for listening, getting a lot of positives coming from you guys and what you're seeing and hearing and what you're enjoying. Our podcast channel is growing in so many different ways and you guys are a big part of that, so we thank you again for continuing to support what we do.

Speaker 1: 1:13

I want to get back with you guys. It's been quite a while between episodes of the Inspiration Station. A lot going on, but nothing to lament about. It's all good, just life happening, life be life sometimes. But I want to talk to you about a topic that we talk about all the time and that's purpose. Here's a question for you Are you living with purpose right now? Have you found what purpose is for you? A lot of folks may say yes real quick without thinking about it, but I found it to be a question worth asking and sometimes I have to ask it more than once to myself. I had to ask it more than just once a year. I have to ask myself that question, because living with purpose is one thing. Locating purpose is always a lot more challenging. It's difficult, so difficult, in fact, that most of us have given up on the quest. We've given up trying to even find it. Now you may sit here and say, well, that's not me. I'm doing this job. I've been at this job for 30 years, I'm doing, I'm in this project. I've been doing this project for 10 years and I'm having fun, I'm enjoying myself, all those things. Nothing wrong with any of those things. Nothing wrong with having a stable job and being at a place or company for a long period of time and retiring from there. Nothing wrong with that. That's what you want to do. Nothing wrong with having a project that you really enjoy, giving you a chance to network and meet people. Nothing wrong with that either. None of those things automatically equate to purpose. Automatically equate to purpose. I think that's important to understand here, because purpose in this sense is what you were made for, what you were born for.

Speaker 1: 2:53

A lot of folks that I've talked to and maybe you know somebody who's just like that they're just here and they often aim around mindlessly, not even knowing where they're going, what's next? They don't have a 5, 10, or 20-year plan. They just want to get through the week and get to the weekend so they can have fun and enjoy themselves and forget all about Monday through Friday. Most folks have that kind of mindset. But that's not living with purpose. That's kind of leaving everything to chance. It's not living with purpose. Not living with purpose, that's kind of leaving everything to chance. It's not living with purpose.

Speaker 1: 3:31

Jeremiah 1 and 5 talks about a prophet who was known by god even before he was even born. While he was in the womb his destiny was made clear, his destiny was made certain. He was known and thought of before he was even born. I think the idea that it's hard for many of us to swallow, but the idea of being known is what we all want, even if it's the most challenging thing for many of us to swallow. But the idea of being known is what we all want, even if it's the most challenging thing for many of us. We all want to be known. We all want to walk in some kind of relevance in our life, which is why we do the things that we do. It's why we choose some of the alternatives that we choose. We choose a lot of different alternatives from what our purpose is or what purpose can be for us. We find cool things to do, ideas that make people look at us like we're smart, like we're capable. Maybe they'll see us as special. But they all and they all sound kind of harmless. You say, yeah, it's fun, no big deal, I'm doing something I enjoy, makes me feel, at least temporarily, so we think it's harmless, no big deal to it. But there is kind of one problem, though. There's one harmful result in that you might stop looking for your authentic purpose. I mean it's not hard. I mean we've all done it, present company included. We do things that we enjoy, things that people say, oh, you're so good at that.

Speaker 1: 4:47

My thing back in the day was my singing. I was able to be gifted to sing at a very early age and people thought you know what that's going to be your thing, that's what you should do. Another thing was writing. I did it also at a very, very early age, way earlier than most kids at that age would be writing. I was writing things and people thought you know what? This is what you should be doing, and they tried to push towards that. They tried to encourage me, and I'm sure they were well-intentioned, but they try to encourage me to go that route because, hey, you're so good at that, go and do that, you know. But question, though, for myself was was singing and writing my purpose, ie the reason why I'm here, why I was born, the destiny that was crafted when I was in my mother's womb is just what I'm supposed to be doing.

Speaker 1: 5:40

You can be talented at many different things. It doesn't mean that it's your purpose. It doesn't mean that you put all your eggs into that one basket and many of us do that all the time and we stop looking for our purpose and we stop seeking the creator as his creation to find out what it is we're supposed to be doing primarily, where we should be investing the majority of our efforts. We don't do that. We stop looking because we found something that feels good, makes us look smart, makes us look capable. People think that we're special at it and they pat us on the back and we look at that as validation for why we're doing it. So we continue to keep doing so and we, in effect, stop looking for that purpose.

Speaker 1: 6:23

What's your story? What have you sacrificed in favor of a lesser option? What have you given up in order to be able to do what you're doing right now? Are you fearful of what that actual purpose could be? Do you even know why you're even here? Does that matter to you at this stage of your life? A lot of folks don't even care. They're like I'm just here, I worry about the next thing later on, but right now, I'm going to just do me and just live and enjoy myself where I am, and that's many people's story. But what's your story? Where I am, and that's many people's story. But what's your story? What have you sacrificed in favor of in order to have the option that you have right now? Is it a lesser option than what you hope for yourself and what you thought you'd be doing at this stage of your life? Is it below the bar that you set for yourself? The standard you set for yourself? Is it high above what you ever imagined? And if so, is that the pinnacle? Is that where you always thought yourself that you'd be? Is that where you saw yourself? Is that what you always wanted? Is there a part of you that's saying you know what? Inside of me there's more. There's more than what I'm seeing right, and there's more than what's going on around me, more than what my circumstances are speaking to me. There's more than that.

Speaker 1: 7:44

Honestly, I believe that every single person that's walking around on the face of the earth has a purpose in this life and I really believe that if we hold ourselves off to that, we could potentially lose the desire to find out what that is and settle for an alternative. Now you got to ask yourself what's the alternative you settled for? What is it that you've accepted as your norm, as your thing, as your jam? But it's not exactly the quote unquote purpose. You're supposed to be walking in the way that you're supposed to be walking in the way that you're supposed to be living and putting all your efforts into that thing, because, at the end of the day, I think that what we do every day we wake up. If we're blessed enough to wake up the next morning and see a brand new day a lot of us are taking a gamble. We're saying you know what? I'm going to go ahead and bet on this working for me, even though I'm not totally confident in it. I don't know whether this is my long-term thing. I'm just going for it and just see what happens. That's the epitome of gambling shooting the dice and hoping you don't get snake eyes. That's what we do almost every single day of our lives, many of us. Every single day, we just go take the gamble, we take the bait and we set up for something that's an alternative that looks good, feels good, sounds good, but long-term it's not good for us.

Speaker 1: 9:13

This conversation can go on to a lot of different places, but I just want to just drop that little quick thought for you guys in this episode and we can talk about it further offline or on perhaps another episode of the Inspiration Station. But thank you again for listening to our show. Thank you again for supporting us on our YouTube channel and all the listening platforms. Definitely appreciate all the support. Continue to keep listening. A lot of big changes coming our way down the pike here. But thanks again for listening again and we hope that this was a blessing to you, made you think a little bit, give some ideas about some things you can do differently, some adjustments you can make and perhaps, maybe that fire to find out who you are, who you're supposed to be, where you should be, is still lit. I hope it is. Have have a great day. Thanks again for listening Coach out.