Why Purpose is the Ultimate Reset | DFS 411

Welcome to Destin for Success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi, and today I want to continue the

conversation about reset and why discovering your purpose or

unveiling it, looking into it, can help become the ultimate

reset. So Vivianne did a great job sharing with us in the last

episode about her two-minute stress reset, and I love that

because I don't think everything has to take a lot of time. Like

I don't think we have to do an hour-long meditation to get

benefit, and I love Vivian's like in two minutes you can

start resetting. So resetting your mind and being calm is the

place you have to be where you can receive or hear direction,

and I've shared about this many times over the years. And like

one one major time was on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing

when I heard the message to stay home and take care of myself. If

you're not quiet, you can't hear. You can't hear the message

again. It doesn't have to be a long time, long periods of time,

but to hear what your next best step is, you ask the question

and then you be still. You be still and and hear. I love that

scripture. Be still and know that I am God. It's like be

still, and you will hear the message, and that message can

come from God. It can be your internal higher self. It can be

the universe, Mother Earth. What whatever your belief system is,

I don't really care. For me, it's God, but I do get messages

from myself. It's like everything falls into line, and

I'm like, "Ooh, now I know. Now I know what I want to do next.

So, being calm and quiet is very important. I recently heard a

gal talk about the fact that in corporate, if everything in the

room is chaos, if you walk in with the calm demeanor, you

automatically win. Everybody is looking to you to right the

ship, if you will. So, having a calm mind is critical. The next

point I want to talk about is how your purpose on how you show

up has been there even before you had language to describe it.

And for me, when I took when I took my own quiz I created, and

you can find it at mypurposequiz.com. I came out as

the awakening visionary, and I was like, "Wait, what? I'm not

an awake. Maybe I am. I talk to other people, and I hear what

they want to do, and I've got like 10 things they could do to

step into that, to do it greater, to do it bigger, and

now as an energy healer and a high performance coach, it feels

right. Like I didn't really realize how much I was able to

see. Typically, for other people, that's how this works,

right? Their next step, what they could possibly be, and it's

really funny. I have a friend; we've been friends for many

years, and I still have this whole vision for a business she

could create, a thing she could make, and she absolutely won't

do it. Like she just will not. Why? I don't. Lord only knows. I

don't know why she won't do it. And I was telling somebody how

frustrating that was for me because I could see it so

clearly, and this person said, "If she won't make it, why don't

you? And I was like, Wait, what? I can't do that. And they're

like, Why can't you do that? And so it might be something. You

might see something coming out for me in the near future

because she's not going to do it. She hasn't done it. She's

not going to do it. So maybe I will have to take that on, and

I'll have to do it. And there you go, another thing created by

Jennifer. But our purpose is there. And when I worked for the

federal government, I was talking to a friend one time,

and he said, "Yeah, I don't really do anything that helps

people. And I was like, "Oh my gosh, yes, you do. And let me

tell you how and why. And he was like, "Wow! Like I never looked

at it that way. When I first started in mortgage banking, I

was in a division.

I actually worked for HUD as a temporary employee initially,

and it was looking at where people had gotten behind in

their mortgage payments and why and what possible solutions

there were, like what could they do to save their house, and I

ended up in that area for a while, and then I ended up in

collections, collecting on late mortgage payments, and then job

switches, and I ended up in the foreclosure department,

foreclosing on people who got behind on their houses, and

ended up at HUD, and again same kind of work, and I ended up

moving into multifamily housing, working with low-income

families, and elderly and handicapped on having safeties

and sanitary housing that was affordable, and that ticked off

so many boxes for me on being able to help others and being of

service to the others, and working for the federal

government filled a whole nother area for me, and that was having

a stable income. That was very important to me. Having a stable

income, coming in regularly, unless there's a government

shutdown, and then there's a lot of stress until Congress

approves that you can get paid. But it's a lot of stress. If

you've never worked there, it's a lot of stress. And I was

fulfilling that purpose without really realizing that I was

fulfilling a purpose and moving forward. And a few times, I came

up with great solutions to work with and through the current

policies and laws that were on the books, and so oftentimes we

would get so caught up in what the requirements were and the

laws were that we couldn't come up with new ideas. But I'm just

going to tell you, there were a couple times I came up with

really good ideas that were super helpful. So I was living

out my purpose in other ways because there are so many

avenues, so many roads that I was the awakening visionary. I

was able to see what other people might have missed. Now,

again, even like in the energy healing space, people are like,

"Can't you heal all your own stuff? Yeah, to a certain

extent, but we end up second guessing, and that's why coaches

hire coaches. That's why doctors go to other doctors, right? Like

you can't do it all yourself, but having that language to be

able to describe what your purpose is and how you show up

is so important, and on all the different types of behavioral

profiles, and some people call them personality tests, they

probably aren't unless they're like in a medical setting. So

much of it is true, so much of it is accurate, and it just

explains things. None of it's right. None of it's wrong. It

just explains things, and then when you see yourself that way,

it's like, got it. I can work with it. I can work with this. I

get it. I understand it. And when you know what your purpose

is, and how you're meant to show up, how other people are seeing

you. It makes it so much easier to break down your goals, your

desires, into short 12-minute increments. Because part of the

problem is not getting started at all. The other part is the

vision is so big you can't see getting there, but you eat an

elephant one bite at a time. Actually, I've never known

anybody who's eaten an elephant, but that's a saying. Rome wasn't

built in a day. Another saying. All these things are true, and

it all starts with taking a step. You take a step. For me,

it's breaking it down into 12 minute increments to put

together what I'm going to talk about on a podcast, and then I

hit record. Some of my podcasts are way longer than 12 minutes.

Some are shorter than 12 minutes. You never really know

what's going to come out of my mouth, But every episode I've

ever recorded has meant something to me, and it was

something I wanted to share-a message I wanted to get out, if

you will. So resetting how you want to share.

Up in the world starts with being calm, understanding your

purpose in that how you're showing up, and then take the

next aligned action, 12 minutes at a time. I'm Jennifer Takagi.

I look forward to connecting with you soon. And go to

mypurposequiz.com, take your quiz, find out what your purpose

archetype is, and let me know how does that sound to you? How

does that resonate? Does that really describe how you're

showing up in the world? Let me know.