Ep 236: Don’t Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Purpose with Dr. Joe Johnson

When it comes to finding success in your career, there's no single formula that will guarantee success. However, there is one important ingredient that you can't afford to ignore: your purpose. Too often, people chase their dreams without first stopping to consider what they're really passionate about. As a result, they end up in jobs that don't fulfill them and eventually become unhappy or even disengaged with their work.According to a recent study, 52% of employees are unhappy at work and 71% are disengaged. What's more, 50% or more of workers are actively looking for new jobs while they're still employed. Dr. Joe Johnson is a perfect example of someone who followed his purpose and made a significant impact as a result. Despite graduating from high school with a 1.6 GPA and undergrad with a 2.4 GPA, he went on to become a successful national speaker, trainer, peak performance coach, and entrepreneur leader.In this episode,  Dr. Joe shares his thoughts about taking time to learn who you are and finding your authentic voice, understanding the game you're playing in, learning from experiences to overcome obstacles, unleashing our purpose, being selfish with healing, and becoming aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions so you can learn how to control them. This focus on personal growth has helped Dr. Joe create minor shifts that have had a major impact in his life and career. And as a result, he's been able to help countless other people do the same.Episode Highlights:05:41 - There was this feeling that I was doing the right thing. Purpose to me, is a soul feeling. You're going to feel it in your soul, right? And so I stuck to it because it takes a long time to figure out who you are as a speaker, your style, right? Because what you see is people try to mimic other speakers and you can't be great unless you are who you are. And so that's why I took so long. I was nurturing my purpose, figuring out my flow, figuring out what I wanted to talk about, figuring out who I was as a speaker. And then it was time to start to get paid.24:44 - A lot of people dream big but then they get to this destination and they're like, yo, this is not what I thought it was going to be. And the purpose is different. So if you look at the fundamental definition of dreams and purpose, they're two different things. Dreams are thoughts or ideas that may or may not come true. That's the fundamental definition. Purpose is the reason for which something or someone exists. If you just look at the fundamental definition alone, and if you have any type of spirituality to you, there's a spiritual piece to the reason for which something or someone exists. It's here. You don't find your purpose, you don't discover it, you unleash it, it's already here. But then what happens, you get introduced, once you tap into that initial layer of your purpose, then you get introduced to the other levels of your purpose.35:40 - Sometimes it's as simple as I just need a reset, I need to take a weekend to myself, get back to center, realign, and I'm back. But sometimes it's I'm done with this job. I'm done with this relationship. I`m done with my old self. If you understand the game that you're playing in and the first game you need to understand is self is this game called life.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with Dr. Joe