Pursuing Your Purpose, Where Do You Even Start?

What's up, Cadre crew? Hello, Cadre. It's Mary and Jill here. We are social, emotional learning experts, which means we help people develop their emotional intelligence and something that has come up for us multiple times this week in conversation. We threw a big event with mothers and daughters earlier this week. In sermons, we go to church. Doesn't mean you have to. Just in books we've been reading, podcasts we've been listening to is to follow your dreams. And I know that's, like, a huge, overarching statement topic.

A lot of people seek their purpose. They spend their whole lifetime seeking that out. But our challenge, our. What we want to bring to the table today is following your dreams one breadcrumb at a time. Maybe you don't know what your dreams are, but how do you start to seek out purpose in your life? And for us, that started when we were working retail. We went to retail many moons ago, but little did we know that working retail would lead us to where we are today. But what we followed was being in those situations and really just going headfirst to learn as much as we possibly could about ourselves and our jobs.

To lead us again to where we are today. It's literally taking the next step. I think we live in a world where we fall victim to seeing people taking gigantic leaps and growing year over, year over year by millions and millions of followers and dollars. And we fall victim to thinking that that needs to be our story, too, or we're falling behind if we're not doing that. Literally what Jill said. We were folding stretchy pants together at Lululemon, and we own a company now called Girls Mentorship, where we get to teach life and personal development skills to not only teen and tween girls, but those that love them, as well as come on apps like this and share our expertise.

So we followed. I said something earlier. We followed those breadcrumbs. We leaned into those nudges. I recently quit my full time job. I had been working in fitness for the past ten years. Lululemon was a part time job for me, which is so telling because I met my business partner there. But I leaned into a nudge to quit my job. So what I want to say about that is we know following your dreams. We know that putting that thing out into the world can be really scary and nerve wracking at times. But there's one person.

There's one person out there that will benefit from you taking action on what's nudging at you. It's almost like it's a pull. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Come and do it. Come and do that thing. We read a quote yesterday from Martin Luther King that said that you cannot silence what matters to you. Do not silence the things that light you up, that bring you joy, that you're passionate about. Those are the things that you get to lean in and discover and be curious about and explore, because that's leaning in towards your goals.

That's your dreams right there. So if you're sitting here stuck being like, what am I here for? What am I doing here? We are here to say that it is overwhelming at times. We're not going to lie to you. It is overwhelming, but it is literally looking at the person who's right in front of you. Go there, allow your heart to meet theirs and make a difference with that one person, just one. And then see where that leads you on the path of you discovering your purpose and your dreams. And one thing that we know without a shadow of a doubt is that if you ignore those nudges, they're going to come back over and over and over again.

If you follow the path that somebody else wants you to follow, ten years down the road, 20 years down the road, you're going to be asking yourself the question, what if? So it doesn't have to be your full time gig. It doesn't have to be something you pour all of your time and energy and resources into. However, take the one step to impact the one person person. You don't have to have a platform of millions of people to make a difference in someone's life. Honestly. You have to see it before you see it.

Right? And I say that because we're sitting on chairs that were once someone's idea, that had literally just become our normal. Imagine if that person didn't take action. We're recording this right now on a phone that was once someone's idea, that has now become our normal. So what's stopping you other than the fear? And we get it, the fear is real. We don't want you to totally dismiss those feelings. What we want you to do is feel the fear and do it anyway. Because your story, the things that you've made it through, will be someone else's manual, a how to book on how to get through that same situation ten years from now.

You got this. So borrow our belief, go out and be the light for yourself and for somebody else. So until next time, we'll see you on the next video.