SUNDAY SPARK ⚡️ SESSIONS WITH ALEX MUIR!

And welcome to Sunday Spark Sessions. Two minutes late there cadresphere. sep. And tonight is all about preparing for the week, Sunday Spark Session and a powerful quote on authenticity. I have a few powerful quotes on authenticity to really help everyone that's, you know, maybe they're not sure about who they are. Maybe they've been trying to follow, or they've been following others and getting ideas from others on, you know, who they wish to become. Because a lot of people struggle with like embracing who they're meant to be and who they are at the core.

And Woah and Ellie, welcome to the live. Thanks for tuning in. So wanted to go over like a couple of quotes that I found that I thought were super powerful. That's why I'm a little bit late, so I'm going to dive right into them. So one of the first ones there didn't have any specific person that I could find that quoted it, but it just says, don't trade your authenticity for approval. So what they're trying to say is like, never look for approval to be who you are. And then Another one, which was really cool, was by Carl Jung.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. And then Oscar Wilde. Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. I really like that one. And then one by Brene Brown. Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are. So there's only enough room in this world for more of us, whoever you are. So that's what this live is all about, is embracing who you're meant to be. I feel like a lot of us, right? Like the social confines, the social fabric of society, conforming to a certain way of living, of being, of becoming.

I think it's a good reminder to, yeah, to really tune into like, who do you want to be without all that other stuff, without all the other societal pressure, norms that, you know, expectations. I've been really thinking a lot about a lot of soul searching on this and And I know for myself, for a long time, I was like, I have definitely become who I am. I love it. I love it. That's great news. Whoa, Nelly. Because it takes time. Some people know exactly who they're meant to be right out of the gate.

Other people, they get lost for a while and then they find themselves along the way. I have definitely become what I'm supposed to be, but it took me 54 years, yep. It takes time. It takes time. It doesn't happen right away sometimes. Some people know right out of the gate, this is who I am. Like, this is what I'm doing. I know exactly what I want. And then most people, it takes them time or they kind of stumble along the way. Different careers, different relationships, and then they're like, holy smokes, this is who I was meant to be the whole time.

and they figure it out along the way. So that's why I think this is a really impactful life because a lot of us want to be or they might see who they want to be. They might get ideas of from others of who they want to become. But then at the end of the day, only we know within ourselves who we're meant to be. And it's sometimes it takes a journey to get there, but that's okay. Like I'm like going through kind of another era of self-discovery, self-reflection, introspection. And I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person per se, but I've become a lot more introspective because I meditate daily and through those meditations I've, you know, it brings up all the good and the bad and what in what you're going through and it also it's like you feel like enlightened in a way too of like you know what maybe this um maybe this is telling me something maybe this is like um through this meditation or through you know what I'm you know what I'm thinking about more a lot right now sometimes a lot a lot of times what we're thinking about frequently and often is also a sign of like the universe telling us that's meant for us I did a little video on that and I posted on the cadre sphere on TikTok and YouTube.

It did really well on TikTok. 'Cause I think a lot of people want that. A lot of people are like just trying to figure it out, right? We're all trying to figure it out. But when we can help each other figure out how to figure it out, right? Or we get glean ideas and wisdom from each other, it's really helpful. Because for instance, right out of the gate, age 11, I was like, I don't know how or why, but I was drawn to finance. I was drawn to learning about money, managing money well. How can I make a lot of money?

How can I manage it well? How can I build financial literacy? That was a big part of my teenage and into adolescent, yeah, teenage adolescent life into adulthood. And it did serve me well at the time. It's still serving me well now, but that's in the core, in my deepest root of my soul, that's not me. That's not who I want to be. I don't want to be branded or I don't want my identity to be totally wrapped up in that person's from finance. They're in finance. Like I thought that's what I wanted and then I got into it and I built a career out of it.

And then I'm like at the point now, I'm age 32 and I'm like, you know what? I don't want to be. in this industry for the next 30 years, I've come to the realization that it's like, it's emotionally and personally taxing the hell out of me. My spirit has been impacted. My emotional well-being has been impacted too much. And I just, in order for you to withstand everything, you have to love it enough. If you don't love it enough and you're not passionate enough about it, once it gets to that point where there's a major like, breaking point in the road, sometimes you need to transition to something else.

And I'm at that point where I'm like, it's content creation and it's like and then it's fitness. I love fitness and I have to do that. And my the universe is telling me I need I need to do that. And then my mind's telling me I need to do that. So pay attention to those those signs that you're getting. And yeah, utilize people's experience and their knowledge and their wisdom to help you find your way when you're contemplating, you know, different career paths or forks in the road and you're like, you know what?

I'm really thinking about this. I want to go all in on this and find people that are in that area that you're looking to go all in on. Yeah, I've been really like, yeah, like really like thinking about it a lot and uh and even even even in an older age or older years doesn't mean you can't change Ray Kroc hit his stride at age like 78 or 77 or something like that it's crazy like so it can be done people can change at any age change industries change jobs change businesses change relationships it's just it all comes down to a decision well what are we willing to do what are we willing to put up with What do we want?

And that's the beauty of being a human being is we have the ability to change. We have the ability to change our mind. We have the ability to change our circumstances, right? Through through work ethic, through change of mindset, change of environment. There's lots of different ways to do it. So I want to leave that food for thought. Those quotes were really making me, you know, percolating in my mind and I had to share those with you and uh, hey, you're good. You know, whatever you're going through right now.

Tom Hanks had a great quote, speaking about quotes. He's like, he was on a podcast, Jay Shetty's podcast or someone else's and he's like, This too shall pass. Things are going great right now, this too shall pass. Things are not going great right now, this too shall pass. And then one of my dad's favorite quotes that he always sells me all the time, and he's told me that since I was a little kid, he's like, Everything in life is temporary except death and taxes. So true, so true. That stuck with me forever.

So, hope you guys all enjoyed this live, ladies and gentlemen. If you're already following me, thank you for being part of the Cadre Sphere and then my personal community, if you're new here, I'm also posting daily content on my YouTube channel @mind-cep. I have my own podcast, the Mindset Podcast. cep on TikTok, YouTube. You can find all my extra content on there. I repurpose, try and repurpose all my content on there. And if you like this kind of content, again, I post on there. And then, yeah, really appreciate having me here.

I really appreciate being a cadre contributor on the cadre sphere. And I'll see you all next time for Wealth Wisdom Wednesdays coming up. Thank you for enjoying this Sunday Spark session.