Episode 1. Purpose, Fulfillment, Joy, and You: How to stop searching for your purpose & let it flow through you.

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Marie Groover (00:04.239)

Purpose, fulfillment, joy, and you. How to stop searching for your purpose and let it flow through you. Welcome to episode one of the Spiritual 9 to 5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. It's a short one and today I'm gonna share a story with you to illuminate the importance of allowing ourselves to be in order to find and embody and fulfill our purpose in this life.

Marie Groover (00:39.118)

Do you ever feel like you're constantly moving from one thing into the next? Seeking new experiences after new experiences, trying on different skills, looking into different windows and corridors, exploring truths. Are you on a perpetual mission to find the thing that brings you joy or takes you to the next level or the idea that will launch your dream life? And if you do, do you sometimes feel like you're on the cusp of it?

Like, what you're doing is close but not quite, and yet you still have no idea what quite exactly means or is. If this resonates at all, I'm with you. I feel you, I get it. I've felt on the cusp of something great for years. And for years, I've been on a ceaseless mission to illuminate what exactly it is that lights me up. That thing that I should be doing, that thing that will engulf me with fulfillment and wild success.

There was a time when an old friend said to me once, you are extraordinary. Don't choose what's ordinary. And I felt it or I felt the cusp of it. I felt that I was so close, but I didn't know what extraordinary was or what extraordinary could be. The truth was I didn't yet know how to access the extraordinary within myself.

And I didn't know because I was looking everywhere else. Despite reflecting, setting goals, prioritizing, following through. I was in a nonstop motion of reaching and seeking and discovering, learning, filling, performing, prioritizing, evolving, and even transforming. And even when I was looking inward,

Marie Groover (02:35.244)

I was still moving constantly. And I will say it is extraordinary the amount of things that one can accomplish when one is consistently growing. But there is a difference between being busy and being productive. A boss once said this to me. And busyness can also mask itself in the look and feel of productivity. You can accomplish so many things and you can have huge impact.

but be actually being busy instead of productive in the ways that you mean to be. To the outside world, it might look like you're doing so much, but you might still not be connected to who you are. So while I was in cycle after cycle of massive growth and transformation, of knowing myself deeper and deeper, of interacting with the world more and more peacefully and with ease,

I still didn't feel any closer to knowing what the fuck I was here on this planet to do. I didn't know what made me extraordinary. What I was supposed to be dedicating myself to. Where I was meant to go.

Then I stopped reaching and I allowed myself to settle in into the person that I had become into the life that I built that I really loved still love by the way into the things that truly brought me joy and away from the things that felt like obligations. I allowed myself to just be in whatever was I stopped making plans.

I stopped planning completely. I stopped saying yes if I didn't mean yes. And I didn't share what I was doing or working on. I didn't explain myself. Not to anyone. Not even to my partner.

Marie Groover (04:37.333)

And let me tell you for someone on a path of constant growth and development, of travel and big life experiences, of transformative life experiences, someone who has never been afraid to completely start life all over again, it feels really scary to settle down. For this type of person, for someone like me, to be stuck or stagnant was never an option. And yet,

Sometimes when we stop looking for the thing that we spent hours, days, months, years, lifetimes trying to find, it presents itself in a way that was so obvious that we have to question what we were looking for all along.

And we also have to find that every single moment that led to this one had to have happened for the light bulb to flicker on.

That's what happened for me. In 2021, I didn't quit my job. I didn't break up with my boyfriend. I didn't go away for six months or a year or any timeframe at all. I didn't make any massive life shifts or changes and I didn't find that thing. You know, the thing that's supposed to fill my life with meaning and joy and success. It turns out I already had that thing. I already knew my purpose.

In 2021, I allowed myself to be myself and in that I started living my purpose. I embodied my purpose. I started living my life and everything shifted but not because I forced it, not because I deliberately chose one path or the other, not because of any rearranging that I did within my own life. I didn't make a decision and then prioritize everything around that decision. This is important because the truth is

Marie Groover (06:34.635)

We don't have to choose. We actually can have and be every single thing that we want. People are afraid to step into their truth because they are afraid that they will have to change their life. We both want and are afraid that we'll have to be dedicated to one path or solution. Hello, diet culture and people who eat only keto only forever as if one diet is the solution to everything.

I'm not against keto by the way, nor am I against dieting.

But there is this thing that exists where we want to step into truth. We want to change our life. We're afraid to change our life. And we also want that path. We want that's the list of things to do, the steps of checking these boxes and knowing that if we eliminate all these things that aren't serving us and we know exactly what they all are upfront, then we can be the thing that we want. Then we can find the thing that we want. Then we can live the life that we dream.

We're afraid that we'll have to suddenly prioritize differently for our lives to shift and change and transform. Do you notice this when you're on a path of growth, you say things like, I should do this, but I'm doing this instead.

And we think we should prioritize and that prioritization is the answer to what we want to our dreams, to our goals. And prioritization is great, but it's also a temporary hierarchy of what we think is important right now. But in the long run, we don't have to commit to one thing or one path forever. In fact, we don't even have to commit to one thing or one path to move forward. We don't have to search for it, reach for it, look for it, seek it.

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That thing that is outside of us, that feels like the cusp of us, enticing us to try one more time to find and commit to one thing that will be the solution and the propulsion of our lives accumulated. It's not a job. It's not a passion. It's not a place. It's not an idea. It's you. It's all of you coming together in your authentic and unique being. That's what transforms your life from ordinary to extraordinary.

That's the root and basis for all the success, fulfillment, joy, and eudaemonia that one could possibly seek.

Maybe it isn't our lives that we have to change and restructure. Maybe it's not even ourselves that we have to change and fix and manage. Maybe, and what I'm proposing to be true is that we just have to allow ourselves to be exactly who we are. And that's what I'm inviting you into here. Gone are the days of choosing one thing that doesn't even exist within us. One diet, one career, one partner even.

This is the time, this is the year 2022 that we expand in the presence of who we are, that we expand in the connection and depth and integration with ourselves. This is the year that we realize the extraordinary. This year, we come home.

Marie Groover (10:00.395)

If you want to walk with me on this journey, I invite you to keep listening right here on the Spiritual 9to5 podcast for more stories, learnings, and invitations into self. If you want to dip your toes even more into my work, please join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses, and you can find it on Mighty Networks. You can also follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic or go big on yourself and sign up for a mentorship to work one-to-one. Wherever you are,

I hope to meet again, maybe next week, right here. Thank you for listening. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.