A short motivational monologue by Stephen Scoggins (YouTube short) urging listeners to pursue careers and life paths aligned with their authentic identity and calling. He contrasts following others’ expectations with running the "right race"—one consistent with personal gifts (e.g., building, thought leadership)—and prompts the listener to ask, “Am I running the right race?”
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When you choose to focus on running a race based on somebody else's expectations of who you should become, why you should become it, and what the outcome should be, inevitably you get stuck. Not them, you. Why? Because you're not being authentic to yourself. I've discovered that most people who are actively pursuing a common purpose and passion that is consistent with their own identity, their own expectation of self, if you will, often find that they make greater progress on a consistent basis because they're running the right race. They're not running the race that they were never called to race. I'm not a lawyer because I wasn't called to be a lawyer. I'm not a painter because I'm not called to be a painter. I was called to the construction industry because I know how to build. I was called to thought leadership because I know how to build. Each of those things have building in common. As you begin to look at your life, okay, your life, your race of life, as you begin to look at that, ask yourself, am I running the right race? Sat.