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How clearly you define your purpose, your meaningful revolution, determines your level of success. You could boil it down to one word, like my friend Evan Carmichael writes in his book, Your One Word. It's a difficult exercise, but worth it and doable and super helpful when you are always struggling to find out, what am I doing next, right?
Having that one guiding star can be very helpful. in your brand and everything you create and you do. you could also just see what the world is pushing you towards and go with the flow. And this is a recipe to feel restless or to wake up one day and wonder, how did my life get here? How did I end up in this place, in this job, in this set of relationships?
welcome to the Meaningful Revolution Podcast. I'm your host, Shawn Buttner. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about how to define your [00:01:00] meaningful revolution so that you are clear on what you have to do and why it's important to define your purpose.
So you can feel more confident. present and joyful in your meaningful revolution. (intro)
Let's get started.
What is a meaningful revolution? This is something that I talked about in a group that I'm running right now it's really important, and it's been an evolution on this podcast to talk about what is a meaningful revolution.
And I got four different ways of explaining it right now. It's number one, a bold and purposeful change you want to see in the world. A meaningful revolution is the meaningful pursuits you work on every day are each revolution of the planet. Meaningful Revolution is a mission deeply rooted in service to help others [00:02:00] thrive in their relationships, career, health, or well being, and, it's a radical idea that goes against the status quo that rallies others to change how they think, feel, and act in the world.
what I love about this is encompassing all of the ideas. that I've had on the Meaningful Revolution up to this point. And the reason why today's episode is about defining your Meaningful Revolution is because it will change over time, and it will get clearer and more succinct, and you might find different ways of explaining it, like I just did with that exercise defining a Meaningful Revolution.
But ultimately, it's Being in the journey and being in the work, right? It's not thinking about it and having it stuck in your head. It's been, I don't know how many pages of journals and documents [00:03:00] and talking with people and getting it out in the world to breathe and to find out how it takes root in finding this definition of what a meaningful revolution is.
And it's also a mini checklist to see how. successful your meaningful revolution is because if you want a big change in the world, but it's really out to hurt particular people, it's not going to work over the long term in my personal belief. So that's the reason for kind of defining this and why it's important and to illustrate how this will evolve over time.
point number two, this.
Podcast episode is what is your meaningful revolution then, right? How do you actually form that statement? It's not going to be the one word like I was talking about at the top of the episode from Evan Carmichael. cause that's his thing, but definitely go read the [00:04:00] book.
It's been helpful in trying to define that particular guiding like Northstar for my brand or myself. My Meaningful Revolution is to help creators, sustainably create more prolifically with higher quality while maintaining their relationships and health, or it's to help creators overcome self doubt, get clear on growth goals, take bold action, and connect people in their service to their mission purposes and projects, right?
This has changed a lot over time. I have a podcast called the Meaningful Revolution. I don't talk about why I'm doing this probably nearly enough.I'm hoping to make that a more reoccurring thing. and then finally nailed down the opening trailer that kind of defines that, but that's for another day.
I think for this particular podcast, the Meaningful Revolution podcast helps creators find other creators and inspiration to follow their [00:05:00] craft sustainably and without burning out so they can serve more people with excellence. So I hope you're here to either nerd out on a particular topic when I do the interviews, because those are super fun, finding out how people that have been successful in their creative endeavors have made that happen, and how you can get involved or maybe try things out if you're looking for different ideas on how to help you in your craft.
I also hope you're here because you want to connect with a community of like minded people that want to help people, want to make the world a better place, and have some crazy ideas or against the grain ideas or things that will change things for positive and you want to get those out. And so this is the community to find support, to have people cheer you on, to really connect and then build a community around [00:06:00] making positive change in the world.
So that's what we're doing here. okay.
So the question I have for you is, how do you define your meaningful revolution? And I have it broken down into four quick parts. And I've given a couple of examples already in this. And if you're listening to this in the show notes, I'm going to have a PDF that will break this down for you.
You can go down in the show notes, download a PDF for free in order to get this format I'm about to explain. about defining your Meaningful Revolution. And it goes like this. The first part is, you, or your brand name, or your idea name.
so for me, the Meaningful revolution. Helps, right now, creators. So the Meaningful Revolution helps creators. sustain higher levels of creative output and quality without hurting their health and relationships.
And then for, so that they can help the most amount of people in the shortest [00:07:00] amount of time. So this is an evolution of what I said earlier, right? using this format. And you see how it's getting clearer. It's getting a little bit less abstract and more grounded into how it's helping people. this level of clarity and granularity helps really clarify who you're talking to in your meaningful revolution, who your people are, who your tribe is, who are the people that you're really going to connect with.
I put that out there for , the Meaningful Revolution as a brand. hopefully you're connecting with that, and if not, then this isn't the right place for you and that's also totally cool and that's what's fun about doing all this. Maybe it could be a little scary, but anyways, so that's the four Points.
Your brand name, your ID name you help the target of your meaningful revolution, solve big problem. those folks have in your tribe without a pain point. so that usually is connected to other people or [00:08:00] service. And again, there's a link below to get a PDF of these four points for you to, walk through this exercise too if you're not handy and able to take notes right now.
So check that out. Okay. So if you're like, okay, I have that structure. But I don't know what my meaningful revolution is. I don't know what I'm really targeting. the idea I want you to walk away with today is it's something that you are consciously choosing. That's something that happens to you when you find your purpose or your meaningful revolution.
So it is going to be work and me saying that isn't trying to, discourage you. It's to say that, no, there's an opportunity here that if you really sit with your feelings, sit with your thoughts in a quiet place, in a journal, or however you take notes, you can figure this out. But if you need a couple more sources of inspiration on how to find your meaningful revolution, there's a couple of ideas and questions for [00:09:00] you to figure that out.
And the first one is, what do you currently love doing and would do even if you didn't get paid? There are no wrong answers, but you might find that if 9 out of 10 of your top things you do that you love are in nature, maybe that's a clue to work into your meaningful revolution.
So maybe your personal meaningful revolution is to help people get out in nature to disconnect to them, It's a clue, and that's what these sources and inspiration ideas are. They're just clues for you to get the ideas going on what might be your personal meaning for revolution.
And if you already have a very clear, defined purpose for meaningful revolution, you can have multiple revolutions too, but that's, I'll get to that here in a second. Can these sources of inspiration help you get even further granular in how you talk about or define your meaning for revolution, right?
Okay, so second [00:10:00] source of inspiration is, what do you currently nerd out about and find fascinating? for me, I've come from a tech background. I've been super into all this generative AI stuff. Trying to figure out how it can help me in my coaching business, run my business as an added assistant or bonus to my coaching packages and practices, how it can help me do marketing in my business, that, those kinds of stuff.
And, because I'm also technical, I still get the itch to code. And so recently I did my first AI project, not because it helped me in my business directly quite yet. That's the aim, and maybe I'll share that with folks later, but I did a very quick prototype app doing some generative stuff to help me do, basically get a draft of my newsletter every week in a similar format just to see if I could do it, right?
And so [00:11:00] maybe that's something I want to incorporate into this brand a bit more in the future. I know I did a whole season on AI. And had some really amazing discussions with David Deutsch and, a couple of other folks butfollow what you nerd out about and find fascinating and that, that draw to things you find exciting and fun, right?
That could be a clue onto your meaningful revolutions. Okay, third source of inspiration is what do people come to you to ask for help with or what do you find worthwhile in doing in service to others, right? This could be everyone's coming to you to help you or to have you help them move, right?
Cause you're really good at it, maybe you really all the heavy lifting, and you find it's something worth doing for your friends and family. But maybe, that's not part of your life. Maybe it's people come to you for advice.
And so maybe it's oh, maybe I could turn this into Coaching like [00:12:00] they want me Want my help in organizing their closets. Maybe I could be an organization coach or Maybe they're coming to me to learn how to play guitar, or they're coming to me because they want to talk about life or they have a difficult situation they're trying to work through and they know that you'll give them an objective, honest, and wide perspective, right?
Whatever that is for you, that could be something worth pursuing. fourth source of inspiration is what are you naturally amazing at? So if you have some natural, and I'll put that in quotes, things that you're just, you really excel at, like you're really good at writing social media posts, or you're really amazing at, dialing in your health, that's really going to maybe inform.
maybe that could be a part of your meaningful revolution and that maybe [00:13:00] you could help people figure out their nutrition, right? And then finally, source of inspiration is something you've always wanted to try, but you haven't yet. You're like, Oh, one day I'm going to learn the cello or I'm gonna learn the viola or one day.
I'm going to learn how to. Mountaineer, these could be great clues on to informing your meaningful revolution. for me in going through this, I tend to be the person in friend groups where people when people are working through problems, we talk. And that's why I do coaching, honestly, because I love those.
One on one conversations, a problem solving of creating a space where people could explore all options without feeling judged and I've turned that into a career and I really [00:14:00] believe that's Why I do coaching and why I do this podcast, you know Being able to interview people about what they nerd out about that's fun.
That's something I'm always interested in is what are people passionate about? What are their meaningful revolutions? and I hope one day to talk with you and find out about your meaningful revolution and what's really going on for you.
Finally, just got five mistakes to avoid.
the first thing to think about is this isn't a one and done exercise. the evolution of this podcast's mission revolution statement is a prime example and everything you've done in your past work when you write this out and you're trying to figure it out or you're like, ah, this is good, but it could be different or a little bit closer.
it's part of the process and just trust in that as you actively continue to write and think and talk and develop it, you'll figure it out. Meaning if you're a professional or [00:15:00] perfectionist, this is your permission to be a little bit messy on your way to get it perfect. So don't let trying to land this on your first try prevent you from actually doing the work.
Second thing is write down your meaningful revolution statement, right? In your word doc, in whatever note taking system you have, journal. Post it note, but schedule 15 minutes this week to define your meaningful revolution or to get more clear on your meaningful revolution.
Because writing it down, will get you to think about it in a way that's different from just talking about it. And you'll find seeing it on paper, you might be like, Oh, that doesn't feel right. Or there's something missing or adds something, right? So writing it down is really important and keeping it close to, where you operate every day.
So you can see it every day is also important, which leads me to the next mistake. don't set it and forget it, If you write [00:16:00] it down in a journal and bury it, and you never see it again, it's not going to be helpful. But when you write it down, ask yourself why your meaningful revolution is important to you, to your family, and to the world at large.
And on that post it note, maybe by your computer, by the mirror in your bathroom, look at it every day and feel that connection to other people, right? And connect with it at an emotional level, and that'll be a great way to keep connected and motivated with it. Even if you're not ready to do or act on it right now,
you have something to look forward to then, so if life is hectic and crazy or you can't get to it, just seeing your meaningful revolution and what you want to enact in the world can be very motivating for you to eventually make that change. And then finally, don't listen to the haters.
some people might be scared that you have this new big dream or this new sense of purpose [00:17:00] and that you'll change because of it. And because you're pursuing something greater than yourself, so be kind to yourself and know that there's a community of folks here that are cheering you on. I'm cheering you on.
it's a great thing to have something that you want to make better out in the world. And you're not listening to a podcast called the meaningful revolution if you don't have that sense of service in your heart.
I appreciate you. I see you. don't let people that think small or think you should be stuck where you are hold you back, right? You can break through. You got this. that's what I have for you, today on The Meaningful Revolution. happy 4th of July. I just remembered that's when this episode is coming out.
hopefully it's safe and with family. if you have a chance, download the Meaningful Revolution template below in the show notes here. And if you can't, share this with your folks. this week as you see them, [00:18:00] your family and friends and dream guys, you got this. So thanks for listening to the meaningful.
Revolution Podcast. We'll see you next time. This is Shawn Buttner, signing off.
