Chasing Financial Freedom
Chasing Financial Freedom
Ep 313 | Harness Three Essential Tools for Navigating Entrepreneurial Faith Challenges
Can navigating the space between hope and faith redefine your entrepreneurial journey? Join me as I unravel my year-long odyssey through personal and business challenges, particularly a pivotal project in Bayard Park. This episode is an unfiltered reflection on the internal tug-of-war I've faced, striving to find clarity and purpose beyond financial success. Through journaling and prayer, I've embarked on a quest to reconnect with the passion that once ignited my path in affordable housing development. I explore the need to redefine my motivations and share my journey of seeking resolution and renewed energy amidst uncertainty.
As I traverse the gray area where hope meets faith, I invite you to ponder whether our current practices are enough to propel us forward. There's an urgency to connect with others sharing similar struggles, as there's undeniable strength in collective support and shared experiences. Let's build a community that thrives on mutual growth, asking ourselves how we can move from simply hoping for change to fostering unwavering faith in our journeys. Join the conversation, share your insights, and let's cultivate a space where we all find our "why" and the passion that drives the work we do.
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Hey guys, ryan Dement, hope you guys are having a great day Today on the show you've got me and I know it's been a little bit of time since we put out an episode. Excuse me, we put an episode last week and we took a couple weeks off because I got sick and got whatever was going around and I just thought it would be a great way just to take a break, recharge the batteries, figure out what I want to do on the show and move forward. But this week it's me. It's flat out just me being open and honest and just talking about things going on in business and so forth, but also personal life. It's been 2024 was a long year and a lot of stuff happened and I feel like there are still things that are unresolved that I'm fighting through from a business perspective, and the only way I know how to best describe it is being consistent and being persistent in getting things done. But at times I feel like and I'm going to go a little philosophical on you guys today is faith versus hope. Have I been hoping that the project in Bayard Park is going to get to the finish line sooner rather than later, or do I have faith later, or do I have faith, and we can go into both of those, but that's the piece that I've been putting out to myself and understanding where I'm at Cause.
Speaker 1:I think I'm stuck in this quandary, in this gray area, to where I'm struggling with hope versus faith, and I don't quite know where I'm at one but two. I think I'm trying to define it. I don't think I know, and I don't quite know where I'm at one but two. I think I'm trying to define it. I don't think I know, and I don't think that's going to work either. I have to find my path in this, and the only way to do that is to really just spend time walking through the process, and it's not just business. Do I have faith for myself? Do I have faith for my family? Am I hoping for this or I'm hoping for that? And that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to live a life of one, going after my passion affordable housing, development and really making it work and helping others, and that's been a grind, and that's where I'm at. Is that I'm hitting my head up against the wall? I don't want to say that I've lost the happiness for it, but it sure does weigh on my mind and it really slows me down.
Speaker 1:I want to get to a place, to where I feel like I'm re-energized and recharged to be able to take on new projects. Finish Bayard Park, do all that stuff. I love it. Don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to find my path in all this to be able to understand. Here's where we're at. This is what needs to be done. How do we get this to the finish line?
Speaker 1:And that's the struggle is, I don't see how we can get it to the finish line. And that's where, again, faith versus hope. I'm hoping to get to the finish line, but faith is as I've been told by a good friend of mine. She told me, faith is you, fill it in your soul, it's in your being, and I don't know if I'm at faith yet. I know I'm past hope, but I think I'm caught in this quandary, this gray area between faith and hope, and that's the struggle that I'm living with.
Speaker 1:And from a business perspective an entrepreneur, a human being, a leader it's a struggle when you're in that place in life and you can't figure out where you're at and where you're going and to understand what I need to do because ultimately I have to put on a better back that up. And I'm sorry, guys, this is all all over the place, but it's just coming out just unfiltered, ready to go. I have to do better at what I'm trying to accomplish. I write down goals and so forth, but there needs to be why behind those goals. It can't always be about driving money. It has to have purpose, and that's where I'm. That's even better. That's where I'm struggling at is with the why Is why am I doing this? What's the purpose? How am I helping others? I know what I started with, but I don't know if that's where I'm at today, or am I changing along the way? Or if I changed along the way, and where am I at today? I don't have that answer, and that's the struggle that I've been dealing with is I've got hope and I've got why. For you guys watching video, I've got my fingers up and it's somewhere in between. Here I'm trying to figure out what's going on and understanding how we can actually get it resolved. And when I mean resolved, as in I, it's not, I'm not hoping for anything.
Speaker 1:Faith, I have faith. It's in my, it's in my heart, it's in my soul, it's in my DNA. I lost it and now I'm having to come back around and re-find it. And that's the process I'm going through. Whether you believe in God, universe, larger being, whatever, for me, journaling and praying helps me, just from the simple fact of putting my mind at ease, but also allowing me to see what I'm talking about, and then I can relate to it, I can connect with it. But I also can see what I'm trying to do. I'm a visual learner and I can go back, you know, to my journaling two weeks ago or three weeks ago or yesterday, and take a look at it and know exactly what I was talking about, asking for and going through it all. And it's just self-reflection now and that's just where I'm at. I don't know, there's just more coming out.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'm beating myself up on this topic or not, but it feels like myself up on this topic or not, but it feels like I'm just I'm not comfortable with where I'm at and I need to do better. And that's really what I want to do. I want to do better, I want to help more, I want to bring joy to others, because that helps me. The more I give, the happier I get, and I feel like I don't give enough. I don't feel like I'm giving enough or I have enough to give. I also want to make sure that I'm taking care of my family, and I don't know if I'm doing that completely or not, to be honest, and it's just. That's out there.
Speaker 1:So if I have a question mark in my head, I need to be able to figure out what's going on and how to solve it. But I think for this piece, I'm trying to solve it and this is where hope and faith comes back in. I'm trying to do it on my own and I need to have faith, and that's where I'm struggling is to understand how do I move from hope to faith. I don't know what I need to do. If you guys want to give me feedback, I'm all for it. I just I don't know how to describe it other than I feel like I'm in this gray area between the two and I've got both sides talking to me, but I truly don't know what steps I need to take. I don't know if I continue to do what I'm doing, in the sense of journaling and praying that I will do daily, but are there other things that I'm doing on a daily basis that are taken away from this process and leaving me in that gray area, or do I need to add additional things that can help me move forward? I don't know, and that's I hate having you know the unknown, but that's where I'm at. That's all I have. You know this week, guys, I'm trying to work through all this.
Speaker 1:I hope you guys are doing well and thank you for sticking in. I know it's about 10 minutes long, but truly this is life where I'm at. I'm being as transparent as I possibly can be, but also I know there's others out there that potentially could be struggling with this too. Love to hear from you. I'd love to be able to connect and have a conversation around it, because I need to learn more. I need to be able to connect with others that are on a similar journey as I am, but also we're stronger in numbers. We're also stronger with people that have gone through our situations to help us out. So love to connect with you guys. Let me know, but I hope you guys have a great day, stay healthy, stay safe and I'll talk to you guys on the other side.
