Chasing Financial Freedom
Chasing Financial Freedom
Ep 317 | Reignite Your Passion and Find Your Purpose in 4 Life-Changing Lessons
In this powerful episode of the Chasing Happiness Podcast, Ryan DeMent dives deep into the true meaning of passion, purpose, and giving back. We all start a journey with a clear "why," but sometimes, life throws obstacles that blur our vision and make us lose focus on what truly matters.
Ryan shares his personal story about how he's rediscovered his purpose in business and life itself. With so many distractions, he’s realized that helping others and being of service is what truly lights up his heart. He explores the profound impact that giving—whether it's time, advice, or a helping hand—has on our happiness and sense of fulfillment.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How reconnecting with your "why" can reignite your passion and purpose.
- Practical strategies to handle obstacles and frustrations without losing sight of your vision.
- Why true happiness comes not from external possessions but from serving and helping others.
- How to break down your goals into manageable steps and visualize your success daily.
If you’ve ever struggled with finding your purpose or have been sidetracked by life’s challenges, this episode is for you. Ryan’s vulnerability and transparency will inspire you to push forward, no matter the setbacks, and stay focused on what truly matters.
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Have you ever been on one of those journeys in life personal or professional that you just lost focus on your why? That's where I'm at this week. Guys, talk about my why and we'll talk about my why in my personal life and then also professionally in the business why, how, serving others. But this week is really focused on my why and why I got into this business and why I'm doing what we're doing. I truly feel that I've lost the direction of my why, just for the simple fact of all of the obstacles that I've been facing on a daily basis to get to the other side and maybe these are all obstacles that are prepping me for bigger and better things. I'm hoping so. It's a struggle, man. I'm just being transparent. I'm being real with what's going on. I got into this business to help others to buy a home, people that have been left behind, lifelong renters that thought otherwise, that they could not buy a home. If you don't know, my background is we're in the affordable housing slash, workforce housing space. We build affordable homes, typically three bedrooms, two baths, almost 1,400 square feet. You can't buy a home today in some major metropolitan areas for less than three or 400,000, unless you want to fix your upper and then you got to get all the work done. We're in the Midwest and Indiana be specific and we can build a home and sell it for less than 200,000. And with the area median income of being roughly about 65,000 for a household, area median income of being roughly about $65,000 for a household, that makes it. How do I advance my why? How do I help others get to where they need to go? Because I know that feeling when I help others is dramatically different than what I'm doing today. Because when I help somebody, my heart beats a little bit faster. I get some goosebumps. You got to tell me that when you help somebody and they weren't expecting it, it's rewarding. The why is really about helping others getting to where they need to go?
Speaker 1:Now, I think part of this why is we hit headwinds when it came to helping others to where we had one after another family wise homebuyers that basically wanted us to do their work. They had credit challenges or they needed help with their down payment or they needed help with getting banking or being bankable, and that's fine, that's part of what we do. But when that individual or that family doesn't want to do the work, and it is left on me. That's a very big burden to carry and I don't think I know I took that on and it became too much. If they're not willing to do it for themselves, it's to better them, not me. It will help me and make me feel better that we get them into a home. But in the end, if they don't do the work and it's basically handed to them because we help them with everything along the way and all they had to do is show up, we did a disservice and our why is completely gone. That's one thing.
Speaker 1:The other thing is, I know, pandemic. It slowed us down, it stopped us to a screeching halt and we've gradually come back, but not to where I think we should be, and I think that's a challenge to dig out of the past with my today and I'm working on things that have already happened that don't allow me to get to my present and my future. That's another reason why my why is faded and not at full steam. It's because it feels like I'm putting out fires from the past, and the only way I know how to get past that is to be able to figure out what are the things in the past that I need to be able to fix and get them done and the last several weeks I've been on that and it seems like we're going to get into a better spot on that. But there are several things I'm working on that. I hope, once these are done, this clears my past and we can move forward and I can start moving on to a bigger journey.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the lessons are in this business-wise for my past. When I say my past, it's something that is business-related. It has to be addressed. It's come up. I can't put my head in the sand and let these things go by it. Truly they need to be handled and, to our word, we'll take care of it. But I asked, I asked the man upstairs, I asked God, the universe, why do these things happen? Because it just it makes no sense to me, but maybe in time it will.
Speaker 1:The challenge is I get frustrated and then that translates into my daily. I have to be able to pull back, mindset wise, and say, okay, I know this is a challenge from the past, I know it needs to be handled. Here's what we're going to do and then just start taking one step at a time. I know in a prior episode we talked. We spoke about goals and how to break them down into smaller. We talked, we spoke about goals and how to break them down into smaller, manageable steps. That's been my biggest challenge throughout life is creating a goal and then being able to break it down into smaller steps, and I heard this from a pastor measure what you can manage. Measure what you can manage. That resonated with me, and now I'm able to see that. Am I getting better at goal setting? Yes, but there's still a challenge. I still want to take these larger chunks and knock them off.
Speaker 1:I'm also journaling on a daily basis with these goals. The few steps that I've taken have been pretty solid, so I'm happy with that, but the one thing that I can tell you from the goal section guys, for me is being able to visualize them, see them, touch them on a daily basis. I write them down. I look at them daily. The other thing that I've adopted in this process is the top three goals. I'm going to put on my mirror in my bathroom, so I see them up there as I'm getting ready too. So now I'm going to add them to my mirror, and those are the top three goals that I want to achieve. If they change, great, I'll update them. If not, accomplish them, move on, add a new one or new ones.
Speaker 1:And lastly, on the why, guys, is this? We get into a business or we get into something that we're doing? It's our passion, it's our life, we love it, but we get sidetracked with life, and life has sidetracked me a few times, personally and professionally, and the only thing I know how to handle this is to be able to have a conversation about it with myself, put it in my journal, pray about it for sure, because, if you guys don't know, somewhere in a prior episode I think I did share my mom went through breast cancer. It's gone, remission, however. You want to say that, but it still sits in the back of my head that my mom had cancer and I have to deal with it. That's hard. She still have to go through her checkups every six months to make sure everything is good, and I'm starting to feel that great passion again to be able to help people get into a home, see that family so excited when they get the keys to their house and they're going crazy. I want that feeling again. I want to be able to be attached to it, because I know that means I'm moving my why forward to be able to help others.
Speaker 1:I've always thought that giving always had to come from a financial standpoint. It doesn't. It can come from you helping somebody, saying hi to somebody, opening the door for somebody, changing a tire for somebody, just being there for somebody to listen. And I think that is a huge change for me, because I need to be more human-centric and making sure that I'm putting my heart out there with my why to be able to help others, because, ultimately, we're only here on this face of the earth for X amount of years, so why not be able to help others succeed? Have them pass that along, because if you do it for one person, they'll do it for somebody else, and then you've created a chain and then we're rocking and rolling. Manage what you can measure and if you're struggling with your why, rest, don't give up, don't quit. Step back and figure out what's causing your flame to go out and rekindle it. All right, guys, have a good one, stay safe, stay healthy.
