🌼 Finding Your Mission in Everyday Moments
Welcome to this Start Fresh mini from the Om WOW Podcast! Let’s reset our mindset and start the week with clarity and intention.
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Episode #28: Show Notes
Have you been trying to figure out your mission in life? What if it's already showing up in the small, natural things you do every day... but you haven't recognized it yet?
Today I'm sharing a bit about my mission and a few scenes from my life that helped me hone in on what it actually is. But this isn't about ME.
I'm hoping to inspire you to reflect on stories and scenes from your own life to see if YOU can pull out a common thread that connects them to something special that could be your own personal mission.
My Personal Mission
My mission in life is to make others feel worthy. It's simple. Non flashy and it's been part of my intrinsic nature for my whole life so far. I just didn't have a label for it. Side note, have you been searching for your mission? Because as I've learned, it might not be as huge as you think. Sometimes changing the world happens by little things that we do every day. Not something big and gigantic and earth shattering.
The expanded version of my mission is to guide people toward emotional wellness and joy with information, strategies, and support. I'm sharing this with you so you'll understand my motivation and why I am investing my time and energy on even creating this podcast.
How I Live Out My Mission
The guidelines I've set for myself and my company, White Robin Wellness for how to live out my mission, include: making others feel safe, worthy, seen, and heard; freely offering helpful information for those who want it. Serving as a resource guide for emotional wellness, providing compassionate encouragement tools and resources, sending out high vibrations and infinite love; learning, exploring and researching to continually uncover even more to share.
Why Your Mission Doesn't Have to Be Huge
So over time I realized that making people feel worthy and speaking up about things I believe in were part of my mission. They just came so naturally and without warning that I didn't realize it. I really thought that my mission had to be something huge. But over the past few years, I've come to realize that simple things like taking the time to thank the woman who's cleaning a gigantic women's bathroom at a rest stop on the interstate matter deeply.
Just taking a few moments to look her in the eye and thank her for all that she does to keep that place safe and clean for us and bring a smile to her face. That's part of my mission and that's just, those are just things that I do.
Speaking Up for What's Right
Maybe 20 years ago or so when I worked in a retail clothing store, I was pretty shocked to find out that at the end of each season, the company would instruct each store to bag up all of the clothing that didn't sell after being marked down on clearance, put it in a giant trash bag, bring it outside and dump bleach into it to make the clothing discolored and disgusting.
And when I questioned why we were doing this and why we were damaging clothing, one, I was told, so it was the company could write the loss off as damages, but two, it was so that if anybody happened to pick through the trash and find the clothing, they couldn't wear it and they couldn't bring it in to return it for money.
And that was their reasoning. And I said, this is ridiculous. Why can't we be donating these clothes to people who need them? And my manager could not answer the question and I asked her to ask higher up, and eventually I got permission to actually document the clothing that was supposed to be destroyed, clipped off all the tags. We sliced off the brand name so that the clothing could not be returned, which apparently was the company's big fear. And then one of our coworkers brought all of the bags of clothing to a thrift store to be donated to people who need them.
When Small Acts Leave Lasting Impressions
So after that experience, I never gave it a second thought. Well, when my daughter was in high school, we were clothing shopping. I ran into one of my previous coworkers and she recognized me. You know, I went up to say hi, and she said, oh my gosh, you made such a big impression on me. And I was like, I did, what are you talking about? And she said, I was there the day that you challenged the manager and you challenged the company asking them why they were destroying the clothes.
She said, I had never thought about that before and how wrong it was until you said something and she said, I just want you to know that stuck with me. And I was like, holy moly. It just, I don't know, not putting myself up on a high horse by any means. The point I'm trying to make is when you speak up for what you believe in, when you see something that's not ethical in your opinion or not right, you need to speak up.
It doesn't matter what the status quo is, what everyone else believes, what everyone else goes along with, I just feel the need to speak up. That's one example that came up for me when I was trying to boil down what my actual mission is and I heard to make people feel worthy.
Discover Your Life Purpose in Ordinary Moments
As you head into this week, I challenge you to look for your mission in the ordinary moments of your day. What comes naturally to you, that other people struggle with? What do you find yourself doing or how do you find yourself acting that's different from those around you? If you're trying to figure out your giant purpose or mission for this life, I encourage you to zoom in and look at smaller moments. Have a fabulous week my friends!
If this mini gave you a mindset boost, pass it on! Comment below & let me know— your energy makes a difference.
Meet Our Host: Jennifer Robin O’Keefe
Jennifer Robin serves as a relatable, down-to-earth, REAL Wellness & Success Coach. She’s not a fancy, perfect makeup, airbrushed kind of woman. She’s been told many times, in a variety of environments, that she’s easy to talk to, and makes others feel welcome and comfortable. Her mission in life is both simple and profound: to make others feel worthy.
Professionally, Jennifer holds several wellness certifications including Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping, Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Tapping, Reiki, and more. She continuously expands her knowledge in the fields of Qi Gong, Xien Gong, Vibration/Energy Wellness and Natural Health. She also studied extensively with Jack Canfield, and serves as a Certified Canfield Trainer, authorized to teach "The Success Principles."
She’s an active reader and researcher who loves to learn, and one of her biggest joys is teaching and sharing what she’s discovered with others.
