Get To Know Yourself: How To Stop Living Average & Start Living on Purpose (Motivational Speech)

What if the version of you you’ve been waiting on is buried beneath the version of you you’ve settled for?

In this motivational Speech episode, Reginald D, dives deep into one of the most powerful truths: you can’t change your life until you first know who you really are.

Reginald D challenges the lie of average living and breaks down how hustle, hurt, and routine can bury the purpose you were born with.

 If you've ever felt stuck in a job, a version of yourself, or a mindset that feels small—this is your wake-up call.

Real talk. Real strategy. Real breakthrough.

Right now, millions of people are operating in survival mode—living to pay bills, settling for “good enough,” and forgetting who they were designed to be.

This episode flips the script, helping you pull your identity out of the disappointment, doubt, and “sauce” of life—and start living from your full, God-given potential.

What You’ll Gain:

• Learn how to separate who you are from what you do, so your identity isn’t based on your job or your circumstances
• Discover how getting to know the “real you” unlocks your purpose, passion, and personal power
• Stop surviving on autopilot and start living intentionally with faith, clarity, and confidence

Press play now if you’re ready to stop settling and finally meet the version of you that was built to live bold, lead strong, and create something unforgettable.

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Transcript

 Welcome to Real Talk With Reginal D.  I'm your host, Reginald D. On today's episode, I'm going to talk about getting to know yourself. Let's go. There are so many people that are living a life not knowing who they really are. They allow the everyday hustle and bustle to distract them from understanding who they really are and what their purpose is in this life. Now, I need you to understand that first and foremost, you have to separate your daily duties and responsibilities from yourself. Because if you don't, you will incorporate your life into your current situation. For instance, you will look at the job that you are on and not happy with and tell yourself that this is it for me. This is the best I can do. But when you separate you from the job, you'll understand the job is necessary at that moment, but it's not forever. Start treating your daily duties and responsibilities as them being necessary, but start treating yourself as being valuable. So when something is valuable, we take our time and we treat it differently. We give it our best. What am I saying? You have to value yourself more. It's time for you to get more for your life. It's time for you to get to know yourself. Get to know the real you. You are capable of achieving the things that you don't think you're able to. Let me ask you this. Where's your confidence? Without confidence, there is no achieving. You know, you are the one that's standing there in your way. You are denying yourself of the things that you want and deserve, all because you really don't know yourself. It's time for you to confront you. And let me tell you that the hardest person to confront is the person you see in the mirror. People want to change everybody else, but they don't want to change themselves. Your success starts with you. What you achieve will depend on how much you know yourself. You think in order to change, you have to become someone new. That's not it. It's all about becoming who you really are. You have a power to get what you want for your life. You have within you what it takes to live out your purpose and your dreams. You just got to get to know that about yourself. When you spend the time getting to know yourself, you will understand that you're not average at all. You will understand it's something different about you. When you get to know yourself, you begin to understand how unique you are. Let me ask you this. Have you ever heard the terminology getting lost in the sauce? The meat of your life is buried in the sauce. The sauce of disappointment, the sauce of feeling like you're not good enough the sauce of what people said negatively about you. But let me tell you that it's time for you to dig deep into the sauce and pull out the meat of your life. Grab the main thing which is what you want and desire for your life and leave the sauce behind and allow it to go bad. So you got to understand that when I think about meat and sauce, the meat was never meant to stay in the sauce. No matter what you cook, the meat had to go through the sauce before it was ready to be served. I need you to understand that it's your time and the reason you are ready is because the meat of your life has been through the sauce of life and you have overcame it all. Now I need you to know that in getting to know yourself, you have to think what you need to leave behind. Moving forward in life starts with a decision on what you're going to leave behind. Getting to know yourself is the biggest thing you can do for yourself and your life. I have heard people say I just want to be myself. How are you going to be yourself when you don't even know yourself? You too busy being lost in everybody else. You'll never be able to know yourself and find yourself doing that. Getting to know yourself is a foundation of learning your self worth. You will begin to understand your values, passions and personality. Now I need you to understand that through this process and getting to know yourself, it's important that you know that you are only human and you're going to make mistakes. Just because you make mistakes along the way does not mean you are a mistake. Making mistakes is just part of learning. That's it. Just don't keep making the same mistakes twice or over and over again. It's critical that you know that things are not going to be perfect. That's what people tend to give up. Because there is a lie that's in their head telling them that things should be perfect. For me, once I realized wholeheartedly that there is no such thing as a perfect life, I just started perfecting the things I had to work with. See, when you get to know yourself, you will understand that you may not have everything you want to achieve what you desire, but you understand that you have everything you need to achieve it. You just got to perfect the things you got to work with in order to grow. You got to know you got to know who. You got to know you. I'm talking about the raw and dangerous you. I'm talking about the beast in you, the real you that says I'M going to get what I want for my life no matter what kind of hand I've been dealt with. So you are too busy trying to find yourself when you should be creating yourself to be what you desire to be. You've been thinking too long. Stop thinking and start executing. You've been confusing yourself all this time. Instead of trying to give yourself an average life, telling yourself as long as I got enough money to pay my bills and go out every now and then, then I'm good. No, that's not it. Get to know yourself, man. There is nothing average about you. The real you should be living on a whole nother level. Not average, you just worrying about paying your bills. But you had a capacity to create something that you could pay your bills and help other people pay theirs if you want to. I need you to really get to know yourself. Stop trying to be a manager and start being a business owner. That's the real you. Listen, the first thing in pursuing your dreams and desires is knowing yourself. Because first you got to believe in you before you can achieve anything. If you don't have faith in you, then you won't get what you should have got. Quit waiting on people to promote you. Promote yourself. Do it your way. Let me tell you this. When you really get to know yourself, you're going to create a life that will make you feel good inside and make a difference on the outside. And getting to know yourself, you will not allow anything outside to control you. You will understand that you are in charge of the happiness in your life. I need you to realize once you take the time to get to know yourself for real, you will find a better you. You will simplify your life to make a more effective you. I need you to stay goal driven. Focus on living your life the way it was designed to be lived. The outcome for your life is going to be determined by what you do. This journey can be painful sometimes in this life. But nothing is more painful than being stuck in a place that you don't want to be for the rest of your life. So you're looking at your life right now and saying what happened? Guess what? You happened. You failed to take the time to get to know yourself and who you are meant to become. You miss the part that you are greatness. You miss the part that you're chosen. You missed the part where God says he knew you before the foundation of the world and he set you apart. You missed the part when God called you friend and he promised to be there with you every step of the way. I'm going to leave you with this. Whatever you do, get to know yourself. If you think you're average, then you don't know. You don't change for nobody because you are what makes you special. If you feel that life is trying to push you down, you push back stronger. The choices that you make from here on out is going to determine how your life is going to turn out. Get to know yourself. Get to know the real you and you will find out what you've been missing. Thanks for listening to Real Talk With Reginald D, if you enjoyed listening to Real Talk With Reginald D. Please rate and review on Apple Podcasts. See you next time.