Finding Your Calling

I've been on a reading binge about finding your calling and aligning your life with it. (See my recent posts about The Art of Work and Living Forward.)

I've started catching up on some old podcasts. I find Michael Hyatt podcast remarkably valuable and, now, very timely. His recent installment, How to Discern Your Calling, discusses how your calling is at the intersection of the intersection of Passion, Proficiency, and Profitability. In other words, he poses these questions that your true calling must satisfy:

• Do you love to do it?
• Are you good at it?
• Is it sustainable?

He doesn't tell you how to find your calling, but he describes what it must look like when you find it.

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I also found this quote from the podcast remarkable:

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. ”      -- James Michener

Hyatt also reminded me that I am special. I am unique. No one is like me. I am a snowflake.

My final takeaway:

If I deny my calling, I deprive the world of my God-given gifts. I deny He who called me.

(He didn't say that, but that is what I concluded.)

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