047: The Seven Stages of Finding Your Calling [Podcast]

Finding your calling usually isn’t a defining moment of clarity. It’s a hard, long process to discover what you were meant to do with your life.

Failure is inevitable. It’s also a gift. When you fail, it’s a chance to learn how to move forward, overcome, and take that lesson to the next thing you do. Failure forces you to grow. Those growing opportunities help you find what you are called to do with your life.

Each step of finding your own calling is difficult in its own. To find your calling you must walk through the seasons of awareness, apprenticeship, practice, discovery, profession, mastery, and legacy.

In this week’s episode of The Portfolio Life, join my co-host Andy Traub and me as we walk through the seven stages of pursing your calling as I outlined them in my new book, The Art of Work.

Listen to the podcast

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You can also listen at iTunes or on Stitcher.

Highlights from the show

Your life is speaking; you just need to be able to recognize the signs.
Every story of success is really a story of community. We don’t get to where we’re going alone.
Practicing is how you learn what you’re supposed to be spending your time doing.
Pick one thing and do it for the rest of your life then you can become a master at it.
Our calling is not complete until we begin to share it with others.
Pursuing your calling is a process of awareness, accidental apprenticeship, painful practice, discovery, profession, mastery, and legacy.

Resources

This podcast is just an overview of the process of finding your calling. In my new book, The Art of Work, I go into more details on each of these steps and help you look at what they look like in your own life. You can pick up your own copy of the book at ArtofWorkBook.com

This is the last week to get in on the free paperback copy of The Art of Work plus $250 in bonuses. The deal ends at 11:59 PM Central Time on Monday, March 23, so visit ArtofWorkBook.com to get your free copy.

Where are you in your journey of finding your calling? Share in the comments.