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What would you do if you could do anything?
finding your vocation is less about grand moments of discovery and more about a habit of awareness. “See
“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”
Every step will reveal new choices to make.
“I don’t know what to do.”
And with that seemingly innocuous response, a dream can die.
But what we’re really saying in these moments of not knowing is that we want the journey to be safe. We want it drawn out for us—no surprises or setbacks, just a clear beginning and end. Unfortunately,
Sometimes failure is the best thing that can happen to you if you learn to listen to the lessons in it.
“Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
Every calling is marked by a season of insignificance, a period when nothing seems to make sense. This
wandering in the wilderness, when you feel alone and misunderstood. To the outsider, such a time looks like failure, as if you are grasping at air or simply wasting time. But the reality is this is the most important experience a person can have if they make the most of it.
you must be careful to not succeed at the wrong things. You
waiting on your calling; your calling is waiting on you.
What I fear more than anything about that day is how I will have to answer for all the times I didn’t live up to my potential, why
difficulty and competency meet.
Work, it seems, was never meant to be something we do just to make a living. It was meant to be a means of making a difference—
Life has a funny way of teaching us that sometimes the most important stuff is the ordinary stuff. The smallest moments, the ones we think are insignificant, are the ones we will cherish the most.
A life filled with achievements and accolades but lacking those people necessary to celebrate those moments is not much of a life at all.
I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—
Freedom is a great thing, but freedom without restriction can be paralyzing.
departing from expectation in order to become who they are.
And most would rather play it safe than be rejected by their friends or fall on their faces for the world to see. So
Every day you and I face a choice: to either pursue our authentic selves or a shadow of the real thing.
We are, as Viktor Frankl wrote, looking for a reason to be happy. Fulfillment isn’t just for the elite few who find a purpose for life; it’s for everyone.
“die with their song still in them,”
You settled for good when you were called to greatness.
Life is not a
support system for your work; your work is a support system for your life.
“Hotch, if I can’t exist on my own terms, then existence is impossible. Do you understand? That is how I’ve lived, and that is how I must live—or not live.”
That’s what an addiction promises: total annihilation of self.
no longer be able to dissociate yourself from what you’ve created.
Albert Einstein, on his deathbed, asked for his glasses so he could continue working on a project he believed would be his greatest work of all. He was not interested in mere phenomena anymore. He wanted, as he put it, “to know God’s thoughts.”4 Everything else was details.
This “theory of everything,” as it came to be known, was based on Einstein’s belief that physics was an “expression of the divine.”
we all die unfinished symphonies,
But if you hear the call to make your life about more than you and what you can contribute, you will have peace, not anxiety, when facing mortality. You
Because in the end, success isn’t so much what you do with your life; it’s what you leave behind. Which
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