…is best done without deadlines or expectations.
Many who become passionately immersed in something don’t get there through some framework or methodology. They stumble upon it. They explore until they find something that keeps them up at night and makes them excited to get out of bed the next morning.
Your calling is not found by forcing it. You won’t find it by setting SMART or DUMB goals for yourself. You find it by adventuring. By exploring. By blasting yourself out of your current comfort zone.
You might find glimpses in your day to day, but only by exploring those glimpses can you find passion.
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Do you think people are limited to just one “calling”?
Honestly, I can’t pretend to have a semblance of an answer to the question. Intuitively (and probabilistically) I’d say no, a calling isn’t definitive, it is subjective and very possible someone has several.
Your thoughts?
I think as we grow and expand our experience(s) and become more self aware and authentic or autonomous our passion/calling becomes more clear or unencumbered. It is no longer related to external luggage because we have unpacked all of that and our motivation becomes cleaner. (By this I mean it becomes detached from the expectations-or our perceived expectations-of others.)
I am really not sure if a calling changes or deepens as we get closer to our own truth. I think over a lifetime people can experience the pull of more than one calling but don’t know if it is simply that, or as they drop the connection to the perceptions of others they simply find the calling that matters most to them…what do you think?
Your first paragraph makes plenty of sense. I’m just beginning the “unpacking phase”, so I only hope that clarity and unencumbrance come with time.
I imagine callings shift and evolve as a person and the world does. A calling could be thought of as the right match of work that aligns with who a person is and the state of the world. With both being ever-changing entities, I imagine there isn’t one concrete truth, although there could be an abstract truth (to help individuals find fulfillment, to help alleviate poverty, etc.)
Thought provoking response! I find the idea of ‘no concrete truth’ freeing. 🙂