This Course will make you think differently about what you do and how you do it. “Today, unlike any previous time in history, we have options about the work we do and the role it plays in our lives. But it is precisely here that somanyof us getstuck. We need aclear framework for discerning our calling, developing our mastery, and maximizingour impact. You will learn to embracewhat matters, how to connect with that inside yourself, and then how to bring it out into the world in a useful way. For many people, their work is just a job and nothing more. We believe that it is more than that and when we understand that and embrace that then we will do what we do differently and achieve results that will make the world a better place and make you a better person.
This is apractical, yet inspiring prescription for how to identify and nurture your true passions in life, allowing you to turn a calling into your own beautiful contribution to the world.
Everyone, it seems, is searching for a purpose, for something to satisfy their deepest desires. I believe that “something” is a calling. What is a calling? You will hearme use the word interchangeably with the terms vocation and life’s work , but quite simply, it is the reason you were born.
Discovering your calling, it turns out, isn’t quite so simple. The journey looks different for each person, but there are common themes that consistently emerge. If we look at those themes, we can identifya pattern that will help us understand our own vocations alittlebetter.A calling is like that too, I suppose. It is the thing that you never thought would be, the twist in the plot that makes everything else come together, and somehow in the end you cannot imagine otherwise.
This is not a Course about mantras, slogans, feel good stories and . It is a Course about finding your calling, about how you discover what you were born to do. A calling is that thing that you can’t not do, an answer to the age-old question, “What should I do with my life?”There are books and coursesthat talk about how to find your dream job or what it takes to become an expert—this just isn’t one of them.
This Course is aboutvocation, a word that has come to mean something very different from the original definition. The word vocation comes from the Latin rootvocare,whichmeans“tocall.”Itwasoriginallyusedina religious sense, as in a call to the priesthood. And for centuries, people thought of it as just that—something reserved for an elite group of people, for those special few who were lucky enough to becalled.
But what if that isn’t true? What if a calling is something everyone has? In this Course, I will try to recapture that ancient understanding of vocation as something more than a job. I will take a more directive approach – which is more in line with my personality – so don’t be surprised. The way to meaningful work doesn’t always look like a carefully crafted plan. Sometimes the route to our purpose is a chaotic experience, and how we respond matters more than what happens to us.
