How to Find Your True Calling?

To fully understand a "True Calling", I suggest examining the sum of its parts, to gain insight into the exponential power of the whole.

 "TRUE"

Merriam Webster's online dictionary gives us these little gems about viewing ourselves and the truth about who we are and are becoming each day. Under the full definition of "True", Merriam Webster offers these definitions:

2a (3): fully realized or fulfilled true

2c  being that which is the case rather than what is manifest or assumed true

 dimension of the problem

5a that is fitted or formed or that functions accurately

Here's the Truth about "True and You":  You are fitted or formed, factually, to be fully realized or fulfilled in pursuit of life. The pursuit of life you are seeking has many names, yet one sticks for me: Your gift. You were designed with a gift and pathway ensuring your best possible life. How do you find this gift? Listen for the "Calling".

"CALLING"

Referencing a New Living Translation scripture from the Bible, it’s like this:

Mark 1:3 "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the LORD's coming! Clear the road for him!" 

Your gift is buried deep inside of you. It is obscured by the wilderness of your life's experiences. It is hidden behind failures, fears, regrets, disbelief, and feelings of not deserving more or better from life. If you listen carefully and open your heart, you will eventually hear your "TRUE" calling from your wilderness. It will start out faint, as it makes its way to the edge of your internal forest of experiences. It will formulate patterns identifying what fills you up with life and what sucks you dry of life. 

The voice will grow louder, as you feed your emerging "TRUE" affirming and solidifying the clear road for you to begin envisioning, planning, and setting out for a life uniquely designed for you.  It will call from books, magazines, movies, conversations, reflections, people, places, and anywhere "TRUE" can move closer and be heard by you. Something Henry David Thoreau once said about success, that applies to finding your "TRUE":

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

In 2005, I met my "TRUE" in a dream that birthed a book called "The Gift Table" Getting Your Giftedness in Gear. And, I have been following my "CALLING" for 8 years now. It is a journey being perfected that is perfect for me and most challenging when I attempt any departure from it. I have had my greatest joys finding and pursuing my "True Calling" and it has made me a better person for it. The journey is not easy, however, it far exceeds any existence without it because money, affection, independence, fill-in-blank, can fill this gift shaped hole in our lives. With God's help, I will continue my pursuit and it is my highest hope and prayer you find your "True Calling", too.   

Have a blessed day listening for your gift crying in the wilderness, so you too will meet with success in uncommon hours. 

If you’d like help finding your “True Calling”, just drop me an email and we’ll move forward with meeting your gift in uncommon hours, for unparalleled success in life and being a blessing to those around you.

John,

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