What Work Calls To You?
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The Fifth Aspect of Great Work
Do you feel like you are called to accomplish great things, but you do not know what they are? Do you want to work for more than just a paycheck or the weekends?
Transforming Your Workday
The fifth aspect of great work, although a challenging one to find, transforms the work you do. To find the work that calls to you, you need to discover your life calling.
Once you do, routine tasks take on new meaning. Distractions and synchronicities start to fit within the larger picture of what you are working towards. And chance meetings make sense .. because you know what is bringing these things together.
Life callings awaken us and summon us to our destiny. And the work we are called to do is how we turn that calling into a livelihood, a lifestyle and a paycheck.
Listen To Your Calling
So how do you listen to your calling and discover the great work you are meant to do? It starts with learning more, and these are the tools I recommend.
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Follow Your Bliss: Discovering Your Inner Calling And Right Livelihood
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Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation An inspiring book about how to listen to your soul and find the courage to follow it and live the life that wants to express itself through you. |
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The Calling: Live a Life of Significance A different approach to finding and living your calling by focusing on providing significance rather than success as defined by your paycheck. Filled with exercises and a Christian perspective. |
Live Your Calling: A Practical Guide to Finding and Fulfilling Your Mission in Life A guidebook filled with insights and ideas to find your gifts and talents and use them to bring joy and meaningful work into your life. |
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Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life A more spiritual and scriptural approach to finding your vocation by listening to the spirit within and responding to God's calling on your life. |
Being Inspired To Find Your Life Calling
In addition to inspiring quotes about work that calls to you, these movies can help inspire you and set your feet on the right path. They also point out some of the difficulties you face when following your calling, and how that can mystify and challenge other's beliefs about life.
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Boys Town
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Contact
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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Field of Dreams
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Gandhi
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Gorillas in the Mist
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
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And if you want more life calling movies ...
Taking Courage to Heart
It takes courage not only to love what we do for a living, but to listen to our heart and heed the calling it makes to follow a different path ... one that can take us on a life journey beyond our expectations.
And it takes commitment to seek out the education, experiences, tools and knowledge we need to translate our gut feelings into solid career choices and business decisions.
Often we are challenged to grow in ways that transform our life. And sometimes the transformation is so radical it feels like we are undergoing a death of one life to allow another life to emerge ... one that suits our soul more than our ego.
But if we follow our life calling, it leads us directly to ...
