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I believe in callings.
Sacred soul tasks as Richard Rohr calls them.
Sacred contracts, if you're Carolyn Myss.
Whatever the word or phrase, they nag at you until you listen to them. And if you refuse to listen to them, they eventually crash into you.
Thing is, though, the world doesn't care about callings. It pulls you in one direction, toward hustle and contribution (in an earn-your-keep kind of way), toward "keeping up" and material things.
Your soul, however, calls you to something more. It calls you toward meaning, toward contribution (in a service-to-others-and-the-world kind of way), and toward creativity and personal expression.
That doesn't mean we listen, mind you, certainly not to calls of the soul. Our inner lives rarely look like our outer ones. That's understandable. We have to survive, right? We live in this world, not some fantasy land. Or do we?
Think about it: one day we won't be here anymore—you, me, all the millionaires and billionaires, all the people we work so hard to impress, our bosses, our parents, everybody. It'll all be gone. All the things we thought mattered so much won't matter anymore. The things we stressed about, the things we worked so hard to acquire and prove, none of it will matter, all gone. We'll have lived here for a moment in time, never to be known again, like it never happened. Isn't that kind of like a fantasy land?
And if it is kind of like a fantasy land, then does it really matter how we live right now? Actually ... reverse that—doesn't it matter every bit how we live right now? We get one go-round. Shouldn't we make it count?
Hear me out.
You are the only one of you. You are the only person who ever has been and ever will be who has lived your experiences, carried your perspective, been interested in the things you're interested in, desired the things you desire, all in one you-specific combination. So why wouldn't you do your one life all out?
I know why. It's the same reason no one else does. Because you're scared.
You're scared of judgment, you're scared of criticism, you're scared of failing, you're scared of succeeding, you're scared of not belonging, you're scared of having to live up to the bar you set for yourself—you are scared of all of it.
But ... that doesn't change the fact that one day you won't be here. It doesn't change the fact that you get one shot, and it's happening right now.
So what are you going to do?
No, really.
What are you going to do?
If you follow the crowd, you already know how it ends (you're experiencing that side of things right now): compromise and regret. But ... if you turn inward, if you trust that strange, stubborn, "still small voice" within, you’ll find yourself standing at a new intersection, that of self-expression, creativity, and spirituality.
That’s the territory I’m inviting you into.
That’s where the real work begins.
Where you write your life (and work) from the soul outward.
The question is, are you in?
Here, you’ll find two intertwined paths that converge at a point: