Sometimes people glide into their calling almost immediately after entering the work force. I’ve seen it with family members. My Mother, and wife are school teachers, and to hear them speak about work will make the most laid back office worker want to vomit in their mouth: seriously. It’s off putting to see and hear that kind of passion when you don’t have it yourself. I know, I’ve been there.
My question for you is: why are you still doing it?
I was lucky. I got laid off from my soul crushing high paying big titled job. I didn’t learn, and moved on to yet another bloated soul crusher (You think I’d figure it out right? Wrong.) – got laid off again in less than 6 months – only at this point did I say “enough is enough”…..I killed a bottle of scotch on my own before I was “fully” there…but I got there. Once I realized that I was identified with the pomp and circumstance of these roles, and that I was ultimately miserable (bloated paychecks and all)….I was finally ready to embrace my passion. I was already there. I had already been blogging regularly about Social Media. I has already started to engage with people on Twitter. I was already entrenched in it. My game had already changed. I had already begun working on DadZillaTV. I just didn’t see it until I was shot in the back of the proverbial head, dragged through the mud, nursed back to health, stepped out of the hospital, got in a car, and got slammed in a proverbial head on collision. What I can I tell you, I’m thick. I guess I’m sharing this so you don’t have to go through what I went through. Oh yeah, before I got the dream job, they turned me down. When they did this, I got up and went for a 6 mile run. I focused. I knew that I wanted Social Media, and I knew that I would get there. I didn’t flip out, I didn’t panic (I saved that for the days leading up to getting laid off), not this time. I knew what I wanted, and it was clear. Maybe they sniffed that out, maybe that’s why the next day they gave me another chance. Think I’ll squander that chance?…me neither.
Don’t put yourself through it. Drop it all now. Let it go, it’s not that important. Embrace your DNA and follow your passion. Care about your job, or you’ll die. So often we’re conditioned to think that we need to chase the money and the title to be happy. You don’t. Take care of yourself first, and the money will come.
Realize this; that voice in your head isn’t you.
You are more vast than that – everything beautiful in this world comes from the real you. From your passion. Follow that passion. Love, creativity, joy, and inner peace will arise from beyond that voice in your head. Now: Listen to that voice in your head. If you really listen to it, it will dawn on you that the voice (your mind) isn’t you. People that achieve greatness are ones that transcend this voice or thought and become guided by their true selves. This is the end of involuntary thinking.
When you find that peace, or stillness you’ll be able to figure out your true calling. I meditated, I prayed I did whatever it took. I was lucky too, I have a family that love and support me so when I told my wife I was turning down 2 high paying turned down 2 offers in the first weeks after being let go. They were higher paying but after walking away, I’ve never felt more liberated, and satisfied.
Dis-identify with the voice in your head, and find your passion. Don’t choose the way of the cross.
