6 Things You Must Do Before You Find Your Calling

Will you be content if you find your calling? Since we're wired to always want more than what we have, maybe not. But these 6 things will at least make life interesting.

Contents

I. What Is a Calling?

II. Most of Us Will Never Find a Calling

III. Turn Your Calling into a Job?

IV. The Journey Is the Calling

1. Do What You Enjoy Doing
2. Try New Stuff
3. Fail Miserably
4. Create Something Epic
5. Ignore Doubt
6. Educate Yourself

V. Conclusion

You want to find your calling or your purpose, but have no idea where to start? If you’ve ever thought about this, you’re a rare phenomenon. The vast majority of people never strive for anything more than filling their bellies and maybe going on a two-week vacation once a year.

Perhaps you’re bored, lonely, or broke, and that’s why you want to find your calling. Because if you were challenged, entertained, and enlightened, you wouldn’t be going through existential angst. You’d be happy with yourself and your life, and everything would be damn perfect, right?