{"id":471,"date":"2016-04-10T23:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-04-10T23:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:42:43","slug":"about-the-calling-that-is-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/2016\/04\/about-the-calling-that-is-your-life.html","title":{"rendered":"About The Calling That Is Your Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can something you&#8217;re able to hear so clearly also be completely deafening at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>How can there be a tug of war of voices going on in your mind that are each pulling you in the opposite direction&#8230;even when you know one is &#8220;good&#8221; and the other is &#8220;bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the answers to these two questions are the same.<\/p>\n<p>And the funny thing is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even though you&#8217;ll say at first that you don&#8217;t have the answer&#8230;you do and you&#8217;ve had it all along.<\/p>\n<p>What this is all about is your calling in life&#8230;and yes you do have one.<\/p>\n<p>The question is&#8230;what is it?<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t know, the other question is&#8230;how do you go about finding out?<\/p>\n<p>The way you go about finding out is to just ask yourself, &#8220;What do I love doing most&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;What is it that I can&#8217;t wait to get up in the morning and do&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;What is it that I can do all day and night?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know these may sound like basic questions but they work when you take the time to answer them&#8230;especially when &#8220;feel&#8221; and don&#8217;t &#8220;think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about &#8220;feeling&#8221; what your calling in life is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because in that &#8220;feeling&#8221; is who you really are.<\/p>\n<p>Another way of saying it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your calling in life represents the truth of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is also another way of realizing what your calling is, even if you don&#8217;t know at first.<\/p>\n<p>For example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a stay at home mom you&#8217;ll most likely tell people, &#8220;I&#8217;m a mom&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m a parent of two children&#8221;, or something similar. This is how you&#8217;re likely to identify yourself because it&#8217;s who you are&#8230;and of course being a stay at home mom serves an incredibly important purpose to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Look at someone like Rose Kennedy. Her calling in life, as she put it, was to raise a family of world leaders&#8230;which she ended up doing.<\/p>\n<p>So whatever your calling in life is, just know that it is vitally important to the world, as long as it serves others and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>It creates a &#8220;ripple effect&#8221; that also helps others realize the truth of who they are.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You know what your calling in life is&#8230;even if at first you say you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Because the only way you can say you don&#8217;t know is if you&#8217;re comparing it to what it actually is.<\/p>\n<p>And even if you have those tug of war of voices in your head pulling you in opposite directions&#8230;just know that each of those &#8220;good&#8221; and so called &#8220;bad&#8221; voices are getting you to discover what you already know&#8230;the truth of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>In fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;good&#8221; voice is actually your voice. It&#8217;s what comes from your heart. It&#8217;s soul driven.<\/p>\n<p>The so called &#8220;bad&#8221; voice&#8230;the one that has the doubts and uncertainties is nothing more than what everyone else says you &#8220;should&#8221;, &#8220;have to&#8221;, &#8220;got to&#8221;, and are &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not you.<\/p>\n<p>What is you&#8230;is the gift you&#8217;ve been given. The gift of contributing tremendous amounts of value to the world through the uniqueness of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your calling in life.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s what makes up the special person you are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can something you&#8217;re able to hear so clearly also be completely deafening at the same time? 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