The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

November 1True Calling

Each person has their own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to them. They have faculties silently inviting them tither to endless exertion. They are like a ship in a river; they run against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and they sweep serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson—“Spiritual Laws” (1841)

How do you know when you've found your calling?

Here's one clue: the truest measure of our significance is not what we do, but what happens to others when we do it.

Impact like this doesn't happen overnight; it happens because you've mastered your craft. Maybe it never feels as though it fully happens. Maybe someone will have to tell you it happened.

But this is how you will know you have found your true calling.

Today, enter into every act by considering the impact it can produce for others.

Challenge Question

1. Do others know the real you and what you stand for? How do you know?