How To Find Your Calling (and Source Of Income) In Three Steps

For every person to be happy, it is necessary to be in a state of a resource and love what he does. More and more women are abandoning fixed office work schedules and deciding to work for themselves in their business. For most of them, business is not only a way to make money, but above all - a vocation, a way to realize their big dreams, their mission.

The eternal quest: what is my destiny?

Finding a destination has become a widespread practice in recent years. Seekers want to believe that each of us has one destiny that will lead to greatness. The reality is much simpler and more pleasant. Let's start with the pursuit of greatness and shift our focus to a smaller category - vocation. A vocation is something that we can do in practice, and that will bring us pleasure and a sense of satisfaction, and will also be accepted and appreciated by society. The vocation can be different. Finding it is to understand how we can most productively and with pleasure be of benefit to other people.

Avoid restrictions. The famous 10,000 hours - the time it takes to achieve mastery - obliges us to choose today one single business in which we should improve in the next 10 years. But what if you are interested in different areas? My answer is to do different things. Do what is interesting, without trying to define yourself a job for 10 years in advance. There are two reasons for this. The first is that there are different types of people. One type is the master. The other is the organizer. The first type achieves professionalism in one area. The second one systematizes the skills and knowledge gained in completely different areas, while creating new ones (read also: 4 types of successful career: how to choose the right path for yourself). The second reason is that once the accumulated skills and knowledge become so much,that this is provoking a quantum leap in your professional realization.

First step: forget about your calling and start doing what is interesting

The very first incredibly effective step to find your calling and turn it into a favorite thing is to forget about finding a calling. Reduce the importance, do not spend hours, days, weeks and months thinking "what is really mine?" Instead, just start doing what interests you. Determine how you can benefit people by doing this. This is the first step towards your dream business. Here we gradually hone our skills, turning a simple interest or hobby into our Occupation. Often this stage can be combined with the main work and be present in your life as a hobby with a real, but still little paid practice. For example, if you enjoy drawing, you can blog about painting and sell your work for a base price while practicing your craft.

Second step: overcome the first frontier

In 2-3 years your professionalism will reach a significant level. At this stage, you start to get real pleasure from what you are doing. And you also start getting a little money for your work. Have you heard that most small businesses go out of business after two years? There are reasons for this. It is at this stage that you have already invested a lot of time and resources in your development, training, practice, development of your business. But you still don't get the comfort you want. You work a lot, but you are not a “star” in your field - that is, you do not receive recognition from the environment.

There is a traditional scenario (which is also called "The Hero's Path") - a sequence of events that occurs in films, literature and, most importantly, in our lives. This script looks like this:

Challenge (problem / incentive to action)
Accepting a challenge (this is good) or refusing to accept a challenge (leading to the hero's tragedy)
Trying to solve a problem or task in familiar ways
Failure
Rollback
Change in consciousness
Personal transformation and mastery growth
A new attempt to solve the problem
Exodus

For example, the Hero has dissatisfaction with the existing situation in work, income and self-realization. He accepts the challenge and decides to start his own business. If he does not accept the challenge, he remains unhappy for the rest of his life, spending it in the wrong place (tragedy). The Hero has a certain idea of how to act in order to run a business. He gets down to business (first try). After a year, the enthusiasm ends, and the realization comes that the Hero works 18 hours a day and earns as much as the call center operator. Then a rollback follows. I would like to return to a stable job, admit that business is not yours, give up. At this stage, external obstacles arise. I don't want to be unconfirmed categorical. And there are two ways: to grow up (change of personality and improve skills) or give up (tragedy). And often it is at this stage that the fate of the Hero is decided - what the outcome will be.

In the second stage, you go through the traditional path of the Hero in the stage of his rollback. When what you are doing is not producing a satisfying result. It is at this stage that you have to re-accept the challenge and go through the transformation of your personality, acquire new skills, and change your point of view. Once at this point, remember that you are not the only one who had to go through this stage.

You may feel that you are tired and that you no longer want to stay in this area. There are three possible prerequisites for this situation:

You don't have enough physical energy. When the body does not have sufficient resources, energy has nowhere to come from. Be more careful about your lifestyle and diet. Create a habit tracker (for example, set aside space in your planner for a spreadsheet that contains the dates vertically and the habits you want to track horizontally). Within a couple of weeks you will feel a surge of inspiration and strength.
You don't have enough knowledge and skills. As we know, by continuing to do what we do, we will have what we have. This stage is given to us so that we grow above ourselves.
In the rarest of cases, the chosen case may be wrong, not yours. If this happens, then treat it as an intermediate step that you had to go through to see your true passion. Without this path, without the development received, you would not be able to assume that you want to realize yourself in an adjacent or other sphere. Remember: do what you must and come what may.

Step three: get what you want

As you continue to invest in yourself and your development, you finally reach the stage of mastery. All investments, investments, all the accumulated skills, knowledge, insights gained - all this leads you to the fact that you begin to receive from your favorite business what you were striving for: the desired income, recognition and the lifestyle that suits you. It is at this stage that your calling is revealed to you. You feel like you are realizing your potential and the world is grateful to you.

Just imagine

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in the future. Successful, happy and living the life you want. Every day you do what you love at your own pace. You have money, recognition, and everything that you dream of. You may have a long way ahead of you now. But now look at yourself in the future if you refuse to take that very first step now. If your Heroine doesn't accept the challenge now. Will you be happy? Will you regret not trying? That you didn't follow your interest, your passion? That you haven't built the bridge to the life you dream of? Make a promise to yourself right now not to betray yourself and take the most important step. Small, not at all difficult - one that can be done right today, now. With such small steps, you can go a long way to a happy self.