The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

You might want to think of these as steps, but they are more like overlapping stages that, once begun, continue for the rest of your life.

We can spend our days dreaming of a better life or do the messy work of getting started today. You are not just waiting on your calling; your calling is waiting on you. And you can sit around, playing the what-if game until you’re exhausted, or you can begin by saying that one little word that changes everything: let

You cannot find your calling on your own. It’s a process that involves a team of mentors. And everywhere you look, help is available.

In any great narrative, there is a moment when a character must decide to become more than a bystander. It’s an important moment that always seems to happen in the mind before it unfolds in real life.

Mastery isn’t about straight As or the highest salary in the company. It’s not even about being the most popular in your field. It’s about understanding your potential and then dedicating your life to pursuing that ideal. It means doing your absolute best. Why? Because the craft deserves it, because the calling requires it, and because maybe you’ll

Putting an activity through painful practice is a great way to determine your direction in life. If you can do something when it’s not fun, even when you’re exhausted and bored and want to give up, then it just might be your calling.

Letting Go of What Could Have Been “Part of people’s problem is they think of everything that could’ve been,”

As Paulo Coelho writes, “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”3 There’s some truth to that. Fortune favors the motivated.

Second, you respond. Mere words will not suffice—you must act.