By Richard Kent Matthews - Coach | Author | Speaker
(Better Thinking Series)
Answering your call
(Thinking...
You've been doing it all your life. It's served you well or you wouldn't be here, reading this. Yet, when you learn to think in better, more powerful and meaningful ways, you change not only yourself, but the world around you.
You've been thinking in habitual patterns. Change the patterns of thinking and a new world opens for you. When your mindset changes, your life changes.)
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“We assume ordinary roles. We can make them more than ordinary when we will them to a higher level.”
"Your purpose is clear." A Review...
You are here to reproduce, seek truth, have fun, and be of service. Still, your Inner Self seeks something greater. It’s known as The Call. How do you find, or create, a calling unique to you? Here’s how, in a nutshell:
You are here to reproduce, seek truth, have fun, and be of service. Still, your Inner Self seeks something greater. It’s known as The Call. How do you find, or create, a calling unique to you? Here’s how, in a nutshell:
- Believe
you have a calling. It’s the only way to know if you do. No one forces a
calling upon you. It’s a fundamental choice. You won’t do anything you
can’t visualize yourself doing.
- Recognize
you have a “portfolio of callings.” You’re not limited to just one. It’s
quite possible your entire life has been one calling after another.
- Becoming
aware of those who would sabotage your callings, especially yourself, will
strengthen your callings. You will have mentors, and tormentors. See them
all as gifts.
- Each
moment contains possibilities. Bringing them to light is basic. Callings
mean lifestyle, not spare-time activity.
- Callings
shake up the status quo. Things can’t remain the same. Your comfort zone
is at risk! It’s not the good times, the satisfying times, but the moments
of fear, boredom, anger, frustration, and inner and outer challenge that
will determine your commitment to your calling. Be prepared.
√ Caution:
There are callings you would rather not answer. But you have to. Your child suddenly becomes disabled; your town
is destroyed by a tornado; 9/11 happens, killing relatives and perhaps
breadwinners. Your life is changed forever. Your noblest plans are shattered. You
can and will handle it. You have to.
Callings are not wishy washy spiritual ideals or grandiose pipe dreams. Callings are serious propositions. Be ready for whatever comes your way.
There are no guarantees. As the bible says, God makes the rain to fall on the just and unjust alike; he is no respecter of persons.
You're up for it, right? Yeah. You are.
Callings are not wishy washy spiritual ideals or grandiose pipe dreams. Callings are serious propositions. Be ready for whatever comes your way.
There are no guarantees. As the bible says, God makes the rain to fall on the just and unjust alike; he is no respecter of persons.
You're up for it, right? Yeah. You are.
“I used to want to change the world. Now,
I’m open to letting it change me.”
I’m open to letting it change me.”
(What Should I Do with My Life?)
