Comments on: Finding Your Calling Part V: Obstacles to Embracing Your Vocation

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:05:54 +0000

How do you pay the bills while finding your vocation? I’m totally in the wrong place – but it pays the bills………….. for now.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:08:42 +0000

Thanks for a well-written, informative, and meaty series of articles. I feel fortunate enough to have figured out my vocation in time to work on it in my 20s (ties in with today’s post.) I don’t know how I did that; maybe I just intuitively listened to myself more than some others. Thanks for helping other men figure out where they should be going and what they feel like they should be doing. Everybody was made to do something, and life is better when you find your work — what you were made to do.

By: Xena

Xena — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:24:43 +0000

Fantastic article. I found my vocation by the fith part, I found the part about how to listen to your soul and the unique effects that fear has on your discovery of finding your calling because the discovery of my vocation wasn’t surprising, but after years of soul searching it was this article that helped me find it. Thank you so much, especially considering how sceptical I was having read so many guides to finding your calling/passion etc. Thanks!

By: William

William — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:15:10 +0000

Thank you, sir, for writing this series. It is just the sort of thing I am searching for, and what has been on my mind since I refused to stay in an environment of mediocrity.
You are correct. It is easy to find what one does not want to do, but not so easy to find what one longs to do.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:49:52 +0000

This website is awesome. I’ve been self help reading for the last 15 years without figuring out as much as I have learned in the 2 weeks that I have been coming to this website. Thank you so very much. I will be recommending this site to all the men I know.

By: kush sharma

kush sharma — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:31:17 +0000

I’ve read various books , articles , blogs etc regarding this topic and i can , without the slightest hesitation , say that this is by far the best one available on any kind of medium.Really really inspring and most of the points are very practical too.

I’m still not sure what my vocation is but Sports commentary is the closest it gets. I’m happy that at 23 , i’ve realised what this concept means and how important it is.I rather suffer a quarter life crisis than a mid-life one.

Thanks once again.

By: Joe Wilner

Joe Wilner — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:26 +0000

Great post! It’s so very true, we are able to feel our calling reaching for us in moments of passion. Though it’s so easy to rationalize all the reasons we shouldn’t do something. We must to listen our emotional connection with certain activities. There is a way to make a living doing nearly anything, and we can work toward designing our lives.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:29:15 +0000

Great article guys and very relevant to me.

I was never a person who had a concrete idea about my future job. No dreams of flying fighter jets, landing on the moon or being a professional sportsman. As such I’ve always drifted from one job to another searching for something I can really enjoy getting my teeth into, but all to no avail. All of my old friends live seemingly happy lives; career, marriage, kids, house, financial security, etc., and this often made me feel like a bit of a failure and that my life lacked direction. I certainly don’t consider myself to be without talent, but it’s taken a long time to discover what those talents are and the areas in which they would be best utilised. I have creativity and enthusiasm (from my father), and compassion and altruism (from my mother). Mixing these ingredients with the fact that I’m passionate about helping people gives me a long list of vocations that could work for me.

The final part of the article gives the analogy of a compass to describe how you can start making the necessary changes in your life. I’ve taken that on board and, as well as working full-time, I’ve now begun volunteering part-time with a local charity, and it’s fantastic! I’d like to get involved more in the fund-raising side of things eventually because I think I’d be good at it, but I’m taking things slowly for now and I’ll see where it takes me.

This series of articles has made me think of everything in a different way. Life is like a cake, and other people judge it on how it looks, how it tastes and on how well you followed ‘the recipe’. The important thing to remember is; if you enjoyed the process, regardless of the appearance and taste of the end product, forgetting the fact that the kitchen looks like a bomb’s hit it and you’re covered from head to toe with flour, do you really care about the critics?

Life = Cake (Who’d've thunk it? Never say no to it and always lick your lips)

Matt

By: Shivank Gandhi

Shivank Gandhi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:06:57 +0000

In the highest order I thank you for this wonderful enlightenment.

Best Regards,
Shivank Gandhi

By: tushar

tushar — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:56:00 +0000

awesome website. Im hooked.