Answering the Call: How to Find and Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose

To know what you’re meant to do with your life and to ignore it is to ignore the deepest, truest, most powerful version of yourself.

It’s to look into the eyes of the deepest expression of yourself and deny its existence as it stares back at you.

How will you ever feel whole, complete, grounded, fulfilled, and satisfied if you shun the deepest expression of yourself?

There are inflection points in our lives; some are nudges from the universe, others have the subtlety of a sledgehammer striking nitro-glycerin.

We can ignore them, or we can accept them.

When we ignore the callings, we ignore ourselves. We cultivate even more internal turmoil and suffering.

Accepting the task you know you’re meant to do is one of the most significant moments of your life.

To be able to declare, if only to yourself, and it should always be to yourself at this stage,

“I am a writer, a painter, a sculptor, a teacher, a volunteer, a caregiver.”

Anything on the edge of what society deems “safe” and “normal.”

Anything that lets go of short-term shots of dopamine in pursuit of long-term meaning and fulfillment.