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Fact: More Stuff Won’t Fill the Success-Sized Void in Your Life
Does it feel like something is missing from your life?
I believe we have a deep intrinsic gravitational pull towards meaning.
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl referred to it as,
“the will to meaning.”
There are numerous ways to cultivate meaning in our lives, one of which is pursuing our calling.
What is a calling?
It’s the song that sings within our souls.
As a child, it sang louder; as an adult, it’s merely a whisper.
It’s the writer, the painter, the composer, the entrepreneur, the volunteer, the teacher, the student living inside you.
As a child, the song sang louder; as an adult, it’s merely a whisper.
But it’s never gone.
Our calling tugs on our soul the way the moon pulls on the tides.
Which is incredible; here’s why:
Reinvention Reframe:
If you’re professionally successful yet woefully unfulfilled, your life lacks the meaning you intrinsically desire.