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I truly believe that everyone has a calling – or passion which is the word I prefer to use.
I also believe that everybody can be an entrepreneur – especially if they follow their passion.
I have stopped asking because now I know but actually asking didn’t help much. It is a bit like saying all the time “I want to be happy”, then you are definitely not going to be happy. It is about enjoying every moment of life, being present and grateful, and then suddenly we realize that we are happy. The same goes for your passion or your true calling. If you like that better, if you desperately look for it, you are not going to find it. Your life will constantly give you hints and it is your task to notice these hints – and then you will know what your passion is.
Finding your true calling may take time:
It took me a long time to realize what my passion or actual passions are or let’s say accept them because they were actually there all the time. I think some of us might know when we are six years old and others when we are sixty. We might also know our passions and choose to ignore them for a while until we feel the time is right to pursue them. Then there are others that say they don’t have a passion for anything. I don’t believe that, I think they are blocking the hints that they are given and/or need to try something new in life in order to get more hints. This is essentially what we do for our children, we let them try all kinds of sports, music or other hobbies early in life in the hope that they will discover their passion, in case it is not one of the subjects at school.
Choosing to pursue your passion:
It is a choice, to follow your passion or not. Following your passion doesn’t always mean that you have to give up your current job and follow your passion full-time. For various reasons it might make more sense to keep the passion as a hobby or something you do besides your job. I think many of the older generation knew their passions but chose to ignore them their whole lives because it would have disrupted the life that they had planned for themselves or others or out of loyalty to employers or family. I think most of us are in a
different place today and have realized that pursuing our passion is what we need to live a happy and fulfilled life.
One versus many passions:
I think and hope most people have one true calling. My challenge is that I have several passions and they pull me equally, one maybe more than the other for a while but then the other one that has been ignored will let me know that attention is needed. This website and my company is a way for me to combine all my passions under one platform and with one brand – myself – and share with you everything I am passionate about – in the hope that you find your true calling too.
How I found my true calling:
In hindsight everything is easy but when you wake up one day and want to know what you were meant to do in life and you don’t know, there is panic. My passions were there all the time, I just hadn’t paid attention to them and was too busy getting a degree, making a career or living somebody’s else’s life. It is when your life is suddenly put upside down that you start to ask yourself questions. Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What will give me purpose? This is the journey that many of us start on some time in our life and we call “finding ourselves”. I am not sure I like the term because it assumes that we got lost but it is still a fair description of what happens in our head. We are suddenly in a void, the vision we have lived on is broken because somebody left us, we lost a job or somebody died. We urgently need a new vision, a new mission in life and we look inside for answers. And since we haven’t done this before we need help, often through self-help books, personal development courses, yoga, mediation or coaching.
About 12 years ago I went through a break-up that left very deep wounds on my soul and some of the scars have still not healed. I looked for help with a psychologist but she sent me a way after three sessions and said I should read Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and I wouldn’t need her any further. The book was very good for someone with a mild depression and I have since recommended the book to numerous people. Half a year later I got promoted and felt I needed some self-confidence push and took the 12-week Dale Carnegie course. By then I thought I had recovered from my break-up but when I broke down in front of the class after telling them my story, I realized that I needed to do more work to get rid of my baggage. I had started my self-discovery journey and for the next 5 years I took numerous courses and read dozens of books and even became a certified Dale Carnegie trainer.