The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic ...

day, then you only need to work 200 days a year. The remaining 165 days can be sp ...

Home Face it: not all of your life is work, and that’s a good thing. We’ve spent much ...

we do for the pure love of the activity, regardless of whether they ever provide an income. Psychologists ...

gives a percentage of profits to or the moral convictions guiding your values or the family that you ...

Mean How do we take what we now know of portfolios and apply this knowledge to our own journeys of vocat ...

writing. In his mind, he knew what he was trying to do and that people would understand some day. ...

as a creative work.”^7 Mastery isn’t about straight As or the highest salary in the company. It’s not even ...

point of making a career out of your art? Didn’t people have to know who you were? Apparently not. In ...

all the freedom in the world, I thought I had arrived, finally doing what I loved and getting paid ...

asking what society would do with work after the war was over. Many factories in Europe and the United St ...

were meant to do and you do it well. The rest is not up to you. Wealth may come. Fame too. But ...

sense of purposelessness? They needed to find their flow, understanding that the challenge wasn’t ...

work several more years at a different park out west.^12 He thought his dream was to be a ranger, but w ...

I don’t have any regrets.” He told me about men he knew— former park rangers—who had to make tough ch ...

indicate that he missed being a ranger. Jack replied, “You may miss being a park ranger, but ...

which could not have happened without leaving your couch, being involved, and meeting the one girl ...

PART THREE Completion ...

SEVEN Your Magnum Opus What Legacy Looks Like A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives. —JACK ...

Your calling is not a job. It is your entire life. I’m not sure what I was expecting visiting my first ...