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

from a career as a teacher to a new job as a financial advisor. At first, he resented the f ...

Conclusion The Work Is Never Done Art is never finished, only abandoned. —LEONARDO DA VINCI ...

Your calling is not a destination. It is a journey that doesn’t end until you die. In a former life, Ed Cathey ...

shouts and raucous hollering often echoing through the concrete walls of the mission. What was Ed ...

Ed had worked hard to build a life for himself, a fact in which he seemed to have just the right ...

And crouching in his khakis, he placed his arms underneath the man’s head and legs, careful not to hurt him, ...

Hemingway would hear none of it, saying the best parts of those stories had been written long ...

no longer be able to dissociate yourself from what you’ve created. And this is dangerous territory. T ...

a man named Niggle. Niggle was an artist who was always getting distracted from his work. Neighbors and friends w ...

won’t accomplish. This is the work of an artist who bravely steps into their field with bold aspirati ...

of the divine.” He believed there was an explanation for everything, that God did not cr ...

perhaps couldn’t, do. Little did I know how right she was. After drafting dozens of versions of the do ...

been one of the champions for the honor code, but Josh and his classmates completed the task. Recently, I re ...

never would have imagined himself working at a homeless shelter after retiring, but when he saw the need, ...

At that point, you can either abandon the work, giving up in despair, or find a way to pass it on. You c ...

Acknowledgments Many thanks to my endlessly patient wife, Ashley, who is my favorite editor ever. She caught so ...

Thanks to Christine Niles for helping me edit multiple versions of this book and tracking d ...

Appendix Your First Steps Down the Path The seven characteristics of a calling—awareness, apprenticeship, pract ...

needs to be shared with other people. Now I want to offer some practical takeaways and challenges. The Se ...

season of success, there often comes a season of failure. Mastery: A calling is not just one ...