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

A calling is not some carefully crafted plan. It’s what’s left when the plan goes horribly wrong. One Jun ...

removed from the back of the five-year-old boy’s head. He was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma—a word, ...

that threatened to destroy what little hope his family had left.^3 That was around the time he ...

first debilitating surgery.^5 For the father-and-son duo that had endured so much, the race was a way of ...

a religious sense, as in a call to the priesthood. And for centuries, people thought of it as ju ...

and encourages war veterans. At the time of this writing, he’s getting ready to graduate high ...

get, but what we do with them.^6 Course Correction for Your Calling At some point, you entertained the idea ...

saying they’re still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Such phrases sound ...

computer scientists and park rangers, participating in the same process that made world-famous ...

more like overlapping stages that, once begun, continue for the rest of your life. For example, ...

pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. Life is ...

because of what you’re going through. I promise you: your life matters, your life is significant, ...

they come. ...

PART ONE Preparation ...

ONE Listening to Your Life The Call to Something Old, Not New Before I can tell my life what I want t ...

You don’t “just know” what your calling is. You must listen for clues along the way, discovering what your ...

Larry and Bev decided to take their family on a long- awaited vacation to Europe. This was ...

both in their forties and passed away without warning. The deaths came as a shock to everyone. As Jody ...

and although the circumstances have been hard, even painful, she’s learned an important lesson. All al ...

mind to it, he could accomplish anything. In the end, though, he realized the secret of success is th ...