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

downright crazy. But are they really? Before a chain of
events sets the hero on course to his destiny, there is a sense
that there should be more to life than this. You may be
feeling it right now. At an important moment, everything
makes sense, as it did for Eric Miller when he realized the
clock wasn’t ticking away on his son’s life any faster than
his own and when Jody Noland saw how significant a letter
from a loved one could be. This is what storytellers call the
“inciting incident,” the moment when everything changes
and the tale of an average person living an average life
becomes one of mythic proportions.
But something must occur for this to take place. The
person must enter the story, either by choice or because
she’s forced into it. Belle goes to find her father. Luke
leaves home with Obi-Wan. Dorothy gets swept up in a
tornado. In any great narrative, there is a moment when a
character must decide to become more than a bystander. It’s
an important moment that always seems to happen in the
mind before it unfolds in real life. This choice, though, is
always preceded by something deeper, a nagging feeling
that there must be more.
This is why when people are called to some great task,
they know it. Immediately they recognize the prompting to
step up and do something significant, because they have
been waiting for it. Before the call comes, we must possess
some sense that awakens us to our purpose.
Awareness, then, is what prepares us for the call.
Before you know what your calling is, you must believe