Appendix

Your First Steps Down

the Path

The seven characteristics of a calling—awareness,

apprenticeship, practice, discovery, profession, mastery, and
legacy—are not a formula. They are a description of the
path you are already on. My hope in sharing them is that
you now have a vocabulary with which to explain your
vocation as well as a better understanding of what it might
be. But what about the next steps to take? What if you now
realize you do, in fact, have a calling, and you don’t want to
waste another minute? Is there a process that can get you
started? A series of steps to follow?
So far, we have seen how a calling is both mysterious
and practical. In the first part of the book, we explored the
ways you prepare for a calling. In the second part, we
looked at how people who found their callings took action.
In the third part, we saw how a calling is something that