10 Signs You're On Track To Find Your True Calling

Finding and fulfilling your calling can be confusing, and your soul's true purpose might not be what you think it should be. Here are 10 signs that you're on the right track on your road to self-discovery:

Everyone wants to feel the deep fulfillment that comes with doing what you’re here on this earth to do, but most of us are scared to step outside of your comfort zones. We might try to compromise by asking, "Can I please keep my comfort zone and still find and fulfill my calling?" The Universe probably giggles a little bit before saying, "No, love. At some point, you have to choose. Are you all in? Or not?"

You might even find that your health improves, you attract a new love relationship, or you become a magnet to amazing people. It's because this kind of life force is the very stuff that moves mountains, works miracles, and changes the world.

After I quit my job as a doctor, I was searching for something else I could join — some preexisting thing that would fit me like a glove. But then my mentor, Kitchen Table Wisdom author Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, said, “Don’t join something. Build something.” If your perfect job doesn’t exist, create it.

Even experiences that seemed like dismal failures helped lead you to what your soul is here on this earth to express. The addiction you recovered from, the divorce that failed to close your heart, the cancer you survived, the child you almost abused during your postpartum depression, the job that required you to sell your soul — all of it becomes grist for the mill. It made you just the perfect person to do what you’re here to do.

This doesn’t mean you should let what everybody thinks hold you back from saying yes to your calling. It might not feel like it, but you’re doing those people a favor by illuminating something true within them, even if they feel triggered by the illumination.

You might think callings are black and white, but true callings don’t tend to work that way. Your calling might look like 10 different professions in one lifetime, or it could mean total loyalty to one job. Callings are a journey, and sometimes we’re only given one breadcrumb at a time.

Don’t despair. You feel this way because the next step hasn't revealed itself yet. You can’t rush your calling. Trust divine timing and know that when the time is right for you to leap, you'll recognize what to do.

And yet, your calling keeps trailing you like a shadow. You might deny your calling for a long time, but callings are patient. They wear you down until you finally fall to your knees, bow down, and say, “I’m in.”

Your work begins to feel not like an act of ambition but an offering of love. You care less about money (though there’s nothing wrong with a calling that offers you a comfortable living!) and more about living in alignment with your soul's truth.

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