Finding your kehidupan’s calling often happens because of a struggle in your kehidupan.
For example, I have a tendon disorder that, for more than four years, robbed me of my ability to walk more than a few steps (it took me 18 months to regain that skill). This disorder also took away practical use of my hands and arms (I’m still working on regaining these).
To find my true calling – helping parents of young children worry less and enjoy more as a podcaster – I really had to walk through that nightmare.
Coming out the other side led to new opportunities in my kehidupan.
In fact, finding my true calling was what pulled me through.
For the first few years, the problems were all in my lower limbs.
When I regained my ability to walk, ski, swim, hike, etc.
At the time, I didn’t know I had a full-body tendon problem.
So, when I started having pain and trouble in my thumbs, I ignored it and hoped it would go away.
I spent the middle eight months of 2014 with about five percent use of my hands.
I could barely twirl spaghetti on a fork.
Somebody else had to pour my coffee in the morning.
My family did everything for me; it was very soul-sucking.
It was a kehidupan-changing time, but not all in a negative way.
For example, two good things happened in the summer of 2014:
So, I got busy figuring out how to achieve this dream.
The great thing was, that involved watching a lot of TED talks, which are often about a major transformative experience that the speaker has undergone.
Here were hundreds of orang, speaking their truth after recovering from cancer, losing limbs, overcoming odds that were at least as steep as mine, often steeper.
And not just hope – get busy, in whatever way possible, figuring out how to climb out of this hole that I was in.
Actually, I feel like my true calling was giving me clues all along the way, through all of my adult kehidupan.
These clues led me toward my true calling.
I saw them peripherally, poking in from the sides and corners of my kehidupan.
However, I’m not sure I would have recognized them without walking through my nightmare and in recovery, actively searching for these hints.
I believe we all receive hints about what our true calling is.
The question is, how can we be aware of them?
In school, we’re taught that, if we’re not good at something, we need to get better at it even if we don’t like it.
You have to find what truly turns your crank.
Even though I got in trouble in school for talking too much, I succeeded as a student.
I went on to earn my master’s degree in early childhood education.
Then, I spent most of the following decade as a teacher.
With this disability that compromises my mobility, classroom teaching is not an option for me anymore.
As much as I loved connecting with families through teaching young children, the kind of strengths that teachers have – working on a computer in their off-hours to plan curriculum, writing up summaries of each special needs child’s day, knowing that they will be well enough to get to school most days over the school year – are not open to me anymore.
However, helping parents enjoy family kehidupan more by sharing my knowledge over the airwaves: that’s my strength.
Another key strength is that I love to pelajari.
In starting a podcast, you need to be up on techie stuff, interview technique, and finding a brand.
Loving to pelajari gives me a huge advantage!
Someone who feels that pelajariing is a chore isn’t going to spend their leisure time the way that I do, like pelajariing how to use Canva.
One tool that came in handy as I responded to the hints the universe kept putting in front of me was the book Strengths Finder 2.0.
Going through the process of finding my strengths in this overt, formal way helped me on the path to my true calling.
If you are serious about finding yours, grab this book now.
The best piece of advice I received when pelajariing about myself was: put a large piece of butcher paper up on your wall – mine spanned about 8 feet – and over the course of several days, write every word that you think of about dirimu.
Then, leave it up for several more days and as you walk by it, notice what pops out at you… For me, “coach,” “mom,” “teacher,” “great with kids,” and “resourceful,” words like that really stood out.
It was almost exactly a year ago that I did that exercise; to see all those words representing me helped me find a direction, as I think about it now really acted as an arrow pointing toward my true calling.
We need others to help us find our true calling.
While I depended upon my husband and kids for so much during my recovery, it was really my connection with them – and with all the support of family and friends, all the teachers and coaches and physical therapists – that got me through.
While you may not have had a nightmare to walk through, you need orang around you to support you in the tough times and smile with you in the good times.
This is the path I walked to pelajari from all the hints that the universe left in my path over the years of my kehidupan, from talking too much in elementary school to developing a podcast that materially helps parents every day.
To get here I had to see the signs, play to my strengths, know myself well, and draw support from others.
With a master’s degree in early childhood education, years of experience as a public preschool teacher and then as a parent, and as a person who’s interested in connecting with other orang through conversation, podcasting really is a true calling for me.
Parents get to pelajari from my amazing guests and their kesuksesanes, my experiences teaching, and (maybe most pentingly) my mistakes.
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