We all have a purpose. Some folks call it your talent, or your calling, or what you were made to do. When you are following your calling you have a true north to navigate your life by. This is why so many people have a sense of aimlessness in their day-to-day life. They don’t know what their calling is. They don’t turn to their purpose. These people are often easily irritated and angry.
Now I don’t fully agree with what Carl Jung says. Because he states that your calling comes from acts of voluntary self-sacrifice, and that ain’t it. Your calling isn’t an altruistic event. Finding your calling is a very selfish event. Your calling brings you joy and fulfillment. Sacrificing yourself only degrades what you are providing for the “greater good”. The recipients of your sacrifice also won’t have the full value of what you are giving. They only cherish it when they know what the value is. So to them, the value of a free sacrifice is a valueless act.
Now I do think that instead of asking what you are willing to sacrifice yourself for, it would be better to ask what gets you out of bed. What are you drawn to? Now material things are going to do nothing for you. This is true. Yet, if you can find out what you are able to create you will find your purpose.
Now Carl also says that your calling is what you would willingly suffer for. However, I am willing to suffer for my family but they are not my calling. My calling is coaching. I live for the opportunity to help other men find a new way to look at life. To find their passion and step into it. Now is family an instance of suffering? No, there are challenging parts to it but it as a whole provides lots of joy and fulfillment much as your calling does. Yet I will talk coaching all day every day and I am more private with my family. So there are distinct differences.
Now I do believe what Carl Jung is talking about is Living life completely. That is everyone’s calling. You one get it when you embrace life as fully and completely but that’s not a personal calling that I take the video trying to state.
