Easing into Bold Engagements
We tend to think too absolutely. It’s such a big deal to launch a business around the foundation of our true calling that we often hold back because we think it’s a matter of all or nothing.
We somehow imagine that if we’d really identified our calling we’d feel more fired up and confident. Who says? That hasn’t been my experience. Even considering a true calling is frightening.
Why then do we put so much added pressure on the decision by insisting that we have to have every detail figured out before we make our move?
It’s more effective to ease into new engagements so we can get a feel for things and try them on for size. It’s especially easier to ease gently into bold new enterprises. But our monkey mind makes us think that we’ve got it have it all right now.
How’s that working for you?
It certainly hasn’t worked well for me. I’ve learned that the market place pays us for completions. So how are you ever going to get paid for something if you never begin?
What can you do about it? You know that the delay of over-analyzing is costing you dearly. You know that many of the reasons you hesitate, you’ve made up, in order to protect your most vulnerable self.
Here’s the bottom line. If you really want to start that new business and enjoy the fulfillment and prosperity of true calling – you must begin as soon as you see an opening.
There is always a next step of something that you can do now. If you don’t see your next step towards your calling and want to see it, take me up on my offer below.
I’m here to help. My mission is to end under-earning and vocational confusion.
The essence of my work as a true calling coach is clarity and action. Everything I do is designed to help you empower your core self and to increase the clarity of your calling. Both authentic empowerment and clarity of calling cannot happen solely within your mind.
Engagement is the only thing that empowers and clarifies true calling.
That’s right just like riding a bike you’ve got to first get on the bike of your most likely calling and ride it around the block. Only from actually living the experience of a calling will you see further into it and only after clarifying it will you feel the boost of power needed to realize it.
In other words, you must begin living your calling to see it more clearly and the enthusiasm for your calling cannot come without that clarity.
You know how you feel now while hesitating and confused. Can you imagine what it will feel like to be prosperously rewarded for making a difference through your calling?
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After years of personal struggle and work with hundreds of coaching clients, I've come to understand that identifying one's true calling is primarily a spiritual process. Regardless of individual religious beliefs, this process must be approached with the reverence and respect that it deserves. 
Hi Tom – If you take too long planning something, it’s so easy to become overwhelmed. I’ve been there and as you say – it can stop you from starting at all.
What I found tough was trying to live up to people’s expectations. I started a new business employing folk when really – I was sick and tired of having the responsibility of employing people.
And I suppose I did it cos I felt as though it was what folk expected me to do – same as last time but a different business.
It really has taken a long time for me to get my head round the idea that I don’t have to employ folk. I might do it again in the future but not until I really have to.
Thanks Tom. I really think the emphasis on planning it all out beforehand can be really counterproductive. “We build the road [and learn about it] as we travel”
Cath – Good to see you here. I’m pleased that you’ve learned to do your own thing in your own way. That’s the only way that will work for you.
Evan – Dang right about that. It’s hard to see what’s around the corner until we put ourselves there. Thanks for your continued support.
Tom,
Thank you so much for laying it out there in layman’s terms, or to borrow a slogan from Nike, Just Do It! It’s funny, I’m very good at telling other to do just that, yet I’m so hesitant to do it myself. Perhaps I worry that I don’t know my true calling. Sometimes I think I want to run an Authentic company, but the opening I see for myself right now is to be a True Calling coach! I seem to be good at giving the advice, but not so much at living it. Worrisome.
Cheers,
Paul
True calling has one denominator, and that is our union with our fellow beings and with nature.
Ok, Tom – now you’ve confused me. Up until now, the message I’ve been taking away from all your true calling posts has been that I need to ask for clarity, get rid of distractions and jump whole hog onto the path toward creating a business based on my true calling. In the last post you talked about hedging your bets and how that didn’t work.
Well, the scariest thing about following the path to my true calling is saying no to everything else I’ve been doing and focusing all my effort, attention and energy into my true calling.
Now you tell me I can ease into it? Huh? Part of me wants to reach through the Internet and slap ya ’round a little bit, dude.
‘Splain yourself, Lucy…
Paul – becoming a coach would at least solve a part of your problem. To be in integrity you must hold yourself to the same high standards you demand of your clients. Instead of worrying I’s suggest that you dig into both leanings with a progressively deeper inquiry. Begin by putting one of the potential callings on the table and then ask. What would that give me that I don’t have now? What else? Keep repeating the question until you get to the essence of benefit. It’s possible that one or both of your possibilities could be empty of true essence and just seem like callings. Go within and dig deeper. Tell us what you find.
Walter – I’ll agree with your statement as long as we remember that our core self is indeed a part of nature. Love the brevity man.
Suzanne – LOL Is that a Ricky Ricardo reference?
Seriously now, I think it all comes down to ones definition of easing into things. This post was written directly to those individuals who are expecting the early glimpses of their callings to feel gloriously right on and definite. Callings don’t always come that way and if you wait for that you may never engage. You are not that person. Since I’ve known you Suzanne you’ve always been somewhat in authentic play. Do you really think I’d tell you to chuck it all and just go with your best bet? Heck you wouldn’t do that anyway. Did you miss this part of this post? “Here’s the bottom line. If you really want to start that new business and enjoy the fulfillment and prosperity of true calling – you must begin as soon as you see an opening.”
Let me be clear about what scares you the most. You do not have to chuck everything else and focus only on your calling as long as the calling is made the priority so you are choosing service and not fear. Honor your main vein of calling by giving it first thought and first practice priority. That’s a whole lot different than hedging your bets which in my book is playing not to win but not to lose by staying small.
LOL Tom – I don’t know what I was on when I made the earlier comment but I didn’t even notice your blog had moved to a new domain. I’ve been out of the blogging loop for a while cos of problems at home.
I’m sure I did add Big Link Rally on Facebook, but I assumed it was some event you were organising. What made you move?
Hi Cath, I didn’t move. Just decided that my true calling events business deserved it’s own blog. I’m still posting at Delightful; Work. Here’s one AI put up today. http://www.delightfulwork.com/true-callings/wounds-authentic-makeup-true-calling/
Hi Tom – I just wound up at Delightful Work through my reader before I read this. I will have to read more about your true calling events business.