There are groups of people on the planet that share planetary missions… and the people that are most purposeful for you to work with are those that share a mission with you.

Am I the only one? Maybe not. Is my neighbor the one to do their thing? Yes. And is it true that I am the one to do my thing? Yes, absolutely.

If you’re truly on the path of answering your calling, it will stretch you.

Over and over again.

Because every calling vibrates at the frequency of unity consciousness, which rattles the conditioned self.

This is an invitation to bless all things.

Everything becomes blessed by blessing what is…

By claiming that all things are well… even when we don’t know how that’s true.

A number of years ago, I interviewed a guy named Stephen Goldstein. He’s a former Sr. Producer for Oprah and a former congressional lawyer who regularly put people on the stand in front of the Senate.
Over time he started to see that what made someone a great guest on Oprah were the same things that would make them highly effective on the stand in front of congress.

One of the most mind-bending experiences in answering your calling is when you’re called to serve people who archetypally represent the type of people you’ve felt wounded by.

This is a decidedly second half of the hero’s journey experience…

When you are called to a new level of your calling, it often entails an evolution in who you’re serving, the service you’re providing, and the role you are playing in society.

It also entails an upleveling of who you think you are.

I’ve been struggling with the time it’s been taking for a project in my business to come together… and I’ve been rather nervous and pissy  about it. Apparently I needed this week’s message… and I hope it serves you as well! 

What if your calling wasn’t really… yours?
What if it were simply a calling that you heard?
What if it was something that was already floating around in the collective – already animated, already alive, already moving in the world, just looking for vehicles of expression…
And because you happened to be a particularly well suited vehicle, you caught wind of it?

Being known and being recognized are two massively different things. 

Being recognized is being seen, rewarded, valued, and praised for what you can do. 

We recognize and praise Beyoncé for Sasha Fierce – the persona she puts on to stage. 

And if we grew up feeling like we didn’t belong (like so many in the helping/serving professions do)…

We sought out recognition in lieu of true belonging. 

We will never belong where we fit. Fitting is not the same as belonging. Belonging comes from fiercely attending to the creative act of living your life, following your calling, rooting into your deeper knowing and allowing it to usher you into a field of possibility that your logical mind knows very little, if anything, about.

The more you allow yourself to be in this fierce orientation to a creative endeavor of living your life, the more you will step out of the places you fit and find your way to where you belong…
Because first and foremost, you will belong to you.

I’m someone who generally engages in things that I feel I have a pretty good chance of succeeding at. So I need to remind myself to let failure be an option – to consciously put that option back on the table.
Maybe I’ll fail at something – so what!

Do it anyway, because it’s where I feel called to go, what I feel called to do, and the next thing to explore. If I don’t allow failure to be part of the mix as one potential outcome, I stall out, drag my feet, and avoid the thing that I want to do because I feel inadequate around it.