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.

Your calling is not an obligation. The universe does not say, “You must.” The universe does not insist. The universe does not put demands on you – it simply supports you.

When I tune in and listen for guidance, the message is always, Jeffrey, you’re not the one doing it. You’re not the one doing it, man.
It’s being done through you.
When you’re working with lifeforce, you’re working with something already in motion and already happening.
All we’re asking for you is to be a participating component in what’s already going on.

What is it that people are saying you can’t do? What is it that people are saying there isn’t a market for? What is it that you want to do that hasn’t maybe been done before or not the way you are called to do it or maybe not for the market you’re called to do it for?

We create the world we know with the stories we tell. Everything we’ve created started as a story, which is the creational tool of our world.
But the Universe doesn’t speak in English (or whatever your native tongue is) – it expresses as frequencies that we do our best to translate into form.

Too often we’re doing our best to identify a pain point and name a problem for our audience.

Are you this type of person experiencing this type of problem?

And while that’s needed because we need to meet people where they’re at… it’s not the end of the work as a messenger – it’s just the start.