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    Finding Your Calling: A Portion from The In-Between
    Finding Your Calling: A Portion from The In-Between
    Finding Your Calling: A Portion from The In-Between
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    Finding Your Calling: A Portion from The In-Between

    By Jeff Goins

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    When Jeff was young, he thought he wanted to be a rock star. But after years of practice, songwriting, and playing gigs, he began to lose the passion for playing music and instead found himself spending more and more time writing anything that came to mind—thoughts, short stories, lyrics.

    Throughout his time performing music, writing—his true calling—was waiting in the corner.

    Jeff has become known as a voice to clarify callings and bring out the best in writers around the world. Read this short piece, taken from his book, The In-Between, and get a better sense of how he found his calling in writing.

    Moody Collective Portions are short pieces of content taken from our full-length books. Our goal is to introduce our readers to a complete idea in a brief, concise, and inexpensive format. Most portions will take about 20 minutes to read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9780802491404
    Finding Your Calling: A Portion from The In-Between
    Author

    Jeff Goins

    Jeff Goins the bestselling author of five books, including The Art of Work and Real Artists Don’t Starve.

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      Finding Your Calling - Jeff Goins

      The following content is taken from The In-Between, by Jeff Goins. If you own the full book already, you can find this section in chapter four.

      If you are interested in hearing more from the team that facilitated this adapted content, visit moodycollective.com.

      Finding Your

      Calling

      Sometimes, all we need to do to find our calling is to look at what we love and see what’s always been there. The journey of discovering my life’s work was not a process of dreaming but remembering.

      I always thought I wanted to be a rock star. But the more I pursued music, the more I realized it wasn’t right for me. My true vocation was hiding in the shadows, watching from afar like a distant love interest, always taken for granted.

      That’s the funny thing about a calling. Like the girl next door, it can sneak up on you.

      Some people wait their whole lives for the right career to come along, refusing to begin their lives until they have more clarity. Longing for a vocation that will complete them, they sometimes never find their life’s work. What I’ve discovered is that the opposite is true: while we wait for our callings to present themselves, they are

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