What is Your Heart’s Song?
“We will discover the nature of our own particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.” ~ Shakti Gawain
I have a friend who just won a songwriting award--$1000 plus a host of other benefits. Especially exciting considering she only started writing a few years ago.
Given that she has such a talent for writing, one would think she discovered her skill years ago. After all, doesn’t it take years and years of hard work and failures to eventually win an award?
Many people think that hard work is the only way to success, but I believe success comes when you find your true calling. When you listen to your heart and follow the path, which lights up every time you step, this is your true calling.
Each person has a favorite activity, a skill that surpasses someone else’s skill, or a day that gets your heart beating so loud, you swear the person next to you can hear it.
When you know you are doing something you are meant to do, the work may still be difficult, but it doesn’t feel like you are dragging your feet through the mud. Rather, you might feel like you are in great physical shape while running a marathon. The work may also keep you up at night, but only because you have a million great ideas running through your mind, not because you are worried about a report you just handed in.
Now, sometimes you need to do some of the foundation work to get to the right path. These duties don’t make your heart sing, but you know they will get you to the next step. Often you start another career knowing you will be successful, but after a few years you discover that you really should be doing something else. Sometimes the only way to know is to try something. My friend started her career as a lawyer, then became a life coach, and now is a songwriter.
What do you love to do? What is your true calling? What song will you write?
-- Tina Su
Photo by Helga Weber.
“We will discover the nature of our own particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.” ~ Shakti GawainI have a friend who just won a songwriting award--$1000 plus a host of other benefits. Especially exciting considering she only started writing a few years ago.
Given that she has such a talent for writing, one would think she discovered her skill years ago. After all, doesn’t it take years and years of hard work and failures to eventually win an award?
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