Have you ever thought about why it has suddenly become so fashionable to search for your vocation. Indeed, earlier this question worried people much less. Still, during the USSR, young people, when it came time for them to choose where they study after school, mostly chose the direction that they were more interested in doing, which they liked.
But the generation that chose their profession already in the 90s and then very often made a choice in favor of potentially profitable, fashionable specialties. And then they worked on the unloved works, doing what they never liked. We have grown a huge generation, for whom the question of finding their vocation has become extremely acute, since they have not made a conscious choice of their future in adolescence.
Against this background, a whole cult of searching for his vocation has arisen, overgrown with legends, that if a person finds his vocation, he will immediately get rich on it, it will be easy for him to work, an enormous motivation to action will develop and there will be happiness and success in general. It is often assumed that this vocation should illuminate a person, and at that moment everything will change. But is it possible in principle and what do we know about the vocation of man?
What is the vocation of man.
There are many definitions of vocation, but in order to understand what it is, let's look at what people themselves admit that they know and have realized their vocation. First of all, athletes who could show high results, get rewards, come to mind. If we ask any Olympic champion whether his occupation is a particular sport his vocation - we will get an unequivocal answer. But when he was going to play sports as a child, did he know or did his parents know that this would be his vocation? Did he always like to go to workouts? Not necessarily, he could even hate them.
At the same time, tens of thousands of other children who are engaged in the same sport, but have not achieved solid results, do not consider sport as their vocation. Although among them there are exactly children with the same makings as champions. But they do not have the most important thing - a socially recognized result.
And if you look at it from the other side, let's say the child was sent to the football section as a child, and he became a well-known, recognized football player, who considers football to be his vocation. And if he was sent to the hockey section, and he, too, getting to a good coach, having a penchant for sport, would also achieve high results, would he consider hockey as his vocation? Of course yes. And if he had become a successful doctor or, say, an insanely good massage therapist, would this be his vocation?
After reviewing hundreds of examples of people who say they know and realized their vocation, I came to a single conclusion.
Man's vocation - this is what he achieved success in, either recognized by the whole society, or by its separate part, group. Answer yourself honestly, if you could achieve impressive results in any profession, become a respected specialist, an example for thousands of other people, would you consider that this is your vocation?
On the other hand, if there is a person who really likes to make a movie, he wants to become a director, it inspires him. But everything that shoots is not recognized by others, it removes frank I get on and only the closest people with a condescending understanding say that next time everything will turn out. But next time nothing good will come of it. And it never will, and this may be for a hundred different reasons, but the fact will remain a fact, the director of such a person will not work. And about him we will never say that making films is his vocation, and he himself will not think so.
But is it possible to know in advance in which case a person is guaranteed to succeed, and, accordingly, he will find his calling? No matter how long we search for our vocation, no one will give a 100% guarantee, as no one knows how our life will turn out. But something can still be done.
How not to make a mistake in choosing your life's business.
When we try to understand what we should do, along with what we like, there is still the question of what we want to achieve. And for a large number of people who could not earn decent money, covering the basic human needs for food, housing, recreation, the first question is where to earn this money, and, preferably, quickly. And this is normal, but such a formulation of the question is erroneous.
A person can never succeed in a case that goes against his values and core beliefs. For example, if a person’s value in life is stability - he cannot be a successful entrepreneur, for whom risk is the norm of activity. Therefore, first of all, it makes sense to determine your main life values, deep-seated convictions and proceeding from them, to adjust your possible activities. There is another option to change these values and beliefs, but the fact is that if they contradict your profession, success will not be possible.
Long search for a vocation is a lot of losers.
The best way to find your calling is to try. The longer you look for a vocation and do nothing, the less likely you are to achieve anything in life. The hope that the vocation will find you yourself and this will change your life at once, empty. Change everything in your life at the moment can only your decision to start doing something. And do something differently than before.
Try to choose the easiest way to start, check this lesson for compliance with your basic values and spend some time of your life trying to cultivate diligently in this direction. Do not wait for something to change itself, to achieve success, recognition is possible only when you do your job for real, seriously, with 100% feedback. Remember the champions in sports, people who are successful in any other business; they all persistently achieved their goals in spite of mistakes, disappointments and failures. Become the same persistent person, then success will not keep you waiting, and with it comes a vocation.
