4 Ways To Know You're Doing What You're Meant To Be?Doing

A few months ago, I announced I was going to start a poker Youtube channel.?

Yeah, it failed.

I uploaded one vlog to TikTok and Youtube and it immediately got taken down, which sucked because I thought this would be my next big project.

With time, though, I realized something important:

I have no real talent at poker. And I don’t think it was the right path for me anyway despite the fact that I enjoyed it.?

It’s hard to find your purpose in this life, right? Even when something FEELS good, it might not be what you’re supposed to be doing anyway. I mean, drinking beer feels good, but if I somehow made a job out of that it wouldn’t exactly be healthy, would it?

Plus I’d be dealing with hangovers everyday.?

So sometimes our own intuition can mislead us.

Discovering our purpose, then, needs to take a few things into account. If you follow what I say here, I think you’ll be able to figure out whether something you like is really your calling.

1. It Really Helps If You’re Good At?It

I wasn’t good at poker. I made the final table of some tournaments but I think it was mostly luck that got me there.?

Let’s contrast poker with my Youtube channel. A few years back, I grew a Youtube channel to 160,000 subscribers and millions of lifetime views. I’ve been making videos since I was 11 years old with my parents camera, though.?

I went to school for film, and know my way around a camera/video editing. So when I came onto Youtube, I was already ahead of the game.

I was also a freelancer for years before I started blogging online. I got a LOT of writing experience under my belt before I started publishing my words publicly.

I honestly think that it’s best to be good at something before you try to pursue it full-time.

It’s not impossible to start from the bottom and “build in public” while you get good at stuff, but I think, most of the time, it’s a long shot.?

How do we get good at stuff? We practice a lot, right? If you don’t like something, you’ll quit. So that means the stuff we’re already good at is classified as something we’re good at because we probably liked it enough to continue when the going got tough.

2. It Really Helps If You Love?It

We’ve already spoken about this. If you love doing whatever it is you’re doing, that’s a great indicator you’re on the right path.

3. It Really Helps If You Have A Spiritual Connection To?It

Playing poker is wild fun. Streaming video games is wild fun. But do I have a spiritual connection to any of these things?

Is my soul on fire to take an old man’s money and watch him walk out of the room dejected?

No. It isn’t.?

So we’ve come to the third criteria for finding what it is you’re meant to be doing: A spiritual connection.

A feeling that your body is in line with the universe, and that nothing could be more important than what you’re doing now.

That’s the spiritual connection I want you to look for. The other day I watched Interstellar again for the first time since 2014. It was a religious experience. I loved every second of it and it felt like I had a direct line with the universe for two and a half hours.

Then I decided to watch it AGAIN and take notes on all the visual motifs I saw. I filled three pages up. Then I decided to write a script for a Youtube video where I talk about all of them at length. My direct line with the universe remained open through all of it. I’ve worked about 10 hours on this video that I haven’t even shot or edited and I know, deep down, this is something I really need to pursue.

Look for that spiritual connection, too.

4. It Really Helps If You Enjoy The?Work

Now for the final boss battle. You’re good at something, you love it, you have a spiritual connection with the universe while doing it, and now we need to know if you really enjoy the work.

When I played poker, I needed to film my sessions to make vlogs about them. That sucked. It completely took me out of the experience of playing the game, and I felt I was too busy recording everything to enjoy the game I’d come to love.

I think it’s important to enjoy — or at least NOT HATE — the work you’re doing.

You know what?

Not hating it is sufficient.

You don’t have to adore it, but it’d be nice to not hate it, because the spiritual connection and enjoyment you feel doing it will get you through that indifference.

4 Ways To Know You’ve Found Your?Calling

1. You’re good at it.
2. You love it.
3. You have a spiritual connection to it.
4. You like the work.

If something crosses all of those boxes for you, or 2–3 boxes, then dive in headfirst and don’t look back.

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