02 Listening To Your Life

05/10/16 • 18 min

In this conversation, Jeff discusses why doing work that has meaning for ourselves and the world around us is necessary to finding our calling.

Show highlights

In this episode, Andy Traub and I discuss:

Why I started The Art of Work with listening to your life.
How listening to your life can help inform your future.
Why we have a tendency to not make the time to listen to our life.
How listening to the pleasure and pain in our life creates clarity.
The source of true happiness.
Why switching jobs may not bring you fulfillment.
What will create significance and meaning in your life.

Quotes and takeaways

We discover our life’s work by looking backward, not forward.
Your past doesn’t dictate your future, but it can inform it.
Listening is a discipline we have to practice if we want to make sense of our life.
Trying to be happy is the worst way to be happy.
Happiness is a byproduct of living a life that matters
Happiness is what happens after you’ve done the work.
What makes a life significant is the choice to answer your calling.

Resources

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl.
Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer.

If you want to move down the proven path to discovering what you were meant to do then we encourage you to pick up a copy of The Art of Work.

We hope you’ll join us in our next installment of The Art of Work Conversations where Jeff discusses why you need a team of mentors to find your calling and why finding them is easier than you think.

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In this conversation, Jeff discusses why doing work that has meaning for ourselves and the world around us is necessary to finding our calling.

Show highlights

In this episode, Andy Traub and I discuss:

Why I started The Art of Work with listening to your life.
How listening to your life can help inform your future.
Why we have a tendency to not make the time to listen to our life.
How listening to the pleasure and pain in our life creates clarity.
The source of true happiness.
Why switching jobs may not bring you fulfillment.
What will create significance and meaning in your life.

Quotes and takeaways

We discover our life’s work by looking backward, not forward.
Your past doesn’t dictate your future, but it can inform it.
Listening is a discipline we have to practice if we want to make sense of our life.
Trying to be happy is the worst way to be happy.
Happiness is a byproduct of living a life that matters
Happiness is what happens after you’ve done the work.
What makes a life significant is the choice to answer your calling.

Resources

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl.
Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer.

If you want to move down the proven path to discovering what you were meant to do then we encourage you to pick up a copy of The Art of Work.

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS

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Previous Episode

01 Welcome to the Art of Work Conversations with Jeff Goins

In this conversation, Jeff discusses whether or not there is a specific process to finding your calling and how we should look at trials, difficulties and obstacles along the way.

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Go to ArtOfWorkBook.com to get your copy.

We hope you’ll join us in our next installment of The Art of Work Conversations where Jeff discusses why Listening To Your Life is where to begin in the search for your calling.

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Next Episode

03 Accidental Apprenticeships

In this conversation, Jeff discusses why you need a team of mentors in order to pursue your calling and why finding them is easier than you think.

Show highlights

In this episode, Andy Traub and I discuss:

Why you cannot fulfill your calling without the help of others.
What mentors and apprenticeships look like today.
The worst and best ways to find a mentor.
Where and how you can find mentors.
Why you’re not alone in pursuing your dreams.
How finding your calling is like slipping on an old pair of shoes.
How many mentors you should pursue and will have over the course of your life.

Quotes and takeaways

You cannot find your calling on your own. It’s a process that involves a team of mentors.
The best way to find a mentor is to find the one who is already in your life.
Success always happens in the context of community.
We’re people, we’re wired for relationships, and we all need help from others.

Resources

Ginny Phang’s TEDx Presentation: Love, Breathe, Just Doula.

If you want to move down the proven path to discovering what you were meant to do then we encourage you to pick up a copy of The Art of Work.

We hope you’ll join us in our next installment of The Art of Work Conversations where Jeff discusses why pursuing and practicing our calling takes so much work.

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