This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1786. Your calling doesn't always look like you think it should.

By Jeff Goins of GoinsWriter.com, and I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick,

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Your calling doesn't always look like you think it should.

By Jeff Goins of GoinsWriter.com.

Sometimes all we need to find our calling is to see what's always been there.

The journey of discovering my own life's work was not a process of dreaming,

but remembering, of looking backward, not forward.

Little did I know as I was pursuing one path in life that my true vocation was hiding in the shadows,

watching from afar like a distant love interest. That's not funny thing about a calling.

It can sneak up on you. Some people wait their whole lives for the right career,

refusing to begin their lives until clarity comes. Longer for a vocation to complete them,

they sometimes never find their life's work. But I've discovered, is that the opposite is true.

While we wait for our callings to present themselves, they're waiting on us to wake up.

My first guitar. In high school, my dad bought me a used electric guitar by trading in my

neglected tenor saxophone. It was a $150 fender strata cast or knockoff that was blue with a

white pickguard in black gig bag. I picked it up, plugging it into the 15-watt guerrilla amp,

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