Pursue Your Calling or Money?

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This is one of the greatest questions of all times. Pursue your calling or money? Is your calling and your means for livelihood always the same? Because this is a hard question. As I kid I always wanted to do engineering and work in industry. I am very grateful for everything I got in life. I owe this to my parents, who worked very hard to raise me and my siblings. Although both my parents are no more, it is their upbringing that is the foundation of my character, my beliefs, and who I am.

Then why am I writing about this post to pursue your calling or money? Well, it is very much to do with my upbringing and something that beckons me to my roots. Sounds like a question? Where is my roots? That is for sure a topic of another post. Why our roots beckon us? So for now let’s deep dive into our topic for today to pursue your calling or money?

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

~ Oprah Winfrey

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What is Calling?

Calling is “A vocation, profession, or trade; a call or summons; a powerful impulse or inclination.” Moreso, it is magnetic and all-consuming. It is more than a whim, we all are unique. Since we all have our unique abilities or capabilities. Let’s put it in this way. Suppose, imagine you have enough money to live a decent lifestyle, nothing extravagant. In the US, about $75,000 income per year is good enough, although the average household income in the US is about $68,000 in 2021. Because we can live a happy and fulfilled life with $75,000 household income and any incremental income has a marginalized return for happiness!

Thus, we really don’t need millions of dollars to be happy. So if we have this much income and you have time, what would you do with your time? For instance, if you want to do something full time and if that gives you a sustainable income of this threshold amount of $75,000 per year, what would you do for a living? The other aspect of this is that we also don’t need even this much income to be truly happy or content. Mostly, as long as we find what we do for a living satisfying and fulfilling, that is more important than any number. Would you agree?

What is it that gives you the genuine joy, a feeling of fulfillment? Something, when you are in your death beds, you can muse to yourself you have lived your life for what you wanted to do or achieve. Because life is not about only making money, it is about finding the sense of fulfillment. More so, it is about self-actualization or realizing one’s fullest potential, something that we are all born to accomplish. That is calling!

How to Find Your Calling?

So that leads us to how to find your calling? If you are possibly reading this post, then maybe already you know what your calling is. Today is Saturday, a weekend for me and I am not working. So what am I doing? I am writing this post. Because this blog of Finding Fulfillment in Life is all about my journey to find my calling and help you find yours.

What to Do After You Find Your Calling?

Once we know what is our calling, it probably takes sometime to think about how do we pursue it. Because most of us get trapped in the materialistic rat race which prevents us from either accepting our calling or pursuing it. Because pursuing our calling is a lot of hard work. Since it needs a lot of resilience and persistence and most of the times fraught with hurdles, failures and often disappointments. For instance, I have been blogging for a while but I know I have not been working hard enough. I don’t write blogs often that I need to write to engage with you. But even if mostly I don’t have any engagement with my readers, I am also not sure if anyone reads it. But I still want to try. Give it my best shot to reach out.

Can Calling Evolve or Change with Time?

Then the other question could be can calling develop or change with time? I think it totally depends on person to person because not everyone is the same. Everyone is unique. Thus, it could evolve overtime for some. That could be the case with me. The reason I write this blog is a testimony to that. That I am still trying to find my calling or trying to articulate it and how I take it to the next step as a service to others. Sometimes it could depend on circumstances, as well.

Pursue Your Calling or Money?

Now comes to million dollar question. Should you be pursuing your calling or money? Because this might be a tricky question. Could be I be kidding, but who said your calling cannot lead you to the millions? But if the aim is the millions, then probably the reason to pursue your calling is not the right answer. If your calling helps you with a decent livelihood, is it not worth pursuing? Again, are we going to takes the millions with us when we die? What is it we take with us, actually nothing. Is money not like water, that always keeps flowing…so can we hold money or should we try to? What stays with us our abilities and skills, so if our calling is to develop a particular skill or capability, should we not try to pursue developing it rather than running after money? Because we may spend our entire lives running after money, but at some point a question could stare at us: what did we truly achieve in our lives? Did we even try to follow our calling when we had the time? But the best part is that it is never too late to start. What do you think?

Conclusion on Pursue Your Calling or Money?

This blog post is a tribute to everyone who dares to pursue their callings in lives, even in the face of all adversities. Because many times it is difficult to ignore the money part. So what makes us slaves to money? It is our never ending wants in life. Something the materialistic world is famous or rather infamous for. So could we not live a simple life with minimalistic wants? A life where pursuing your calling can take precedence over making money? The million dollar question is again pursue your calling or money? Something to think about. What do you say?

Pursue Your Calling Or Money? This could be a million dollar question. We live only one life, what gives us genuine joy, a sense of achievement and fulfillment. Something that we can say we achieved in our lives at our deathbeds.

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