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Posted: 2016-10-11T22:53:43Z | Updated: 2017-04-13T14:02:56Z 3 Powerful Ways To Find Your True Calling In Life | HuffPost

3 Powerful Ways To Find Your True Calling In Life

3 Powerful Ways To Find Your True Calling In Life
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Did you find your true calling in life yet? Do you believe everyone is born for a reason and is born to do a specific thing? This is often what we feel, right? We feel we are born to do something and when we find that something we are just so happy and full of joy.

However, if we do not find our true calling initially, some of us give up and just start slacking off. However, others that are really determined tend to follow up and keep searching until they hit it. If you are one of those people, you need to keep going and refueling until you finally reach your zone, where you can relax and just be yourself .

Here are 3 ways to find your true calling in life:

1. Find Your Passions

Everyone has passions and you are certainly no exception to this idea. What are your passions? Do you know of them? Passions are an important aspect to finding your true calling. It is logical that it would be this way, since passions are things that you are really proud of and feel really attached to or love dearly.

Passions could be anything from school to sports or programming games. Whatever it is, whenever you find it, keep it close. Until that time, you need to start looking for it and you could find that there are more than a few things you are passionate about, but there will always be one or a couple of things you are most passionate about.

However, make sure you do not fast forward anything and take your time finding your passions, because you do not want to end up in the misconception that something is your true calling while it is not. Remain cool about it and it will eventually come.

2. Find Your Voice

Many people follow things they think are their passions because friends or people suggested them. Just because something works for someone does not mean that it has to work for you. You need to always find your voice.

As Oscar Wilde once said, Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Just because people around you look and seem to have control of their lives and you are still figuring out what to make of your life, does not mean that you are less capable, it just means you need some time to find yourself. Do not worry as long as you remain yourself.

3. Define What You Are Good At

Defining what you are good at could be one way that leads to eventually finding your true calling. Sit down with yourself and start writing down the things you know how to do the best, whatever they are. Doing so could allow you to find an activity or task that could end up leading you to your true calling, even though you might not like it.

Sometimes we could be in a situation where we do not like something initially, but because we are good at it, our love for it grows . Moreover, usually if we are good at something we tend to like it, because we do not find problems or issues when doing it.

To sum up, there are a bunch of ways to find your true calling. It is never too late to start searching for outlets that could suit you more than what you are currently doing, as long as you like it and is something beneficial.

Have you found your true calling? Tell us about it!

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This post originally appeared on Gonzalos blog Inspower.co

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