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Brett's avatar

I'm glad your vocation included writing because I/we get to benefit from your thoughts and insights. I have been wrestling with meaning vs. making. The tension comes in the need to "make" an income. Ideally the two align, but what happens when they don't?

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Damon Mitchell's avatar

It's funny, I often credit a particular purpose discovery work (a workbook that I'll not mention) as the source of what led me to the vocation of coaching. But, as I read this piece a moment of honesty bubbled up. That's not true. It never was true. What's really true is that all of the formulaic elements of that workbook kept landing me in the wrong place.

At the time, I had pages of purpose descriptions that fit like wetsuits on a flock of unshorn sheep. I was ready to abandon the project as a fail, but then something popped.

Pushing aside the noise of the process, I blurted out what felt more like an accurate statement. It was accurate, that's for sure. It was true about me, even though I had no idea what it meant for what work I was called to do. That took a little longer to connect the dots.

The point is that it took about 47 years of life, a workbook, and something I'll never understand to tease this thing out. I'm still teasing it.

Cheers for the read, Ryan.

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