skills – Meditations on God

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Always Successful

Work on projects wherein you cannot lose.

Involve yourself in projects wherein, even if the project itself fails, you will have benefitted in some way.

You may benefit by learning new skills.

Perhaps you will gain valuable knowledge and experience.

Maybe you will form relationships that you otherwise would not have formed.

Regardless of the outcome of the project itself, look for the bright side in whatever you do.

By thinking about life in this way, you will always be successful.

You cannot lose if you remain grateful for what you have gained.

January 30, 2024

What you are good at is not necessarily what you are called to do.

Your skills and talents may not be aligned with your purpose.

Skills and talents often develop out of necessity.

Your purpose, however, is something you must choose to pursue.

It is something you must work for.

Even if awareness of your calling comes to you with no thought or effort on your part, its actualization will require work.

And this may mean turning away from what you are good at in order to pursue your purpose.

This will be uncomfortable and it will not be easy, but the alternative is to live a life of unfulfilled potential.

In order to pursue your calling, you must be willing to start over, to be a beginner, and to know nothing other than what you must do.

And that is enough to make a beginning.

August 14, 2023