Purpose-driven work is like a trip to Italia

Purpose Driven Work: How to Find It, Manage It, and Lead It.

Finding your Divine purpose is like traveling to Venice. Why Venice? Good food, good atmosphere. When you get there, you want to take a gondola ride, so you ask a gondolier to take you to a cafe. He winks at you and smiles, ushers you into the gondola, and starts punting you along the waterway, without saying a word.

“Oh, geez,” you think, “does this guy know what I want at all? Where is he taking me?”

What you don’t realize is that good ol’ Giancarlo back there, punting away, is taking you to the best cafe in town. He deals with English-only tourists all the time; he even speaks English. And more importantly, he knows what you need (food), and what you’re in Venice for (romance, surprise, adventure) — even if you happen to have forgotten.

So you fret, and squirm, and start to sweat. You’re convinced that you’re lost, and start doubting this whole adventure. Until…
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You smell the aroma, floating on the air. The smell of coffee, fresh baked bread, minestrone… mmm. And that’s when you realize, with that wink and smile, Giancarlo knew what you wanted. He was taking you there the entire time.

He just speaks a different language.

Divine Guidance = Giancarlo’s wink and smile

This happens all the time as you work, doesn’t it?

You ask for guidance. You pray for clarity. You beg and plead, for crying out loud, “Please show me what I’m supposed to do!”

What you’re looking for is details: “Show me what I’m supposed to be doing with my life!”, or, “Show me what my niche should be,” or, “What should I write/say/do.”

The hope, of course, is that you’ll be granted specific images, complete with details about what it will look like, how it will happen, who will come, and more. So, when these details don’t come, frustration builds. Apathy sets in. And you say, “Why aren’t I being shown? I just want to know what I should do, so I can go do it!”

The problem isn’t in the questions, or the answer. It’s in the expectations.

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You expect the answer to come back to you in the way you asked for it — with words, with clear visions, with a 1-2-3 approach, all laid out. But Divine guidance, or intuitive knowledge, isn’t always like that. Sometimes, Giancarlo speaks, and other times, he winks and smiles… … and lets the aromas do the talking.

The aroma is the language

What would have a more lasting, stronger pull on you — the word “coffee”, or a whiff of a barista’s morning roast? You want guidance in words, thoughts, and images. But your heart doesn’t speak that language — your heart knows passion, love, and joy.

The most powerful, most helpful, most useful guidance you can receive isn’t a message like, “Go there, and do that,” no matter what your mind thinks.

Because the Divine knows what motivates you, what drives you, and what will keep you going, day after day. And so the guidance you get comes in the form of what brings you joy. What inspires you to love. What lights your fires of passion, and makes you feel whole again.

So trust Giancarlo when he punts you up the waterway, in the direction of something you can only smell, towards your passion and joy. That’s the language of the heart.

And remember in the end, that when you arrive at the cafe, all the choices are laid out before you — but it’s you who must choose. Yes, you.

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Which one do you choose (as if you still need to ask)?

Whichever one fits the aroma you’re longing for the most.

And hey, it’s Venice! How can you go wrong?

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