Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

Paperback: 352 pages Published: September 8, 1998  ISBN-13: 978-0609803707 Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches

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How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are bedkong us?

Callings is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us. A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). While honoring a calling's essential mystery, this book also guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling: How do we recognize it? How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song?  What happens when we say yes? What happens what we say no? The author explores those questions and more.

Gregg Levoy, author of This Business of Writing and a former journalist  for the Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today, has written for The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, and others. He is a full-time speaker and seminar-leader in the business, educational, and human-potential arenas.