87. Your Calling Will Always Find You: On Purpose, Timing, and Finally Saying Yes

Now, the reason I'm telling you all of this is when we went around the room and everyone shared their story of how they got there.

almost nobody had a straight line of like, I had the idea and then I just like applied to grad school and here I am.

Like most people's journeys did not happen in a straight line.

Some people had applied five years earlier, gotten accepted and then had a major life shift that derailed them being able to say yes to going to grad school at that time.

Some people, you know, were coming from completely different career paths and fields.

Some people were starting a family.

Like most people had significant obstacles between them in saying yes to walking down that path.

And us being in that room together during residency in that very moment.

And what was revealed to all of us was, and this is what I haven't been able to stop thinking about since, your purpose and your calling will always find you on the right timeline.

And it will keep revisiting you until you listen to it and until you act on it.

The people in that room who had the most obstacles on their path.

And some of them had so many obstacles.

Hearing their stories, it is astonishing that they did not give up.

But they couldn't.

Because there was this small, persistent voice that kept bringing them back to this... calling no matter how many times life got in the way.

So don't be afraid of your calling passing you by.

It literally cannot pass you by.

It will keep showing up until you finally say yes and you invite it in.

There's always a seat reserved for you in your purpose.

The question is just, when are you finally going to sit down and say yes to the call of your purpose? Another prominent thing that came up during this conversation, every person in your inner circle is a key that helps you unlock the next door that you're meant to walk through.

Think about that.

The people you surround yourself with, they are not just good company.

They are access.

They are the ones who help you plant seeds, help you open doors, say the thing that shifts something in you, connect you to the next person or opportunity or version of yourself you couldn't have found alone.

My friend who became a therapist put that seed inside of me four years ago.