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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 425 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I recently read about Viktor Frankl. He was a psychiatrist and also an author, and he survived some terrible times during the German concentration time. He was in concentration camps himself, and he claimed that he found, in the concentration camp, his calling; and this is what he said. “Every person has his own specific vocation or mission in life, and everyone”, he said, “must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.”
What that means is that the search that a person has to go through in order to find what this fulfillment is, is what gives us a reason to live, and that reason is for us to carry on this mission or this experience that we’ve gone through.
So he found his in the concentration camps.
It’s quite interesting because of there he was, deluded literally from every single human right, but yet he made that to become his mission and he wrote about this. Now, many of us have a certain vocation, a mission, a calling but we don’t know quite know what it is at times. We’re confused and sometimes we are not able to find it. Part of the reason is that we don’t always understand that this calling, this mission that we have in us comes from within our own soul. It’s a mystery.
No one has ever given us a map when we wake up and say, “Here’s what you got to do today,” and none of us were born with a guide and a certain set of rules, and directives that we have to take.
Now, there are many, different aspects of our life that tell us how to do it but not the reason why we personally have to do it. Quite interesting.
So the question is so much as to what we need to do and how do we do that. Some of us, interestingly enough, put so much effort in our work that we believe that work is what it’s all about, when in reality, work, to a certain extent, helps us make a living. Now, if we find good in it, or if we turn that into a purpose, it’s even better. But it really doesn’t matter if you think about, of where you find the meaning, whether it’s at work or your relationship, or in the way you lead your life; it’s not about the money, it’s not how you grow, it’s the person that you become. And it’s the calling of that mission, of the talents that you have, of the achievements that you’ve gained, and the things that you can do to know that this is your purpose. That’s the meaning in your life.
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