Don’t Confuse Your Job with Your Purpose
A few years ago, one of my mentees in the medical device industry asked me, “How and when did you know your life was going in the right direction?” And my floodgates opened and memory and emotion spilled out.
In junior high school, I had decided that I was going into the ministry, which to me meant I would end up being a pastor in a church. I hadn’t given it too much thought or sought any other alternatives. It was simply the foregone conclusion of what I thought God and everybody else expected of me. My grandmother even offered to pay all my educational expenses, because it was her dream to have a pastor in the family. The problem was I wasn’t sure it was my dream—or ...
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