Find Your Next Calling - May 5, 2025
The Latest for You
Here are several excerpts and articles intended to get you thinking and to support your discernment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Do I Belong Here?
From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
Signposts
From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
The 11 New Books to Brighten Your Spring
By Adam Grant
An all pervasive aliveness
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown
The 10 biggest marketing challenges have nothing to do with AI
By Mark Schaefer
It could not be simply luck, coincidence, or even a career change
From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard
Living in a creative tension
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer
The five key questions of effective altruism
From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill
You’ve likely heard the Serenity Prayer − but not its backstory
Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr.
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