I would never pick this book by its title. Luckily I knew enough of Derek Sivers to know that I would find value in his writing. In his site, https://sivers.org/a you can find great content and animated videos of the core ideas from the book https://sivers.org/anything . Still, I consider the book itself a worth purchase and read. I don’t always find it easy to apply my life’s values in my corporative work, so I find most of his views about business comforting and uplifting.
You make your perfect world: a business is a reflection of the creator
You can’t pretend there’s only one way to do it. Your first idea is just one of many options. No business goes as planned, so make ten radically different plans. Same thing with your current path in life.
Being, not having: When you want to learn how to do something yourself, most people won’t understand. They’ll assume the only reason we do anything is to get it done, and doing it yourself is not the most efficient way. But that’s forgetting about the joy of learning and doing. (…) When you sign up to run a marathon, you don’t want a taxi to take you to the finish line.
There’s a benefit to being naïve to the norms of the world — deciding from scratch what seems like the right thing to do, instead of just doing what others do.
Pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you’re trying to impress an invisible jury.
I have a good life, by all standards but especially my owns. I am happy, my life is good. I don’t wish for a different relationship, I love my family and my friends, I live where I want to, I am healthy, I have a steady job where I am acknowledged for my work and profile and that provides enough money to live without major concerns, I easily find joy in nature and in the small things of my life. I don’t exactly want to change any of that. I am blessed and I know it and do not take it lightly nor for granted. For the most part, I feel grounded in my life. Still, there is this thing that keeps haunting me from time to time that life should be more. The problem is that I don’t know what that more is. I know what it isn’t, it’s not money, reputation or acceptance. I usually feel guilty for this itching and reason with myself that all humans feel this, that it is something we all feel from time to time but I decided to explore it in 2017, so I finally read Goin’s Book, about finding and pursuing our calling.
In order to cultivate awareness, you must be willing to act, to step out and see what happens.
On some level, we all struggle to commit to the work necessary to find our purpose. We are used to trying something out for six months to maybe a few years, then moving on. But a vocation is not like that. It’s not something you try; it’s something you become.
In an era of human history in which we prize comfort above nearly every other virtue, we have overlooked an important truth: comfort never leads to excellence.
When we are in the midst of pursuing our calling, we must not only ask if this is something that we are good at, but if it is something good. We need more than excellence to satisfy the deepest longings of our soul
Your life’s work is not a single event, but a process you are constantly perfecting, finding new ways to put your passion to work.
We are not what we do for a living, but our life is made up of what we do.
We try to recreate a life we admire instead od the one we were born for.
What would you do if you could do anything?
What happens if you don’t do this?
I still don’t know if I have a calling or what my calling is but I never expected to read a book and find it. What I always expect is to find things that make me wonder, to expose myself to different points of view, find reassurance in some of my beliefs or even to see articulated in words something I feel true and to reflect on small answers in my own journey. And this book did just that.
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