When I was a little girl growing up, my religion taught me that certain people have callings. Specifically, they were "called" to the religious life. As an adult, I believe we all have callings and can hear them if we just listen. Here are the signs that I believe point to the truth that we all have a calling...

1. We are all born with specific gifts. Our gifts are unique and help make us the individuals that we are. They must serve some kind of purpose, right?
2. We are all born with specific interests. The world is a diverse place with too many wonderful things to explore and learn. We have to make choices about where we will invest our time and energy - and it's easier to do because we have distinct interests.
3. We are all born with specific preferences. I don't know about you, but I've had jobs that I absolutely hated and still knew people who loved doing that very same job. Nothing else explains it better than the fact that we each have unique preferences.
4. Some people really, really love their work. And I bet you know a few of them. They're the folks who never complain about what they are doing. They just know they're in the right field and they happily go about their daily work without thinking about it much.
5. Some people seem "born" to do certain work. These are the people that are naturally good at what they're doing. Often they seem to do their work effortlessly and are able to tap into their intuition to do their job at an even higher level than seems possible.
6. Many people successfully "create" their own jobs. If they weren't called to do it, how would they make something appear out of nowhere?
7. The world of work is so vast. There are so many options, it must be because each of us is a complex arrangement of talents, interests, preferences and knowledge.
8. If religious people are "called" - why wouldn't the rest of us be? It doesn't make sense that it would be only the religious life that people would be called to serve.
9. Almost everyone wishes, at some point, for work with "meaning." Since this is a universal theme, it points directly to the existence of an appropriate path for each one of us.
10. Some people love their work, while others, in the exact same occupation, are completely miserable. Enough said!