Self-Doubt is a great sign you are on the right path

​If you feel like you have a calling put on your mind or in your heart, and you don't feel like there are any challenges between you and reaching that calling, I encourage you to abandon that calling.

Because it's not a calling. Chances are good it's just a distraction from the calling you've decided is too difficult to pursue.

I've come to believe this about callings: a calling is much more about what you are called to go through than what you are actually called to. Because when you finally reach that calling, because of the battle you will do with resistance along the way, you will be a different person upon arrival.

The person your calling was calling you to be.

Many of us aren't ready for our calling because we aren't battle tested. And many of us won't arrive at our calling because we abandon it at the first sign of a battle.

Do you know what that first battle often is - that first sign of resistance? It's you.

It's you doubting yourself. It's you convincing yourself you aren't skilled enough. It's you convincing yourself you aren't ready.

Here's the thing. All of that is true. You aren't skilled enough. You aren't ready. And so you should absolutely doubt yourself. And then you should immediately recognize that doubt as the surest sign you are being asked to get yourself ready.

You are being called.

We live in a world today where there are an endless supply of opportunities to learn something new, to pursue a new path - so many tools with which to battle the resistance on the way to your calling.

Maybe you believe that's not true. And so you won't go the way of your calling.

Someone else likely thought the same thing once, but recognized that as the very reason to go the way of their calling.

And now they are well on their way there. Battling the resistance along the way, and becoming exactly who that calling wanted them to become.