Albert Camus said, “A man’s [sic] work is nothing more than to rediscover . . . those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.”
Our life's work is not first to go-and-do, achieve, make money, and leave a bunch to our kids. Our work is to first listen.
Listen to your life.
Listen to your heart.
What woke you up, brought you to life, lifted your spirit, filled your soul? What challenged your sense of self, pushed you further than you thought you could go?
What woke you up early, filled your dreams, gave strength to your spine?
There’s an image to one of those questions.
Maybe a story.
Perhaps a color, or a song, or an encounter.
At one point—be it when you were six or twenty-six—something opened your heart.
Your work is there. Your call, your vocation, your fullest expression is there.
Rediscover it.
Reengage it.
And you will come alive again like the first time.
