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CHAPTER TWO

Creating Your

Career Fingerprint

By far the most satisfying careers spring not just from what we want
or what we are interested in but from what we were truly meant to
do. How do you know what you were meant to do? Finding the
answer involves becoming aware of your authentic calling, which
many people see as divinely or naturally inscribed on your genetic
code and imprinted on your soul. This chapter is called “Creating
Your Career Fingerprint” because each one of us possesses a
unique authentic calling, a metaphorical fingerprint, if you will, of
the right career for us, unlike that of anyone else’s in the world. We
each have a special stamp to make in the world, however bold or
faint to the eye.

Each of us has an unrepeatable calling or
combination of natural and unique talents in this
lifetime, and it’s up to us to discover them and
celebrate them. Expressing your natural and
unique talents outwardly, in one way or another,
can lead to a kind of happiness and peace that
few other experiences can rival.

Finding your authentic calling (or special talent) may sound a
little bit mysterious. From my experience, though, I can safely say

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