The Work You Were Born to Do

You are being assigned a curriculum for a reason. Exactly the right lessons for your growth.

Thank you for listening!

Take this reflection into the silence, and I'll see you next time.

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You hate that task on your list. The one you keep pushing to tomorrow. The conversation you're avoiding. The skill you resist learning. The project that makes your stomach tighten.

Yogi Ramacharaka saw this clearly: "Each one of us here has his own work to do. We are here for a purpose, and until we fall in with the law and work out the tasks set before us, we will have these tasks constantly and repeatedly put before us until they are accomplished."

Life keeps serving you the same lessons until you digest them.

How many times have you switched careers only to face the same self-doubt? Ended relationships only to attract the same patterns? Moved cities only to recreate the same problems? Started new hobbies only to abandon them at the same difficulty point?

"The purpose of the accomplishment of these tasks is experience and growth," Yogi Ramacharaka explains. "And unpleasant as our tasks may seem, they have the most direct bearing upon our future growth and life."

That work you despise is precisely calibrated to teach you what you need to learn right now. Not next year. Not when you're "ready." Now.

And until you cease to allow your work to be unpleasant to you, you’ll find yourself working into better things, as the lesson has been learned. In other words, the moment you stop fighting the lesson, you graduate from it.

But as long as you resist? Well, life keeps you enrolled in the same class until you engage with the material. Only when you start finding meaning in the work. Only when you stop treating it as punishment and start seeing it as practice. Only then, do new doors appear.

You are being assigned a curriculum for a reason. Exactly the right lessons for your growth.

And so, look at your most dreaded task today. What is it trying to teach you? What quality is it developing? What fear is it asking you to face?

The work you most resist is the work you most need. And once you learn what it came to teach you, you're free to move on to new lessons, new growth, new horizons. Your liberation begins the moment you stop fighting your assignments.