None of these changes are failures. They’re simply steps in the journey. We change. That’s part of the deal. A well-lived life without calibration is unlikely.*
Seth Godin

Listening is its own reward.**
Aaron Copland

It’s not working,
You’ve grown older,
You’re being forced to move,
This isn’t your first choice …
It doesn’t have to be negative –
We’re very capable of re-orientating, re-organising, re-creating, re-inventing, re-calibrating,
And when we begin with listening –
(Let’s give that a capital L -)
When we begin with Listening –
To others, to the field, to the world, to our god,
To ourselves,
We can discover a melange of exhilarating possibilities
to re-invest ourselves in:
You choose your purpose
and then you give your soul to that purpose.
In due time,
you’ll transform.^

*Seth Godin’s blog: Re-calibrating;
**Rob Walker’s The Art of Listening blog: Heard Behaviour;
^Ben Hardy’s Personality Isn’t Permanent.