A daemon is a calling, obsession, a source of lasting and sometimes manic energy … when you are looking for a vocation, you are looking for a daemon … You are trying to find that tension or problem that arouses greatness of moral, spiritual and relational energy.*
David Brooks

The fairy godmother replied that true magic is to help each thing become its best and most free self.**
Rebecca Solnit

Herminia Ibarra suggests that when it
comes to who we want to become, we ought to:
Test and learn,
not plan and implement.^

Don’t rush into deciding
“This is it!” nor believe that you are
stuck in who you are where you are,
It’s okay, cut yourself some slack.

Then you may begin to notice
your truest energy, wrapped around
the gloriously inscrutable
problem inviting your attention and focus.

We may want it to be swish, but
the most real and meaningful things are more likely
full of lostness, incompetence, failure, and messiness
before the imperfect beautiful emerges.

We may think to put this off, but as
Oliver Burkeman suggests, there is a difference
between working towards sanity and “working from sanity”^^ –
The place and time is here and now.

*David Brooks’ The Second Mountain;
**Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator;
^David Epstein’s Range;
^^Oliver Burkeman’s Meditation for Mortals.