🎯What This Post Is About
You don’t have to choose between your full-time career and your personal dreams; you can have both. This post is about getting real: success isn’t about more apps, books, or planners. It’s about discipline, smart time-blocking, and simply doing the work. Embracing both your career and calling can transform your approach to work and life.
1. You Don’t Have to Choose, But You Do Have to Commit
Not long ago, I found myself asking:
Should I prioritize my career, which pays the bills, keeps my family secure, and offers immediate growth potential?
Or should I pour more energy into my passion: building my plant-based wellness business and blog, the work that makes my heart light up, and aligns with my calling?
By aligning your daily actions with your deeper purpose, you can enhance both your career and calling effectively.
Here’s what I’ve learned: I don’t have to choose.
I can succeed at both.
But it requires two things above all: discipline and commitment.
Remember, success in your career and calling requires consistent action and a willingness to adapt.
2. Stop Collecting Tools, Start Doing
I’ll be honest. I love a good book, a shiny new app, or an inspiring course. Atomic Habits, new productivity planners, Reclaim.AI, beautifully color-coded Google Calendars. I’ve tried them all.
And while these tools can be helpful, they don’t replace the one thing that actually moves you forward: taking action.
If you spend more time learning how to do the thing than actually doing the thing, you’re not progressing; you’re procrastinating in disguise.
Success isn’t built by apps. It’s built by action.
3. My Non-Negotiable: Early Mornings
The single most powerful shift I’ve found? Getting up before the world wakes up.
For me, that’s 6-6:30 a.m.
I start with prayer.
Then I go to the gym.
After that, I spend focused time on the things that matter most, whether that’s my blog or something for my career.
When you start your day by doing the work that matters to you, you’ve already won. No book, app, or planner can give you that feeling; you have to do it.
4. The Busier You Are, the More Efficient You Get
Here’s a funny truth: the busier I am, the more I get done.
Why? Because I have to find pockets of time.
And for me, that starts on Sundays.
I ask myself:
“If it’s next Sunday and I’m looking back at this week, what two or three things, if achieved, would make me feel happy and know I had a good, successful week?”
Those become my priorities for the week.
Everything else fits around them.
5. Time-Blocking Is My Secret Weapon
Once I know my priorities, I give them a home in my schedule.
- Morning blocks are for my most important personal or creative work.
- Work hours are dedicated to my 9-to-5 career.
- Evenings are for family, rest, or small admin tasks.
Sometimes I get specific:
- 6:30–7:00 a.m. → Prayer and meditation
- 7:00–8:00 a.m. → Gym
- 8:00–8:30 a.m. → Blog writing
When it’s on the calendar, it gets done.
When it’s just in my head, it gets lost.
6. Discipline Is the Bridge Between Career and Calling
Having both isn’t about working 16-hour days or sacrificing your health.
It’s about knowing what matters, giving it a time slot, and showing up for it, over and over again.
With commitment, you can cultivate a life where your career and calling coexist harmoniously.
You can grow in your career and build your dream business.
But you can’t do either by only reading about it, planning for it, or waiting until you “feel ready.”
You have to start.
And you have to keep going.
7. Your Next Step
This week, don’t buy a new tool.
Don’t download another app.
Instead:
- Choose two or three priorities for the week.
- Put them in your calendar.
- Show up for them, no matter what.
That’s how you create results in both your career and your calling.
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