By Gregg Levoy
(Reviewed by Kevin Knebl)

After one of my talks or training sessions, people often confide that they are seeking a different path in their lives with regard to work or lifestyle. Over time, I have read a number of great books on how to determine what one’s life work or purpose might be. Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life is one of the best I’ve read. Author Gregg Levoy’s writing is almost poetic, and his style carries you smoothly through this wonderful book.
 
A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). While honoring a calling’s essential mystery, this book also guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling:

• How do we recognize it?
• How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song?
• How do we handle our resistance to a call?
• What happens when we say yes?
• What happens when we say no?