November 30, 2025: The Inner Tug

What you can’t stop doing, even when it’s hard, is your purpose.

One of mine is writing. It’s not easy, but I’m mysteriously driven even when the words come slowly. There’s a strange magnetic pull.

That’s how I wrote two published books (with a third in progress), several short stories, and a daily blog post for the past year. I never planned any of that. But I kept showing up, on tired mornings and long evenings when my brain wanted a nap.

What you tolerate pain for is what you truly value.

When everyone else quits, what pulls you forward reveals your real lane. Maybe you can resist for a while, but eventually you drift back.

So notice the task that empties your battery and fills your spirit at the same time.

If you can walk away from it forever and feel relief instead of emptiness, it was never your calling.

The great test: what activity makes you lose track of time? That’s a big clue.

Your real purpose feels less like a choice and more like gravity. The work chooses you as much as you choose the work.

Follow the tug.