Garden City is one of my favorite Christian books of all time. John Mark Comer just has a way of words, and I’m fully convinced now that God has put me on this Earth for a reason. That we all have a calling in life, and until we find it and are fully committed to it and practicing it and living it, we will never be happy.

Work is important. We were made to work the earth. Everyone has a job they need to be doing during their time here on this earth, and sometimes it takes years to find it. A lot of people don’t end up working in a field that they majored in. Their paths diverge and they end up in a completely different place that they thought they would end up in.

How do you find the career you’re meant for and that’s meant for you? I’ve had many conversations with people about this, and at the end of the day, I think that a cursory opinion or two based on mental heuristics isn’t enough for me to make a life-changing decision on what I should pursue in my career. I’ve also been on the other side of the decision where I’ve given advice to people who were struggling to find the career they enjoy and want to do for the rest of their life.

So I’ve come up with a framework for helping people decide what career to go into, what their calling in life is. It’s based on these six principles:

Past. Presence. Personality. Practice. Purpose. Power.