What are you going to do with your life?

Length warning: This post is longer than most...
Do you want to know what to do with your life? How to find the sweet spot? How to thrive? I read a great article this morning addressing some of these questions. I will give you two options: if you will take the time to read the entire article click here to go to the fast company website now and don't read this entire post (caution, it does contain some rough language). If you won't take time to read it, you can read some highlights below...

These are all direct quotes from the author, Po Bronson

Your responsibilities are not keeping you from your purpose, they are part of your purpose, often the very most important part. Envisioning your responsibilities as being outside the circle of "purpose" will lead you to make bad decisions about your life. (Page 1)

Mostly, crappy opportunities come along, and in the meantime, you make the best of them. But that skill and habit, of making the best of your situation, is essential training. Because one day, a good opportunity will come along. And if you make the best of it -- if you're good at making the best of things -- you will turn it into a great situation. A "calling" is not something you know, the moment you see it. For real people, in the real world, a sense of "calling" is something you grow into, over the course of your life, by having an impact on your organization and the community around you. (Page 2)

7. Don't tell me you don't know what you want from your life. Don't ever say that, don't ever fool yourself into that stupor. Of course you know what you want -- you know the feeling you desire -- fulfillment, connection, responsibility, and some excitement. The real problem is figuring out how to get it -- how to find a path that doesn't suffocate those natural feelings in you. Which is hard. Of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. If it weren't hard, you wouldn't learn anything along the way, and thus you would never get there. If you don't know how to make the best of a bad situation, you will never get there. If you are not willing to put up with some [crap] work, you will never recognize that a good opportunity is staring you in the face. If you are not willing to be humble and repeatedly be a beginner in new areas and learn the details faster than the next guy, you are not capable of transformation. (Page 3)

I may not say it exactly the same way, but these are some powerful thoughts. I also may not agree with these statements in every scenario. I think there are some people who have a "calling" and know it instantaneously, but it hasn't worked out that way for me so this was encouraging.