The Purpose Path by Nicholas Pearce

Author:Nicholas Pearce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Measuring How Well You’re Running the Race

From a career perspective, many career coaches lay out a series of potential rewards that people can get from their careers. They do this to see which rewards individuals value the most and which ones they value the least. These potential rewards can be anything from a particular level of income, to intellectual stimulation, recognition, autonomy, power, influence, or being able to live a certain lifestyle. These are all metrics that others use to define what it means to be successful.

When it comes to vocation, however, I look less to external metrics of success and more to people’s faithfulness to what their Caller has assigned them to do. If, at the end of the day, you can look at yourself in the mirror and know that you were faithful to what you were given to do, that you did not compromise, then I believe that you have run the race well. It’s not necessary that you executed 100 percent flawlessly on everything, and it’s not necessary that you were perfect. I’m not perfect, and nobody else is, either. You don’t have to be perfect in order to be faithful. This is not about perfection, but rather about the inclination of one’s heart, head, and hands toward the fulfillment of the unique assignment you’ve been given to do.

If you can say that you have been a faithful steward over the resources that have been given to you in service of accomplishing your assignment, that is faithfulness, and that is success. I hasten to add that those other metrics are not inherently opposed to faithfulness. Faithfulness may or may not result in financial gain or influence or intellectual satisfaction. Those things may be positive consequences but are not necessarily indicators of one’s faithfulness. You can be faithful and have little to no wealth, recognition, or power. I believe that simple, everyday faithfulness is underrated.

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