In the great movie “Chariots of Fire,” which is about the life of Olympic athlete, Eric Liddell, there is a memorable line. Liddell is explaining to his sister Jennie why he does what he does, and simply sums it up by saying that, “When I run, I feel His pleasure.” Liddell’s point is that his running is not more important than his missionary work in China, but that God had created him to be fast as well, and that he had more than one passion in life.

So, what is it that you were created to do, and what is it that when you do it–you feel His pleasure? I’m not trying to make a religious article out of this, but I am trying to get you to think deeply about what it is that you are created to do, for your life’s work, and what it is that you do best in other settings that makes you know that you were cut out for it.

One of the really wonderful things I see as I follow the transformations of others is that during this process they really do find what it is that they are cut out for and what it is that they love to do, but didn’t do, because their low self-esteem, their size and de-conditioned state were holding them back. I have seen people change careers, become runners or tri-athletes, all kinds of things that they never would have dared do before finding new confidence in the challenge process.

For me, my first real awakening was when I got sober in 1983. My second one was when I did my first challenge and really realized that a nonathletic, out of shape guy could reinvent himself. Soon after that, I also realized that the job I had, a dream job for most people, was one that I just didn’t fit into. I got a different one, one that pays a lot less money, requires more time and travel, and can be very demanding. You know what? I LOVE it! There is not a day that goes by that I don’t want to go to work. I really don’t think I would have had the courage to make that job change had I not really gotten immersed in the transformation thing!

It’s amazing. You start out trying to get lean enough to look good on the beach, or to fit into an outfit, or look good at a wedding, and before you’re done, you have become pretty much a new person. And a new person that you are pretty darned comfortable being around! It doesn’t come instantly, but it happens. And it happens because you work the universal law of reciprocation, and you start helping others with their challenges, and you start becoming a more balanced person who is content with himself.