Congratulations! What a momentous occasion that you’ve worked so hard toward. Honestly, hats off to you! I’m sorry though that it had to be in the midst of these crappy circumstances. It really does suck.
But here’s the silver lining in the midst of the interruption and disappointment of COVID-19.
You NOT being able to find that job you’ve worked so hard for might actually be a gift.
A gift?!
Yeah, a gift.
It’s a gift because you’re learning what took me YEARS to figure out…and what many people much older than you STILL don’t know.
Ready for it? Here it is: You are NOT what you do.
I know that might seem obvious, but it actually isn’t.
As kids, we’re asked what we want to BE when we grow up, but then we’re conditioned to answer that question by naming what we want to DO. As adults, we’re asked what we DO for work—and unfortunately then measured according to our answer. And at the end of our lives, we’re measured by what we’ve DONE .
No wonder we believe this lie that we are what we do!
If you can get this right, you’re going to shave off decades of striving after something that never actually satisfies.
And this is where my book comes in. You Are What You Do: And Six Other Lies about Work, Life, and Love can act as a guide for you during this season of waiting and uncertainty. It will help give clarity in the midst of the fog that you might be feeling.
And the best part of it all is that it’s 50% off at LifeWay.com right now.
So if you just graduated, do yourself a favor and ask one of your family members or friends to buy you this book as a grad gift. And if you’ve made it this far in the article and aren’t a recent grad, perhaps you can purchase a copy or two for those in your life who just graduated!