The Sunday Night Cheat Sheet: Contract vs. Calling

Contracts get signed. Callings get answered.

Sunday night. And you’ve got that familiar knot in your stomach.

You’re staring down another week, wondering why success feels so crappy.

Here’s why: You’re confusing your Job with your Work.

You’re dreading tomorrow because you’ve outsourced your sense of purpose to an employer who literally cannot provide it.

Let’s fix that before you log in.

The Sunday Night Cheat Sheet

Your Job:

What someone pays you to do
You execute someone else’s vision
It ends when the paycheque stops

Your Work:

The change you’re trying to bring to the world
You decide what matters
It continues whether or not you’re getting paid

The 3-Question Audit

Before starting your work week, ask yourself:

What am I actually dreading? The tasks themselves? Or the fact that none of it feels like mine?
Am I expecting my job to give me meaning? A job might contribute meaning, but it can’t hold your whole identity.
What’s one thing I could do this week that serves my Work, not just my Job? Even 30 minutes counts.

Your job is a contract. Your work is a calling. You can negotiate the contract, but not the calling.

The Shift

When you separate Job from Work, the pressure comes off.

Your job doesn’t have to be your calling. It can be the funding mechanism for your actual Work—the platform that buys you time and space to do what matters.

Stop waiting for permission from your employer to care about what you’re dying to do; they won’t. They only care about how you are serving their agenda, not yours.

Walk into tomorrow knowing the difference.

Quotation I’ve Been Pondering

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— Carl Jung

Journal Prompt

What would change this week if I stopped needing my job to be meaningful—and started building meaning outside of it?

Until next week!!

Work and live well.

Tim

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