{"id":3500,"date":"2016-12-08T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augustinianheartblog.wordpress.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:31:08","slug":"you-dont-need-to-over-analyse-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/augustinian-heart-blog\/vocational-reflection\/you-dont-need-to-over-analyse-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"1. Desire and attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-835\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agostinjani.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_119233999-e1390492738360-800x500_c.jpg?resize=800%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"shutterstock_119233999-e1390492738360-800x500_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to over-analyse your life, looking for conclusive signs in every mood or event. This can become an obsession, and even a superstition, like reading the tea leaves or the horoscopes. <strong><em>When you stand back and<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>take a look at the big picture, perhaps a pattern emerges,<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>and you sense that you are being drawn in a particular<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>direction.<\/em><\/strong> Usually, you don\u2019t really need more signs, you just need to look and listen more carefully.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018signs\u2019 listed here simply point to some areas of life that you can pay attention to, \u2018listening\u2019 to what they mean.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Desire and attraction <\/strong>\u2013 What do you care about? What do you love? What do you feel passionate bout? What would you love to commit yourself to? What do you feel pulled towards \u2013 even if you can\u2019t explain why<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>How to Discover your vocation \u2013 Stephen Wang<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t need to over-analyse your life, looking for conclusive signs in every mood or event. This can become an obsession, and even a superstition, like reading the tea leaves or the horoscopes. When you stand back and take a look at the big picture, perhaps a pattern emerges, and you sense that you are being drawn in a particular direction. Usually, you don\u2019t really need more signs, you just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocational-reflection","category-words-of-wisdom"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Provin\u010bja Agostinjana","author_link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/author\/agostinjani\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"You don\u2019t need to over-analyse your life, looking for conclusive signs in every mood or event. 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