For many people, life can feel like a never-ending hamster wheel. It’s usually not until we retire that we're finally able to live our lives just the way we want. In the meantime, many find themselves tired, unfulfilled, stressed out, and feeling stuck.

In The Creative Impulse: Answering the Highest Calling of Your Heart, Joselito Laudencia points to another way, where we throw away the hamster wheel and chart our own unique path. He invites us into key moments in his own life journey, with poignant stories, profound lessons and powerful questions that we can use as a guide for our own spiritual direction.

As he describes it, The Creative Impulse is that inner yearning within each of us that impels us to ask the bigger questions of life, like: “What’s my life purpose? What do I really want? How am I being called to show up in the world?”

Whether or not we realize it, our heart is constantly communicating with us, urging us to come alive, to experience more joy, and to live life on our own terms. Joselito’s stories and questions invite us to answer our heart's highest calling so that we reveal more of who we truly are and let go of who we thought we were supposed to be.

When we answer the highest calling of our heart, we enter into uncharted territory, almost like jumping off a cliff. As we take a step towards our own edge and leap into the unknown, we might be surprised that we, indeed, can fly.