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How do you know you've found a heartful calling?

How do you know you've found a heartful calling?

Here's what I learned missing my deadline to write this letter about flow state, and how what lights us up guide us where we're meant to be.

Essi Auguste Virtanen
June 25, 2025

Dear reader,

I’ve been completely absorbed in writing a speech I’ll be giving tomorrow that I am coming to your inbox a day late. Apologies! (more on the speech next week, I still can’t quite believe it’s happening! EEK!). EEK!

Being in flow and missing my usual writing deadline actually really got me thinking…

How do you know you’ve found a heartful calling?

That thing you’d do for free… the thing that feels meaningful, energising, and heartful?

Here are a few signs:

You spend hours on it and lose track of time – (so much so you forget to send your weekly letter… oops!)
You forget your basic needs – like food, water, or needing the loo. 🙈
You’re not doing it for anything – not for money, praise, or recognition—you just love doing it.
It gives you purpose – it feels meaningful, even if no one else sees it.
You feel energised – like your strengths are alive and in motion.

In the world of Positive Psychology, we call this flow—that sweet spot where challenge meets joy, where you feel fully immersed, focused, and alive.

When was the last time you felt that?
What were you doing? Where were you? With whom?

I’d love to hear what lights you up like this, what brings you into flow, what fills your heart, what you’d do just for the love of it.

Reply to this email and let’s connect. x

For me, I love to speak, coach and mentor amazing people like you and show how self-connection transforms your life to inner freedom:

to know your limiting stories to turn them into empowering ones.
to turn your fears and barriers into courage and own your stories and allow yourself to live a heartful life you deserve.
to be yourself and express yourself freely and make a difference in this world through your stories.

Remember: there is only one you, and that’s your superpower. And you have stories this world needs to hear.

Next week, I’ll share more about this speech and how it went.

I know one thing: it lit me up so much to prepare this speech, I can’t wait how much it lights me up to actually do it tomorrow!

See, life will present you with what lights you up and what doesn’t, which work as guiding posts toward the path for you.

Stay curious. Look around you and take stock of what is lighting you up, where you get into a flow state and where not. There are big answers there!

Something to think about. 😉

With love,
Essi x

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How do you know you've found a heartful calling?

Here's what I learned missing my deadline to write this letter about flow state, and how what lights us up guide us where we're meant to be.

Let's keep connecting. Because together is better.

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Let's keep connecting.
Because together is better.