To know how to balance all that we need to for our lives ...is a very difficult thing to do.  We should seek the Holy Spirit's guidance and be ready to be led, yet, more often to be still.

It is often confusing to hear that others are led by the Holy Spirit to engage in things in life ...that we may feel the Holy Spirit is not leading us at all to do.

Yes, it's not uncommon for one person to be led one way, and another person to be led another way. But, that is only true when the two ways don't drastically conflict to the point of approaching contradictions to God's Word. 

Let me put it this way:  Suppose we work for a corporation that wants to distribute a product. One person may be asked to go one way, with a specific task in mind. And another person is asked to go another way, with a different task in mind.  Both are working for the corporation, and both are doing what is desired by the corporation to be accomplished.  What doesn't happen ...is for one to tell another that they are not doing what is expected of them to do.  Only the corporation head can tell them that.  

Let me be more explicit: Reading here, from the Bible, the Book of Acts, Chapter 15 ---"Notwithstanding, it pleased Silas to abide there still. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the Word of the Lord, with many others also.  And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, 'Let us go again  and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the Word of the Lord, and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.  But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to further work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus. And Paul chose Silas, going through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches."

By going separate ways, was not dividing the truth of the Gospels concerning Jesus and our salvation.  They went to different places, teaching and preaching the same way ...not separate ways.  The ones who listened to Paul and Silas, did not discredit Barnabas and John Mark ...and there was not a separate message from Peter, and again a different following with James.  They all followed Jesus ...and were thankful for the spreading of the Gospel by others who preached the same truth.