Name Your Passion: A User's Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose

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Delphinus, 1996 - Self-Help - 469 pages
This is a book, first and foremost, about personal purpose - the idea that each of us has a very specific, unique, and important reason for being here. When we pursue our purpose and express it in our activities and our relationships, we make our greatest contribution and experience our greatest joy.It's also a book about work. Because in today's workplace, if your job doesn't feed your soul, it just might eat you alive. How do you find one of those soul feeding jobs? The first step is to figure out your personal purpose - that unique and essential contribution that only you can make, and what you'd love to do if you knew you could do it - and align your work with it.All the information you need to identify and clarify your purpose is securely stored in your experience, your relationships, your dreams, and your feelings. All you need to do is extract the clues and fit them together. And that's what this book is all about.Name Your Passion is a friend and guide along the way to discovering what you'd love to do with your life and how to do it. It's also the story of someone who, like many of us, woke up one day to find that he'd done everything he thought he was supposed to do but was no longer happy. It also contains 130 separate explorations to help you discover your own personal purpose and build a detailed plan to make it happen. It's a map, a companion, and a detective manual for people who've decided to make a real difference in the world and have a great time doing it!

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