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Mark Albion. Making a Life, Making a Living: Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in LifeLinda S. Austin. What's Holding You Back? Eight Critical Choices for Women's Success
David Bach. The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
Despite its sensational title, David Bach's The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich is not a get-rich-quick guide. Rather, the book is a straightforward march through common-sense personal financial planning that suggests readers "automate" their contributions to retirement and investment vehicles. Bach calls his model the "tortoise approach" to becoming wealthy by retirement age. [amazon.com summary]David Bach. The Finish Rich Workbook: Creating a Personalized Plan for a Richer Future
Marc Ian Barasch. Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life
Laurence G. Boldt. How to Find the Work You Love
Laurence G. Boldt. Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
Suzanne Falter-Barns. How Much Joy Can You Stand
Laura Berman Fortgang. Take Yourself to the Top : The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach
Everything that I teach is something that I have experienced as real on some level. All other information I have learned through years of study and relationship with various evolved souls, I treat as hypothesis. There is a silent confidence that comes from the belief that what we know -- what we truly believe -- is the result of personal experience. I believe everyone has a purpose in life and it is our opportunity and challenge to fulfill that purpose through whatever is our current situation. As we succeed, we empower ourselves to create greater opportunity for a fuller expression of our purpose.
Patrick J. Harbula -- from his Life Purpose site
The Magic of the Soul : Applying Spiritual Power to Daily Living - by Patrick J. Harbula
David Harder. The Truth About Work : Making a Life, Not a Living
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for Untold Success Sony Chairman Norio Ohga is also an orchestra conductor; World Bank President Sir James Wolfensohn is a former member of the Australian fencing team. Using these examples and others, David Heenan.. explains the importance of having a second vocation in order to realize one's passions. .....[Publishers Weekly] ~ ~ ~ Over the years, I studied other Renaissance personalities, who - like Michael Crichton - not only defied classification, but destroyed the myth that specialization was the only path to success and happiness. ... |
 .. .. Read this book and you'll discover some simple truths that will make you happier and infinitely more interesting to yourself and others. And just wait--you may find leading several parallel lives a passport to living the life you want to lead. ..... Author David A. Heenan |
Laurence Hillman, Donna Spencer. Alignments: How to Live in Harmony With the Universe
"Following your heart is not the same as following your ego. The soul longs to get up and stretch, to explore and learn." Laurence HillmanHerminia Ibarra. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
"Aimed at mid-career professionals who have invested much in careers that may no longer fully satisfy, Ibarra's book challenges the traditional belief that a meticulous assessment of one's skills and interests will automatically lead one to discover the right job. In reality, she argues, "doing comes first, knowing second." This is not to say that a marketing director should abruptly resign to become a modern dancer; instead, defining the arc of the future is a "never-ending process of putting ourselves through a set of knowable steps that creates and reveals our possible selves." [Publishers Weekly]
 author Rich Karlgaard on Life 2.0..My journey across America by small airplane began with a column I wrote in Forbes magazine in the April 15, 2002 issue. It was called "Boonyack Comeback." In it I wrote that small cities could very well outperform larger cities, economically, during the Turbulent 2000s decade.... Within a month of the "Boonyack" column being published.. I had received more than 200 emails. These were not spitballs aimed at my head, but something much different: -- They were tales of the search for sanity and of the need to balance life and work. |
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Stemo of Grand Rapids, Michigan summed it up: "If folks start to take a
tally of their lifestyle, cost of living and the lack of leisure time
and they'll realize that the quality of life cost is just too
high."
On and on the emails ran. Stories like these are fun to read. .... That's why, two years ago, I set out by small airplane to travel across and collect the stories of Americans who had sought saner lives in smaller communities. I am convinced these stories will inspire millions of Americans who feel trapped by the high costs and stresses of urban and suburban living. Rich Karlgaard - publisher of Forbes magazine - Life 2.0 : How People Across America |
Tama J. Kieves. This Time I Dance: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love
"It's obvious, now, that work needs to support not just our lifestyles, but our lives -- and life, itself. We need artists, artists in every profession, who can lead the world love-first into the healing realms of devotion expressed. Take up your love, your desire to express world beauty or bone wisdom, to cherish potential, or to devise and promote that preferable way. A universal intelligence has gifted you with a whispering wish, not to question, mock, or dilute, but to give your life to - and be given life in return. Trust these meek and gargantuan ideas. Tend even the preposterous seed. The idea begs you." Tama J. KievesRichard J. Leider, David A. Shapiro. Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling
"There are millions of people in the world who, unfortunately, are deaf to the passionate spirit that speaks within them." Richard LeiderGregg Levoy. Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
"I don't ask for the full ringing of the bell, wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. I don't ask for a clap of thunder that would rend the veil in the temple.
A scrawny cry will do, from far off there among the willows and the cattails, from far off there among the galaxies. Perhaps our callings, the wisdom of our true natures, can only be hinted at, anyway -- filtered through symbols, dreams, symptoms, happenstances, synchronicities and the like. They are not shown to us directly, but only mediated, for the same reason that the goddess Athena had to come to the aid of Ulysses disguised as a mortal, and for the same reason we can't look directly at the sun. ... We thus need to learn to recognize our calls in many disguises, and know that the channels through which they come are like pierced ears -- we have to keep rings in them or they close up. ------
Carol Lloyd. Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life Don't try to change everything about your life at once; first practice... in tiny fifteen-minute windows. You can look into these windows every day and see yourself working, creating, changing and getting used to change itself.
It will set you in motion, even if you are not yet sure of your direction. Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination. ....[excerpt from the book]
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Thomas Moore. Original Self: Living With Paradox and AuthenticityWayne Muller. How, Then, Shall We Live?
Caroline Myss. Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
Kathleen Noble, Ph.D. The Sound of a Silver Horn: Reclaiming the Heroism in Contemporary Women's Lives
Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine. Second Acts: Creating the Life You Really Want
"After spending decades on Wall Street, Pollan, at age 48, became ill and was forced to re-create his professional life. Now he's working as an author (of more than a dozen financial and self-help books) and life coach, helping others to follow their dreams and stage their lives' "second act." In this volume, Pollan and Levine offer tales of individuals of all ages who realized that something was missing from their professional or personal lives and decided to make major changes. Referring back to those real stories, the authors provide a guide to understanding dreams, translating dreams to life goals and overcoming the obstacles to making those goals into realities." [Publishers Weekly]
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Paul H. Ray, Ph.D. and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. The Cultural Creatives:
How 50 Million People Are Changing the World-While Cultural Creatives are a subculture, they lack one critical ingredient in their lives: awareness of themselves as a whole people. We call them the Cultural Creatives precisely because they are already creating a new culture.
If they could see how promising this creativity is for all of us, if they could know how large their numbers are, many things might follow. These optimistic, altruistic millions might be willing to speak more frankly in public settings and act more directly in shaping a new way of life for our time and the time ahead.
They might lead the way toward an Integral Culture. When we discovered the great promise of this new group, we set out to hold up a mirror for them, so they could see themselves fully. We wrote a popular book that tells their story: what their culture is like, who they are as individuals and how they live, where they came from, and what they're creating now.
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Mary Rose Remington. Career Quest: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Life's Passion
reviewer: Barbara Carroll (Eau Claire, WI USA) ...and Remington shows you how in this book, which I loved for its approach toward the Whole Person in determining career goals. A lot of books are more skills-oriented, purely practical, and they left me cold, didn't seem to speak to me. But Mary Rose knows, from first-hand experience, that without plumbing your depths and finding your deep calling, you won't be fulfilled. I particularly like her positive, can-do attitude. It's really infectious -- encouraging and energizing, at a time when you most need it.Marsha Sinetar. To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love--
Michael J. Tamura. You Are the Answer : An Extraordinary Guide to Entering the Sacred Dance with Life and Fulfilling Your Soul Purpose
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For it is from love that we are born. And to love that we must return. This is the journey of the soul we call Life. To be who we are, to have all that is within us and to fully express our divine heritage - that is our purpose for living and the destination of our journey. Spiritual growth is the process of fulfilling this purpose. And as you answer to the call of purpose, you become its answer. Your journey to your ultimate destination is not one of getting "there" from "here." Instead, it is one of returning "here" from "there." And destiny chooses its own time with you. Our spiritual development is not in some distant future, and the fulfillment of our purpose is nowhere to be found but here, within us, now.----
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Rick Warren. The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? The most basic question everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose? Self-help books suggest that people should look within, at their own desires and dreams, but Rick Warren says the starting place must be with God and his eternal purposes for each life. Real meaning and significance comes from understanding and fulfilling God’s purposes for putting us on earth. [from purposedrivenlife.com]
Nick Williams, Robert Holden. The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Barbara Winter. Making a Living Without a Job : Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love
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| Valerie Young. Finding Your True Calling: The Handbook for People Who Still Don't Know What They Want to be When They Grow Up But Can't Wait to Find Out
You May Be All Grown Up... But That's No Reason You Can't Find Your True Calling, and Live It > reviewer: Pat (Plymouth, Michigan) - I have read many books on this subject. I found this particular book refreshing in that it includes a collection of short pieces by a number of authors. Each piece seems carefully selected to present many different ideas and exercises to help evaluate what you want, as well as a wonderful variety of stories for inspiration. It was very easy to read and hard to put down. It also deserves to be read more than once. Valerie's approach, which is to decide the kind of life you want first, then create a career to support it, really hit home for me. Working with the book, followed by a telephone consultation, was revealing. In addition, her website is full of amazing resources for making changes. |
Have You Found Your True Calling? ... Are you doing EXACTLY the kind of work that makes you want to leap out of bed each morning excited to begin a new day? Does your work satisfy a need deep within to express yourself, your talents, your values, your unique and precious gifts? Does your work allow for a balanced life -- one that leaves time for family and friends, for exercise or hobbies, for you? Are you doing what you love and loving what you do? If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, congratulations! There's a good chance that you have achieved what the Buddhists call "Right Livelihood." "The way to find out about your happiness," said renowned mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, "is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy." available from Changing Course > and from Amazon.com |
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