Passion Career

Passion is the lifeblood of a creative existence. How does it operate in your current life and where might you be tamping it down, missing out on opportunities for increased enjoyment and personal freedom? Passion and Abandon explores the topics of pleasure, surrender, self-trust, repression, risk, and our attitudes toward the desires and passions that burn within us.

Whether you’re looking to pivot to a completely new industry or advance within your current field, join inspirational Change Leadership and Confidence expert Lata Hamilton as she helps you unlock your career potential and ignite your passion and self-belief in your inevitable career success.

It is not native intelligence or natural talent that makes people excel, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval - it's old-fashioned sweat equity and hard work. And that claim is backed up by new research from MacArthur Fellowship Award winner and University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, among others. Not everyone is blessed with exceptional intelligence, or wins the gene lottery. But the good news is that you can excel beyond your wildest dreams in your career and your personal life - success is within your grasp - through the right attitude and determination.

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your company, your career, and your life. Written by three thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement, including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras, Success Built to Last challenges conventional wisdom at every step. It draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world.

Finally, a proven roadmap on how to become a full-time blogger! In The 15 Success Traits of Pro Bloggers, you'll learn a proven pathway anyone can use to become a full-time blogger.

Today's leaders know that speed and agility are the keys to any company's success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations can't move fast enough to stay competitive. The typical chain of command is too slow; internal resources are too limited; people are already executing beyond normal expectations. As the pace accelerates, how do you inspire people's energy and creativity? How do you collaborate with customers, vendors, and partners to keep your organization on the cutting edge?

This book has actionable information that will help you unleash the full power of grit to transform your life. It delineates the different aspects of GRIT: growth, resilience, instinct, and tenacity - which are all necessary to overcome stressors and challenges. It will show you how to change your outlook in order to realize your contributions to society and the universe. More importantly, it will show you how to develop and call upon your own grit mentality in order to hang on and persevere, no matter what.

How nice would it be if you are able to earn money doing something you love and you're passionate about? That is certainly the dream for most of us. We often hear of the saying about doing something you love or choosing a job that you love so you never have to work a day in your life. It's lovely to hear but most people are stuck doing a job that they don't really care about because they need to put food on the table. They don't even have time to find the thing they are passionate about so they may be able to use it to earn a living.

In the world of work, the single greatest asset of successful individuals, teams, and organizations is their mindset - what happens in between their ears. It's not the corporate strategy, the sales compensation plan, or the market segments they're pursuing. It is what each leader, team member, and employee chooses to focus on, to believe, and to create for themselves and others.

Believe it or not, everyone has issues - one or more stubborn problems which you have tried hard to remove but remained immovable. However, little do we know that when we are down to nothing, God is up to something, and that every obstacle is an opportunity in disguise.

Juggling exhausting workdays, managing kids at home, and giving your relationships more attention than you give yourself is a recipe for misery. Instead of enjoying the fruits of your labor, you feel tired, unhealthy, and joyless. Fortune 500 sales executive Becca Powers knows this feeling all too well. Having overworked herself into autoimmune disease and anxiety disorders, her self-worth plummeted. She was missing out on motherhood by prioritizing her career first.

Are you currently stuck in a job you don’t like? Do you have a passion, but you just don’t know how to connect the dots? Are you a person who feels unmotivated, or are you at a stage in your life where you feel like you have reached a plateau? The rapid revolution of the 21st century means that the world of employment is constantly changing and evolving. Keeping up with times is a must if you don’t want to be left behind. The world of work never surprises us with the opportunities and ventures that appear on a year-to-year basis.

Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights organization, became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Beginning with a moving story of working with Matthew Shepard's mother Virginia in passing the hate crimes bill that bears Matthew's name, Solmonese shows how he discovered that channeled anger can drive a commitment to change.

Lean in and listen close, because I'm going to tell you something scandalous: You can have it all. You can have the life that you want, doing work you love, and most important, crafting a legacy that goes beyond anything you can imagine. It's all there for the taking. We live in a time of limitless opportunity … yet it takes courage to step away from what's familiar and into the life we were truly meant to live. No matter what station you're at in this life, we need you.

In Love What You Do, founder of fab'rik Boutiques Dana Spinola will help you create a plan for your life that provides unaltered, focused, exhilarating clarity around your passion that makes your heart beat. She challenges you to define your purpose and what breaks your heart. She then thoughtfully helps you weave them together to create a life on fire, infused with meaning. It's not selfish to do what we love with this one precious life; it's our responsibility.

It’s in the Bag: How to Turn a Passion Into a New Business is an inspiring business memoir. Entrepreneurs will find invaluable business advice in this remarkable story of how a flight attendant turned an idea into a product category that didn’t exist and created a multimillion-dollar global brand - the iconic SHERPA BAG, the world’s top selling, soft-side pet carrier. Pet lovers who fly with a dog or cat, have Gayle Martz to thank for revolutionizing pet travel on airlines, and for making pet travel in every mode, safer. This is her story.

Every industry around the globe is being completely disrupted. Brands know a new approach is needed. But most don't realize the strategic underpinnings need to change. Great brands are no longer built through interruptive advertisements. Friction argues that brands don't simply need clever messages or new, shiny technologies. They need a fundamental change in strategy. Friction provides a system for embracing transparency, engaging audiences, creating evangelists, and unleashing unprecedented growth.

Written with wit and creatively, and packaged in the form of a glossary, it is an important and timely listen. This highly pertinent work has been 40 years in the making. It discussses the anxiety caused by tightened budgets or less participation and the fear surrounding the need to pick up new computer or technical skills. The book reviews and reminds us of the skills needed to maintain a high level of trust and communication within any family or organization.

How can we evolve through adversity and change our lives? It is one of life's great questions. In Evolving Through Adversity: How to Overcome Obstacles, Discover Your Passion, and Honor Your True Self, author Seconde Nimenya answers the above question and demonstrates that the best way to overcome adversity is to go through it. Through her own life story, Seconde explains how to apply this theory by what she calls the RRU (reflect, rectify, and unite) model.

Do you want advice on how to stand out in a crowded marketplace? Do you want to take your career to the next level and beyond? In Stand Out & Succeed, career and business strategist Christy Frank explains how the job market really works, and shows you the strategies, psychology and tactics you need to know to get a lucrative, recession-proof career you love. The biggest problem with finding a job today is that we actually have two job markets, and 95% of people don't know how to perform well in either.