It Starts With Passion: Do What You Love and Love What You Do, First Edition
- 2h 32m
- Keith Abraham
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2013
No matter what you want to achieve in life, the secret to doing it is passion. For people to be happy, they need to find meaning in what they do and in the roles they play in their lives, careers, and communities. When we identify the personal passions that drive us, the byproduct is focus, satisfaction, and achievement. But it's not always easy to find our passions.
In this book, Keith Abraham shows you how to ignite the passion in your life, as well as in the lives of your colleagues, employees, and associates. He includes in-depth research, easy-to-understand concepts, inspirational stories, and clear visual models to show you how to find out what's meaningful to you and pursue it with passion and energy. In the process, Abraham shows you what you can achieve when you align your purpose, passion, and personal goals.
- Offers effective advice on how to inspire passion and purpose in yourself, your colleagues, and your employees
- Written by a Certified Speaking Professional and bestselling author of self-help titles
- Ideal for business owners and managers who want to inspire better performance in their teams
When you understand the "why" of what you're doing, the "how" becomes the easy part. This handy, enlightening guide shows you how to find your "why" so you can make your "how" happen.
About the Author
Keith Abraham, has become the world's premier thought leader on passionate performance and building passionate based cultures. CEO's of Billion-Dollar companies turn to Keith for inspiration, insights and ideas on how to bring the best out of their people and themselves.
Through his work over the past 18 years inspiring people around the world to live more passionately, he has assisted individuals and companies alike to create over 12 million goals.
As best-selling author of three other books and founder of the remarkable global movement the One Goal Global Challenge, he has become a source of inspiration to hundreds of thousands of people through his programs.
As founder of Passionate Performance INC. he has been dedicated to researching, training and working with people to help them find their passion, harness their passion and turn their passion into personal and professional capital. He has developed a client base of over 265 companies across 20 countries including industry leaders Toyota, Toshiba, Lexus, Westpac, Bupa, NAB and AIA.
Having been presented with the highest honour for professional speaking, the Nevin Award, Keith was also named 'Keynote Speaker of the Year' by the Australian National Speakers Association in 2012.
In this Book
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It Starts with Passion—Do What You Love and Love What You Do
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Preface
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The four parts to creating a passionate life
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Taking Control
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Find Your Why
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Creating Real Wealth
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Be Out Of Balance to Be in Flow
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The 6 Emotions of Achievement
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The 6 Ways to Create Certainty in Your Life
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How People Lose Their Passion
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Reconnecting With Your Passion
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What’s The Big Picture for You?
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Creating Your Life To-Do List
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Lifetime Dream Examples
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S.M.A.R.T. Goals Don’t Work!
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Driving Emotions
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Feel — Think — Do . . . True Goal Alignment
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Putting the Feel — Think — Do Process to Work
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Determining Your Driving Emotions
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Mapping out the milestones
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Turning Dreams into Destinations
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Creating the Road Map for the Year Ahead
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Recognise, Reflect, Reset
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Letting Go of Expectations
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Who’s Stopping You?
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Your Plate Is Only So Big
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Real Education Is Igniting What’s Inside You
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Fill Your Mind with Transforming Information
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The Power of Positive Association
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Create Time & Space to Think
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Readers Are Leaders!
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Sit At the Feet of a Master
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There Is No Substitute for Experience
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You Are a Great Investment
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It’s Not about Motivation, It’s About Creating Momentum
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Defeating the Greatest Robber of Self-Esteem
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Understanding How You Like To Focus
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Focusing On What Counts
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Stop Trying To Manage Time
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Recharging Your Batteries
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Rituals Create Your Future
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1% Improvements
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Bringing It All Together
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The First Domino
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Become the living example
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Ideas—Insights - Information - Inspiration
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Special Thanks
