20 tips and 20 tasks for finding work that makes your spirit soar... When will you find your true calling? If you want to spend your life doing enjoyable and rewarding work that feeds your soul - that makes your heart sing - then you hold in front of you the roadmap to a new life. In this fully revised and extended edition of Jo Parfitt's highly acclaimed guide to finding the ideal career and living your dreams, you'll find lessons, tasks and inspiring real-life stories to help you find your passion and make your spirit soar. * Would you love to turn your hobby into a source of income? * Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? * Are you returning to work unsure of your ideal job? * Have you recently graduated but find yourself lost for choice? * Are you simply feeling unfulfilled in your present job but know there's something just right for you? Find Your Passion gives you 20 tips and 20 tasks to help uncover your unique contribution, the person you were born to be and the things you love to do. Read this book and change your life.
My first book was accepted by the first publisher I approached, back in 1984. The book was 'French Tarts' and the publisher was Octopus. I went on to have 13 word processing and desktop publishing handbooks published by Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Pitman and Paradigm, over the next few years. By then I had become an 'expat wife' and was living in Dubai. In 1993 we were posted to Oman, Word had become the only WP program and so my other work dried up. Inspired by the landscape and produce of Oman I decided to co-author another cookbook and create Summertime Publishing in order to do it myself. 'Dates' sold thousands of copies but in 1996 we were posted to Norway. Here, I realised my decade abroad had taught me much about expat life and portable careers. Summertime published 'Forced to Fly' and 'Career in Your Suitcase'. I had become an expat expert and my career as a journalist specialising in expat issues and speaker at international conferences took off.
In 1997 we returned to England for a while and I published 'Find Your Passion' and 'Grow Your Own Networks'. In 2005 we moved to the Netherlands and I returned to traditional publishing and new editions of 'Find Your Passion' and 'Career in Your Suitcase' were published by Lean Marketing Press and 'Dates' by Zodiac. In addition LMP published my books 'Release the Book Within' and 'Expat Entrepreneur'.
Today, I'm still in Holland and Summertime Publishing is back on full throttle, not only as a publisher but also as a complete mentoring and publishing service. In March I published my poetry memoir, 'A Moving Landscape' and have now begun publishing other people's books too.
