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Finding Your Passion

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This is a fine piece of work that teaches one how to find and follow their heart and feelings and thus lead a meaningful and passionate life. This is truely practical advice from a brilliant women. Much of it seems commonsense, to me, which I like, no tricks, no magic potions, just what the author (a life coach) has has used to help her clients lead a more enjoyable, meaningful life. So many people struggle with fidning meaning in their lives. This author gives us concrete doable steps on how to make it happen. Yes, it takes work, as Ms. Richardson states, you must be willing to make yourself and your life a priority and be willing to pay attention to your feelings (something us American's have become very bad at!). The speaker also gives tools for working through emotions that may be keeping the listener from pursuing their passion.

I highly recomend this to anyone seeking to add a little joy to their lives or anyone seeking a dramatic change, such as a new career that is more meaningful and joyful. (for the record, the sound quality on my copy was fabulous)

This is the best program I've heard yet on helping you follow your dreams and actually offering a clear path on how to achieve those dreams! Fabulous...... I've listened to it twice already.

Finding your passion doesn't require going outside of yourself, but going within. This tape inspires the actions necessary to find your passion within.

Sometimes it ignites. Other times it just brews. Cheryl Richardson's taped lectures on finding passion present a day-to-day, everyday people process of letting yourself and your inner passion find one another. Filled with stories, case studies, and all sorts of unfolding paths. One of those motivational lectures that feel real rather than phony.

I liked the book but it left me with some unanswered questions:

What I liked:
The Life Makeover groups
The AssistU.com virtual assistants website
The Warletters.com example

What I didn't like:
Where is the benchmark with which you can measure when it is time to fish or cut bait?
As children, much of what we were going to do we knew because their was a natural progression. There were very few 'real' decisions necessary on our part. There were nature bench marks: school had semesters, classes had tests, sports had games, and musical interests had recitals.
Even today, as adults, a nutritionist will tell you how many calories to eat in a day. A trainer will tell you how many reps to do in a workout. A financial planner will tell you how much to save for retirement. So my question is:
So how do you know if the "passion" bar has been set too low?

Here are some of the things that I felt were left unaddressed:
What do you do if you have "exhausted the possibility"? (as Lance Armstrong states in his book Every Second Counts) You have taken the train to the last stop - you have gone ahead and taken the step through the newly opened door in pursuit of your passion. You have found it, made a decision, taken action and put in your time, money and energy into something only to find that you have finished out of the medal race? You find that there will be no gold, silver or bronze for your efforts. Yes you finished fourth based on your best effort - but the game doesn't take place again for another four years or at all? That event horizon is still going to close. All the "brainstorming", as Cheryl talks about in her book, isn't going to prevent that window of opportunity from continuing to narrow. We see it in tennis, golf, gymnastics, skating and even in school, a college athlete can't go back to play for another four years. In the business arena it is quite common that "barriers to entry" exist. This wasn't fully explored. In the field of economics it mentions how the "law of diminishing returns" can play a role in an outcome. This wasn't either. Speaking in books terms, "How" do you know "when" to finish reading an average book and when it is time to put it down and pick up another? That's what I would have liked to have learned from Finding Your Passion.
WHEN do you move from "sitting with it" as Cheryl speaks about in her book - to moving on to that new passion?

NOTE: I can't believe that in 2002 (This book/CD was published in 2002) that anyone would offer advice that it is OK to create email and send it as a "reply to all" - That is absurd. I would call that SPAM. There are MUCH better ways of getting people together electronically.

If you are lookng to find your passion this is the book for you.
It is truly excellent.

I listened to this C.D. on a long car ride, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's easy to get caught up in the daily "must-do's" of life and forget what really sparks our enthusiasm. Cheryl has terrific ideas and anecdotes to help us get back to what gets us going.
I got a kick out of how her New England accent is more noticeable by the end of the presentation.

This CD was really inspirational for me at a time in my life when I need to reconnect with what was truly important. Although I found some of it a bit 'American' (being a rather reserved Brit) and too affirming with the audience, underneath the 'empathising' were some very helpful thoughts and insights. I especailly liked the section which encourages the listener to think about things that have inspired us in the past. Listen with an open mind and take what is relevant to you at that moment in time.

I've found this set to be awesome and inspiring. Passion isn't something we have to go on a big search for, but already exists within each of us.

This 4 CD collection is great if you are trying to change careers. I have listened to it twice now and I found the second go-around I started taking notes. If you pay attention she REALLY gives you all the answers to the questions you have about changing careers. Like "How should I go about finding this new career, Is it Ok to to not know yet? What should I say to people when they ask what is going on with you and your job?" And much, much more. She is a lot of great ideas on what to do and makes you feel much better if you are still trying to figure it all out.I will definitely be listening to it over again because I feel each time I do I pick up on something else I may have missed before. She has given me hope and I am excited about the journey. She does not make me feel alone anymore!
Thank you Cheryl!!!

PS. I met her at the YOU CAN DO IT conference in NYC this past fall. She is a REAL sweetheart and so genuine!