The Passion Plan : A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion [Hardcover]

Richard Chang (Author)

Book Description

Series: Jossey-Bass Business & Management | Publication Date: August 31, 1999

We all know people who jump out of bed every morning, eager to start the day, so fulfilled by their personal and professional lives that they wouldn't change a thing. What's their secret? Passion. We all have it, but we don't all use it to its full potential. In The Passion Plan, Dr. Richard Chang presents seven simple steps to discovering the things we really care about, deciding where we want them to take us, and developing a plan to get us there. Through clear explanations, insightful self-assessments, and inspiring stories of people both ordinary and famous, Chang shows how the power of passion can reshape our lives.

Editorial Reviews

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"The Passion Plan is a wise and savvy guide that will help people find the things that matter to them and then act on their new insights to enrich their lives. Dr. Chang offers reality-based tools-not fantasies or miracle cures or easy wealth-that are widely applicable to many life situations, yet tailored to the individual."(Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of World Class and Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management)

"The Passion Plan offers a simple, easy-to-follow recipe for finding your own special passion and following it to greater personal satisfaction and success."(Debbi Fields, founder and chief cookie lover, Mrs. Fields Cookies)

"Having a passion, a sense of what you want and need to do, gives purpose and unity to all the other aspects of your life. Richard Chang shows you how to use passion as an energizing force to achieve the life you've always desired."(Tony Alessandra, author of Charisma and The Platinum Rule)

From the Inside Flap

Whether they climb mountains, run multinational companies, or feed the homeless, successful and satisfied people share one trait—a powerful sense of passion for what they do. Passion has the power to uplift and inspire. It fills us with energy and excitement, and enables us to achieve things we never dreamed possible. This book presents a simple plan that will allow you to discover your own passion and turn it into personal and professional fulfillment. Dr. Richard Chang has pursued his passion to become an internationally renowned consultant on personal and organizational performance, a professional bowler, a champion tennis player, roller skater, and dancer. In The Passion Plan, he translates his experiences and those of the thousands of men and women he's helped into a practical seven-step model that you can follow to fashion the life you long for and create success on your own terms. You'll learn how to listen to your heart, identify your passion and decide where you want it to take you. You'll learn how to use your passion to direct your actions and improve your performance, share your excitement with others, and persist in the face of obstacles. The book's questionnaires and self-assessment tools will help you discover and develop your passion. Checklists and practical suggestions provide the guidance you'll need along the way. Because passion is personal, The Passion Plan is designed to befollowed at your own pace, in your own manner. Individual results may differ, but the effect will be the same-you'll discover what Chang calls "profit with a capital P," profit measured not in dollars but in personal satisfaction and success.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (August 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787948136
• ISBN-13: 978-0787948139
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #638,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Business Plans

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stuck in neutral? Here's help!, February 12, 2000

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Dr. Mary D. Bell - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Passion Plan : A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion (Hardcover)

As a life passion coach, I like the author's take on what to do if you've gotten stuck in neutral. Sometimes it's hard to discover just what you are passionate about! I recommend the book for its clear style and helpful exercises to rekindle your sense of what it is you are truly passionate about, as well as the inspirational examples about folks pursuing their passionate purpose.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Inspirational and Practical Help. A Must Read!, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Passion Plan : A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion (Hardcover)

This is a very inspirational and uplifting book that helped me get back in touch with the things that I really love to do in my life. It provides real life examples that I could relate to and gave very practical advice that I could begin to apply. I've read lots of self-help books that danced around the concept of passion, but this one not only clarified what was important about passion, but also showed me how to develop a plan of action to start living it too! It's really made a difference for me.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and Practical Plan for Passionate Living, April 7, 2000

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Sadie Burton-Goss - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Passion Plan : A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion (Hardcover)

With The Passion Plan, Dr. Chang has succeeded in providing a solid approach to cultivating the energy and focus needed to pursue one's purpose, in a powerful way. A must read for entrepreneur's. This is a business book, dealing with a critical aspect of business life. The world depends on our ability to passionatly create and recreate great business every day, every hour, every minute. The worksheets are invaluable. They really set this book apart from the more purely inspirational. We will use The Passion Plan in our annual planning process, both for our own business and with clients. Great resource for coaching one-on-one or in groups. Thank you Dr.Chang. We finally, have a resource that presents passionate living as one of the many business skills needed by those who plan to live great lives,on purpose both personally and professionally.