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Turn Your Passion Into Profit (Information, Inspiration and Ideas To Help You Make Money Doing What You Love) [Paperback]

Walt F.J. Goodridge (Author)
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January 1, 2000
"Information, Inspiration, and Ideas to help you make money doing what you love!" Suppose a successful entrepreneur who's doing what he loves could share with you exactly how he went from a 9-to-5 mentality to a live-my-dreams lifestyle? Suppose he could share with you how he actually thinks when confronted with certain situations? And suppose you could walk away from the experience with not only inspiration, but a list of specific things to do to take you where you want to go? Well this might just be the first book to help you do it.

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"Truly awesome!!! You are a master at inspiring people, as well as helping individuals ignite their niche." -- Valerie Odom The Sistahs Are Reading Book Club

As the term "exemplum docet" suggests, the example teaches. It is the only thing that does ... Walt does it well. -- Nigel Alston, MotivationalMoments.com

If escaping corporate confinement is your goal...Goodridge knows what the transformation from employee to self-realization involves... -- Carol Celeste, Network Journal Magazine

Turn Your Passion Into Profit speaks to your heart, because that's where your passion begins. -- Alvin Hartley, President Nat’l Alliance of

covers all the considerations potential entrepreneurs need to ponder to determine their path to a freer happier life, along with the steps to achieve it. -- The Network Journal, Carole Celeste, August 2000

From the Publisher

Many people can entertain and motivate....few can really inspire! Walt Goodridge is at the center of an online Inspiration movement! What started a year ago as a private email to friends and family has become an international internet tradition quoted in magazines, syndicated on dozens of websites and attended by over 26,000 fans each week!

Turn Your Passion Into Profit is the latest gift from Walt Goodridge to people who want more out of life. A former civil engineer, Walt became frustrated by the monotony and restrictions of being in a 9-to-5; He quit to follow his passions for music, creativity, writing and sharing knowledge; started his own company; became a radio DJ, artist manager, record label owner, network marketer, inventor, and writer! He's created several best-selling books for Hip Hop Entrepreneurs; launched several online businesses targeting niche consumers. He sent out motivational email to friends and family one day which grew in popularity and, as Walt's Friday Inspirations, now reaches over 26,000 subscribers weekly! Along the way he discovered the thoughts that create success and created Lessons In Success to share these and other life-lessons! Now on tour inspiring others to follow their dreams, have fun and make money doing what they love! Latest book: Turn Your Passion Into Profit!


Product Details

  • Paperback: 370 pages
  • Publisher: Company Called W; 1st edition (January 1, 2000)
  • ISBN-10: 0962920290
  • ISBN-13: 978-0962920295
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,644,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Once upon a time, there was a civil engineer who hated his job, followed his passion, started a sideline business publishing his own books, made enough money to quit his job, ran away to a tropical island in the South Pacific, and started a tourism business so he could give tours of the island to pretty girls every day!"

A Columbia University graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, Walt was, like many people, destined for a career in his profession of training. In fact, immediately after graduating, he accepted a job working in the Design Division of the Port Authority Engineering department on the 73rd floor of World Trade Center One. However, within the first fifteen minutes of this his first job in corporate America, Walt, frustrated by the monotony, restrictions of nine-to-five employment, realized beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he absolutely hated it!

It was several years until he was able to grow his sideline business in the music industry--a personal passion--and walk away from his career to become a full-time "passionpreneur." He authored several books on the music industry, created a brand of inspiration called "Life Rhymes," and launched dozens of websites, and unique products.

As he honed his experience and expertise in website development, internet marketing, creating the life of his dreams, and living true to himself, he developed a unique "Passion Profit Philosophy and Formula" and a coaching practice to help others do the same. In 1999, he published the formula in Turn Your Passion into Profit which, with yearly updates, has consistently sold in the top 50 in home-business books on Amazon.com.

In 2006, through a friend who had visited and raved about his experience, Walt "discovered" Saipan, booked a one-way ticket, and 2 months later, escaped from New York to live his nomadpreneur dream on this pacific island paradise.

Walt writes a weekly business column for the Saipan Tribune entitled " The Saipanpreneur Project." He has written Doing Business on Saipan to further encourage entrepreneurial activity on the island, and, with former garment factory worker Chun Yu Wang, co-authored Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan and is the founder of Destination Saipan Marketing, Inc. Walt was recognized by official CNMI Senate Resolution No. 15-54 for his invaluable contributions to Saipan, its residents and economy.

Walt currently owns and operates over 50 websites, has written a total of 16 books, over 400 articles and almost 500 motivational poems.

Walt is originally from the island of Jamaica, and, you can read about his first year and impressions of his new island home in the book Jamaican on Saipan!

 

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WORTH EVERY CENT!, August 12, 2001
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In the last 20 years, I have read a few hundred self-help and start-your-own-business books. Usually I read a book, get maybe 1 or 2 helpful ideas and then move on to the next. THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT because it combines so many of the concepts from other books into one volume. It combines ideas and exercises for discovering your passion with examples of people who have done it and moves into marketing, selling, and even filling out IRS forms! The section on making money on internet alone is worth the price of the book. The writing style is simple, clear, concise and the book is well organized. As an African-American, I really appreciated the diversity in the examples of folks who started their own unusual businesses. The rhyming poetry sprinkled throughout the book was a treat and really drove the concepts home. I am recommending it to all my friends.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Usable, uplifting - no matter what your passion is, April 14, 2006
The chart on page 126 is worth the price of the book alone.

Combining your role as a "Creator", "Savior", "Guru" or "Guide" - according to the light personality profile in the book - it gives you an excellent idea trigger sheet that helps you create moneymaking products and services from your passion.

Combine your skills/gifts with products/services with values/benefits for "your chosen people" (your target group) and you'll have brainstormed a dozen of doable ideas in just 15 minutes.

The journaling exersices helps you find your passion, your skills - and "your chosen people".

Use this book, really use it, combined with the plotting and planning tools in Barbara Sher's "Wishcraft", to make a difference in your life... and perhaps in the world.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know!, April 5, 2006
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I loved this book because it takes you through the process of having an idea and bringing it to life in tangible form. The author writes in simple, plain english. He writes as though you are a friend that he's talking to. That made it easy for me understand.

I particuarly appreciate chapters 8-10 which provide the nitty gritty details that one needs to know in order to start a business but it's provided in a very engaging and entertaining way. It's not boring or dry. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get throught it!
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