In Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, self-help guru Theresa Szczurek reveals that the real key to a successful and happy life is in knowing what it is that you truly desire and pursuing it with determination. Based on the everyday wisdom of eighty successful people from all walks of life, along with the practical strategies she used to pursue her own passion, Szczurek presents a proven, step-by-step plan for effectively pursuing whatever your passionate purpose is. By emulating the six strategies/characteristics that almost all truly successful people share, you?ll discover who you really are, what you really want from life, and how to achieve it.
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The author, a corporate executive turned consultant, offers a practical guide for producing extraordinary results and reaping the real rewards of life by caring passionately about what we desire and then pursuing it with true determination. She advises the need to build relationships and the importance of maintaining supportive friendships. With extensive research involving 80 participants, she offers her proven process for living life fully through self-assessment, determining what we do and do not want, establishing how to get what we want, and evaluating our progress while making adjustments. Her six success strategies include honoring opposites in life, surrendering to the natural flow of life without attachment to a certain outcome, and discovering what energizes and what discourages us so we can focus on the former and distance ourselves from dispiriting people and situations. This how-to road map may be helpful to a broad range of library patrons who are searching for enrichment and purpose in their lives. Mary Whaley
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Q: What is passionate purpose?
A: A meaningful intention or goal pursued with intense enthusiasm, dedication,
and interest.
Q: Who are Passionate Pursuers?
A: People who find their passionate purpose in life and work tirelessly to achieve it.
Today, many people wonder how they can achieve more in work and life. They seek the real key to success and fulfillment. But they might be surprised by what they find.
In Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, author and entrepreneur Theresa Szczurek taps into her decades of experience and four years of research to reveal the secret to a successful, rewarding personal and professional life. At the heart of this life-changing book is the premise that every person can produce extraordinary results and reap the real rewards of life. But how? Here, Szczurek shows that the real key to success is caring passionately about what you desire and then pursuing it with true determination.
Based on the everyday wisdom of eighty real people from all walks of life, along with the practical strategies she used to build her own successful company, Szczurek presents a proven, step-by-step plan for effectively pursuing any passionate purpose.
More than a simple self-help book, Pursuit of Passionate Purpose offers a verified path for finding and fulfilling worthwhile intentions. It helps you understand who you are, what you really want, how to achieve it, and how to assess your progress. Through this process, you discover or reaffirm your passionate purpose. But most important, you'll learn to adopt and apply six strategies that almost all effective Passionate Pursuers share. These help you achieve the meaning, peak performance, financial gain, and professional results you want. Most successful people—including world marathon champion Mark Plaatjes, co-inventor of the baby carrier Margaret Hansson, Tom Chappell of Tom's of Maine, and many others who contributed their personal stories to this book—engage in similar practices in their pursuit, and achievement, of passionate purpose.
This inspiring book offers practical pointers for all people on their life journey, helping ordinary people produce extraordinary results. Pursuing that passionate purpose gives people a sense of delight and deep satisfaction—and helps them transform "making a living" into "making a difference."
"It is the pursuit of passionate purpose, as well as its attainment, and relationships along the way that bring the real rewards in life," explains Szczurek. Pursuit of Passionate Purpose shows you how to give yourself the greatest gift you can—a mission that leads to a life lived with more purpose, more passion, and more success. Why risk NOT embracing these success strategies? Life is short. Follow your heart. Begin now.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I had been sitting on the fence finishing my book. After reading Pursuit Of Passionate Purpose, I realized no one was going to finish the book but me and I didn't have forever to live my dreams. Each day that went by that I didn't do what I loved was a lost day. The book provided the push to discipline myself, focus my day, and live what I love. After reading the book, I finished the pieces I need to sell my book. But I loved the process of living my dream each day that I wrote. Thank you Theresa.
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Very tedious to read. Yet another framework, whose primary purpose is to give you something to remember, rather than to simplify your life or help you find the focus to achieve your goals.
I give it two stars, rather than one, because I can believe it might help a reader who'd never before read a book of this type. If the title piques your interest, I suggest checking it out at the library before you buy.
But there really are so much better professional and personal self-help books out there. One of my favorites: Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up.
I give it two stars, rather than one, because I can believe it might help a reader who'd never before read a book of this type. If the title piques your interest, I suggest checking it out at the library before you buy.
But there really are so much better professional and personal self-help books out there. One of my favorites: Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Pursuit of Passionate Purpose is an excellent book for those starting out in a career or those who are very experienced. The book contains a practical method to support people in effecting the changes they are seeking. The stories of various people interviewed by the author are really interesting and inspiring.
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passionate purpose, interdependent poles, unremitting will, appreciation meditation, discouraging forces, nurture the person, doom loop, feeling passionately, foster passion, internal talk, broad intention, honor opposites, pursue purpose, proven process, highest convictions, worthwhile purpose, conf lict, proper people, entrepreneurial dream, head purpose, recognize success, real rewards, head energy, bigger purpose, technology entrepreneur Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Passionate Pursuers, Attraction Strategy, Persistence Strategy, Allowing Strategy, Polarity Strategy, Connections Strategy, Pack Strategy, Jim Collins, Profiles of People, Purpose Proclamation, Shinzen Young, Baby Plan, New York, Passionate Purpose Indicator, Core Practice, Linda Shoemaker, Nathan Thompson, Pursuit Brings Real Rewards, Put Passionate Purpose, Red Flags, United States, Carol Grever, Margot Zaher, Napoleon Hill, Polarity Map New!
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