Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life [Hardcover]

Theresa M. Szczurek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2004

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.

Editorial Reviews

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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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From the Inside Flap

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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471703249
• ISBN-13: 978-0471703242
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,611,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the Push You Need, January 9, 2005

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Jordan "Jordie" (Colorado Rockies) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life (Hardcover)

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.

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, January 19, 2005

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Annette Taylor - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life (Hardcover)

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.

5 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep on Exploring, February 26, 2005

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John C. Anderson "Lucky' John Anderson" (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life (Hardcover)

I quit my job as a technician at Particle Measuring Systems in Boulder with reservations. I enjoyed the work and the people but felt I was not communicating well with certain engineers. Lizard (code name for one of the engineers)loaned me a wonderful book, though. It's called Pursuit of Passionate Purpose by Theresa Szczurek. That last name reminds me of the author of Flow -- Csikszentmihalyi. The Pursuit of Passionate Purpose deals with a topic Thomas Jefferson discussed: the battle between the heart and head in making decisions. I encourage everyone to read this book.
John Cutler Anderson
nickname "Lucky"
Boulder, Colorado