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The On-Purpose Person: Making Your Life Make Sense Paperback – May 22, 2013
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Do you feel pulled in a thousand different directions?
Are your days so busy you hardly have time to think?
Are you living up to other people's expectations while your own plans and dreams go unmet?
In The On-Purpose Person you'll learn how to discover who you are, where you are headed, what you should do, and what's most important to you! That's being on-purpose!
Tap Into Your Highest Potential With The On-Purpose Person
Nothing adds more fullness and meaning to your life than discovering your purpose and living it out every moment of your life. With The On-Purpose Person, you'll be on your way to greater order and clarity within 30 minutes of picking up the book. This entertaining story format provides clear principles that are easy to apply to everyday life. You'll put them into practice immediately. Regardless of whether you're in your teens or well into retirement, being on-purpose will inspire and guide you to live true to yourself.
"Goals are consumable. Purpose is permanent," states Kevin W. McCarthy. The On-Purpose Person moves you beyond the surface of life to what matters most so you can make a difference. You'll have a simple, yet powerful system to:
Exchange burnout for being integrated
Learn why a balanced life is a myth
Feel satisfied rather than stressed out at the end of the day
Find meaningful time for yourself
Align your innate passion and gifting in the right direction
Trade discontent and frustration for a growing and enduring joy
Make confident, more improved decisions more consistently
Manage hurdles and setbacks positively
Face opposition from an unassailable position of strength
Define your standards for success that are just right for you
Gain a vivid understanding of yourself
Explore your possibilities equipped to succeed
- Print length152 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 22, 2013
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.35 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100974052558
- ISBN-13978-0974052557
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- Publisher : On Purpose Publishing (May 22, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 152 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0974052558
- ISBN-13 : 978-0974052557
- Item Weight : 6.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.35 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #309,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,558 in Sea Stories
- #8,186 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
- #12,763 in Psychology & Counseling
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About the author

Pioneering Professor of Being On-Purpose; Strategist, Business Owner, Author
Purpose pulses in the core of our being. It is our sustaining source of energy and meaning. Since the late 1980s, I have been helping individual and organizations harness the power of purpose to be on-purpose. My collective works are known as ON-PURPOSE®.
Be the forefront of your life, career, or business. By originating and sharing forward-thinking leadership and strategy ideas and methods, you can meaningfully align your life to be on-purpose. Next, you can integrate your purpose into your work, relationships, and business — your life decisions. On-Purpose provides simple-to-understand models and easy-to-apply methods so results happen early in the learning curve and only get better as you gain competency.
For example, do you wonder, “What is my purpose in life?” Using the “ONPURPOSE.me” tool you can discover your life purpose in just 2 words in under 3 minutes. Once you stop searching for purpose, you can re-invest your time into being on-purpose.
Feeling lost about what you should do? Use the “Want List and Tournament” method and tools described in “The On-Purpose Person” to set goals and clarify your top priorities. Speed out of your darkness into the light.
Looking for a life, career, or business plan? The Service Model, found in “The On-Purpose Business Person,” taps into your innate desire to serve and provides you the 6 essential layers any plan needs to succeed long term. Ideal for entrepreneurs!
What’s wrong with big business? The CEO-system of management is obsolete, and we’re all paying the price! Talented people like you are burning out, wanting out, and checking out of corporate life. It really sucks to sell your soul! “Chief Leadership Officer” disrupts the CEO-system and maps how The On-Purpose Principle (the purpose of the person and the purpose of the organization) is the beginning of a much-needed business reform.
These examples are just four of the many leading-edge principles and practices intended to help you to be on-purpose.
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Basically the story is about a successful man who feels like he is no on purpose and seeks guidance from a professor who sets him up with a lot of personal coaches who guide him to finding the reason he is alive.
I think if you are open to it God will show you your purpose and it probably has something to do with helping other people. This book just provides a little extra help and methods you can use to uncover what you are supposed to be doing in this life. I have applied some of the advice in this book to my own life and it does work. Once you know your purpose you will be a lot happier. If you already know your purpose this book still reveals how you found it and it can give you ideas for how to help other people find their purpose.
~The Rebecca Review
I read the book during a trip I took, the trip being partly for business, and partly just as a time away following a death in my family that had left me wondering how to move forward in life. Two years before, I found myself being "downsized" from the job I always believed I would retire from. I'm also a person who has spent years trying to figure out that elusive "life balance" question.
Could you identify your purpose in life with just two words? In the past few years I've used a popular method of not setting New Year's Resolutions, but picking three words that will define my year. And while that's been useful to guide the year, I found myself wondering what if you had those two words for your entire life? How would it change things? And now I know.
What I found is a wonderfully insightful book that gives you a new way of looking at life. I've see a lot of reviews here that talk about it just being an old version of "goal setting," however, I found it to be much more than that. It's not tough to create goals and then go about figuring out how to make them happen. It's tougher to align your life with your true purpose and be sure that everything you do connects to that purpose. Kevin's process and worksheets guide you through the process of discovering that purpose and applying it across every section of your life. It is a book I have since recommended to many of my friends.
I encourage you to take the time to read it, not read 5 pages or 10 pages and decide it's not for you, but really read it and do the work. I do believe it will give you clarity, focus, and change in how you do things in life. What I am learning as I apply this work in progress to my own life is the clarity that is developing is leading to a better sense of who I am, my own purpose in life, and new ways to be sure that I am in the zone with that purpose. That in itself is much more than simple goal setting and I believe will lead to a feeling of fulfillment that the things I do and focus on really matter.
Would I say the book is "life changing"? I'm still a work in progress, yet what I am experiencing so far is that yes, it is beginning to shape my life differently. In applying the principles and really doing the work, I am finding more clarity, less confusion, and am on my way to believing that life is truly focused around the things that make a difference.
My "On-Purpose Person" story: 15 years ago, My speaking and book writing business was stalling until I read "The On-Purpose Person." Kevin's insights, system, and character-based process not only transformed how I live but how I work (via "The On-Purpose Business." Kevin sent me an invitation to downloaded the Kindle edition earlier this week, and I did. I reread it (for the first time in 8-9 years), and guess what - it has inspired me AGAIN to travel the process AGAIN, to refine my On-Purpose Plan. Frankly, it was the PERFECT TIME for me because (hate to admit Kevin) I confess I have lately been living and working off-purpose. Not anymore! I am back on-purpose and certain am again living in significance. Thank you again, Kevin. You continue to impact my life.
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