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The On-Purpose Person: Making Your Life Make Sense Paperback – May 22, 2013

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Is Your Life Filled, Yet Unfulfilled?

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:

Invest your time, talent, and treasure in what is most important
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

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About the Author

Kevin W. McCarthy is the author of The On-Purpose Person and The On-Purpose Business Person (previous edition titled The On-Purpose Business). He is one of the world's leading authorities on the meaningful integration of life and work. Kevin has pioneered the message, concepts, and language of being on-purpose since the late 1980s. As the Chief Leadership Officer of On-Purpose Partners, he's a highly respected business advisor for small and middle market organizations as well as an executive advisor and coach to CEOs, executive directors, and company presidents. His work on deep strategy, alignment, and practical execution has turned around many companies as well as helped healthy companies experience remarkable and sustainable growth. More than just an author, Kevin is a natural leader in business and civic endeavors. He is a professional member of the National Speakers Association. Kevin's goal with audiences is to stir their hearts, advance their thinking, and inspire them to action. Authentic, inspiring, entrepreneurial, intelligent and creative are the qualities most often attributed to this thought leader by his peers, clients, and audiences. Kevin has traveled from Hungary to Hawaii since 1992 inspiring audiences as he carries the message of being on-purpose into the hearts, minds, and lives of people.

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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)
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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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Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016

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If you have a purpose you probably already know how it adds meaning to your life and adds joy to others too. If you still are looking for your purpose this book will help you feel in touch with your dreams and true self. We all love stories and this book is like a modern parable. The author asks a lot of important questions like "Why are you here?"

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.

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Kathy Nicholls

Finding Purpose and then Living Life On-Purpose

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2012

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I got this book on the recommendation of Seth Godin's blog, which is one I follow religiously. I find his recommendations have always taken me to things that I need or find value in for my life. I'm also a reader who has always enjoyed books written in a "real-life/fable" fashion, like many written by Ken Blanchard and Andy Andrews. I find I can glean things from what the character learns in those books that apply to my own life.

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.

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Dr. Jim Harris

Taking Your LIfe to a Higher Level of SIgnificance

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2012

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If you are ready to get focused for the first time or re-focused for the second, third, fourth time or more, "The On-Purpose Person" is THE BEST system I have discovered in over 30 years of study, research, and writing on how to take leaders and teams To a Higher Level (my company's name) of success and significance. Buy it. Read it. Use it. Read it again. And again. And again. You'll be transformed and living a life of significiance - not mere success.

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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Timothy J. Sharer

Getting On-Purpose

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2001

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This book was given to me by a friend eight years ago in response to a plea for some assistance in organizing and managing a very busy life. What I was looking for was a book on time management. What I received was a book on life management. This book almost singlehandedly enabled me to organized my life in several key areas: family, church, job, and being a full-time graduate student trying to finish a Ph.D. One might be skeptical of a book you can read in over an hour having that profound an effect, but do not dismiss the ideas and claims of Mr. McCarthy: they work. This book reads like a story and is most engaging. No two people will ever interpret or use the book in the same way. I have given this book to people as a gift, knowing that it will meet needs in their life, if not immediately, at some point in the future. When so many sources are claiming to "change your life", this one not only makes claims, it fulfills them. It is a must read for any person needing to prioritize their life and to find simplicity in becoming an "On-Purpose Person."

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Dante

Wonderful life changing book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2020

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Looking forward to applying the insights in this amazing book. There are some religious connotations (I’m agnostic), but looking past that it’s a framework for evaluating what you want out of life and how to achieve it by assessing and re-evaluating your purpose. Clear, practical advice wrapped up in a relatable story.