Book Description:
Finding Your Perfect Work provides expert guidance on how to combine your personal goals and dreams with the practical realities of earning a livelihood in today’s economy to create an independent career of your own. This step-by-step book offers worksheets, questionnaires, and resources that will spark your creativity, stretch your mind, clarify your dreams, and get support for what’s most important in your life. The authors believe if play is children’s work, then for adults work should feel like play. This eBook edition links to the “Personal Style Survey” that shows you how what you do naturally are some of your greatest assets. The book is filled with inspiring stories to help you define what you want from life. This one book can be a “life raft” for people struggling with career issues because it enables you to put your aptitudes, values, hopes, and aspirations together into one career.
What Readers Say:
“Despite holding many interesting jobs, I never figured out how to make a living from my passions. Then my wife bought me Finding Your Perfect Work. It showed me how to put it all together. I now have a plan that will allow me to do what I enjoy, do well financially, and do good.”
“Finding Your Perfect Work is the most comprehensive and encouraging technique for determining a self-employment path that I could find after searching for years. It was a great relief to have a succinct, yet flexible approach.”
“Finding Your Perfect Work, has been both an inspiration and a sort of bible to me.”
“Finding Your Perfect Work is the most comprehensive and encouraging technique for determining a self-employment path that I could find after searching for years. It was a great relief to have a succinct, yet flexible approach. The appendix of careers is outstanding as well.”
“I was the CEO of a multi-million dollar manufacturing company in the Midwest. The problem is that I was working about 80-100 hours a week. My daughter was growing up without me. I was leaving for work before my family woke for the day, and coming home to dinner on a plate in the “fridge.” I was making a great living, but I wasn’t LIVING!” After reading your book, I made some drastic changes in my life. I cashed out my ownership in the company. I started my own home business, and in just over a year, I’ve almost replaced my CEO income. The best part is that I’m living life and enjoying every minute with my family.”
What Experts Say:
“… a highly readable and instructive how-to guide. … a good first step for highly motivated readers willing to expend time and energy learning about themselves and the world of self-employment. Recommended for any unhappily employed adult considering self-employment.”
– Library Journal
“While this book may help people realize what their perfect work might be, it is really aimed at developing self-employment opportunities. …[A] valuable resource for anyone considering a change in occupational scenery.”
– Reasoner
“The best book I have ever read about how to make a living doing what you love.”
– Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
“….an easy-to-follow road map to help you discover what you do best and what you like most so you can choose a career that doesn’t feel like a job.”
– Dr. Tony Alessandra
“Passion is the key to success. Finding Your Perfect Work helps readers figure out what they are passionate about – and how to make money doing it.”
– Jane Applegate, Los Angeles Times syndicated column
