It Starts With Passion E-Book

Keith Abraham

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 235

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

How to ignite your passion, live with purpose, and succeed in life and business No matter what you want to achieve in life, the secret to doing it is passion. For people to be happy, they need to find meaning in what they do and in the roles they play in their lives, careers, and communities. When we identify the personal passions that drive us, the byproduct is focus, satisfaction, and achievement. But it's not always easy to find our passions. In this book, Keith Abraham shows you how to ignite the passion in your life, as well as in the lives of your colleagues, employees, and associates. He includes in-depth research, easy-to-understand concepts, inspirational stories, and clear visual models to show you how to find out what's meaningful to you and pursue it with passion and energy. In the process, Abraham shows you what you can achieve when you align your purpose, passion, and personal goals. * Offers effective advice on how to inspire passion and purpose in yourself, your colleagues, and your employees * Written by a Certified Speaking Professional and bestselling author of self-help titles * Ideal for business owners and managers who want to inspire better performance in their teams When you understand the "why" of what you're doing, the "how" becomes the easy part. This handy, enlightening guide shows you how to find your "why" so you can make your "how" happen.

Leseprobe

Keith Abraham has pinpointed a great need gap in our business world. Our people matter! Passionate people make better performers, which in turn creates a better business and ultimately increases the bottom line — it is that simple!

— Ed Santamaria, President Rock Tools, Sandvik Mining 

Keith Abraham is the Prince of Passion. I have worked with Keith for over a decade. He has shared his energy, sense of humour and business acumen with hundreds of my team in different countries. The feedback is always exceptional, citing personal insights and providing tools that have led to life-changing transformation. I can attest to this personally.

— Ian Blair, General Manager, Retail Banking, Westpac New Zealand

Keith Abraham is an incredible and credible adviser and presenter. He has a genuine passion for helping people improve themselves professionally and personally. He has ignited a passion in me for ‘just getting on with it’ and shifting my focus from having a job to having a passion. A great bloke doing amazing things.

— Jordan Hawke, Executive General Manager, Adviser Distribution, Asteron Life

We know if our people are connected to what they are passionate about in their personal life and they have a plan to achieve their personal and professional milestones, then they will be outstanding in their work and for our customers. That is why Keith Abraham’s approach to Passion was so right for our people, our customers and our business.

— Lindy MacPherson, General Manager, Organisational Development & Human Resources, Data#3

Keith Abraham is a unique and passionate guy who has the ability to unleash the potential in any organisation or person. In my experience with global and local companies, we can often spend considerable sums of money to get consultants to find solutions, whereas Keith brings all this thinking and more without the cost, making this book unique and accessible to everybody.

— Chris Beer, President — Asia Pacific, Luxottica

I have often shared a platform with Keith Abraham. He is a big picture thinker, communicates with simplicity and clarity, understands today’s technology, and embraces the new technology with his time-tested techniques to engage people. A very passionate man.

— Max Walker AM, keynote conference speaker, best-selling author, AFL player and Australian test cricketer.

First published in 2013 by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 42 McDougall St, Milton Qld 4064

Office also in Melbourne

Typeset in 10/12.5 pt Trade Gothic LT Std

© Keith Abraham

The moral rights of the author have been asserted

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Author: Abraham, Keith

Title: It starts with passion: do what you love and love what you do / Keith Abraham.

ISBN: 9781118512708 (pbk.)

9781118512722 (ebook)

Subjects: Motivation (Psychology)

Goal (Psychology)

Self-actualisation (Psychology)

Dewey Number: 158.1

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (for example, a fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review), no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, communicated or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. All inquiries should be made to the publisher at the address above.

Cover design and all images by Brooke and Aimie Dorratt, Dorratt Design

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Disclaimer

The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and does not represent professional advice. It is not intended to provide specific guidance for particular circumstances and it should not be relied on as the basis for any decision to take action or not take action on any matter which it covers. Readers should obtain professional advice where appropriate, before making any such decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and publisher disclaim all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any person taking or not taking action based on the information in this publication.

One of the greatest gifts you can give someone is permission and encouragement to dream, to be themselves and ultimately for them to live their passion. To my wife Kristine and daughters, Mazana and Isabella, thank you for this wonderful gift of support and endless belief in my chosen journey. You inspire me to be the best me I can be!

Contents

Preface

About the author

Introduction: The four parts to creating a passionate life

Part I: Meaningful — creating certainty in your life

1: Find your why

2: Creating real wealth

3: Be out of balance to be in flow

4: The 6 emotions of achievement

5: The 6 ways to create certainty in your life

6: How people lose their passion

7: Reconnecting with your passion

8: What’s the big picture for you?

9: Creating your life to do-list

10: Lifetime dream examples

Part II: Milestones — creating clarity in your life

11: S.M.A.R.T. goals don’t work!

12: Driving emotions

13: Feel — Think — Do . . . true goal alignment

14: Putting the Feel — Think — Do process to work

15: Determining your driving emotions

16: Mapping out the milestones

17: Turning dreams into destinations

18: Creating the road map for the year ahead

19: Recognise, reflect, reset

20: Letting go of expectations

Part III: Mindset — gaining confidence in your life

21: Who’s stopping you?

22: Your plate is only so big

23: Real education is igniting what’s inside you

24: Fill your mind with transforming information

25: The power of positive association

26: Create time & space to think

27: Readers are leaders!

28: Sit at the feet of a master

29: There is no substitute for experience

30: You are a great investment

Part IV: Momentum — living consistently in your life

31: It’s not about motivation, it’s about creating momentum

32: Defeating the greatest robber of self-esteem

33: Understanding how you like to focus

34: Focusing on what counts

35: Stop trying to manage time

36: Recharging your batteries

37: Rituals create your future

38: 1% improvements

39: Bringing it all together

40: The first domino

Conclusion: Become the living example

Appendix: Ideas — insights — information — inspiration

Special thanks

Preface

This is one of my favourite quotes. Think of anything that has been achieved in the world. It may have stemmed from a need, an injustice, a set of unfair circumstances, an opportunity or an idea whose time had arrived — but a passionate person or a group of passionate people brought it into reality.

If that is my favourite quote, then this is my favourite question: What are you passionate about in your life? What floats your boat? What energises you? What excites you? What gives you your greatest joy? My belief is that life is too short to live without passion, and it is too short to go through the motions or to just exist. Yet how many capable and clever people just exist? They have given up on their dreams, hopes and desires and use the excuse that they have to earn a living, provide for their family and be a responsible adult.

Here’s a newsflash: You can do all this and live a passionate life. I believe that your responsibility is to be the leading example for everyone who is connected to you. Now, it is not always your fault what happens to you, but it is your choice what you do about it. So what are you passionate about?

This book is about providing a catalyst for those people who are ready to have more, be more and achieve more for themselves, the people who mean the world to them and the community they are a part of. This book has been specifically designed for those who want more out of life, who want to be more in their life and who want to live a more passionate life. They want more than just to exist — they want to live, love what they do and do what they love. So the question is simple — is this you? Are you ready to live a more passionate life?

I have written this book to inspire, instruct, improve and inform you on your journey to discovering what is important to you, what matters to you, what is meaningful to you and what makes a difference to you.

Enjoy the journey.

About the author

Keith Abraham has become the world’s premier thought leader on passionate performance and building passionate based cultures.

Through his work over the past 18years inspiring people around the world to live more passionately, he has assisted individuals and companies alike to create over 12million goals.

As best-selling author of three other books and founder of the remarkable global movement the One Goal Global Challenge, he has become a source of inspiration to hundreds of thousands of people through his programs.

As founder of Passionate Performance Inc. he has been dedicated to researching, training and working with people to help them find their passion, harness their passion and turn their passion into personal and professional capital. He has developed a client base of over 265 companies across 20 countries including industry leaders Toyota, Toshiba, Lexus, Westpac, Bupa, NAB and AIA.