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More About This Title It Starts with Passion: Do What You Love and LoveWhat You Do
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Bring more energy to everything in your life.
It Starts with Passion will help you ignite the purpose in your life, as well as in the lives of your colleagues, employees, and associates. In-depth research, practical concepts, inspirational stories, and clear visual models will show you how to find out what's meaningful to you and pursue it with passion.
For three decades, Keith Abraham has been helping people around the world to harnass their passion, achieve their goals and focus on what's most important to bring the best out of themselves and their business.
It's time to embark on a life of certainty, clarity and confidence and It Starts with Passion.
Originally published in 2013, this book has been reviewed and redesigned to become part of the Wiley Be Your Best series - aimed at helping readers acheive professional and personal success.
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Keith Abraham is the founder of Passionate Performance Inc. and is a source of inspiration to thousands of people through his passion, vision and insights.
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Preface xi
About the author xiii
Introduction: the four parts to creating a passionate life xv
Part I: Meaningful: creating certainty in your life 1
1 Find your way 3
2 Creating real wealth 9
3 Be out of balance to be in flow 11
4 The 6 emotions of achievement 17
5 The 6 ways to create certainty in your life 27
6 How people lose their passion 35
7 Reconnecting with your passion 39
8 What’s the big picture for you? 43
9 Creating your life to-do list 47
10 Lifetime dream examples 53
Part II: Milestones: creating clarity in your life 65
11 S.M.A.R.T. goals don’t work! 67
12 Driving emotions 71
13 Feel — Think — Do … true goal alignment 77
14 Putting the Feel — Think —Do process to work 85
15 Determining your driving emotions 93
16 Mapping out the milestones 97
17 Turning dreams into destinations 103
18 Creating the road map for the year ahead 111
19 Recognise, refl ect, reset 119
20 Letting go of expectations 123
Part III: Mindset: gaining confidence in your life 127
21 Who’s stopping you? 129
22 Your plate is only so big 135
23 Real education is igniting what’s inside you 141
24 Fill your mind with transforming information 145
25 The power of positive association 149
26 Create time & space to think 153
27 Readers are leaders! 159
28 Sit at the feet of a master 163
29 There is no substitute for experience 167
30 You are a great investment 171
Part IV: Momentum: living consistently in your life 177
31 It’s not about motivation, it’s about creating momentum 179
32 Defeating the greatest robber of self-esteem 185
33 Understanding how you like to focus 189
34 Focusing on what counts 193
35 Stop trying to manage time 197
36 Recharging your batteries 205
37 Rituals create your future 209
38 1% improvements 215
39 Bringing it all together 221
40 The first domino 225
Conclusion: become the living example 229
Appendix: ideas—insights—information—inspiration 239
Special thanks 247
