Discover this step-by-step plan to match your strengths and interests with a career that will fulfill you for a lifetime. Shifting into Higher Gear creates a pathway to minimize the stress and confusion of seeking the right job. The book presents a comprehensive three-stage program for discovering your calling, turning that calling into a career, and sustaining your passion once you?re in the job of your dreams. Grounded in Biblical wisdom, yet highly practical, the book is packed with field-tested advice, worksheets, self-assessments, and creative questions for action and reflection. This is must-read will become a trusted "owner?s manual" for a lifetime of meaningful work.
The Convergence inspires and equips readers seeking and willing to intentionally move from enduring their work to engaging a place of purpose and passion in what they do day to day. In a world where the majority of people feel vocationally out of place (statistics say that as many as 80% feel like they don't think they're in the right spot), this book offers a road map on how to be part of a new generation of people to engage their own "convergence." The convergence involves moving to a place where you can be "being fully free to be who you are -- doing what you were born to do -- in the place you're meant to do it." The book's "seven resolves to release what you were born to do" offers a workable and valid journey for those proactively moving forward with clarity and confidence. --
Do you feel like you're always searching for answers you never find? Does the daily grind leave you wondering when you'll have enough time to do the things you really want to do? Have you given up hope that your life will ever be anything but hard work and a mundane effort to survive? In The Habits of Hope, Gus a middle aged businessman, husband, and father, is experiencing those very same feelings. After a rough day at the office, a blowup with his wife, and a night of despair, he has an unexpected adventure when a letter from a childhood mentor arrives requesting he travel to the Adirondacks, to a place called Hope. Gus is skeptical that the trip will be worthwhile, but he goes anyway, and soon, his life takes a 180-degree turn. In these pages, readers will discover that the HABITS OF HOPE is an acronym for the twelve aspects of hope they need to incorporate in their lives."--Book jacket.
Discover this step-by-step plan to match your strengths and interests with a career that will fulfill you for a lifetime. Shifting into Higher Gear creates a pathway to minimize the stress and confusion of seeking the right job. The book presents a comprehensive three-stage program for discovering your calling, turning that calling into a career, and sustaining your passion once you?re in the job of your dreams. Grounded in Biblical wisdom, yet highly practical, the book is packed with field-tested advice, worksheets, self-assessments, and creative questions for action and reflection. This is must-read will become a trusted "owner?s manual" for a lifetime of meaningful work.
For over fifteen years, writer Jeff Crosby has been searching for a language of the soul--a way to articulate our deepest longings. Through the years he gathered clues from within global music styles, from different cultures, from his own Christian tradition and its sacred texts--and from deep within himself. A lover of words, he sought not only to translate our longings into words but to understand why these seemingly universal yearnings have long remained unnamed. Now in these pages, Crosby gifts us with those so-often-untranslatable desires of our hearts, guiding us to finally find the words and luminous insights for our own longings for home, for friendship, for forgiveness, and for transformation--and how God meets us in the midst of these longings. Eschewing easy answers, Crosby begins the naming process, helping us to make connections--and to recognize, within ourselves and our faith, our heart's true home.
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