Alexandra Levit: How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them
MP Dunleavey: Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want
Marci Alboher: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success
Howard Behar: It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
Bob Burg: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
Vandana Shiva: Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Kevin Eikenberry: Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time
Ellis Jones: Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference
T. Harv Eker: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Robert Fulghum: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum: What On Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Welcome to the archives of The Occupational Adventure. You'll find over 1,000 posts here on various topics related to finding passion in your career. Enjoy!
Check out the archive page for a list of links by both month and topic.
There's a new installment up of Curt Rosengren's M.A.P. Maker Podcast. It features former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan who, after leaving CNN, launched DarynKagan.com, the home base for a media company dedicated to positive, inspiring news. Since the site launched in November 2006, it has become a daily destination for thousands of people looking for real life stories that inspire them.
Give it a listen, hear her story, and discover what she's learned along the way.
Enjoy!
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This installment of Curt Rosengren's M.A.P. Maker Podcast features best-selling author and public speaker Bob Burg.
Burg's new book, The Go-Giver (written together with John David Mann), hit #6 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list within three weeks of being published. His book Endless Referrals has sold over 175,000 copies. As a speaker, he has shared the stage with notable personalaties like Zig Ziglar, Larry King, Brian Tracy, and President Gerald Ford.
Come hear what Burg has to say about the "Five Laws of Stratospheric
Success" (from The Go-Giver), as well as lessons and insights he's
gained in his own journey.
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Entrepreneur and Philosopher Brian Johnson's career path has taken him from lost and floundering early in his career to thriving in his bliss.
He is the founder of Zaadz, a social networking company for people who want to change the world (which had grown to 85,000 members by the time it was bought by Gaiam last year), and his new company, thinkArete.
Check out the latest M.A.P. Maker Podcast to discover the keys to Brian's success.
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Executive coach, author, and speaker Marshall Goldsmith has built a career helping CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies enhance their success by making positive changes in their behavior. The latest of the 23 books he has written, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, was a New York Times best-seller and ranked the #1 selling business book by The Wall Street Journal.
Check out the latest M.A.P. Maker Podcast to hear Goldsmith's thoughts on living a successful life and making positive change.
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If you're looking for personal stories and insights from people who have successfully crafted lives of meaning, abundance, & passion, you've come to the right place!
The M.A.P. Maker Podcast is created from a series of interviews I am doing with successful M.A.P. Makers. The first one, with Phil Borges, is available now.
Phil has created a second career as a hugely successful photographer (at age 45, he left a thriving orthodontist career to start over). Collaborating with organizations like Amnesty International and CARE, he has been the driving force behind numerous award-winning books and exhibitions on causes he cares about.
The next podcast in the queue is from a conversation with Marshall Goldsmith, best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There. And I have a conversation coming up with Brian Johnson, founder of the socially aware social networking site zaadz.com that I'm completely amped about.
[Update: The book is now available here.]
Whoo-hoo! I've been working on it off and on for over two years, but I'm finally just about to publish 101 Ways to Get Wild About Work.
I'm completely psyched to finally be ready to share it with you. It has the potential to spark a lot of positive change in people's lives, and I can't think of much that lights me up more than that!
The book is packed with insights and action steps to help you turn your dreams into reality. Each bite-sized idea stands on its own and is short enough to easily read, absorb, and put into play in your life.
You can either start at the beginning and work through it front to back, or take a self-customized approach, flipping through it and working with ideas that feel particularly relevant to where you are at the moment.
Here's a sneak preview of what you'll find:
Introduction (suggestions on how to use the book)
#1 - Define Tomorrow by Its Potential
Want to be among the very first to know when it's available? Drop me an e-mail and I will send you a note to let you know (hint: It will be in time for New Year's).
Here are the recent posts on my new blog, The M.A.P. Maker (Crafting a Life of Meaning, Abundance, & Passion). If you like what you see, please be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
Enjoy!
Sneak Preview: 101 Ways to Get Wild About Work
Role models of persistence and self-belief
25 articles on networking for shy people
The dangers of being dangerously comfortable
Passion lessons from an amoeba
Navigating change: 3 questions you need to ask
My hero: Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank founder & Nobel Peace Prize winner)
Maintaining momentum: "Why am I doing this?"
15 questions to prompt your gratitude
Open your mind to learning in The Beginner Zone
S=GxA: What's your formula for success?
Daydreaming: Indolence or inspiration?
Don't change THE world, change YOUR world
Does passion lead to profit? Employee engagement and the bottom line
Here are the posts over the last two weeks in The M.A.P. Maker.
November 16th
Maintaining momentum: Create accountability
November 15th
Maintaining momentum: Play with inspiring playmates
November 14th
Maintaining momentum: What motivates you?
November 13th
Maintaining momentum: The big picture view
November 10th
Vocabulary skills = free rice
November 9th
Develop a momentum maintenance system
November 8th
Take a fun approach to fitness
November 7th
Regrets or no regrets: Choose your own adventure
November 6th
Learn it. Record it. Apply it. (...or, don't flush yer learnin' down the drain)
November 5th
CNN gets it right with the Heroes series
Here are the posts in my new blog, The M.A.P. Maker, for the week of October 29th.
November 2nd
Jumpstart your day with positive morning reading
November 1st
What's your superpower
October 31st
Global Village Elders
October 30th
Can social entrepreneurship save the world?
October 29th
Embrace your blue sky vision (don't hide your big dream)
Here are the posts this past week over on my new blog, The M.A.P. Maker.
October 27th
30 in 30, Part II - Join the Reconnection Revolution
October 26th
30 conversations in 30 days (rehumanizing the blogosphere)
October 25th
Dreams and reality belong together
October 24th
Positive or pessimistic - What world view are you creating?
October 23rd
Lagom: A sustainable approach to life change
October 22nd
AudioCarnival of Meaning, Abundance, & Passion
Here are the posts this past week over on my new blog, The M.A.P. Maker.
October 20th
Official Adultitis Antidote
October 19th
Love it, or loathe it?
October 18th
Inspiring books: Stone Soup for the World
October 17th
Fabulous (with flaws) - A slice of authenticity
October 16th
How about a little work/life synergy?
As part of my blogging migration over to The M.A.P. Maker, for a few weeks I'm going to start doing a weekly summary of my posts there. Here are my posts to date...
October 15th
Skewing the bell curve of potential results
October 12th
15 ideas to boost your energy
October 11th
What would you say in your last lecture?
October 10th
The Great Balance Boondoggle
October 9th
Making a personally meaningful difference
October 8th
A cornucopia of personal development blogs
Thoughts about life on my 40th birthday
October 5th
Robert Fulghum asks, "What on earth have you done?!"
October 4th
Even positive thinkers get the blues
I heart Shakira (and here's why)
October 3rd
Navigating uncomfortable transitions
October 2nd
Plants boost effectiveness and decrease stress
October 1st
Redirect your mind with good questions
September 29th
Who inspires you? Who can you inspire?
September 27th
Life's too important to take seriously
September 26th
Doing the little things we can do
September 23rd
September 22nd
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