Does the road to self-discovery really have to be so long and torturous? Not at all! Cut decades off the process and take a major shortcut on the road to clarifying your true purpose, says Dr. Brad Swift: Just follow the six steps, or "passages," that he outlines-and infuse purpose into every aspect of your life.
The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose (Audiobook, MP3)
The combination of this touching book and Brian Keeler’s deeply connected narration results in a life-changing audio experience that few people will forget once they hear it. Even frozen souls will be inspired to look with fresh eyes at their purpose in life and to chart a course that expresses that potential. Our daily choices only make sense relative to that purpose, and without one people are often driven to self-destruction and self-loathing. Instead of wallowing in fickle illusions, develop a solid purpose and serve it every day with intelligent and determined actions. A beautiful audio invitation to set some goals, and a heartfelt provocation to do something about them.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (ePUB)
In his first book, Tony Hsieh - the hip, iconoclastic, and widely-admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - - explains how he created a corporate culture with a commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors, and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own life experiences, and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success. He details many of the unique practices at Zappos, such as their philosophy of allocating marketing money into the customer experience, the importance of Zappos's Core Values
Architecture in Words - Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture
What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? Generations of architects at the beginning of modernity assumed it could. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, architects believed that the aim of architecture was to communicate the character and social status of the client or to express the destination and purpose of a building.
Teaching with Purpose: Closing the Research-Practice Gap
The best science teachers don’t just get up in front of the class and start talking. They draw from a plan… a rationale… a purpose. This book helps you create and implement a detailed, research-based teaching rationale that works even with students of varied needs in less-than-ideal facilities. The key is a method that this book’s authors and their colleagues have used to help more than 3,000 preservice and inservice science teachers achieve improved results in their classrooms. Teaching with Purpose provides a framework for coordinating your unique students and school with your desired educational outcomes and the education research literature.
