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The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Would you like a more fulfilling work life? Do you want a job that's creative, exciting and rewarding? That allows you to be who you truly are? You need to discover the work you were born to do. Leading work-expert Nick Williams has identified the twelve principles of the work we were born to do. He show how we can activate these principles to amazing effect and utilize our inner power at whatever stage we have reached in our working lives. The Work We Were Born To Do shows how to discover your purpose and reveals how to make money following your heart's desire. It will help undo any conditioning that has held you back, exploring ways to build work from the inside out, using heart, spirit, essence and inspiration. The work you were born to do is your birthright, lay claim to it now!
- GenresBusiness
381 pages, Paperback
First published November 28, 1999
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About the author
Nick Williams
111 books1 followerWilliams is the founder of the Heart at Work Project. He had a very successful conventional sales career but wasn't fulfilled, so he left to find out what he would love to do with his life. He is now an internationally established workshop presenter, an expert in personal coaching and works in mainstream business as a consultant and trainer for the public and private sector.
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November 29, 2020
Summary: A great book if you're someone that has a bit of a buffer in life. It's harder the less of a buffer you have. Also great if you're an entrepreneur.
Nick Williams starts his journey from a place of relative success. He's not down and out and trying to make it. That said for those who started so down in the dirt they only have one direction they could possibly go in life (up), this might also resonate with how they did it.
His ideas do describe precisely how you should go about moving from the life you don't want that appears to be causing you angst to the life you'd like to have. There are a lots of organizations that talk about identifying how precisely you're getting in your own way and how you ought become honest with that and move forward. I like common issues that he presents and think it could be helpful to those that are not on their path.
He will fall flat if you are an "I can't" sort of person or you're so in the dirt right now, you can't quite even begin to feel your own empowerment. If you have conditioned yourself to feel you are powerless, then yeah, this book will just not resonate. For that, you'll first have to find your own inner power through a series of smaller successes that only you can find. Save this book for later.
But if you give this book a shot b/c you can see the spark of possibility, then I think the exercises he offers are a reasonable way for someone to start. I have been practicing many of the ideas in the book for some time with great success. But I found the exercises to be great and reinforcing. They are simple to follow and you ought give it a try even if you feel ridiculous.
The only missed point in the book is the importance of staying in the positive vibe. I mean, it's there, but it's not quite there powerfully enough. I removed 1 star for that. I do think that many have to feel their way into doing what he's saying.
Nick Williams starts his journey from a place of relative success. He's not down and out and trying to make it. That said for those who started so down in the dirt they only have one direction they could possibly go in life (up), this might also resonate with how they did it.
His ideas do describe precisely how you should go about moving from the life you don't want that appears to be causing you angst to the life you'd like to have. There are a lots of organizations that talk about identifying how precisely you're getting in your own way and how you ought become honest with that and move forward. I like common issues that he presents and think it could be helpful to those that are not on their path.
He will fall flat if you are an "I can't" sort of person or you're so in the dirt right now, you can't quite even begin to feel your own empowerment. If you have conditioned yourself to feel you are powerless, then yeah, this book will just not resonate. For that, you'll first have to find your own inner power through a series of smaller successes that only you can find. Save this book for later.
But if you give this book a shot b/c you can see the spark of possibility, then I think the exercises he offers are a reasonable way for someone to start. I have been practicing many of the ideas in the book for some time with great success. But I found the exercises to be great and reinforcing. They are simple to follow and you ought give it a try even if you feel ridiculous.
The only missed point in the book is the importance of staying in the positive vibe. I mean, it's there, but it's not quite there powerfully enough. I removed 1 star for that. I do think that many have to feel their way into doing what he's saying.
March 30, 2010
I love Nick's focus on:
- starting with BEING and letting the DOING follow from that, rather than the other way around
- Identifying your social conditioning and everything you've been taught to believe about work, and consciously choosing liberating beliefs about work.
- A focus on lifelong change/ embracing change and being an agile entrepreneur
You can get the Bottom-line on The Work We Were Born To Do, along with my interview with the author, Nick Williams, at The Bottom-line Bookclub:
http://www.bottomlinebookclub.com/200...
- starting with BEING and letting the DOING follow from that, rather than the other way around
- Identifying your social conditioning and everything you've been taught to believe about work, and consciously choosing liberating beliefs about work.
- A focus on lifelong change/ embracing change and being an agile entrepreneur
You can get the Bottom-line on The Work We Were Born To Do, along with my interview with the author, Nick Williams, at The Bottom-line Bookclub:
http://www.bottomlinebookclub.com/200...
May 24, 2014
I either tried to read this in 2008 when I was unemployed (thanks, recession!) or when I hated my previous job (2009/10ish). So, I was pretty desperate for some advice.
But not this desperate.
Read the introduction, and the book was abandoned, only to become useful as a wedge under an uneven piece of furniture. I think/hope it was left there.
But not this desperate.
Read the introduction, and the book was abandoned, only to become useful as a wedge under an uneven piece of furniture. I think/hope it was left there.
March 28, 2015
Nick is now a great buddy of mine. After I read his other book Unconditional Success which I highly recommend this was another great and powerful production by the heart felt leader that Nick is. Wonderfully written.
January 21, 2008
To find our place in this world
October 23, 2013
Review on my blog: http://www.anaelisamiranda.com/1/post...
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