Finding Your Passion: The Easy Guide to Your Dream Career

By Marcy Morrison

Finding Your Passion is a powerful, yet easy-to-use book by Marcy Morrison, Career Strategist and Owner of Careers With Wings (www.careerswithwings.com). This fun and whimsical book will help and guide the reader to develop wings for their career and get on the fast track to finding their dream job via identifying their passions and strengths; empowering them with tools to market and sell themselves; strengthening their ability to trust their gut/believe in themselves; learning how to network; developing a support team; enhancing their current job; and creating a personalized plan for success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Apr 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9781614481959

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Attention: Your Dream Is Waiting!

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you’ll be a success.

—Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian

Introduction

After many years of working with others to assess their career goals, it became clear to me that everyone has a dream inside. All that you need is assistance in unlocking and uncovering that dream, along with some guidance and empowering tools to get you on your journey to finding your dream job, career, or business. You also need someone, or multiple people, who can serve as your personal cheerleader(s) and support team to help you stay excited and enthusiastic about your dreams and remind you to continue to believe that anything is possible. When you are in touch with what you are passionate about and are able to market and sell your skills, you become a magnet that attracts the necessary resources that will help you find your dream. You just need a guide who will ask you the right questions to uncover your passion, talents, and dreams. You want to feel uplifted, empowered, and inspired to achieve your goals.

I created my company, Careers with Wings (www.careerswithwings.com), to help individuals find their passions and develop their personalized strategies for success. In response to feedback from my workshops and one-on-one sessions, I recognized a need for a powerful yet simple book that provides a kick-start to finding your dream career. I kept recommending that my clients read other career- or success-related books. The feedback I continually heard was, Way too long—way too overwhelming. Many felt disempowered even before they began. Instead, most said they wanted a more interactive, fun, inspiring, uplifting, easy-to-use book or workbook with exercises that could guide them to unlock their passions and find or create their dream career. Through workshops and one-on-one sessions, I discovered that individuals felt most empowered by being asked thought-provoking questions. Finding Your Passion offers the best exercises and processes from real-world career strategy sessions and workshops. Pulling from my own experience and knowing how other people’s stories have often been the catalyst for change in me, I have included inspirational and motivational stories of courageous people who followed their passions and are successful, sometimes against all odds.

I firmly believe that we get in touch with what we are meant to do when we come from a childlike sense of play and fun. When we are in this state, we create an environment that is more conducive to opening us up to opportunities that will lead us to our dream job. Finding Your Passion will also help you cut out the outside noise so you can truly get in touch with who you are meant to be and what you are meant to do. The easy-to-use exercises simplify the process by helping you gain clarity and put together a focused plan. You will feel motivated and inspired to work through Finding Your Passion, instead of sticking it on a shelf where many books end up. Also, I have created easy-to-use tools and resources that are accessible on my website, www.myeasycareerguide.com.

Three symptoms Finding Your Passion will alleviate include the following:

• Feeling overwhelmed and not knowing where to begin—This guide helps you have a place to start and keeps the process simple, and it will give you empowering tools to help you move forward and find your dream career.

• Lack of excitement and enthusiasm due to being worn down by the job search process—By keeping it simple and clarifying your passions and strengths, you can be filled with energy and enthusiasm again.

• Loss of self-confidence and self-esteem in the job search—By working through the exercises in this book, you will build up your confidence and self-esteem by teaching you to believe in yourself, trust your gut, and remember to focus on your strengths. You also will build a support team to bolster you up during tough times.

Throughout life it is common to have multiple passions, passions that continually evolve and even change with time. Ever since I was an exchange student to Australia during my last year of high school, I have been passionate about international work. I have lived, worked, and studied all over the world. Now as a mom of two young children, I am still passionate about international work; however, I have had to reassess my priorities because a career that requires heavy international travel would not allow me the time that I crave with my children. In reexamining my passions, I realized that I absolutely love helping individuals uncover their own passions and then working with them in strategizing a path that leads each person to his or her dream job. This is something I had been doing in a volunteer capacity for many years and kept receiving feedback that I should start my own business. I decided to turn that feedback into action by creating Careers with Wings. It has been an incredibly rewarding journey to see the shift in people’s lives as they gain clarity on their passions and create their own personal road map to attain their