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Stop Chasing Squirrels: 6 Essentials to Find Your Purpose, Focus, and Flow
By Ted Bradshaw
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You're an achiever. You get things done. You're visionary, creative, and entrepreneurial, with twenty new ideas a week. You're successful. So why do you feel like something's missing?
Creative, driven people have a hard time turning it off. You get ideas in the shower, at breakfast, at a ball game, at 1:00 a.m. Most are worthwhile. Some are breakthroughs. It's far too easy to lose yourself in trying to chase them all.
Stop Chasing Squirrels lays out a step-by-step system to uncover your true, hidden passion. Not to limit your creativity, but to focus it. So that every idea you follow unlocks your deepest potential and fills your life with meaning.
With six pillars to support you as you shift into your purpose, Stop Chasing Squirrels will help you get focused, stay focused, and unleash your creativity with daily, heartfelt joy for the rest of your life.
Creative, driven people have a hard time turning it off. You get ideas in the shower, at breakfast, at a ball game, at 1:00 a.m. Most are worthwhile. Some are breakthroughs. It's far too easy to lose yourself in trying to chase them all.
Stop Chasing Squirrels lays out a step-by-step system to uncover your true, hidden passion. Not to limit your creativity, but to focus it. So that every idea you follow unlocks your deepest potential and fills your life with meaning.
With six pillars to support you as you shift into your purpose, Stop Chasing Squirrels will help you get focused, stay focused, and unleash your creativity with daily, heartfelt joy for the rest of your life.
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