Highly reviewed purpose books

So, according to Oprah Winfrey, your true purpose in life is to find out what it is, what you are supposed to be, as soon as possible, and start following your call as best you can. Oprah reveals what she sees as a roadmap in her new novel, The Path Made Clear, to trigger the inner dream of yourself, providing the foundation for achieving not only a life of achievement, but one of meaning. The ten chapters of the book are designed to help you remember the essential landmarks in the road of self-discovery, explain what you truly need to reach personal fulfillment, and what the detours of life are there to show us. Oprah opens up each chapter by sharing her own main teachings and the private experiences that helped form her best life path. She is also , encouraging readers to question what they are supposed to do in the world and how to do it with zeal and concentration. Renowned celebrities include Eckhart Tolle, Brene Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jay-Z, and Ellen DeGeneres share the best insights they have learned from their own journeys into purposeful living. The Path Made Clear, combined with over 100 awe-inspiring images to help illustrate the wisdom of these words, presents readers with a stunning opportunity to pursue a life spent in the name of their calling, whatever it might be.

Jeff Goins, a brilliant new voice to be numbered among his followers by Seth Godin and Jon Acuff, discusses how to leave the status quo and lead a life that matters with true zeal and purpose. The path to a career with greater purpose is daunting and terrifying, which is why few take the risk. In the beginning, passion guide our search, but only our interests are rarely in connection with the world’s needs. Still, the ones courageous enough to pursue, will experience something exceptionnal once reaching this connection. Jeff teaches readers how to discover their vocation and what to expect along the way through personal observation, convincing case studies, and recent work on the complexities of inspiration and creativity.

The human heart has an infinite capacity to care and love. But it’s sadly connected to a capacity to easily experience pain. It’s hard to overcome this kind of suffering. So in the face of this, it may feel much more difficult to continue to love. Sharing his own personal pain tale, pastor and bestselling New York Times writer Jentezen Franklin teaches us how to seek the energy, and courage to set away the hurt, treat people as God sees them, and reach out in compassion. He addresses various forms of emotional frustration and pulse through biblical and modern-day narratives, and asks questions like Why should I trust again? The same walls that block us from finding light, experiencing redemption, and love are the walls that we build around our hearts to cut ourselves off from suffering. In this book are the tools that you need to break down this walls, work through your pain, fix broken relationships, and continue to experience love like you were never hurt.

Putting all together your life is the first step in having a positive impact in this society. Hyrum Smith reveals that what bars us is the large gap between our current state and our goal. He first develop on the Beliefs Gap, between what is real and what we think is. Then the Values Gap, between what we value most in life and what we really spend our time on. And finally the Time Gap, between what is planned and what is being done. Smith provides a concrete guide that we can can use to identify and close these three gaps.

In our economy, a number of changes are occurring: Millennials are trading in traditional job options to begin tech start-ups, start small companies embedded in local economies, or freelance their skills. We now can easily create, purchase or sell handcrafts in our local communities. In his newest book, Aaron Hurst, a internationally renowned businessman, founder of the Taproot Foundation and CEO of Imperative, concludes that although at first these trends appear unrelated, together they show a common trend that points to intent as the real engine of the American economy. Like the digital revolution that has powered technology and economic development so far, Hurst argues that our modern social age is driven by engaging people to their purpose. This is an environment in which interest lies in setting aim for staff and clients by meeting more than their own needs, facilitating individual development and community building. Hurst reveals, based on interviews with thousands of entrepreneurs, that this modern age is now driving demand for a whole host of goods and services and changing how millennials see their careers. A modern generation of entrepreneurs such as eBay, Zaarly, Tough Mudder, Kickstarter, and Airbnb focused their business plan on developping connection between people. Along with the visionary businessmen who created them, Hurst names these businesses Purpose Economys. The book was at once a personal recollection of Aaron Hurst’s own transformation as a purpose-driven businessman when he quit a well-paid tech career in 2001 to start Taproot, establishing a platform for millions of professionals and Fortune 500 firms to work for non-profits. It’s also a blueprint for a modern global age that changes economies, industries and jobs to serve people and the environment better.