How to Start a fire: Find what you are passionate about and focus the flame

How to Start a Fire!Find the spark of passion & focus it into a flame

Let’s get started!

NPR article: "People with purpose live 15% longer"

The skills we need to shine are not often taught

Many employers say that

Soft skills are lacking Communication Teamwork Goal setting Time management Emotional

intelligence Self esteem

We have an energy crisis

Only 29% of the U.S. working population is fully engaged at work. Gallup State of

the Am. Workplace survey

What stops us from connecting with the energy of passion?

The difference between passion & purpose

passion: n., any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling

purpose: n., the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.

Passion is like a flame…

Purpose is like a laser.

There’s no magic formula…but there are ways to look for clues

What’s your tennis ball?

What lights you up?

Try new things Learn Explore Find your flow

Tools for finding the spark Name your talent

exercise from the book“Is Your Genius at

Work?” by Dick Richards

Oprah’s Find Your Passion exercise…

& more tools at dailyplanitwiki.pbworks.com/Talents

Name Your Talent Exercise

A gerund (verb ending in ing) + noun Example: “Creating Clarity” Try on til it feels right! Finding Genius Tool (pdf)

Tools to focus the energy of passion into purpose Mission

Statement/Manifesto Written statement of what

you want to be & do based on your principles

USP/Value Statement The special benefit you can

provide & why you want to Elevator Speech/Verbal

Business Card Quick verbal answer to

“what do you do?”Tools for Personal Branding

at List.ly.

Start With Why

Simon Sinek TED Talk & Book

WHY-purpose HOW-you will

achieve it WHAT-you do

Let’s make the world a brighter place!

Find It. Plan It. Do It.

Explore more at www.dailyplanit.com

On Purpose course at Udemy

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magazine article on personal branding