"When you've found your life's purpose, work becomes meaningful to you. If you want to discover and live your purpose, read Nicholas Pearce's book. Not only will it inspire you to become who you were born to be, it also will show you how." - Ken Blanchard, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The One Minute Manager® How to build a meaningful career with a moral center and a purpose in the world. Some of the world's most successful companies—Google, Disney, Starbucks—are not simply profit-driven, but purpose-driven. They identify the purpose behind why they do what they do, and let their "why" drive what they do every day. Nicholas Pearce argues that we all should do the same: discover our "why" and commit to the journey of aligning our daily work with our life's work. The Purpose Path is for people in any field who long to have more than just a job or a career, but a true vocation that allows them to connect their soul with their role. The Purpose Path is organized around five key questions: What is success? Who am I? Why am I here? Am I running the right race? Am I running the race well? Nicholas Pearce sits at the unconventional intersection of academia, business, and faith. With examples and advice, he shows how he and other people in a variety of fields and at different life stages have asked and answered these five questions in order to start, shape, or even radically change their careers. Inspiring, thought-provoking, and practical, The Purpose Path is an essential book for anyone who seeks the clarity and courage to advance their authentic life's work every day.

LifeWork is a unique approach to discovering the presence of God in all that we do. A special emphasis is placed on the unique, personal vocation and mission to which all are called; of special interest to students and young adults.

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller “For nearly thirty years, my life’s work has been to help people like you find ways to bring the often warring aspects of life into greater harmony.” — Stew Friedman, from Leading the Life You Want You’re busy trying to lead a “full” life. But does it really feel full—or are you stretched too thin? Enter Stew Friedman, Wharton professor, adviser to leaders across the globe, and passionate advocate of replacing the misguided metaphor of “work/life balance” with something more realistic and sustainable. If you’re seeking “balance” you’ll never achieve it, argues Friedman. The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores the more nuanced reality of our humanity—the interaction of four domains: work, home, community, and the private self. The goal is to create harmony among them instead of thinking only in terms of trade-offs. It can be done. Building on his national bestseller, Total Leadership, and on decades of research, teaching, and practice as both consultant and senior executive, Friedman identifies the critical skills for integrating work and the rest of life. He illustrates them through compelling original stories of these remarkable people: • former Bain & Company CEO and Bridgespan co-founder Tom Tierney • Facebook COO and bestselling author Sheryl Sandberg • nonprofit leader and US Navy SEAL Eric Greitens • US First Lady Michelle Obama • soccer champion-turned-broadcaster Julie Foudy • renowned artist Bruce Springsteen Each of these admirable (though surely imperfect) people exemplifies a set of skills—for being real, being whole, and being innovative—that produce a sense of purpose, coherence, and optimism. Based on interviews and research, their stories paint a vivid picture of how six very different leaders use these skills to act with authenticity, integrity, and creativity—and they prove that significant public success is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of life, but as the result of meaningful engagement in all its parts. With dozens of practical exercises for strengthening these skills, curated from the latest research in organizational psychology and related fields, this book will inspire you, inform you, and instruct you on how to take realistic steps now toward leading the life you truly want.

A revolution is going on in small group ministry. Small groups want to go to the next level of learning together. This curriculum is a way to integrate the best of biblical teaching from leading teachers such as John Ortberg, Max Lucado, Doug Fields, Erwin McManus, Henry Cloud, Chip Ingram, and others via video with the best of small group study guides written by Brett and Dee Eastman, Todd and Denise Wendorff and Karen Lee-Thorpe from Saddleback Church. In Saddleback small groups, the video component is hugely popular. Groups that have used curriculum with video teaching resist going back to print-only curriculum. Therefore, Brett Eastman has designed a DVD video component to the Doing Life Together small group series.There are thirty-six sessions in the six-book curriculum written by Brett Eastman and others. Each book has six sessions and the titles of each book in the series are (the Doing Life Together small group series titles are also sold as a separate product): Ø Beginning Life Together Ø Connecting with God’s Family Ø Growing to Be Like Christ Ø Developing Your SHAPE to Serve Others Ø Sharing Your Life Mission Every Day Ø Surrendering Your Life for God’s PleasureFor each session, the DVD video segment includes the following elements: A Leadership Lifter (5 minutes), in which a teacher briefs the leader on the key issues of leading this particular session. In particular the leader will learn how to lead the session’s experiential exercise. These exercises make this series a cut above most small group discussion guides. They are much easier to lead when one has seen how to do them. A Drama (3 minutes) that provokes thought and emotion (humor, recognition) about the session’s theme. Drama catches people’s attention and sparks discussion. OR A Personal Testimony (3 minutes). Some topics are easier to discuss more forthrightly when someone on video has “gone first” in the sharing. Group members are also more convinced about the validity of a concept when they see that it has made a difference in the life of someone like them. Teaching (15 minutes) about the session’s core Bible passage and theme. Teaching takes the burden of correct interpretation off the leader, so less experienced leaders can be confident that their groups are biblically sound. Worship Music. Maranatha! Music will provide several praise and worship choruses with visual images and lyrics that will inspire a small group to sing along and worship together. The kit includes six study guides, six double-disc DVDs, and six leader’s inserts (not sold separately). The leader’s inserts help the leader integrate the video teaching for each

Thank God It's Wednesday! was written for business professionals who feel like they have too much job and not enough life. It is a prescription for "Work Sickness," or the live-to-work syndrome, that manifests itself in the form of feeling overwhelmed, incessantly tired and unsatisfied. This book was written for those looking for a practical and easy-to-implement strategy to master the corporate game, identify their career calling and to create more time & space for personal passions. TGIW! is packed with creative insights, innovative "connecting" techniques, real-life examples of success, as well as hands-on exercises that will show you how to unlock the power of your innate inner knowing. Read it and learn how to utilize 8 powerful Spiritual Laws to create your own "YOUnique" passion plan to live and work with purpose again and to get turned on by your career.