Book: Shortcuts
Finding your dream job. Discovering your purpose and passion. Achieving success and mastery in your field. Building healthy work-life balance. Experiencing fulfillment in all areas of life. These are all worthy desires to pursue, but not only do we lack a roadmap to make these things happen, the world pressures us to skip the line and use the latest “hacks” to reach these goals.
Yet most of the time when we go looking for shortcuts, it makes things harder in the long term. Leadership coach and popular podcast host Bob Hasson shares the secret to making real, lasting change in his book, Shortcuts. Packed with proven wisdom rooted in biblical truths, Shortcuts reveals processes for you to overcome discontentment and confusion, and gain courage and clarity on how to achieve the life you dream of.
In Shortcuts, you will explore:
• The biggest problems with the world’s prevailing wisdom on the path of success in work and life.
• A 30,000-foot view of what the Scripture reveals about God’s grand design and purpose for our work and life.
• How we gain clarity on our identity, purpose, and assignments.
• How passion is actually connected to what we do, and how to experience it in our work and life.
• Four essential keys to finding the roles where we can grow, thrive, and contribute our best work to the world––personality and gifts, execution, culture, and character.
• How our purpose and passion in life is inextricably connected with people and relationships.
• A biblical approach to work-life balance.
• How to become wise managers of our time, energy, and money.
• Keys to master the art of planning and personal growth. Don’t miss another moment of the life you were meant to live. Shortcuts will show you how to embrace the process and experience the passion and purpose you were created for.
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Notes:
Chapter 1: Gaps
Learn from other people that are ahead of you.
Chapter 2: The World is Out of Balance
There is no difference between the sacred and secular. Work is also part of the sacred.
Chapter 3: God’s Wisdom for Work and Life
As Christians, we’re called to have a balanced life. We are to work with excellence. Work is part of God’s intended design.
Chapter 4: The Journey of Purpose
Defined purpose helps you determine what to say yes and no to.
Chapter 5: Do You Deserve Passion?
When you know what you are called to do then you can endure the hardship. Spend the time to master your craft. Not everyone is going to love every aspect of their career.
Chapter 6: Discovering and Developing Your Unique Design
Keys to finding your unique design:
- Gifts and Personality
- DISC profile
- Strengths Finder
- Myers-Briggs
- Enneagram
- Execution
- When you execute on your assignment that is in front of you, you move from apprentice to excellence. When you master the art, you see where you can improve not just conform. By moving to mastery, you can see if you are a fit or not.
- Culture
- God works to instill the right culture in us so that we can bring it wherever we go influence organizations and people.
- Character
- God uses circumstance to form our character.