Be Bold: Create a career with impact

I started a new book for my morning reading today, titled, Be Bold: Create a career with impact. So far, I love it. Here's the description from the back of the book:

The most important decision you will ever make in your life is how you show up in the world. This includes choices you make about your career. Finding your passion and applying it in the service of others is a sure path to a meaningful life. Let Be Bold guide you on this exciting journey.

Be Bold is written by Cheryl Dorsey and Lara Galinsky at Echoing Green, an organization that, through its "prestigious fellowship program, has supported over 400 visionary individuals around the world in their efforts to create bold, groundbreaking nonprofit organizations."

While the book is written with a focus on a career in the non-profit sector, the ideas it outlines are relevant for anyone wanting to make the most of the rest of their lives. The basic structure focuses around four core elements they have identified in finding and pursuing that path to a meaningful life. Those elements are:

Moment of Obligation: identifying what means most to you and committing to carrying out your dreams

Gall to Think Big: believing you can take on the world and developing a clear and expansive vision for change

New and Untested: questioning the status quo and creating new solutions to address seemingly intractable social problems.

Seeing possibilities: identifying solutions when others can't and having hope when others don't

The bulk of the book is made up of short success stories of Echoing Green fellows who embody those concepts.

Finally, in addition to insights and inspiration, the book also offers a bucketload of great questions to help you explore what being bold means to you.

Definitely a book worth adding to your library.

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Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst ^TM