The Purpose Principles: How to Draw More Meaning into Your Life - Softcover

Ducey, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399172645 ISBN 13: 9780399172649

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2015

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A new, inspirational book from the world’s first millennial motivational speaker—TEDx star and motivational coach Jake Ducey!
 
The Purpose Principles draws on the stories of success, failure, and the common threads among some of today’s most successful and influential people, inspiring you to see yourself in the same light as the world’s biggest difference-makers. Jake Ducey offers a humorous, action-oriented approach for getting more meaning out of life, teaching you how to live with more excitement, productivity, clarity, and confidence. This can help you tackle daily challenges, inspire others, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your goals more efficiently, and reach them even faster!
           
With “WOW-ing” and unfamiliar stories of how familiar celebrities like Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Taylor Swift, Stephen King, Dave Matthews, Jim Carrey, and many others came to be, TEDx speaker and inspirational role model Ducey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living your best life in a changing world . His principles and exercises give the know-how to take advantage of the opportunities all around you. The Purpose Principles  spells out the timeless wisdom used by the greatest contributors to human history, and shows how you can integrate them into your life immediately to live your wildest dreams and become a world-changer!

 

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Jake Ducey, a kid from a good Southern California family, seemed to have it all. But he didn’t. Something was missing, and the emptiness had led him to a life fueled by alcohol and drugs. Following his heart, Jake left it all behind and, with his meager savings, traveled the world. He discovered  that what he was seeking was inside himself the entire time—that our destiny is realized only if we look within ourselves first. Upon returning from his spiritual adventure, Jake raised the funds to build a school and home for orphans in Guatemala. Now twenty-one, Jake is the author of Into the Wind and The Purpose Principles and he speaks throughout the country on consciously and responsibly creating our lives.

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FOREWORD

The circumstances surrounding my first meeting with Jake Ducey illustrate some of the reasons why I wanted to write this foreword.

It was 2013 and I was emceeing a fund-raising event in Los Angeles. The event was sold out and the ballroom was full. Someone had told Jake that I would be speaking there, so he bought a last-minute ticket in the hopes of meeting me. He was twenty years old and was about to publish his first book, Into the Wind, which he said was inspired by me. He drove two and a half hours to the event carrying a signed copy of his book for me. His sole intention was to introduce himself and give me the book. But the odds were slim considering how crowded the event was.

Toward the end of the night I went to my seat for dinner. That was when Jake walked over to introduce himself.

“Hi, Jack. I am Jake Ducey. I wrote this book and you inspired it,” he said.

“How did I inspire it?” I asked.

“You say in your book The Success Principles that when someone says ‘No,’ you say ‘Next.’ And every time I was told I was too young to be an author, or when literary agents told me I needed more experience before they would represent me, I just kept saying ‘Next,’ and I didn’t quit. Now I am standing here with you, holding my book!” Jake said this with a zest for life I came to appreciate quickly.

My face lit up with a smile. I could feel passion oozing out of him. I immediately welcomed him and introduced my wife. While the waiters served dinner at my table, Jake and my wife chatted. Coincidentally, his mom and my wife went to the same high school. But what was more of a coincidence was that in that sold-out event, where there seemed to be no empty seats, the chair to my left was somehow empty. Once the food was placed in front of us, I asked Jake if he was going to sit there and enjoy the plate of food at the empty seat next to me. He said he was so excited he hadn’t noticed that the chair was empty!

What are the chances? What are the odds that out of a five-hour event, where there seemed to be no empty seats, Jake got the urge to come introduce himself at the exact moment the waiter was coming to serve dinner at my table—and that the person next to me had left early? How is it possible that the opportunity for us to connect happened so perfectly?

I believe it was possible because of Jake’s belief. He says he didn’t know “how” he would meet me—he just knew it was possible that we’d become friends.

A few months later, my wife and I invited him to my birthday party. That evening he asked me, “Jack, what do I need to know in life to live my dreams?”

“Write it down, make it happen,” I told him.

He sat there, hoping I would explain myself in more detail.

“Jake, you have within you the ability to achieve anything you desire, because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to have the desire in the first place,” I said.

A few months after my birthday, Jake wrote me to let me know he followed my advice, and that Tarcher/Penguin would be publishing his new book, The Purpose Principles, which was inspired by our chat and by my book The Success Principles.

As I have become older, one of my passions is inspiring and empowering young people to live their highest vision through the Success Principles seminars I conduct. One of those Success Principles is “Ask for What You Want.” I believe that everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask for it.

Just as Jake illustrates in this book, your dreams aren’t out of reach, your fears and limiting beliefs don’t have to stop you, and you’re never too young or too old to live more confidently or to make a difference. You are fully capable of waking up every day to a more productive and meaningful life by simply choosing to apply these principles!

Jake considers me his mentor—a role I relish. Just as important, I consider him an inspiration in my life. Jake is such a radiant and inspirational being because he has chosen to live a life committed to the full expression of his unlimited potential. And because of that, he has the ability to inspire others to live their dreams, too. I am confident that through this book Jake will now inspire you to achieve your most heartfelt dreams, and by so doing, contribute to a more equitable, just, and compassionate world.

—Jack Canfield
coauthor of The Success Principles and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

From the beginning of time, billions of people have dreamed about living meaningfully. Some even dream about changing the world, or at least their own one. Though most of us do dream, few of us live our dreams. Many of us simply can’t uncover how to do so.

The ability to live our dreams is the great mystery. Why do some people seem so skillful and impassioned, while others can’t step out of the choking monotony of an ordinary existence? This book was written to answer this question and others, including: How can we live a meaningful life? How does one become more successful, confident, and fulfilled? What do the world’s most successful, happy, and influential people have in common? What common attitudes, traits, beliefs, and strategies do those who’ve marked human history share? How can one simply live with more joy?

In this book you’ll find common principles, characteristics, beliefs, and stories that have helped some of the greatest contributors and achievers of the twenty-first century. These ideas can be used to improve your internal world as well as the world around you. Each and every chapter provides a stimulus to help you find a deeper meaning in your life, find passion in simple things (such as the beauty of the sky), and even find ways to alter the course of human history.

While in the process of uncovering these keys, you’ll find it easy to dismiss any feelings of doubt that you may have had when starting this book. If you’ve ever tried and failed, had difficulties that kept you from getting what you want, or found that your progress has been stunted by illness or physical ailments, these stories may prove to be the very thing you’ll need to overcome your obstacles.

If you are committed to putting these principles to work, you’ll no longer see yourself as anything less than those mentioned throughout the book. I could tell you how you’ll know when you’ve reached this state of inner strength, but that would deprive you of much of the value that you’ll receive when you make your own discoveries. And if you’re thinking, “I am not meant to live the life I love,” or, “I can’t change the world,” then please consider this question: “If not you, then who?”

It’s important to note that education and age have nothing to do with your ability to make an impact. A college dropout named Steve Jobs applied these principles to alter the course of human history with his technological inventions and the creation of Apple. High school dropout and founder of Virgin, Richard Branson, used these principles to build one of the largest business enterprises in history. A degreeless Malcolm X used the knowledge herein to find the strength, clarity, and know-how to alter the course of human history and bring about greater racial equality. And Mother Teresa, an uneducated (at least by formal standards) woman from a small town in Macedonia, also lived these principles and transformed the consciousness of the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0399172645
• ISBN 13: 9780399172649
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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