The Art of Work

By: Jeff Goins

Narrated by: Jeff Goins

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Jeff Goins, a brilliant new voice counting Seth Godin and Jon Acuff among his fans, explains how to abandon the status quo and live a life that matters with true passion and purpose.

The path to your life's work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life's work, that treasure of immeasurable worth we all long for. It's about the task you were born to do.

As Jeff Goins explains, the search begins with passion but does not end there. Only when our interests connect with the needs of the world do we begin living for a larger purpose. Those who experience this intersection experience something exceptional and enviable. Though it is rare, such a life is attainable by anyone brave enough to try.

Through personal experience, compelling case studies, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows listeners how to find their vocations and what to expect along the way.

©2015 Jeff Goins (P)2015 Jeff Goins

Discovering Your Life Calling Step By Step

Jeff Goins has fashioned a useful guide to flesh out the means to discover the ever elusive life calling. I was concerned it might be yet another book filled with fluff on the subject but after having read some of his other material I was sure he would do justice to the subject and I was not disappointed. I can recommend it to other readers interested in attiring themselves in the necessary accoutrements to fulfilling or beginning the process of culling a life calling. I found useful insights to further my process and I was pricked a time or two to dig deeper which I am sure was the authors intention. It is obvious Goins is fulfilling one of his life's calling in authoring such a book and by creating a program to help further what the book gets started.

Good stories and lots of food for thought!

Great advice and anecdotes, but performance was pretty amateur. My advice: buy a hard copy.

Encouraging, Empowering, and Clarifying

Excellent book with a treasure of wisdom and great advice. It's a must for anyone who wants to make the most of this life we have!

Enlightening

This book gave me clarity on what a calling is and what it's not. The book also inspired me to go after my own calling.

outstanding

I love this book. it let's you know that you aren't the only one who is lost in this world and that it will take time to find the thing you love. it could take a month or it could take 50 years, as long as you believe in yourself you can get it all

Great Book

This book helped me feel a little less crazy and reckless about the risky career move i have made. It has motivated me to trust this drive within me to do something different and more and I am excited to start taking steady steps toward the vision I have had all of my life.

Jeff Goins has shown us the canvas of our lives.

The book far exceeded my expectations delivering a thought provoking view of our mortality and how we're called to make an impact through the work that we do.

A great guide to begin your journey

This book is in excellent roadmap on the journey to find your calling! Jeff Goins passion for helping people comes through clearly in his reading of the book.

Inspiring!

This is the second audiobook I have listened to by Jeff Goins. The first was "You Are A Writer." Although this sounds overly dramatic, both books have transformed my life. The author's positive encouraging tone and words have served as much needed inspiration to truly live my life. The first book gave me the courage to start writing instead of simply dreaming of writing. This book, "The Art of Work," has taught me a fresh way to view my life in its totality. Previously I thought of my life in a compartmentalized manner. In each separate little box in which I had stuffed my job, my writing hobby, my child-rearing, my chores, etc. I was facing burnout to varying degrees. A lot of it was downright drudgery. Through Jeff Goins' description of living a "portfolio life" I know see each portion as part of a larger vision and purpose. And keeping that newfound sense of purpose has infused meaning into even the most mundane tasks. I can't thank the author enough for giving me an unexpected life transformation! I highly encourage this book to everyone at a praxis in his or her life.

ANSWERING MY CALL

This is one of my favorite works for easily outlining the best steps taken to start and stay of course for my life.
I am so grateful. thanks