Dan Miller - 48 Days to the Work and Life You Love: Find It—or Create It

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48 Days to the Work You Love

Find It - Or Create It

2020 Dan Miller

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I n my work with those who are struggling financially I hear an often repeated themethat being the struggle to make fatiguing work produce adequate income. As you will see from the real testimonials in this book, 48 Days to the Work You Love continues to be a popular resource for changing that equation. While it is not a book about finances, the natural result of having a clear understanding of Skills & Abilities, Personality Traits, and Passions is to match those with work that is fulfilling, meaningful and profitable .

Dans insight and actual hands-on implementation of discovering and developing a calling has influenced thousands of lives, including mine and many of my team members. You see, implementation is the key. In the last few years I have been very inspired to be wild at heart and to have a purpose-driven life and am a huge fan of those culture-impacting books (by John Eldredge and Rick Warren, respectively). I am even more excited by 48 Days to the Work You Love because it puts clothes on the concepts. You may be like me; I sometimes need someone to help me put the concepts into action. Knowledge without action is personified in the overeducated broke and broken who wander listlessly among us.

The following pages lead you to implement a step-by-step plan to show the world your purpose and your heart in a way that is most satisfying. It is satisfying not because you will never face adversity or make mistakes in the processnor because your career will zoom ahead and never falter. You will fall, you will err, and your career will not take a perfect path. No, this material is satisfying and life-changing because you will have the tools to discover a key part of the plan God has for your life. This material is satisfying because when you begin discovering and implementing this plan, you will have a sense of God-given power that will propel you through adversity and errors. This new God-given power will give you the energy to recognize that even wrong turns can benefit the end result.

In the last several years, while meeting and spending time with people who have become inordinately successful, I have observed several common traits among them. Two of those traits stand out. One is they have a calling, which they have discovered and are implementing. The other is they have made mountains of mistakes in the process of becoming successful. The gleaming mountain of success is actually a pile of trasha pile of the mistakes we have made. The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Most of us spend too much of our lives in paralyzing fear, shame, guilt, and dread when it comes to our work. Work has become the daily grind instead of the great adventure it should be. The beauty of this material is that as you implement it, you will gradually diminish your negative emotions and move into a thriving work life. As someone who lives this material everyday, I know you will still experience doubt, fear, and mistakes. However, by finding and functioning in your calling, you will increasingly grow in confidence that you were put here to win in spite of those things, not without them.

I am excited for you because by opening these next few pages you are lighting a fire. The wood may be old and wet, but it has the capacity to become a raging bonfire! This is a book about implementation, so do it!

DAVE RAMSEY

Nationally Syndicated Radio Host

B ack in 2000 I created a 3-ring binder with text and two cassettes that I made available to members of the Sunday School class I was teaching. I was simply hearing the stories, answering the questions and creating processes for getting clarity of purpose and success in the workplace. That became the first version of 48 Days to the Work You Love. And that little Sunday School class grew and grew with people coming from other churches and then other states, eager for principles to improve the other six days of the week. In 2003 I made that 3-ring binder available online and generated over $2 million in sales in the next thirty months.

In 2005 I published the first regular hardback version which quickly hit the New York Times bestsellers list. That was updated in 2010 and again in 2015. What you have here is the newest version, including some important updates about options for work you love. Those updates include:

• Overcoming the Upper Limit Challengeadded in Goal Setting section
• The changing importance of degrees
• Finding your unique Zone of Genius
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Interviews
• How to build a side business with only 15 hours per week
• Digital Nomads and other new work models
• How to build on artistic talents for income

The process for finding work that fits and is the application of our calling, has not changed. As outlined in the original 48 Days to the Work You Love, I believe that 85 percent of the process of determining the right career direction comes from looking inward15 percent is the application to fitting work. That process of looking inward has not changed. Its still a proven process of finding your unique talents, creating a clear focus, and then findingor creatingthe appropriate application for meaningful, fulfilling, purposeful, and profitable work.

Thus, with this revised edition we will look at the current trends and the impact of recent changes on the workplace. The process of finding work that fits is not a one-time event. Whether you are 18 or 68, fulfilling work requires an ongoing understanding of who we are and who we are becoming. Each transition point in life (even if unexpected and unwelcomed) gives us a fresh opportunity to realign our daily activities to embrace our continued maturity and our ability to contribute effectively.