Gina S. Calvano - From Burnout to Purpose: Simple Strategies for a Soul-Fulfilling Approach to Work

PRAISE FOR FROM BURNOUT TO PURPOSE

From Burnout to Purpose explores whats common among those who are successful, happy and fulfilled by their work, and what is common among those who experience the exact opposite. If you struggle in a job thats draining your energy and spirit, or if you feel like youre destined for burnout, this book will help you pivot to purpose.

SHAWN ACHOR,
The New York Times bestselling author of
The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential

I recommend From Burnout to Purpose for anyone who wants to learn how to achieve a sense of purpose and fulfillmentespecially while working for someone else. Thats typically talked about only in entrepreneurship.

ELLEN ROGIN,
The New York Times bestselling author
of Picture Your Prosperity

Do you wonder How on Earth did I get so burned out?How did this happen to ME?! From Burnout to Purpose has unique answers to that question and offers you a path back to power, purpose, and peace for your work.

JANET BRAY ATTWOOD,
co-author of The New York Times bestsellers
The Passion Test and Your Hidden Riches

If you used to be happy with your work, but now youre feeling burned out or questioning if youre on the right path, From Burnout to Purpose can show how you may have taken a wrong turn. From Burnout to Purpose offers powerful solutions for getting back on track to loving your work.

MARCI SHIMOFF,
#1 New York Times bestselling author, Happy for No Reason and
Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul

What if everything you learned about achieving career happiness and success was missing a key ingredient? From Burnout to Purpose takes the concepts of self-care, well-being, and connecting with a sense of purpose to a new level. Its an accessible approach for taking your power back, aligning with fulfillment, and recovering from feeling depleted at the deepest level.

CHRIS ATTWOOD,
co-author of The New York Times bestsellers
The Passion Test and Your Hidden Riches

FROM BURNOUT TO PURPOSE

Simple Strategies for a Soul-Fulfilling Approach to Work

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If we can change some of the external conditions at the workplace that contribute to our dissatisfaction, we certainly should. If not, although it is not always easy or quick, it is still possible to be happy at work through reshaping our attitudes and outlook, through inner training.

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

I am a career coach and former head of a human resources department. I cultivated my understanding of how we do powerful work we lovedespite being in a job we may hateover nearly thirty years. In that time I have listened, learned, taught, coached, counseled, and applied in my own life and career what I have witnessed from both star and less-than-engaged performers. The stories and perspective I share in this book are my experiences and observations. I include details I believe are most relevant to the points I am teaching. Ive done my best to portray my perspective and impressions while protecting the identity of those who have taught me along my path so that I could one day share with you a way to shift to your path of purpose.

Please know, and keep in mind, that I am not a licensed physician or a mental health professional, nor am I ordained in any spiritual vocation. I am simply a dedicated student of self-discovery and an observant servant and guide seeking to share what I have learned, experienced, and witnessed in myself and others over my life so far. It is with gratitude and joy that I offer tools, coaching, approaches, and strategies to enable a workforce that lives and works more consciously from a connected sense of purpose and feels destined for success.

I do not intend, nor should you construe, that I am giving you individual advice. Nor am I dispensing medical, legal, therapeutic, psychological, or spiritual methodologies or advice. This book is not to be used as a substitute for medical treatment, psychotherapy, or another health program of any nature, regardless of what you may believe or have heard from anyone. I do not prescribe the use of any technique in this book as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems. Should you require or already be under the care of a physician or mental health professional, seek their advice in this matter.

My only intent is to share personal observations, experiences, strategies, approaches, and techniques that I have observed help people. This book was created to offer you a way to discover and create new possibilities for being more effective in realizing your own personal and career-related well-being, to enhance your self-awareness, soul care, and choice-making skills. This book is not about what the organization you work for can do for you. Rather, its about what you can do for yourself to prevent and heal from the dimensions of job burnout.