Find Your Purpose in life!
Your purpose in life is to use
your unique gifts and talents to make a contribution to the world.
Are You Wasting Your Talents?
Do you know how many people hate their jobs but are afraid to
leave because they don't know what else to do? Are you wasting your
talents? It is paramount that your purpose be aligned with expressing who
you are and using your natural gifts and talents to do the work you love.
I am very grateful for
this book! Just got it on Jan 2, 2010! It has done for me what I've
never been able to accomplish with Meyers-Briggs, professional career
guidance, etc. When I read the values, gifts, and careers, I knew
I was "home". So simple. I am an entrepreneur who helps other
entrepreneurs, too - so I was already on ... track. I'm buying
eight books so I can speed my advising process for other entrepreneurs,
and help them make sure they're using the best skills ... MW,
Idaho
Discover Who You Were Born To Be
Everyone is touting "follow your passion, do what you love, work in
your strengths." This is difficult to do on your own yet many are still
trying to figure these things out without a system to help them understand
who they are. This personality system is a simple, yet very
powerful method, to help you discover who you were born to be.
"This is
both a delightful book and a web site. Carolyn gives an intelligent and
warm explanation of the idea that all mankind divides into four basic
personality types, or temperaments..., based on David Keirsey, Isabel Myers and Carl Jung. What is most helpful in Carolyn's book is the detailed lists of the
values, talents, and career choices typical of each temperament. Every
reader should see themselves in one or more of these temperaments, and
find greater self-insight, self-esteem, and career guidance, from
studying these lists. Highly recommended" - - Dick Bolles, author, What Color
Is Your Parachute? 2010 edition; 10 million copies sold.
What Were You Born to Do
This is the first career book that actually gives you a tangible tool
to discover your natural talents and transferable skills, what you do best. Before
you ever get your hands on the book and cards, take the personality
quiz and discover your
personality profile
Then read the
book to learn what your strengths are and how to use them.
" I just read your book. It was heaven
sent as I have been trying to figure out for years what my purpose and
right's life work is. Within hours of picking up your book I was able to
see clearly who I am and what I need to do. Actually, your book
confirmed what I knew already, but was in denial about because of fear
and trying to fit into family and society's expectations."
Julie
No more guessing, no more wandering aimlessly around.
Put direction in your life and put your sights on your perfect career.
Your gifts are clues to the work you were born to do.
"... I
was a miserable stay at home mom and my husband had been an over worked,
under paid restaurant manager for ten years. ...My husband and I both had real estate in the
list of careers that would fit our personalities. We both went to real
estate school and now work together for a real estate company.... We are
now beginning our second year in real estate. We are projected to
double our income this year and anticipate much more rewards in the
future." TB
About the Author
Carolyn Kalil has been a career counselor at one of California's
largest community colleges for 30 years.
With counseling
over 30,000 people, she realized they were asking much more than "what
college major should I choose or what job am I suited for." They
were really asking what should I do with my life?
"Up to 1988 I didn't totally understand what I should
do with my own life, who I was born to be and what I was born to do.
My major epiphany came when I saw my true self for
the first time. Until then I had been living the life of a person I was
told I "should be" by my mother. Understanding our differences
totally changed my life. I began to accept myself for who I am. As a
result I saw my own unique gifts and talents that I didn't know that I
had. From there everything began to fall into place in my life and I
am now doing what I love through my writing, trainings, and seminars.
I am not an exception. I have helped thousands of people discover
their true self and find their own path to success. Now with the
help of my book this is also possible for you."
What About the Relationships in Your Life
Don't stop at your career, use this personality method to heal
relationships and family. Besides learning just about your self, the book
covers all four personality types, based on temperament, and their interactions, plus how they are
different from you. Your personality profile will help you predict how you
interact with others, especially in relationships.
You will understand why certain relationships work and others don't.
I have also written 2 e-books, Finding Love In All The Right Faces for
specifically helping with relationships and also "Healing Family
Relationships" to better understand your family.
Learn to:
Understand the mate you have
Love your children the way they want to be loved
Find a compatible mate
Improve relationships with co-workers
Accept the differences in those unlike you
You'll see how each personality type gets their self-esteem in
different ways. There is no right or wrong combination. One personality is
not better than another. We are just different. Accepting these
differences without judgment is key in reducing the stress in our lives,
stress in the workplace and at home. Ms Kalil calls this the "Harmony of
Types." Once you understand yourself and others, you're ready to enjoy
life.
About the Book
Join the tens of thousands of readers who have used this book to
change their lives. It is in use at many colleges and universities
throughout the US and Canada. Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco
Systems and Warner Bros. use this book in their managerial training.
It's the 7th best selling career book in the US.
Learn how to:
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- Discover your unique gifts and talents
Soar with your strengths
Discover your passion
Express your heart and soul in what you do
Increase self-esteem, creating a positive, clear self-image
Become successful in spite of your fears
Some book reviews
and reader comments
are listed below.
 New Edition 2013
Best Selling Career Book
Includes set of Inner Heroes(TM) Cards
"What an exciting book
to discover meaningful work that satisfies your soul."
JACK CANFIELD
Chicken Soup for the Soul
212 pages,
Listed as #7 of the top 30 best selling career books in
America on Vocational Biographies website.
"Talk about change your life book,...my mom & I finally understand
each other after all these years of yelling, screaming and making each
other wrong, by understanding our temperaments. My father on the other
hand, well, when I was reading about your mother, I
swore you were writing about my father, even my mother agreed. I think my
mother was ... in denial"
EM Los Angeles
From the
Introduction
...In my early days as a career counselor, when
students would ask me to help them find the work they should do, I would
take them literally. It didn't take long to
realize they were really asking much deeper questions, such as, Who am I?
Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What was I born to do?
Where do I fit?
"I just read your book. It was heaven
sent as I have been trying to figure out for years what my purpose and
right's life work is. Within hours of picking up your book I was able to
see clearly who I am and what I need to do. Actually, your book
confirmed what I knew already, but was in denial about because of fear
and trying to fit into family and society's expectations."
Julie
...For as long as I can
remember, I have been able to see the natural potential in others, but for
years I didn't have a name for it. I was frustrated, because I didn't
know how to explain to other people what I knew. Still, it was clear to me
that innate qualities in each individual motivated them to think and
behave in particular ways. Everyone has unique and special characteristics
that have nothing to do with one's race, religion or level of education.
Why is it that some people have the incredible
ability to connect and interact easily with other people, while many do
not have this gift, yet possess remarkably curious minds that are
storehouses for a wealth of information? Why are some people gung ho for
life without worrying how they're going to
get where they're going or what will happen when they arrive, while others
seem almost paralyzed without first developing a detailed plan to get from
point A to point B?
As a counselor, I
have discovered a way to show others what these traits are and how to use
them to find their own unique niche that brings them satisfaction in their
work.
"After
spending 10 years on a job I had no interest in ... Knowing I was better
suited elsewhere, I felt trapped. What should I do? How do I get to the
place I need to go? I saw no light at the end of my tunnel.
After reading the book (Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love) not only
was I rejuvenated but inspired to take control over my destiny. The way
the author relates to people and job dissatisfaction was incredible. I
felt she knew me. She was speaking to me personally. I became emotional
because I could feel the author and I felt the author felt me." JW - Los Angeles
...You
are about to embark on an incredibly exciting journey. Through the
personality temperament process you will uncover your positive attributes
and learn how they already suit you for work you will love to do. Once you
have recognized your personality style, you'll understand why some careers are natural extensions of who
you are, while others will never fit - and in fact, might harm your
spiritual and emotional well-being. The final steps in this process are to
help you overcome your fear, define your mission, and set your course for
expressing your true self through a meaningful life's work
Carolyn Kalil
"Thank
you for writing this wonderful book! I recently resigned from my job in
Northern California and returned to Los Angeles... I was so excited
after reading the web page that I bought the book the following Monday.
...Can't express in words what it was like to read about myself. I've
been faking it ... for acceptance in this world...!
What a revelation! It feels wonderful to say no more of this madness and
begin to drop the mask. Thank You, Thank You!!!!!"
Susan
Book Review --
Steven E. Beasley, President, Center for Career
Growth and Development
"The best way I know to raise your self-esteem
is to
do what you love." Carolyn Kalil
Carolyn Kalil ... makes her concept easy to
understand and apply. Her new book, "Follow Your True Colors To The Work
You Love," presents the four personality types ..." In four delightful
chapters, she tells us what we are...
... I liked the fact that Ms. Kalil puts together so many factors
with each type, so that you can understand how to work with each type, and
so as to better understand yourself...
The good news is that this is a very easy-to-use guide to
applying this concept to yourself. There is even a list of
famous people of each type in the appendix! Putting it all together with
exercises, priority ranking, diagrams, and work sheets makes this a very
useful tool in choosing one's career.
Highly recommended.
Book Review --
Neil Baldwin, Career Development Chapter of the
Canadian Guidance & Counseling Association
... As such you won't be surprised that I was putting
off reading the book, leaving it in a variety of locations around our
house, shuffling it from place to place to make me feel like I was doing
something. My wife, who (for better or worse) has become conversant with
personality typology, picked up the book, read it through within two days,
and said it was great. She passed it on to a friend who also knew her type
and she, too, praised it. So I set bias aside and jumped in to find out
what was so great.
The majority of this book is not so much about career planning
as it is about understanding the differences between the four temperaments
and how they interact within one's personality profile ... The text is easy to read, interesting; full of
examples, and can't help but promote a better understanding of temperament
differences. It even gets briefly into ....
relationships, gift-giving, and other related miscellany. And I think this
is what makes the book good. People put it down having genuinely learned
something about themselves and the others that inhabit their worlds. As
humans, we tend to like that.
As for the finding "work you love" component, while not an in
depth exercise in career planning, it's pretty good too. One of the main
emphases is on understanding your personality profile... There is an interesting discussion of the distinction
between the temperament we take on in roles (e.g., work) and the
temperament that is
genuinely our identity. You won't be surprised to know that those ... are not always the same. It's important to really understand
yourself in this regard if you are trying to find your life's work. This
book fosters that understanding.
"My name
is LW. I wanted to let you know that your book is awesome and it has
changed my life with my friends, family and co-workers. Understanding
their personalities and why they do the things they do are revealed
through your book. It is also a way to reach out to those kids that are in
their shell and figure out what is going on with them. Thank you , thank
you, and thank you!"
"Follow Your True Colors to the Work You Love" also relates one's
personality profile to typical talents and values for each personality although I took
issue with some of the occupation examples ... If there's a weakness to
the career choice concept described in this book it is that while it
spends many pages on ... satisfying life's work, it spends hardly any on
the importance of information and research in the process...
In concluding this review, I can tell you that not only have I
found a useful book to recommend, but also a new appreciation of ... a tool for self-understanding and career planning... as long as
one always considers their entire profile of temperaments not just their one
primary. Of course, this balance is what we try to emphasize when
using the MBTI, as well, so people don't feel pigeon-holed.
By the way, as an added bonus for the practitioner, the book includes four
photo-quality cards to be used in discovering one's ... profile.
Book: Follow Your Inner Heroes(tm) To The
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