Mission Driven
The Path to a Life of Purpose
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Former Navy SEAL commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader Mike Hayes offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life.
Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles, or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you’re looking to have in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they’ve gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).
Its lessons include:
·Not What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be
·The Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More
·Getting Comfortable Making Decisions
·Finding Enough In The Ways You Spend Your Time
Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or, at any stage, looking for more, Mission Driven is a roadmap for discovering what drives you, and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities. It is a book to help us satisfy our ambitions and our souls, filled with smart, empathetic guidance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hayes (Never Enough) draws from his experiences as a SEAL commanding officer for this intelligent and actionable guide to living a meaningful life. According to the author, readers must determine how they define success beyond metrics like fame and money by considering, for example, how they'd like to change the world or be remembered, then deciding who they need to become to do so. Next, readers should outline steps toward becoming that person—someone who wants to be close to their community, for instance, might consider starting an organization to benefit their neighborhood or inviting a friend to dinner—and create a general mission statement to be consulted in moments of indecision or when talking to contacts who might help in securing professional opportunities. The author enlivens his approach with anecdotes from his own varied career (from SEAL commander to director of defense policy at the National Security Council) and a smart mix of big-picture wisdom and brass-tacks tips (like always circling back with people who provide helpful leads, both out of politeness and to seek out further guidance). Readers stuck at a professional crossroads would do well to pick this up.
