Jack Canfield, renowned author and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, shares wisdom on discovering one’s true purpose. He emphasizes aligning personal passions with service, using joy as a guiding internal GPS. Jack highlights the importance of personal responsibility in shaping outcomes, introduces tools like a 'victory log' for self-reflection, and discusses the power of visualization before sleep. With anecdotes and actionable insights, he inspires listeners to embrace their limitless potential and pursue their dreams.
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Soul's Purpose and Joy as GPS
Every person has a soul's purpose that serves the world and leads to fulfillment and happiness.
Joy is the internal GPS indicating if we are on the right path fulfilling that purpose.
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Find What Makes You Come Alive
Discover what makes you come alive to find your true purpose.
Focus on what energizes you because the world needs people who are fully alive.
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Persistence After Rejection
Jack Canfield faced 144 rejections before publishing Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Despite criticism, he persisted, leading to massive success and cultural impact.
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This book is a compilation of short, inspirational stories and motivational essays gathered by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. The stories are drawn from their audience members and focus on themes like kindness, love, and compassion. Despite initial rejections by major publishers, the book became a huge success and spawned a series of similar titles. It has been a New York Times bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide[3][4].
The stories range from motivational tales of people overcoming challenges to acts of kindness and poems that inspire reflection on life's possibilities. The book aims to warm the reader's heart and remind them of the good things in the world, promoting a sense of love, kindness, and compassion[1].
Success Principles
Janet Switzer
Jack Canfield
This book is divided into six sections: The Fundamentals of Success, Transform Yourself for Success, Build Your Success Team, Create Successful Relationships, Success and Money, and Success in the Digital Age. It emphasizes the importance of taking 100% responsibility for your life, clarifying your life purpose, setting and achieving goals, and surrounding yourself with positive and successful people. The book includes exercises, lessons, and inspiring stories from successful individuals to help readers apply the principles in their daily lives.
Life after Life
Raymond Moody
Originally published in 1975, 'Life After Life' is a qualitative study where Dr. Raymond Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). The book details common elements in NDEs, such as an overwhelming feeling of peace, being located outside one's physical body, floating through darkness or a tunnel, encountering a 'being of light,' and experiencing a rapid succession of visual images of one's past. Moody's work neither rejects these experiences on scientific grounds nor sensationalizes them, offering a balanced and insightful look into the phenomenon of NDEs. The book has sold over 13 million copies and has been translated into a dozen foreign languages, making it an international bestseller and a seminal work in the field of NDE studies.
Original Air Date: December 25, 2017
How do you find your purpose? Jack Canfield is co-creator of the worldwide phenomenon “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, which has sold more than 110 million copies and been translated into more than 43 languages. Based on the lessons in his New York Times bestseller “The Success Principles,” Jack explains how to align our vision and goals with the fulfillment of our purpose. “Everyone has a purpose on this planet,” Jack explains. “The key is figuring out what you really want, deep inside, by listening to your internal GPS.”
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