Jeff Goins

On his thirtieth birthday, Jeff Goins quit his job and began his pursuit of becoming a full-time writer. While certainly that was a milestone day, it was still less significant than the ones that lead to that memorable moment. The journey he took leading up to that daring decision involved twists, turns, and surprises he never expected. In the end, he found his life’s purpose, his calling; and in The Art of Work, he wants to share his journey with you and help you, too, discover your life’s work, along with the invaluable treasure that comes with doing so.As writer, keynote speaker, and award-winning blogger Jeff Goins explains, our search for discovering the task we were born to do begins with passion but does not end there. Only when our interests connect with the needs of the world do we begin living for a larger purpose. Those who experience this intersection experience something exceptional and enviable. Though it is rare, as Jeff discovered along the journey he shares in this one-of-a-kind book, such a life is attainable by anyone brave enough to try. Through personal experience, compelling case studies, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows readers how to find the vocation they were meant for and what to expect during the long, arduous journey to discovering and pursuing it.

A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

The Art of Work

Ashlyn Barrett

One way of knowing our gifting is when something that seems easy to us doesn’t seem easy to others. 

The secret of success is that sometimes getting everything you want doesn't always make you happy.

A calling comes when we embrace the pain, not avoid it. Pain and suffering are not strong enough to keep us from our purpose. In fact, they can sometimes be the very catalysts for such discoveries.

And where does it begin? With awareness. With discovering what your life is already saying to you. 

Every story of success is, in fact, a story of community. 

We have believed the myth of the self-made man and have given in to the illusion of self-reliance. What we need is something to pull us out of our own independence and arrogance. 

The Christian faith is my answer to what science cannot understand. 

But what science can't prove—what we still don't know—is what makes a person want to practice in the first place. 

A calling is not merely a moment; it’s a lifestyle, a constant progression of submitting to a larger purpose.

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