Directional Living
A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life
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The traditional approach to career is failing us. Determine what you want to do with your life, it says, and methodically make your way toward that destination. We’re taught that once we get there, no matter how fraught and fatiguing the path is, we’ll find fulfillment. This is the 5-year plan, it’s setting the “right” goals, it’s one of the first questions we ask kids: what do you want to be when you grow up?
The problem is this advice simply doesn’t work. It’s outdated and based on a world that doesn’t exist anymore, if it ever did. And, it’s created a generation of Underfulfilled Overacheivers, who have leaned in, climbed the ladder of success, did everything they were supposed to do, and yet feel burned out and unfulfilled.
In the last decade, career coach Megan Hellerer, herself a recovering Underfulfilled Overachiever, has worked with hundreds of these women, from CEOs and bestselling authors to award-winning scientists and activists, helping them get unstuck and discover meaningful, purpose-driven work. Directional Living comes from Megan’s innovative paradigm, one based on the premise that a fulfilling, purpose-filled career and life is built by following your inner sense of direction, not pursuing a fixed destination. Through this revolutionary new blueprint, we learn to find the work we are uniquely well-suited to do in the world, move from misery to meaning, and transform our careers on the way to transforming our lives. Directional Living is both a philosophy and a practical guide to creating not just a great life, but your great life—one full of genuine purpose, meaning, ease and authenticity.
*This audiobook includes a PDF of additional resources from the book.
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593942185
- File size: 197149 KB
- Duration: 06:50:43
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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June 3, 2024
Career coach Hellerer’s savvy first book is aimed at “underfulfilled overachievers” who are living “great-on-paper lives... but still find themselves secretly dissatisfied.” After obtaining a prestigious position at Google by age 29, the author was riddled with anxiety about her inability to appreciate her success. Upon quitting, she set out to discover “what the fuck I was meant to do with my life” and found fulfillment as a life coach. Drawing lessons from her own experience, she encourages readers to move in their “own personal right direction” without worrying about the outcome. To do so, they must strip fear-based thoughts away from their “true self,” which she describes as a type of intuition that “lives in the body” as “a sense of warmth and alignment.” As an example of how accessing one’s true self can help with decision-making, she describes how a medical student deciding between specialties found that imagining a future in neurosurgery made her “feel hot and nauseous,” while psychiatry “resonated in her body.” Throughout, Hellerer debunks myths that undergird a success-driven society, including that difficulty has inherent moral value (“There’s no gold star or fulfillment bonus for extra struggle”), while outlining a positive, individual-focused approach that prioritizes happiness over certainty. It’s a smart, refreshing look at what it means to build a satisfying life.
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