48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

Dan explores this question over and over: What if you were "allowed" to do what you most enjoyed every day?Millionaires who love what they do and they certainly didn't start out as millionaires. They started out doing what they love to do. :) (That is my conclusion ;))."Few obstacles exist beyond those in our mind and even though not all change is positive growth but all growth requires change - change is predictable and inevitable, impersonal and relentless."From the book.The concepts are very VERY inspiring and true - Having left my lucrative, work-from-home, 6-figure-income easy job and all its perks and benefits behind because I was bored out of my mind and could not stand the bureaucracy and the hypocrisy, I can SO relate to every word of this book. God bless entrepreneurship, and if I can do it, oh so can ANYONE.Love the concepts and the quotes and the stories explored in this book. Some of my favorites:1. Everyone lives on the threshold of job obsolescence and the threshold of opportunity. Guard against letting setbacks embitter you.2. Miller's story about the "grace of interruption" - the lady who was laid off - and the refreshing pause is a new focus, a force for change .....3. I loved that he said you cannot have a clear plan and a goal for the future AND be depressed. It just doesn't happen!4. The most common mistake people make in choosing a career is doing something simply because they are good at it. - Dan Miller5. If you know where you are going, you can respond to priorities rather than circumstances - Dan Miller6. Your work should be to plan your work around your life, rather than planning your life around your work.7. "The wheel of my life" - outer most: my legacy - one layer in: fulfillment of purpose, mission, destiny, calling.8. The top characteristics of high achievers: the speed of implementation.9. And there, caught between exciting dreams and the fear of failure, boring career paths are born. - dan miller.10. Don't choose just the safe path and be done with it.11. He offers a practical step by step advice on how to get a job, an interview, get your resume out there, write it up, connect with others,You will learn so much from reading this book - from salary negotiation, looking for a job the RIGHT way, understanding how to go about seeking something that you can really love and connect with, and practical skills infused with a lot of inspiration. Miller isn't saying that we should all go out there and become self-employed superstars - although I highly recommend it for the brilliant ones out there and well, most if not all of you are brilliant but the corporate numbness has probably quieted that genius....He is however insisting that you do work that you love, and he gives you the roadmap to find it in 48 days.I highly recommend this book.

I read Jon Acuff's book Quitter in the spring. It was an interesting book that had many pointers that I could use. Maybe people referred to Dan Miller's book as having more substantial and sequential instructions on how to accomplish your goals. So I got his book next. First lets be clear. This book is not a magic wand or lottery ticket. Its not going to automatically give you what you want. What the book does accomplish is to help you realize why you aren't happy with your job and how to determine your innate potential.Miller destroys the myth that work sucks, everybody hates their job and everyone is looking forward to retirement. That was the way I was raised. It was the way my parents were raised, my grandparents, we can go on and on. Reading the book helped me understand my feelings better. Then it went beyond that. He does give you guidance on how to go about doing what you love.I have to disagree with the gentleman who gave the book a 1 star because he "couldn't quit his 6 figure job because...." and Dan Miller doesn't give him a solution. Its not really his job to help you figure out how to make as much money and pay off your debt. Its really his job to help you realize what you really want to do and how to go about getting that job. He gives a great example of the ER doctor who wanted to drive trucks. I'm betting he had as much debt and made as much money as the attorney. The ER doctor doesn't quit his job completely and throw away all of his schooling, he worked part time on the weekends in the ER, when he wanted to and spent his week days happily driving a truck.It really comes down to what do you want to accomplish and what are the steps necessary to do that and this book meets that criteria. So you can spend the rest of your life talking about what you can't do or you can change course and realize what you want to do.

I do recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a job or what to do about work. This book is a great resource and I let fellow job-seekers borrow my copy as needed. The chapters on interviewing and pursuing career opportunities are, as the author suspects, the best parts of the book and great assets to have.The only drawback that I found in this book may be particular to me; basically, I found the author overly optimistic about how everyone should find work that they love. I think that cleaning toilets is a necessary job that someone has to do, but I strongly doubt that someone cleaning toilets will get up in the morning, be passionate about clean flushes, and call themselves a 'sanitation engineer.' I think that janitorial work is fine, honorable work (I've been a janitor myself), but I'm not as certain as the author is about people discovering that mining, cave diving, janitorial work, or other dangerous occupations are people's dream jobs that they love. Perhaps I am wrong and this is just what you think or need; in that case, enjoy the book.Even if you agree with my gripe, the book is great to have and will serve you well.

First heard about it on Dave Ramsey's radio show years ago, read it, and still recommend it to anyone trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up, even though most have already grown up many moons ago. LOLThis is a guide. It might not land you some utopian dream job or career, but it'll definitely help you navigate towards that general direction.

Very helpful and inspiring. Great practices and suggestions needed to navigate today's unpredictable and uncharted vocational waters.

This book brings a lot of clarity to our thinking to choose the right career. Dan Miller motivates us to live a courageous meaningful life and not just a timid safe one.

Loved this book, as a self help book it may or may not solve all your problems, but it certainly spoke to me regarding a completely new way of looking at things and provided perspective. Some very good ideas on how to assemble a plan of action.Regarding the previous comments that it is overly religious I disagree, there are religious perspectives from the author but these can easily be either ignored or in my case the analogies stand and can be auctioned in a non religious way.A good read for those trying (or still trying) to find work they love.

- changed my mind about work and pleasure- made me think more carefully about deciding the next step for my career

Book arrived on time and happy with the Order.