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Buy Jan's latest book, Real World Career Development Strategies that Work where she has written a chapter on finding and living your passion. If you are wondering how to know for sure if the life that you are living is the right one for you, based on your passion, be sure to read her chapter. The book is also chock-full of practical career strategies from 11 other experts.

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Jan Dwyer is an MBA and a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). She is the founder of Boundless Results and specializes in customer service, communication skills, and leadership training.

She helps clients make great leaps in the areas of customer service, communication skills, and career development and her speeches and training sessions help employees achieve breakthroughs in service culture and personal leadership.

Jan has a University of Chicago MBA and hands-on experience in Fortune 500, small business, and non-profit organizations.

Her clients include Boeing, Starbucks, Weyerhaeuser, Getty Images, Medtronic Physio-Control, Seattle's Union Gospel Mission, and Los Angeles County.

She has been an active member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) since 1995 and served as the President of the Northwest chapter of NSA from 2005-2006.

You can reach Jan at: 253-891-1609, at Jan@JanDwyer.com or visit her website at http://www.jandwyer.com.

Jan Dwyer is also a founder of "Hidden Treasures Ministry" and is a member of the Northwest Christian Speakers Bureau. Feel free to visit http://www.nwspeakers.com.

Message from Jan Dwyer

Fall means cooler temperatures which may signal it is time to press on to some of your ministry goals that you may have set aside as you enjoyed summer and vacations. This 4th edition focuses on staying true to your mission - in your lives and in your ministries.

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Communicating Your Mission

For the last 10 years, I've worked with Weyerhaeuser, a forest-products company headquartered in the Northwest. Weyerhaeuser grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and makes forest products. Since most of their business involves heavy equipment and dangerous machinery, Weyerhaeuser's #1 priority is safety. Indeed, their goal is a 100% injury-free workplace. No matter if you are a contractor, vendor, office employee, or executive leader - everyone is educated on safety and the safety goals are explained, communicated, and discussed in a multitude of ways. Indeed, "the courage to intervene" is mandated at the company - at every level.

I visited a Pulp Mill in Mississippi where the safety reminders were everywhere! As I drove up to the facility safety reminders such as "complacency," "fatigue," and "eyes off task" brought top of mind awareness. When I conduct training sessions, I am asked to give safety guidelines. What is the result of these and many other ways that Weyerhaeuser reinforces its commitment to safety? The entire company continues to meet its superior safety goals. And no longer in the forest products industry, people are missing "digits" in their hands!

Communicating - and communicating again - your mission and vision in your ministry is essential to ensure that every person is heading in the same direction. When everyone is aligned with the same mission in your ministry - there is excitement, synergy, and creative cooperation. There is also another element - power. John C. Maxwell in his Maxwell Leadership Bible shares how Paul led with power by helping the Ephesians remember who they were and who they are in Christ. In John Maxwell's words, "We drift when we lose sight of why God left us on earth. Our goal is to participate in God's redemptive plan for the world. If we embrace purpose, we gain power."

Some questions to ask yourself include:

What kind of process have you developed that helps every person more fully understands your mission?
How are you communicating this mission - using every kind of communication vehicle that you have available?
What is a tangible way that you can quantify your missions?
Is your staff energized by a central, compelling purpose?

Boundless Boosters for your Business

What do kangaroos and successful people have in common? Both cannot go backwards. Sure we all have our moments, hours, even days when things seem to be going backwards - whether it is a rejection from one of our best customers, a communication misunderstanding that is causing havoc in our work groups, a leadership challenge that keeps us up at night. But the difference is that successful people are able to "break through" and learn from what happens to them. After all, why not get as much out of a "bad situation" as you can? Yes, it is a fact that kangaroos don't go backwards. And you don't have to either.

Here are three "boundless boosters" designed to leap you forward in life.

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Discover your calling. Missions are not necessarily created but discovered. God has wired you in a unique way that shows Christ to the world - He uses your personality, temperament, skills, talents, spiritual gifts, motivations, and passions to glorify God.

What do you love to do? What interests and topics energize you? Have you taken assessments, spiritual gift inventories, or other instruments that help you understand how God has created you? Feel free to go to my website at Inscape Products to obtain information about the DiSC styles assessments that have helped countless clients discover their natural communication style.

Don't negate the past. On a recent trip to a local art museum during a special exhibit on Impressionism, many artists, including one of the greatest artists in the early 19th century, French Artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), turned to the Italian Masters for inspiration. In the words of Camille Pissarro who described this form of painting, "The masters must be copied over and over again, it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that you should be reasonably permitted to draw a radish from nature." The exhibit displayed several paintings where Degas copied from one of the masters and added his own perspective and flair.

Have you ever thought of the value of traditions and history in our lives? Sometimes our quest for "something new and different" discounts all of the value that history can provide us.

How does this apply to our own lives? Many times, we can discover our passion by reviewing some of the things that we did when we were children. Or many times our personal mission is formed because of various choices we have made in our past.

Live it out. How does the world know that you have a particular calling or mission? When they see your life, does your purpose shine through? If not what kinds of things can you integrate into your life that will empower you to live out your mission?

For those who are interested in finding out more about discovering your passion, check out my chapter in the book Real World Career Development Strategies that Work

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