Your life is calling

Intended as a practical guide for finding inspiration through your life’s work, Destination: Inspiration! Charting Your Career During Turbulent Times is a new book packed with stories, advice, and action steps based on the 25 years that Paul Schnabel has spent speaking, coaching, and working with individuals and organizations to create breakthrough performance.

A senior partner at Advantage Performance Group, Schnabel shares lessons he’s learned from inspired, fulfilled people as well as those from his own life to make his book a treasure trove of proven, practical tools and ideas for finding your calling and building a career.

But Destination: Inspiration! is also a definitive guide on how to be a good human by creating a fulfilled, inspired life.  

The book is arranged around a “path to fulfillment through the Seven Cs” – calling, character, capability, curiosity, connection, centeredness, and commitment. They are the foundation for success, which in the end means nothing without the most important things in life, among them our connections to others and how we show up for them.

It’s a quick read with memorable stories, including what he learned from swimming his first triathlon with his wetsuit on backwards or how one of life’s key lessons became clear to him at the funeral of a close college friend.

You can finish the book and grasp its concepts from casting off to going full sail in as little as 2 hours. But Schnabel promises that none of his ideas will work for you. “YOU HAVE TO WORK THEM,” he says. “It’s taking the actions that will produce your desired results.”

As most of us know all too well, life is especially hard these days. The world needs inspired people, now more than ever, Schnabel writes:

“Inspired people stand out in a crowd. They stand out at work. They show up differently than others because they have a spark, a passion, a desire to make their workplace better, to be a leader in their families, to laugh easily, and lift others. In other words, they are engaged. Companies spend lots of time and money trying to measure and improve employee engagement; it’s one of the hot topics in organizational development today.”

A business/life book reminiscent of those by Napoleon Hill, Destination: Inspiration! is one you’ll want to keep for yourself, but paired with a beautiful journal for working on the action steps, it’s a perfect gift for young adults starting out their careers.

“This book has been 25 years in the making, and is a product of what I’ve learned by working with amazing leaders and salespeople across the globe,” Paul says. “Additionally, the tools and approaches detailed in the book are ones I’ve used successfully with others and myself, so I can say that I eat my own cooking!”

Destination: Inspiration! is available on amazon.com in paperback or Kindle formats.