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Own The Life You Deserve – No One Else Will
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Paul’s latest work explores how to integrate your career and life goals into a cohesive, fulfilling journey. It introduces the Career Life Partnering Model, a blueprint to help you avoid burnout, rediscover passion, and create long-term life satisfaction.
Paul’s latest work explores how to integrate your career and life goals into a cohesive, fulfilling journey. It introduces the Career Life Partnering Model, a blueprint to help you avoid burnout, rediscover passion, and create long-term life satisfaction.
- A comprehensive 20-building-block model to guide life and career alignment.
- Practical exercises for identifying personal and professional values.
- Insightful questions to reconnect with your purpose and set achievable goals.
- Support for overcoming career stagnation, overwhelm, and decision fatigue.
- Encourages a life of balance, intention, and personal reinvention.
This isn’t an academic theory—it’s a real-world guide to aligning what you do with who you are. Because sacrificing your life for your career isn’t acceptable. You deserve both.
A Practical Guide to Career-Life Alignment in a Distracted World
Everyone talks about “work-life balance”—but that phrase doesn’t capture the real challenge of integrating your career and life with purpose. In today’s fast-paced and distraction-filled world, it’s harder than ever to align your professional goals with personal well-being.
This book introduces Career Life Partnering: a practical, holistic approach to building a successful career that doesn’t come at the expense of your life. Whether you’re feeling stuck in a job, overlooked for promotions, unemployed, underemployed, or simply burned out, this is your opportunity to refresh your mindset and realign your goals.
- The Career Life Partnering Model – A simple, actionable framework made up of 20 essential building blocks that help assess and plan both your career and life.
- A Self-Assessment Approach – Each building block describes an ideal state, allowing you to reflect on your progress and identify focus areas.
- Quick Lessons & Tidbits – Dozens of short, practical insights that reinforce the right behaviors for long-term success and fulfillment.
- Life-Stage Relevance – Whether you’re just starting out or pivoting later in life, you’ll find what matters most to your current chapter.
- An Alternative to Burnout – Learn how to succeed in your career without sacrificing your passions, your health, or your relationships.
Paul’s latest work explores how to integrate your career and life goals into a cohesive, fulfilling journey. It introduces the Career Life Partnering Model, a blueprint to help you avoid burnout, rediscover passion, and create long-term life satisfaction.
- A comprehensive 20-building-block model to guide life and career alignment.
- Practical exercises for identifying personal and professional values.
- Insightful questions to reconnect with your purpose and set achievable goals.
- Support for overcoming career stagnation, overwhelm, and decision fatigue.
- Encourages a life of balance, intention, and personal reinvention.
This isn’t an academic theory—it’s a real-world guide to aligning what you do with who you are. Because sacrificing your life for your career isn’t acceptable. You deserve both.
Updated Lessons from the Field—Mentorship, Reflection, and Real-World Insight
Since the release of the first edition, Paul Goudreault has mentored and coached countless professionals at various stages of their careers. His original book became a foundational tool in helping mentees identify their career personality, locate themselves within the ADAPT Career Life Cycle Model, and apply relevant Tidbits for growth and direction.
The insights gathered through these mentoring relationships—along with feedback from mentees and industry peers—inspired this fully updated 2nd Edition.
Perfect for All Career Stages – Whether you’re launching, pivoting, or reimagining your path, this book offers value at every step.
What’s New and Valuable in This Edition:
- Expanded Content – Reflects years of coaching experience and career observations across industries.
- Updated Tidbits – Refined and reorganized to highlight the most practical, helpful insights for today’s professionals.
- Real Stories, Real Growth – Draws from actual mentorship journeys to illustrate career challenges and turning points.
- The ADAPT Model Refreshed – A continued focus on the five key stages of the career life cycle with new guidance for navigating disruption and change.
- Multi-Format Availability – Available in hardcover, softcover, and audiobook formats for maximum accessibility.
Paul’s latest work explores how to integrate your career and life goals into a cohesive, fulfilling journey. It introduces the Career Life Partnering Model, a blueprint to help you avoid burnout, rediscover passion, and create long-term life satisfaction.
- A comprehensive 20-building-block model to guide life and career alignment.
- Practical exercises for identifying personal and professional values.
- Insightful questions to reconnect with your purpose and set achievable goals.
- Support for overcoming career stagnation, overwhelm, and decision fatigue.
- Encourages a life of balance, intention, and personal reinvention.
This isn’t an academic theory—it’s a real-world guide to aligning what you do with who you are. Because sacrificing your life for your career isn’t acceptable. You deserve both.
A Practical Guide to Designing a Career on Your Terms
Taking control of your career development may feel intimidating—but it’s also one of the most rewarding decisions you can make. This book is designed to help you build a career that aligns with your passions, supports your life goals, and contributes to long-term personal wealth.
Originally written as a guide for Paul’s twenty-something children, this book has since evolved into a trusted companion for career developers of all ages and backgrounds. This book isn’t theory—it’s a real-world playbook for anyone ready to take their career into their own hands. It’s ideal for early professionals, mid-career pivoters, and even those re-entering the workforce.
What You'll Learn:
- The ADAPT Model – A five-stage career lifecycle framework that helps you identify where you are today and how to move forward with purpose.
- 75 Practical Tidbits – Short, insightful lessons drawn from Paul’s 45-year career in consulting, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
- Clarity & Confidence – Tools to help you take ownership of your career, whether you’re just starting out, looking to pivot, or nearing retirement.
- Global Perspective – Stories and strategies inspired by Paul’s journey from hitchhiking through Europe to becoming the CEO of two international consulting firms and a manufacturing company.
- More Than a Job – Encouragement to pursue a career that allows you to explore new cultures, expand your thinking, and create the freedom to reinvest in yourself.
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