The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny Hardcover – January 1, 2007

This book has the potential to be a life changer/enhancer for the person who comes to it willing to do the work. I am a book lover and soul searcher, so I spend a lot of time reading similar books (The Year Of Yes, Before Happiness, The Happiness Project, etc.). This book was easily my most worthwhile read of 2017 AND helped me confidently pinpoint what is important to me.If you are truly tired of not knowing why you are on this earth or going into a depression because you feel there is "more to life than this" and will also commit to stopping and mindfully completing each of the five or six exercises, you will likely know 1) your major passions, 2) what a successful life will entail when you're living those passions, 3) what you want to have accomplished by the end of your life, and 4) the steps to create an action plan for achieving this life you can now envision.Thanks to The Passion Test, I now have all of these details in a notebook that I carry with me every day. I also created a business plan and a calendar plan in order to live a life of passion in 2018. I look at the calendar daily and it just has ONE thing that I have to do that day to complete my mission to live a life full of my purpose.If you read the book from a passive position, then, no, I do not think it will help you as much as it could. However, if you are committed to really learning why you are here and what's been inside of you (I believe from birth), then you will be armed with what you need in order to step onto your right path. I should add that I really didn't learn anything NEW about myself, but I was able to identify what's unique about me and see how important these five passions truly are to my happiness quotient. This has made all the difference in my world in just three short months. I recently launched a Youtube channel called “God Moments” that allows me to interview people who have had intimate encounters with God (this alone allows me to combine four of my five identified passions and fills me with purpose, joy, happiness, excitement, etc.) Just taking the steps to launching the channel filled me with joy I haven't had before. I hope that everyone reading this review buys the book and discovers why you are here. Best of everything to you!

Because I have worked so hard building money status and lost all my passions in life for 2 years. It was a scary state of life. That was why I have read a lot of books about Life Purpose, Life Mission and Goal Setting. The Passion Test is one of those books. Though I know a lot of Goal setting and Vision board making mentality but this book still gives me a lot of insight about how to change my life around.1. You have *intention* to get what your heart desires the most but you need to examine *what you pay attention to* . Your attention makes it grow stronger.Such as, your Top 5 Passion list, 1st is to have a happy, fulfilling business. That's your intention. Anyway, you pay a lot of attention on "how to please your investor". You run around doing whatever the investors tell you to do. That's why you can't achieve your passion on business yet.2. Passion is different from goals. Goal is what you need to accomplish. Passion is how you would like it to be.Such as, your goal is to get married to a good partner by next year. Your passion is "to have such a blissful marriage full of fun and adventure together".3. This book is the first that teaches me to write the MARKER. The marker list is what happens to you to make you realize that your passion list is happening.Such as, your no.3 Passion is to be an international opera singer. Your marker might be : 1) I am hired to sing in Australia. 2) I have a performance for UN ambassadors. etc.I did goal list before so I never expected myself to discover some important things I need to do in my life before I die. The Passion Test makes me realize that. For 10 years that I have built my wealth for me to retire comfortably and save a large sum of money for my irresponsible mother's future medical bills. I am the only caretaker of my mom. Therefore my no.2 Goal list is to make millions (to be exact 50 millions). But my passion no.5 is "to live life giving love as my legacy". It made me think twice and so hard about all the money I'm making and what I sacrifice to make that lots of money.Now I know by heart my legacy is love so I need to reset my life : to live and to be my passion, not invest my life making money and no loving kindness.**********************************************************************************DownsideIf you can tolerate the author's personal, unnecessary stories about her trip to India to meet "Saints" (it was like 1/4 of the book), this book is so valuable.

This book was suggested to me by a career coach. There is a lot of homework in this book (!), but so far I have obtained all the benefits of the work that I put in (in tandem with the work that I'm doing with my career coach). It is worth a shot if you are struggling to make a decision about work, figure-out what to do for your next job or figure-out what you want to do "when you grow-up".

I've read many self help and law of attraction books all of which have helped somewhat. This book has helped me identify my passions and what I really want in my life and I feel so different it's incredible. I realise I have choices to make and living with my passions is a whole lot easier than fighting against them. The book is written in simple terms for the most part and keep s you engaged throughout with stories

Great book

Sometimes we forget what our core conditions are, what we love doing and why in the hassle of day to day living. This book helps you to reconnect to the real you and begin to live the life you were meant to live!

I'm still working my way through this book, but thus far I've found it very enlightening. It was recommended to me.