The Passion Driven Life

The Secrets of Success, Balance & Fulfillment in The 9 Key Areas of Life

Louis F. Vargas

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781600377211
• eBook ISBN: 9781614481973
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

Take your life from mundane to great in love, life, and business with this inspiring guide to finding your passion and living your faith!
Louis F. Vargas was a street-smart kid from an immigrant family who went on to graduate from an elite college, make a fortune on Wall Street, then lose it all—only to make an incredible comeback as chairman of an Inc. 500 company. In The Passion Driven Life, Vargas shares his own life story as well as the inspiring stories of other individuals who found success by following their passion with determination and Godly faith. And he shows you the secrets to doing it all yourself.
In The Passion Driven Life, you will find the tools you need to transform your life, find balance, and excel further. Some of the many things this book reveals are:

• How to empower thoughts and re-focus on purpose, passion, and success
• The 7 Secrets of Business Success
• How to harness the power of the mind and find out what holds you back
• Why life's really not all about you (sorry to disappoint you!)
• The source of unshakeable faith and hope in life
• How to overcome setbacks and obstacles
• How to unleash balance and enjoyment in your life and live at the pace of passion

PART I

GETTING PREPARED FOR THE JOURNEY

Success is not a place at which one arrives,
But rather the spirit with which one
Undertakes and continues the journey.

~ Alex Noble

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THE QUESTIONS

What’s Life Really All About?

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic,
Than a man who devotes all waking hours
To the making of money for money’s sake.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths,
Rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success;
Singleness of purpose is one of the essentials for success in life,
No matter what may be one’s aim.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Can you have a life filled with passion, happiness and significance? Are you imbalanced in life? Is your life plain vanilla? Feeling unfulfilled by material success? Trapped in an unsatisfying dead-end job or business? Do you live life with laser beam focus? How can you turn life around to make it count? Do you desire to reach the next level in love, life and business?

There is hope. Living a purpose filled and passion-driven life is possible as you ask, “What’s life really all about?” It requires that you discover and use the keys to The Secrets. God has a divine purpose and destiny for you. Life needs to be more than just “getting by.” If you are able to transform your heart, soul and mind you will then be able to transform your life and live it with purpose, power and passion!

The stories throughout this book, including that of the author’s personal, financial and emotional struggles, failures and successes, quotes, principles and tools of self-improvement and business success, will inspire the soul and spirit, touch the heart, and move your mind. They will spark faith and hope in the lives of individuals who have lost passion and purpose. It will hit home to others who have placed their family and personal life “on hold” in order to pursue success without realizing the pain and costs paid. It doesn’t have to be that way though.

Each chapter has practical insights and advice that will guide you in the process of discovering the secrets and realizing the importance of having successful balance in The 9 Key Areas of Life^™ --- Spiritual Life, Love Life, Family Life, Health Life, Business/Work Life, Personal Life, Financial Life, Social & Relationships Life, and Community Life.

Asking the questions found in The Passion-Driven^® Life and seeking the answers can transform the way you live, think, play, work, interact, worship, connect to others and give back to the world. You’ll find the answers and define the kind of life you desire and dream of when you dig deep in your soul, seek uncommon and new paths, and take the steps to become successful in all areas of life. Doing so will enable you to become a better person, a better spouse, a better friend, a better executive, manager, leader, employee, and help you embrace life fully.

THE CHALLENGE

Finding Passion & Purpose for the Soul

If you’re to be used by God,
He will take you through a multitude of experiences
That are not meant for you at all.
They’re meant to make you useful in His hands,
To help you understand what transpires in the souls of others
So that you’ll never be surprised by what you come across.

~ Oswald Chambers

To be successful in life we must be willing to be, do and tackle uncommon things in the face of pressures to be common! And that’s not at all easy to be or to do, yet it is one of the fundamental keys of true success, balance and fulfillment in all areas of our life --- to be willing to go against the flow of commonness in our world.

Uncommon courage to accept mistakes, uncommon faith and trust in God, uncommon acceptance of our flaws while making improvements in our character, uncommon decisions to get the most out of our life, uncommon choices to heal the wounds of our past and move on. An uncommon love to build lasting and loving relationships, uncommon ways to lead and respect others, uncommon personal empowerment where we no longer base self-worth on our accomplishments or upon the opinions of others, uncommon action that leads to major breakthroughs and milestones.

An uncommon refusal to compromise and be mundane, and uncommon choices to create greatness in our personal, business and work life. All achievers of success in life throughout the ages have been willing to be uncommon --- are you willing to be passionate, uncommon and create meaningful change in yours?

Have you wondered why it seems hard to focus on positive change in our lives? Why it’s so hard to change our inner chatter and put a stop to limiting thoughts in our heads?

Why do we make New Year’s resolutions with all our feeling and good intentions only to see very little happen during the year to make them a reality? And it goes on and on . . . .

We ask so many questions when things aren’t going the way we want them to: Why is fear paralyzing me? Why am I afraid to take action? Why am I not living the life I want? Am I living my divine purpose? Why am I not happy? Why do I have to go through so many tough times in my life? Why can’t I get my company’s staff to believe in what we do? Why isn’t my company growing? And on and on it goes . . . .

We chase and desire so many things because we believe they will somehow bring us happiness and make us feel better: More money. A nicer car. A bigger house. Bigger profits. More clothes. More jewelry. A new spouse or partner. A new look. And on and on it goes . . . .

Ever noticed that these things don’t really make you happy at all in the long run? Why is that? It’s because those changes and chasing after things are superficial. They’re only temporary. You soon become bored, depressed or overwhelmed once again by life.

According to recent research, in the United States forty million adults will suffer from depression and anxiety at least once in their lifetime. We’re not talking about having a depressing day or a depressing week. No, this is diagnosed long-term depression and anxiety. In fact, according to the World Health Organization by the year 2020 the world will see depression become the second most important health issue, after heart disease, as a burden or cause of serious illness.

More people becoming unhappy at a time when we have the highest prosperity the world has ever seen. We have more stuff but that does not necessarily mean we have a better life or that we make a difference in our personal life, let alone the world.

So to truly make a difference in our lives we’ve got to look below the surface. We’ve got to dig deep into our soul, into our spiritual being, past our fear and limiting thoughts. We must connect with God and we must do it with all our heart, mind, and soul. We have to go to a spiritual and sub-conscious level. That is where true transformation and meaningful changes will take place in our lives. It is where we come face-to-face with ourselves on a deep level, and where we come to love and embrace our being.

Life passes us by quite quickly. When we were young we couldn’t wait for our birthday or Christmas to arrive. The days in between were filled with impatient waiting. The days and weeks seemed like an eternity.

Once we hit twenty-one, though, life just seemed to pass us by in a flash. We no longer have “markers” to measure our life. At least, we don’t have many of them. And we’re no longer waiting for our next birthday with anxious anticipation. We don’t exactly look forward to middle age as we looked forward to our teenage years or our twenty-first birthday. Past the age of thirty, many people wished the time clock would break or at least malfunction. But no life just goes on. So either we get busy living or we wait impatiently for life to end!

What if we challenged our soul and spirit? What if we changed things around? Wouldn’t we have a renewed hope, divine happiness, and a life filled with purpose and passion? Wouldn’t each week, each month, look different? Couldn’t we expect amazing things to be accomplished in our lives? Couldn’t we really “wow” our heart and soul, and establish a different measuring marker in our lives?

The challenge we have is not to measure our life by our age, but by how passionate we are about life, the purpose we are living out, and the passion by which we demonstrate it through love. Life’s really too short not to do this.

What if you found out that you only had one year to live? Wouldn’t you stop worrying about the insignificant stuff in life and concentrate on the bigger picture: the re-awakening, meaningful transformations, and connections you would need to make during that year --- spiritual connections, family connections, love connections, personal connections, social connections, and community connections?

So live life as it matters, because it does! To do that we need to rewire our heart, our soul, and our minds so that we can indeed create meaningful and empowering beliefs, launch our dreams, renew our hope, and make changes that leave a lasting legacy. Despite what we hear or see daily, in reality, life’s not just about seeking to pleasure ourselves all the time.

After awhile the race for it all, the glitter and luster all fade away. If you embrace that idea, I assure you, a ton of societal pressure “to keep up” will come off your shoulders. Think about others and ask how you can better their lives first; in the process you will become a better person.

You can unleash the passion in your soul and align it with your divine purpose. You can heal from within all the past hurts, love unconditionally, overcome obstacles, have breakthroughs, reduce stress, accept your greatness, find inner peace, create abundance in all areas of life, embrace your power, transform your life, and empower your future. You can create balance and harmony where chaos and confusion exist in daily or weekly life; you can create meaning in life where doubt and self-centeredness may abound.

The challenge you and I face today is to confront the fears and worries that hold us back. To seek, find, and unleash the passion and purpose from deep within our soul; to connect with passion and purpose to God. Passion is that beautiful thing in life that when experienced is magical.

Passion is an inspiring and uplifting energy, a power and divine illumination in our life. It can bring meaning and purpose to how and who we love, what we do in life and how we go about doing it --- from our personal relationships to our work, to our spiritual walk to our personal pursuits, and to our community involvement.

Living with passion is not a-hard-to-reach-concept, available only to a select few. You can unleash passion in your life when you decide to inspire, when you decide to act from a deeper level of commitment, and when you decide to connect your spirit and soul to the daily miracles that God plants in our lives: from creation itself where we embrace its awesomeness and beauty; to little things like a kiss from a child, the simple pleasures of life like a stroll along the beach, a mountain or lake; to feeling and giving true love.

Finding and unleashing your divine purpose creates transformation, and it is the way we declare to ourselves and the world that life has significance. When you follow that purpose with passion, you find ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Part I: Getting Prepared for the Journey
• Part II: The Power in Seeking Answers & Making Decisions in Life
• Part III: The Initial Steps Towards the Secrets
• Part IV: The Key Questions that Reveal the Secrets
• Part V: The Secrets to the Next Level in Love, Life & Business
• Part VI: The Power of Living Life at the Pace & Speed of Passion . . .
• Conclusion: The 17th Secret: The Power of Life Changes --- Creating Your Turning Points
• Afterword: The Final Secret: The Power of Passionately Living in The Valleys of Life
• A Special Invitation: The Compassion Project - Transform the World & Make a Difference
• The Passion-Driven® Life Charities: Feed The Children® & Habitat for Humanity®
• Bibliography
• Meet the Author
• What’s Next?