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Coming December 2009

The 8 Cylinders of Success
How To Align Your Personal & Professional Purpose

We’re all on the journey of life, but how do you know you’re going in the right direction?  What’s your purpose?  How do you discover it? Your life is your vehicle to design, drive, and maintain. Unfortunately, too many people end up back seat driving through life or driving other people’s vehicles and never take the driver’s seat of their own lives. Using the 8 Cylinders of Success™ framework, this book and workbook will help you design the vehicle of your life and achieve your highest personal velocity in your personal and professional life.

The 8 Cylinders of Success™ is a framework created by Jullien Gordon based on academic research in performance optimization, self-motivation, positive psychology, and happiness and the in depth study of some of the world’s most successful people.  The 8 Cylinders of Success™ includes your: principles, passions, problems, people, positioning, pioneers, picture, and possibility.  Together, they lead to your purpose, which is your personal GPS system that continuously guides you in the right direction throughout life.

The 8 Cylinders of Success is organized in short chapters, each offering a guiding question for your personal and professional life, two quotations, a personal story from Jullien’s pursuit of purpose, a company profile, and an exercises to help you gain clarity on your life purpose.  You will learn:

• How to examine your life to discover your true purpose
• How to draw motivation from within yourself
• How to find meaning and fulfillment in your career

Jullien realizes that the x-factor to success is knowing your why.  His personal life experiences that have lead him to self-identify as a purposefinder, have aligned in way that connect with millennials to mothers. Jullien believes that we all have a unique purpose and that once we align our lives with it, we will experience true happiness and fulfillment.  Purpose is not an end destination—it’s a way of being.

Praise for the Book

“The 8 Cylinders of Success is a ‘literary GPS’ for Generation Next. It provides a clear ‘trip plan’ for the reader via easy-to-follow and useful directions, insights, compelling stories & skill-building exercises. The 8 Cylinders of Success shows the reader how to take the most direct route to reach a life filled with inspiration, passion and purpose!”

Kevin Carroll, Author of Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, What’s Your Red Rubber Ball? and The Red Rubber Ball At Work & Founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst consulting agency

“Jullien is a true messenger of purpose, sent to help young people find and live a life of meaning, without waiting for a ‘mid-life crisis.’  Unlike most books on purpose, The 8 Cylinders of Success is filled with practical exercises and tools that will help move you forward along your path. And once you are clearer about your purpose, Jullien will show you how to manifest it!”

Tim Kelley, Author of True Purpose & CEO of Transcendent Solutions Consulting

“In this delightful and innovative book, Jullien Gordon writes passionately about how finding purpose can lead to success in business and in life.”

William Damon, Author of The Path to Purpose and Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence and Professor of Education at Stanford University

“Jullien Gordon is so full of wisdom and inspiration. I have learned so much from him, and am constantly amazed at his creative ideas for helping people find purpose and meaning in their lives. Anyone who does all the exercises in this book will benefit tremendously.”

Scott Sherman, Executive Director of The Transformative Action Institute

“Jullien Gordon truly is the Purpose Finder. The 8 Cylinders of Success is an incredible framework to help any college student find the path to purpose and live a more deliberate and meaningful life.”

Steve Loflin, Founder & Executive Director of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars

“Jullien is passionate about enabling others to connect to and fulfill their true life purpose; The 8 Cylinders of Success is a guidebook to finding your own path to changing the world.”

Ebele Okobi Harris, Director of Business and Human Rights Program at Yahoo!

“This is an enormous undertaking for Jullien Gordon and it will help galvanize the entire country to read and know that the destiny of their future is in their own hands.”

Tim Ngubeni, Founder & former Director of the UCLA Community Programs Department

“Jullien’s 8 Cylinders of Success gives young people an extremely valuable framework for managing their careers to win – for themselves and for others around them!”

John Rice, Founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow

“In a world replete with methods of creating plans—business plans, game plans, day plans—Jullien Gordon has offered here a much needed process of determining a primary purpose, upon which plans should be built. Jullien has instinctively and through personal experience recognized that the questions (and answers) concerning purpose are the missing ingredients in happy and fulfilling life. This is a book young (as well as old) should not just read—but use.”

Charlie Hess, President at Inferential Focus

“Jullien Gordon speaks to the Millennial Generation in a creative voice that excites and challenges them to act in a directed, purposeful way.  Through the 8 Cylinders of Success, Gordon provides a practical and easy-to-follow roadmap for personal and professional fulfillment.”

Nicole Lindsay, Executive Director of New York Needs You

The 8 Cylinders of Success
How To Align Your Personal & Professional Purpose
by Jullien Gordon
Published by The Department of Motivated Vehicles
Paperback; $15.00; 180 pages
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