Product Description

How would you like to feel excited about your life again? And if that's not enough, how would you like to be more successful and high-achieving? That's what soultrading is all about - having a personal strategy that you really buy into.

Soultrader

is a down-to-earth guide to getting to know yourself properly from the inside. It is a combination of "rough guide to your real self" and career path, with an underpinning of practical soultrading exercises. Based around key career events e.g. your first job, getting noticed, setting career priorities, navigating the politics, getting promoted, building a network, going it alone and building a market reputation, Soultrader shows how and why soul is the foundation for your success.

Your soul can help you figure out what you want to be when you grow up. Much more than the boss ever could.

• Presents the compelling idea of getting excited about your life and work again
• Everybody, especially in a downturn, needs to know how to differentiate themselves from other people – who you are at soul level is the biggest differentiator there is
• Considers every stage of the career path - and offers the would-be soultrader a grounded guide for immediate results
• Guides you in practical, everyday situations when you need it most – such as deciding on a new career direction

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112611 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-12
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

She Magazine, October 2006
Carmel McConnell featured as Inspiring Woman of the month.

From the Back Cover
Are you sure you're on the right career path?does your career feel like your true purpose?Have you ever sat at your desk and thought, 'is this all there is?' If so, you need a personal strategy. But that can't work unless it's based on what you're really about.  Being a soultrader is the best personal strategy for sustainable career success. Personal career advantage goes to the people who know who they are and what they want to achieve. How are you doing? Soultrader has practical remedies, such as a '12-day plan to find your life purpose'. It contains exercises, stories and questions to help you find what you are looking for. Fulfillment as well as cash is the new career goal. Get excited about your life and work again. That's soultradingSoul-defined as that vital, animating force inside. When was the last time you took yours to work? It's your life. Don't be plastic about it. Do who you are...  

About the Author

Carmel McConnell is an ex-Greenham Common activist turned global corporate consultant. In her corporate career, Carmel has consulted to investment banks, worked on media convergence projects and advised on film studio business processs. Her first book Change Activist (momentum) has been internationally well-received for catching the mood of the times and bringing the ‘have a job, give a damn’ principle to life, and showing you can have profit and principles.

Customer Reviews

WARNING: This book could seriously change your life
Soultrader asks you to examine and redefine your perception of a "career". A career being not just something you simply do for someone else in order to get money to live but as activities which embody and define who you are, your passions and your dreams. By doing something you love you are able to invest more into it and so logically have a much better chance of success. A soultrader.

Through highly inspirational , and motivational content soultrader urges you to look at yourself and your situation and define what you really want from life. To believe in your potential, that is possible to achieve what you want and then summon up the courage to take the (fearsome) steps needed to start moving towards your destiny. Soultrader is not simply full of hype and empty promises. The book contains very practical and worthwhile exercises to help you. These exercises help you to define, formulate and clarify your own dreams, thoughts and ideas into practical and workable plans which can help lead you towards becoming a soultrader i.e. Chapter Six "12 Day Life Purpose Plan" The style of this book is humorous and easy to read and above all down to earth honest; taking control of your life and your career will be tough and require hard work , discipline and determination. Not recommended for people who are looking for a comfortable and easy ride.

Chapter Five describes and captures very well some important issues and the zeitgeist that I suspect many people are feeling as a result of Globalisation, the burst Internet Bubble, 9/11 and the current global economic downturn. It offers an alternative and positive perspective.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Yesterday I resigned from my job. I admit I had been dissatisfied at my job for a long time but through reading this inspirational and thought provoking book at the right time it really helped me to make some important decisions and set me on a new path. I don't know exactly where it will lead but to quote:
"I am in control of my life , I am responsible , I choose to be on the right path"

Thought provoking. Like having a very personal coach
I liked this! Soultrader gets you in front of some almost taboo big life questions, with helpful, down to earth advice. Very useful if you need to figure out what might be happening with your career or if you feel a bit unsure of direction. I have lent it to a friend who isn't sure if she is in the right job and trying to make a big decision. Working through some of the exercises meant I got some new ideas. So - inspiring stuff - I liked the idea that your purpose is to be happy! Tell my manager.

One Of My Favourites
I found this book extremely useful and motivating. Not only did it help me to really think through what I wanted to do in my life, it helped me see how I could get there and made me believe that I would be successful. Occasionally the style of the writer was slightly annoying, but overall it is one of the best books I have bought on this area.