One Big Thing by Phil Cooke

Is there a purpose for your life? A specific goal you wish to accomplish? Are you a fresh college graduate looking for purpose? Maybe you're like me, middle-aged, beaten and tired from chasing illusion after illusion.

It's the title of this book, One Big Thing, Discovering What You Were Born to Do which catches my attention. Author Phil Cooke offers wisdom and practical guidance to those seeking the answer to the questions, "Why am I here?" and "What am I supposed to be doing?"

The Message Behind One Big Thing

There is a nagging sensation within each of us leading us to question why we are here and to what we are to be doing with our time here. What One Big Thing, Discovering What You Were Born to Do will not do is answer those questions! You and only you can answer them.

What author Phil Cooke does do in this book is point you, the reader in the direction you need to go to discover the answers. He closes the introduction to the book with some questions:

• What is it that makes you come alive?
• What excites and empowers you?
• What were you born to do?
• How can you get that message out there?

And, in the final sentence of the introduction, "Let's go find some answers."

Discovering the Answers to Your One Big Thing

What! I thought we were finding answers! We are. You will. I love the format Phil Cooke uses throughout the book. He asks questions, lots of questions. Chapter 8 lays out the map for your future. How? With more questions!

• What comes easy to you?
• Do other people confirm it?
• What do you love?
• What are you willing to risk?
• What drives you crazy?
• What do you want to leave behind?

The author laces the book with quotes which reinforce the questions pointing you to think about your answers. You will begin to visualize your one big thing as you begin to seriously think about and answer the questions.

Again, I love the format of question upon probing question the author uses in One Big Thing, Discovering What You Were Born to Do. Phil Cooke shares from his wealth of experience in asking you, the reader the right questions to provoke you to think and think deep.

This was a book I read in two sittings. Each chapter, each question led me to the next question, to the next chapter. I was led to reflect on my past experiences, my present situations, all of it through the questions asked of me in this book.

You're Not Crazy

You're Not Crazy is the title of the epilogue of One Big Thing, Discovering What You Were Born to Do. The sensation that I am crazy for following my one big thing is indeed real. Yours may be too. But how will you ever know if you don't follow your one big thing?

This book will not tell you your one big thing. But if you are desiring to find it, then I recommend reading this book by Phil Cooke highly. Now, I am off to work on my one big thing!

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