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“Chapter Two alone helped me more than therapy has.”

Kayla Giles

"Insightful, provocative, and quietly unsettling. A book for anyone who has ever sensed there must be more — more meaning, more joy, more alignment."

Genia Janover | Award-Winning Former Principal, Bialik College

"Distils a lifetime of insights and wisdom into a practical guide to help you clarify what matters most."

Jonar Nader | Former IBM Executive | Author, How to Lose Friends & Infuriate Your Boss

"Dan says the scary, quiet thing out loud — we've got a choice in how we spend our lives. He provides the roadmap."

Ben Stickland | Co-Founder & CEO, Instamove

Have you ever felt the unnerving sensation that, despite your success, something isn’t quite right?

When you look back at your life, will you be satisfied?
Or will you feel disappointed?

The dark side of grit is chasing goals that don’t matter,
while your deepest desires quietly fade away.

The way forward is to realize that the secret to a
fulfilling life is to choose your work.

Download Chapters 1 and 2 of Choose Your Work

Packed with thought-provoking stories, inspiration and practical advice, Choose Your Work will help you pursue meaningful work and live a fulfilling life.

Discover 17 powerful insights that will redefine how you think about work...

  1. What if my whole life has been wrong? Why do so many people experience a deep sense of regret at the end of their lives?
  2. What is more valuable than $100 million in cold hard cash? The truth about why you don’t really want to lie on the beach all day. 
  3. Stop letting your job title steal your future. Many brilliant lawyers, doctors, engineers and business owners are shackled to work that drains them. A two‑minute reframing activity will return decades of freedom.
  4. Discover the work you were meant to do. Not just the job you were told to get.
  5. How it’s so easy to become trapped by your competence. Being good at something may lead you down the wrong path and how to find the right one.
  6. Why your deepest truth won’t arrive through thinking… and what you need to do to find it.
  7. Why happiness is a misleading goal… and what to focus on instead.
  8. Why seeking permission is the greatest obstacle between you and the work you’re meant to do… and how to escape the need for validation. 
  9. Why it’s so easy to get distracted and what to do about it. Distractions have a deeper meaning.
  10. How to overcome the dark side of grit… so that you don’t get caught up in goals that don’t deeply matter to you.
  11. The unexpected gifts hidden in your struggles. How to extract insights from your greatest challenges so they become pathways for growth.
  12. Why winning the wrong game only magnifies the inherent emptiness of playing it… and which games are worth playing.
  13. Don’t confuse success with suffering in comfort. Why your focus on comfort is ruining your life and obscuring the true metrics of success.
  14. Why extraordinary success seldom comes from setting extraordinary goals… and the real cause of success responsible for Nobel Prizes and elite performance.
  15. How to think independently in a world obsessed with conformity. Why does conforming to the herd hamper your personal growth?
  16. How do you pay the bills and still choose the work? Practical answers to the question that stops most people.
  17. Action plan. A roadmap to convert your insights into action. In just one hour per day you can make major progress.

This book will help you discover your deepest truth, define what success means to you and begin a fulfilling new chapter in your journey.

Praise for Choose Your Work

"As a psychotherapist, I see how easy it is to lose sight of who you truly are. Choose Your Work offers a compelling path back to yourself."

Kirk Fisher | Psychotherapist & Zen Teacher

"Unlike other career change manuals — a guide for those searching for fulfilling work that is both optimistic and encouraging."

Helen Praetz | Emeritus Professor & Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, RMIT University

"Most people stumble into careers that 'kinda work' and there they remain stuck. Don't be like most people. Buy this book."

James Tuckerman | Founder, Anthill Magazine

“I’ve read a lot of self-help books. This one’s different — it’s the real deal. I wanted to highlight every sentence.”

Michael Cooper

“A must‑read for anyone ready to stop wasting time and start living the life they’re meant for.”

Christy Oshima

Download Chapters 1 and 2 of Choose Your Work

Packed with thought-provoking stories, inspiration and practical advice, Choose Your Work will help you pursue meaningful work and live a fulfilling life.