About Karen Matthews, Founder of 'Personal Passion'


   Karen has a diverse professional background in retail
   management, hospitality management, technical laboratory,
   quality management, safety, teaching, mentoring, and
   training. She has a BA (Quality Management) and
   BSc (Environmental Health and Safety). 

   She is an award winning Toastmaster with a passion for
   speaking, teaching and mentoring others.



Karen is a certified Life Coach, a certified facilitator of The Passion Test™, The Passion Test 4 Kids and Teens™  facilitator, and a Passion Test for Business™  Consultant; personally trained by the New York Times best selling authors of The Passion Test, Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood.

Karen is also certified by Marci Shimoff for the Love Course™ based on the new book "Love For No Reason"  and the Happiness Generator Course™  based on the best seller "Happy For No Reason".

She is a dynamic and animated presenter who facilitates from the heart and soul. Her stories will motivate and inspire you.  With wisdom, humor and honesty, she will share her own story of personal and spiritual growth and how her quest for purpose and life balance helped her find the courage to follow her passions. In a fun, safe, nurturing environment, Karen will show you a system that will help you discover your life purpose, identify your passions and create balance in your life.  She will challenge you to step out of your comfort zone and explore new possibilities, and to help you see 'change' as empowering opportunities for personal growth. And she will provide you with a simple practical guide on how to create more of anything you want in your life.     

 In Karen’s words:

“I had what many people would consider a pretty good life – a job I loved, the salary, the benefits, the annual vacation, the nice home and husband and children. Within a short period of time my marriage was over, my home was gone, and I could no longer do the job I loved. And I wondered why am I here? What is my destiny? This started my journey on the road to self discovery.  I kept telling myself I should be grateful for what I still had in my life - yet I felt like there was “a hole in my heart” and that any trace of purpose, passion or empowerment was slowly trickling out.

I felt like my personal and spiritual development had all but stopped and that my life was badly out of balance.  I know many people who feel that they are just going through the motions of life, they are dissatisfied and do not know why. They are a Human-Doing and not a Human-Being. And I know what that feels like - I was one of them.

The Passion test helped me to clarify my life’s passions and raised the voice in my heart. It helped me to become clear on my passions and begin to live my life aligned with what was most important to me. It was time to rediscover my life purpose, to acknowledge the gifts I have been blessed with and to experience the passion and abundance that my heart and soul were crying out for. And, most of all, it was time for me to live my purpose of unconditional love and support, to share, to make a positive difference by inspiring, motivating and empowering others to discover their individual greatness. 

We all have our own life journey, and mine has led to 'Personal Passion', providing opportunities to others for personal, professional and spiritual inspiration, change and growth, love for no reason and happiness for all.”  

PASSION VALUES

Purpose.....
Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart.

Attention.....
Give attention to what you choose to create in your life and it will begin to show up.

Situation.....
Be realistic and objective in each situation. Do not hold tightly to how things 'should be'.

Standards.....
Set a standard that others aspire to. Exhibit honesty and integrity with everyone and everything.

Intention.....
Consciously stating what you choose to create in your life is the first step to manifesting it.

Open.....
Be open to what is appearing in the moment, and you allow God's will to move through you

No Tension.....
When you hold tightly to your concepts of how things should be, you shut off the flow of life.

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must first set yourself on fire." 

~ Fred Shero

Check out my blog articles at:
http://personalpassion.wordpress.com/

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What others had to say:

“Karen is one of the most PASSIONATE and exhuberant people I know.
Which feels like a pretty good start for someone who guides people through a very extensive process to find their own Passion.
As the founder of the Personal Passion Test karen gets to fulfill one of her driving forces -improving the lives of others AND she does it brilliantly.
Karen is integrity defined. Your dreams are safe in her hands.”  ~J.D. Calgary, Alberta

“Karen shares her passion in such a contagious way. She takes every opportunity to help her clients find a way to connect to their own passion too.
She has detailed knowledge of her subject and helps her clients to apply it in many ways so they can't help but be the better for it.” March 1, 2011