Diana Stout wants to share how you can find and keep the fire that burns in your soul glowing. In Finding Your Fire and Keeping It Hot: Discovering Your Why, Your Passion, Your Purpose in Life, she helps the reader learn where their true passion lies. Once that passion, that fire, is found, how do you develop it into a roaring inferno that burns hot enough to keep you warm and feeling good? Diana asks questions and gives assignments that will help you differentiate between your activities and your passion. You can be so busy with living that you fail to find the intensity that makes life worth living. Everyone has a passion, and the lucky ones take the time to find and develop it.

Do you live life with enthusiasm or just endure it? Maybe you see others being excited about what they do and wonder if you could ever be that happy and content. If so, this book is for you. Why do people not pursue their fire? In Finding Your Fire and Keeping It Hot, Diana Stout explains why so many people just live instead of thriving. Her probing questions get right to the point and help the reader differentiate between things they just do and what fills their inner being with joy. Diana includes the Laws of the Universe and explains how they can be used to increase your passion. As the name implies, these Laws can work for you or against you, but Diana shows you how to use them to your advantage. Her passion is writing and her illustrations reflect that, but the principles are universally applicable.

Finding Your Fire and Keeping It Hot by Diana Stout is a self-help book wherein Stout gives an account of her passion for writing and how she turned her passion into a living. Although the book is about Stout's writing journey, the reader can apply her advice to any passion. The book includes clear action steps to follow and assignments to help the reader on their journey of self-discovery. She also lists some of the key challenges people may face in finding their passion and keeping it alive. The book is concise, providing doable steps and actions that anyone can take and practice daily to live their passion. Finding Your Fire and Keeping it Hot makes success seem like an attainable goal for anyone, regardless of any perceived obstacles they face.

I enjoyed reading Finding Your Fire & Keeping It Hot by Diana Stout because I could identify with all the steps and challenges it requires to find your fire and keep it burning, as I am also an avid writer. Stout gives an honest and helpful depiction of her writing journey, simultaneously portraying the challenges and magic of journeying to find your passion. Finding Your Fire & Keeping It Hot is an easy-to-read, feel-good, heartwarming, insightful book that every high school graduate should read and adults who hope to find fulfillment in life beyond just living to survive. I was left feeling inspired and hopeful that a happy life is in anyone's reach, but happiness starts with finding and living your passion.