The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfilment

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A powerful framework for living a fulfilled life from the world's no.1 executive coach Discover the steps to earning your path to fulfillment and living without regrets-from the world-renowned executive coach and New York Times bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There Our lives exist on a continuum between two poles- fulfillment and regret. We invest enormous resources of time and energy into staying healthy, being recognized for our achievements and nurturing our relationships. When we make the right investments, we earn our lives. But how can we know if we're investing in the right things? How can we ensure that our "earned rewards" add up to an overarching sense of purpose in our lives? In The Earned Life, pioneering leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith shows us how to live our own lives-not someone else's version of them. The key to living the earned life, unbound by regret, requires our commitment to a habit of connecting what we do to something greater than the isolated achievements of our personal ambition. Taking inspiration from Buddhism, Goldsmith implores readers to accept impermanence and avoid the Great Western Disease of "I'll be happy when...". He offers practical advice for shedding the obstacles, especially our failures of imagination, that prevent us from creating our own lives. With this book as their guide, readers can close the gap between what they plan to achieve and what they actually get done. Packed with illuminating exercises and stories from Goldsmith's storied career as a coach to some of the world's most high-achieving leaders, The Earned Life is a powerful roadmap for ambitious people seeking a higher purpose.

Dr Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognised as the world's most influential leadership expert, renowned for his uncanny ability to help CEOs achieve lasting changes in behaviour. He has been named as one of the world's fifteen greatest business thinkers by The Times, described as one of America's 'Fifty Great Leaders' by Bloomberg Businessweek, and twice won 'World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker' at the Forbes Thinkers50 Awards. His 2008 book What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international bestseller and remains the market-leading book on professional development.

Inspiring insight from the world's top coach...Goldsmith left me tingling from the journey of reflection I'd been taken on. * Bruce Daisley, author of The Joy of Work * The advice in this book can help you keep on achieving and, at the same time, do a better job of finding peace and happiness in the process. * Amy Edmondson, Harvard Professor * What a gift from Marshall - to help us become the people that we want to be and to live a fulfilled life with no regrets - The Earned Life rocks * Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford * My life changed for the better when I started working with Marshall Goldsmith. Since then, all of my significant decisions have been influenced by his wisdom, compassion, and commitment. * Dr. Jim Yong Kim, former president of the World Bank *