If you contribute to lives of others as a teacher, counselor, parent, artist, team leader, preacher, advisor, consultant, mentor, coach, author, manager, leader or business owner, you really should read this book.
Yes, you guessed it, we are social animals and we constantly contribute to each other’s lives. That's why I think everybody should read this book.
I'm so convinced about it that quite recently I've sent an email to my 1,400 subscribers with the below message:
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I've recently finished a great book, "Dare to Matter" by Pete Smith. A few sentences moved me almost to tears, because I felt like they described my coaching experience. Pete said:
"The greatest level of fulfillment is when you witness someone you've trained, coached and loved getting their hand raised in victory. That is the ultimate high."
That's so very true. I felt exactly this when one of my client finished his dissertation (he has been procrastinating with this for ages), or when another lost over 20 pounds and got to the weight he hadn't seen on the scale for the last ten years, or when another solidified her writing habit to the point where she didn't need my help anymore in writing her memoir.
But I feel the same, even if to a slightly lesser degree, when I read an email from my reader, a Quora comment or a review of my book that says that my writing made the difference in one person's life.
That was the reason I started my Gratitude Wall. I wanted to collect those moments of feeling "high."
However, this feeling verily goes from a very intimate place in my soul. I love to help people. That's what drives me. That's why another words of Pete pierced my heart:
"What they gave back to me far outweighed my investment in them. They gave me meaning, purpose, and fulfillment."
This is what you gave me back when you took action because of what I've written and let me know about it.
Thank you for allowing me to invest in you. This investment might not have been so direct, like in case of my coaching clients, but it was meaningful in the same way. Thank you for giving me back meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
I was through a very tough time in the last few months.
I rarely felt like going out of bed and doing anything. But every time I got a new encouraging message from my reader, every time I read "Thank you!" in a Quora comment, every time I added a new positive review to my Gratitude Wall, I felt I need to keep going for my readers, if not for anything else.
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The Ultimate Guide To Personal Accountability
There are so many thought provoking viewpoints in this book. My favorite one blows up the typical theory that Thoughts drive your Feelings, then Feelings drive your Actions. Pete Smith flips it so that choosing your identity and acting on it come at the beginning. I snapped a photo below so that you can see his words. The idea is to decide what you want your identity to be about - then simply live in alignment with that. How refreshing! With his view, you're living into your identity today rather than seeing it as a far away, idealized, future version of you. Pete's view is Identity, then Actions, then Fellings.He gives lots of examples, often in the form of funny stories (like Ballful Month). I won't spoil them by writing them here. They solidify his points and make them entertaining.On the surface, Pete and I disagree on his chapter on assessments. I even make my living with heavy use of StrengthsFinder (meanwhile he tells the reader to get over them and a make a simple choice about who they want to be). Yet I have a feeling that we're more aligned than it would seem. Our activities are strikingly similar, and they both share the notion of remembering who you are when you're at your best...then using that as an input as you're deciding who you want to be in your life of significance.If you want to explore the power of Choice, this book should be your next read. If you've ever caught yourself saying the phrase, "I don't have a choice here," you should give this book a whirl. The power is in the view that there's *always* a choice, even in situations where you don't like any of the outcomes and consequences. Although it's tough to swallow sometimes, that concept offers up some serious mental freedom - and huge power in your life.
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