Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0

Mike Williams

Description

Do you want to do something amazing with your talents toward your life's work? Use The Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0 to customize your way forward. If you're serious about making a real impact, dig in! Reap the rewards from your efforts! No matter your field or your level of achievement so far, The Road 2.0 has something for you. Tap into your passion and your gifts-your stuff-with a comprehensive approach to achievement! Through intensive and careful self-development, you will be challenged to examine and maximize your personal, professional, organizational, and promotional dimensions to push your way to the highest level of your unique stuff. Whether it's in a new career, a new non-profit, a start-up business, or a freelancer, here is a place to get you on track or build the track just for you. Bring your ideas, skills, talents, and energies fully into the marketplace. Put methods with your passion and make something powerful happen. This second edition, The Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0, provides a deeper dive into the process of identifying strengths, weaknesses, habits, priorities, and possibilities than the original. Each chapter, with its questions, actions, tips, and resources, gets you closer to that ideal match between your potential, your commitment, and your passion. Your work will get results. Get on it! Take The Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0 to someplace special!

Sujets

• Gestion et management
• Popular psychology
• Self-help

Informations

• Publié par: Mike Williams Solutions
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780980053456
• Langue: English

Extrait

Pushing Your Career, Business or Cause to the Next Level…
AND BEYOND
The Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0 Pushing Your Career, Business or Cause to the Next Level… And Beyond
© Copyright 2021, Mike Williams, all rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, except for review, with brief passages in a newspaper, Internet article, or magazine.
Published by Mike Williams Solutions www.mikewilliamssolutions.com , Columbus, Ohio
Original cover design by Michael K. Shelton; Re-design by Melissa Fannon Interior design by Melissa Fannon, DC Alphagraphics. Printed by BCP Digital Printing, Baltimore, MD 21215
ISBN 978-0-9800534-4-9 Printed in the United States of America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. PREPARATION
Chapter 1
THE PERSONAL DIMENSION
Chapter 2
THE PROFESSIONAL DIMENSION
II. EXECUTION
Chapter 3
THE ORGANIZATIONAL DIMENSION
Chapter 4
THE PROMOTIONAL DIMENSION
III. SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
Chapter 5
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 6
NON-PROFIT PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 7
CAREER TRANSITIONS
Conclusion
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to my parents, Charles and Lula Williams, for believing in me.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to several people for their efforts, insights, critiques and encouraging words, helping in the process of completing this book. I asked several people for feedback and support. I was very happy to receive it.
Les Brown played a key role by expecting and badgering me to write and publish. My wife Rhonda was a reliable constant in the midst of a process that was repeatedly and unpredictably changing.
I offer my sincerest thanks to a group of friends, family members and colleagues. They were all important in the original edition and/or this second 2.0 edition. They include Sue Burkhart, Karen Preston, Anika Chandler, Demia Kandi, Kristin Curtis, Lynda Jones, Andi Williams, Carole Clodfelder, Yasmin Green, Kimani Clodfelder, Joe Gray, David Hughes, Elizabeth Joy, Alex Whyms, Ishon Kortrum, Dwight Pledger, Marcus Muhammad, Terry White, and my mom. All their comments and support are much appreciated.
With this second (2.0) edition in particular, I am indebted to longtime friend and colleague Fran Frazier for her sharp eye, hard work, and solid insights in editing this book. Fran provided an understanding and a constant sense of what I was trying to do, caring enough to assure that anything I publish meets a certain standard. Many thanks, Fran!
The graphics, including a re-design of the original cover and page layout, were provided by Melissa Fannon. She understood my intent and presented the visual expression I wanted and needed for this book.
All in all, this second edition, so many years after the original, has been a major undertaking for me, and I appreciate the time and effort of everyone who contributed to it, even unknowingly.
Thanks.
FOREWORD BY LES BROWN
Are you happy with the direction that your life is headed? Are you driving down the wrong road with no exit insight, at a fork in the road, or do you simply feel that you’ve hit a dead-end?
If you’re experiencing any of those feelings, you’re not alone. We all have times in our lives where we could use a map or trusted directions to help get us to our next destination.
This book is a turn-by-turn guide of the knowledge, skills, and tools you need right now to not only find the right road for you, but also show you how to move forward with certainty, commitment to purpose, and the hunger to win.
Fortunately for me, when I found myself parked on the side of life’s road questioning my next move, I had the voice and guidance of Mike Williams to give me the gas I needed to get back in the race and rise to the top!
There’s a saying—you can’t read the label when you’re locked inside the box.
Having Mike as my friend, strategist, coach was the key I needed to unlock the Les Brown that you know today. His knowledge, mentorship, and most importantly—friendship have given me hope, redirected my thoughts, and put me back on the correct road time and again.
I know that his words and wisdom will help you tremendously as well and I’m beyond thrilled to share Mike with you!
I first met Mike in 1970 at a community event where he was speaking. I liked his perspective and told him I thought he would make a great addition to the radio station where I was program director. Mike was a respected activist, but I saw him as a strategic thinker and communicator.
Several months later, there was an opening in the station’s news department. Mike contacted me, following up on my offer, auditioned very well, and I convinced the general manager he was right for the news job. Mike started at the station a couple of weeks later, and right away made his presence felt, on the air, around the station, and with the listening audience. That was 1971, and we have been working together ever since.
Mike was the person who saw things in me as a broadcaster and communicator that I didn’t yet see in myself. He helped me channel my passion into effective community awareness and record-high voter registration and voter turnout campaigns. He helped me run for public office, win my first campaign, position myself effectively on legislative issues, and get bills passed.
So, when I started 1986 with the New Year’s resolution to throw my hat into the ring as a motivational speaker, I called Mike to put together a plan to help me take the field by storm. And the rest is history.
I really didn’t think he could outdo his first book, The Road to Your Best Stuff. I thought it was perfect, but in true Mike form, he was able to improve upon perfection with The Road to Your Best Stuff 2.0.
You are fortunate to be reading this book. It is essential for the changing times that the world is currently experiencing. Prepare to ask yourself tough questions and be challenged as you read.
I am “Exhibit A” evidence of the impact of embracing the expertise and wisdom of Mike Williams.
Join me as a Mike Williams follower if you’re ready to switch gears and accelerate. Buckle up and get ready.
You will not be the same after this!
Congratulations and welcome to the right road….the road that will lead you to your best stuff.!
Yours in GREATNESS,
Les Brown Speaker, Author, Coach
INTRODUCTION
This book is based on a simple principle of achievement. I express that principal in this way:
We are endowed by our Creator with distinct, unique and powerful stuff. Embracing and developing our stuff allows us to achieve at our highest level, making our own special mark on the world.
In this book, your stuff is the combination of qualities you possess that are the foundation for what you can achieve in your life. It is the essence of what you have and can build on, including your strengths, your ideas, your skills or talents, your experience, your habits, your standards, and your passion, as applied to your life’s work, whatever the work might be. Your stuff is the fuel for what you can do, become or accomplish.
World-class achievers in fields of all kinds start their pursuits with some measure of talent, drive, confidence and expectation. In aiming for your best stuff, we are looking to maximize opportunities for you to achieve at your highest level. In the same way that it works for the highest achievers, it also works for others. With the right mindset and skill set, all kinds of things can happen, to bring out your best stuff. The Road to Your Best Stuff is your way to get there.
This book’s perspective on achievement is based on my work as a consultant, strategist and coach, as well as several jobs, projects and professional experiences. It is also based on interviews and observations with achievers at various stages of success in their fields. This includes established and startup business owners, grass roots and large-scale nonprofit organizers, freelance entertainers, and fast-track professionals. This book also reflects consultations and interviews with a variety of civic and community leaders. I draw on my experience as an activist, broadcaster, trainer, program analyst, designer, marketer, and manager, as well as several job and freelance experiences. Together, they have been a window into areas I might otherwise have missed. Those experiences provided a chance to appreciate and better understand challenges, pitfalls, rebounds, and breakthroughs over several decades.
What those achievers have in common is a desire to distinguish themselves in their respective fields and in many cases to attain major financial success in the process. Those who reach the high levels have talents, traits, passion and commitment. It shows up in their work and in their results.
I have worked directly with scores of clients on hundreds of projects, trained several hundred others, and interviewed and observed many more. I have seen and noted patterns of accomplishment, obvious shortfall, and a reluctance to reach fully for obvious potential. Each of these patterns deserves our attention. So, the pages that follow provide some of that attention, with an emphasis on the requirements for establishing a high level of success, and continuing that success to even higher levels.
This second edition, this 2.0 version of The Road, reflects a look beyond what was provided in the original version. This second look led me to enhance and clarify even sharply several points raised originally. So, there is a broader set of examples, updated information, and the opportunity for a deeper dive at the end of each chapter.
Many of the achievers mentioned are nameless, and several are mentioned with first names only. I tried not to make it about the people, but about the situations. On the other hand, I do refer to my role as a strategist for motivational speaker Les Brown in some detail. Our collaborations, presenting programs and products in personal and professional development, as well as a variety of broadcasting projects, tie i