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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weiss, Alan, 1946– author. | Goldsmith, Marshall, author.
Title: Lifestorming: creating meaning and achievement in your career and life / Alan Weiss, Marshall Goldsmith.
Description: Hoboken: Wiley, 2017. | Includes index. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010479 (print) | ISBN 9781119366126 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology) | Motivation (Psychology) | Decision making. | Problem solving. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
Classification: LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | LCC BF637.S4 W4445 2017 (print) | DDC 650.1–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010479
ISBN: 978-1-119-36612-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-119-36629-4 (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-119-36628-7 (ebk)
In our culture, we are bombarded by messages that essentially say, “Change! Improve! Get better!” We're surrounded day and night by these directives, whether they come from the diet industry, the vast trove of self-improvement literature, or the rhetoric of politicians.. even toothpaste ads are aspirational!
Given how overwhelming these messages are, it's tempting to simply shut them out. Who can possibly follow all that advice? But we still give it half an ear because we know, deep down, that we could change for the better, if only we knew how. But that's the bedeviling question: How? Most of us try to change for years, without that change ever becoming permanent. We are left wondering how we can become the people we want to be – the people we know we can be.
The great Western disease is “I will be happy when!” When I get the money, the status, the position, the BMW, that special person. The great Western art form is something that sounds like this: “There were many people. The people were all sad. They decided to spend money. They bought a product. Then they all became happy!”
This message is called a commercial. How many of these have you seen? How many times have you been barraged by this same message? It is no wonder that we tend to look for the quick fix and the easy answer. We have been programmed, over and over again, to think this way.
Advertising presents an easy solution: Buy the product! But as anyone who has tried this strategy knows, real change is never that easy. While change is not easy, it is possible, and that's what Lifestorming offers. In this book, we'll guide you as you think about your goals – why you chose them, how you can achieve them, and (critically) how they can evolve over time to reflect your changing priorities.
