Download PDF Limitless How to Ignore Everybody Carve your Own Path and Live Your Best Life eBook Laura Gassner Otting

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Limitless How to Ignore Everybody Carve your Own Path and Live Your Best Life eBook Laura Gassner Otting Reviews

• You know that nagging feeling you have, that you ought to be doing something different, or doing things differently? Laura Gassner Otting’s Limitless tells you what that’s about and what to do about it. It’s short, pointed, helpful, and well worth reading.
  
  The full title of this book is Limitless How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. And I have to start by admitting I hate the subtitle. It sounds like every self-serving self-help book already published. But get past that — this is the real deal.
  
  What Laura Gassner Otting has done here is to tap into a fundamental misalignment in most of our work and lives. We pursue goals that other people set up for us. We achieve them. Then we feel empty because they were not really our goals. If you want your actual life goals and your work to line up, this book can help you do that.
  
  There are five reasons it works.
  
  First, the central idea is strong. That idea is “consonance.” To figure out if you have consonance, ask Is what you do in perfect alignment with what matters to you, what makes you feel fulfilled, what gives you joy?
  
  Of course not. But some of us are close, and others are way off. And the ones that are way off are often working their asses off and coming home each night feeling exhausted and wondering why they feel that emptiness in the pit of their souls. If you have even a little of that (and you do, admit it), this book is a good way to figure out what to do.
  
  Second, it doesn’t just hit you over the head with that idea again and again — the structure of what follows is clear and actionable. Laura lays out four elements to pursue to gain consonance. These are “calling” — the thing that motivates you; “connection” — how your daily work connects you with the calling and the people who matter; “contribution” — how your work makes it possible for you to live well; and “control” — how much of your daily work you influence, and how much you don’t. Pursuing improvements in these four areas will help you attain the consonance you deserve.
  
  Third, it’s full of great stories of people who succeeded (or failed and reset themselves) — diverse people of all types. There’s a bit of Laura’s story, too, but it’s not all about her. (Disclosure the story of my career at Forrester is in here p. 118). These stories don’t prove that this method works, but they help you to identify with people going through the same struggles you are.
  
  Fourth, it’s well written. Laura is a sparkling writer — her personality comes across, and it’s completely engaging.
  
  And finally, it actually includes a plan on what to do. The calling, connection, contribution, and control chapters include some ideas on what to do, the the last three chapters suggest ways to change your career, how you work, and how you define success. If you buy into the plan here, that’s just what you need to make things better.
  
  My difficult career decisions would have been much easier if I'd had this book to help me out.
• Are you intelligent, hardworking, passionate … and feel stressed and stuck? This book *gets it* in a way that will truly open your eyes to a new life. It is one of the first to truly break down why too many smart people follow someone else’s idea of success and burn out – and more important, how to truly create a meaningful AND successful life that fires on all cylinders.
  
  Laura’s book lays out why traditional models of success don’t work, ranging from “leaning in” to following your passion. More important, she gives you a blueprint for a life of consonance with your own values and your needs, broken down into four actionable principles of calling, connection, contribution and control. And her writing goes POW right from Chapter 1, starting with someone who came back from nearly dying on the battlefield to re-invent himself, and ending with numerous real-life examples of finding consonance. This is an actionable game plan for how to truly be successful – and more importantly, happy.
• Limitless is a book for every human on the planet. We all scurry about trying to make sense of this life - and typically fail more often than not. Our failures leave us frustrated and wanting for more, at work and at home.
  
  Laura’s book makes a compelling case not just for purpose or happiness or balance - but for consonance. Laura defines consonance as the circumstance of “what” you do daily - at work or home - aligning deeply with your “who,” your best self. This harmony between our “what” and “who” is often fleeting because we’re not actively building a life aligned to it.
  
  This book is a road map for figuring out your consonance and for living in alignment with it daily.
  
  Through incisive interviews, research, and her own highly relevant experience, Laura maps out why consonance is so important and so available, if we’re willing to invest time and energy in finding the unique combination of calling, connection, contribution, and control.
  
  She provides concise direction for creating consonance clarity. Once you discover it, the motivation to live in consonance will be impossible to resist.