This week we completed our first book report on the book Launching Leaders by Steven Hitz. I enjoyed the book. It wasn't lengthy or over done. It was easy to understand and had lots of step by step lists to make it easy to follow along. he has some sound advise not only for business men and women but I think it applies to personal lives as well. We could take the advise and apply it to our personal lives only and be more successful humans.
One of my favorite parts of the book is to put God first and align our wants with His for us. This is of critical importance if we want to be successful and happy in our lives. Asking advise of a higher power does a few things - first it gives us affirmation that our choices are good ones and the direction we should go. Second it proves us with help and guidance as we go follow through with our decisions.
I'm looking forward to reading and reporting on the other books in this course. I don't know what a career looks like for me since I will be 50 this year. I am just trying to earn a little extra money to help pay for college tuition, weddings and missions. But I do think the advise in the books (at least this one) has good advise for life in general.
One of the other things I enjoyed learning this was the notebook Jim Collins kept on himself. he said he tracked times during the say when he was happiest for a year. He was able to look back on it to help him decide what his calling was. He changed careers path a little to include teaching because that it when he was happiest. This is a great exercise to find out what really makes us happy and brings joy. Since we spend so much of our day at work, we should be doing something that we love and brings joy into our lives.