A sneak preview from the new book The Laws of Lifetime Growth by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura, coming out in March from Berrett-Koehler Publications.

In the coming months, Strategic eNews will be featuring an exclusive series based on the concepts in The Laws of Lifetime Growth — a new book that shows how anyone can enjoy an ever-expanding future that’s always bigger than the past. To begin, here’s the introduction from the book itself.

Introduction

Growth is a fundamental desire for all human beings. No matter what kind of goals you have or what you strive for, whatever you want to see in your life that’s not there now is about growth. Growth is at the root of everything that gives us a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, meaning, and progress.

Yet sometimes people do stop growing. We all have images we can call to mind. The movies and literature are full of them, as is real life. Take for example the character of Uncle Leo in the film Napoleon Dynamite, who constantly replays a moment of lost opportunity from his high-school days, or Norma Desmond, the reclusive and mostly-forgotten former movie star in Sunset Boulevard. More commonly, you may be familiar with the retiree who’s driving his spouse crazy because he suddenly doesn’t know what to do with himself; the addict whose life has become only about whatever it takes to find the next fix; the man who is still treating women the same way he did 40 years ago and doesn’t understand why they don’t respond the same way, the person whose life consists of clocking in and out day after day at a dead-end job, going home, sleeping, and then doing it all over again.

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A sneak preview from the new book The Laws of Lifetime Growth by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura, coming out in March from Berrett-Koehler Publications.

In the coming months, Strategic eNews will be featuring an exclusive series based on the concepts in The Laws of Lifetime Growth — a new book that shows how anyone can enjoy an ever-expanding future that’s always bigger than the past. To begin, here’s the introduction from the book itself.

Introduction

Growth is a fundamental desire for all human beings. No matter what kind of goals you have or what you strive for, whatever you want to see in your life that’s not there now is about growth. Growth is at the root of everything that gives us a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, meaning, and progress.

Yet sometimes people do stop growing. We all have images we can call to mind. The movies and literature are full of them, as is real life. Take for example the character of Uncle Leo in the film Napoleon Dynamite, who constantly replays a moment of lost opportunity from his high-school days, or Norma Desmond, the reclusive and mostly-forgotten former movie star in Sunset Boulevard. More commonly, you may be familiar with the retiree who’s driving his spouse crazy because he suddenly doesn’t know what to do with himself; the addict whose life has become only about whatever it takes to find the next fix; the man who is still treating women the same way he did 40 years ago and doesn’t understand why they don’t respond the same way, the person whose life consists of clocking in and out day after day at a dead-end job, going home, sleeping, and then doing it all over again.

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