Doing What Matters

Why It Is So Damn Hard and So Darn Rewarding

Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson

There are at least four good reasons (notice you always have good reasons) to feel sidetracked, intimidated, and diverted from building the life you want to create. Successful people told us that they’ve been given far fewer reasons to follow their dreams than reasons they should abandon them.

“Feels sometimes like you’re outnumbered and outgunned from the start!” sighed Ogilvy and Mather CEO, Shelly Lazarus, one of the world’s most powerful people in advertising. She insisted that if you talk with people anywhere in the world (she ...

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