Soar to Success May 2019

SOAR TO SUCCESS / Book Recommendation Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life by Laura Gassner Otting What if success doesn’t equal happiness? We all have a similar goal. We want success to feel meaningful, we want our work to matter, don’t we? But quite often, it doesn’t. And we feel stuck, no matter how hard we hustle and grind toward success, or how much we achieve it. According to Laura Gassner Otting, that’s because the problem isn’t how we achieve success, it’s how we define success. We fill all the right check boxes of generally accepted, externally defined success, but still feel empty. In order for your working life or your business to feel right for you, it has to actually be right for you, and not be based on what others have dictated to you. This thought-provoking book helps us discover our consonance — how we align what we do with who we are, to achieve our limitless potential. I especially liked the way the author identifies the four elements of consonance – Calling, Connection, Contribution and Control. Once you understand these four elements and how much importance you place on each, you can decide whether you need to change your career, change your workplace, or change yourself. Limitless debuted at #2 on the Washington Post bestsellers list, right behindMichelle Obama. You can find it on Amazon. By Pat Altvater About the Author Laura Gassner Otting helps people get “unstuck” — and achieve extraordinary results. Through Limitless Possibility, Laura collaborates with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honedwisdom, and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. Laura’s 25-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’sWhite House, helping shape AmeriCorps; left a leadership role at respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com; and founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. She is also the author of Mission-Driven.