From Publishers Weekly
This well thought-out, inspirational book is designed to help people creatively construct their best lives “through opportunity, recognition, innovation and action.” Experienced entrepreneurs with backgrounds in education, Gergen and Vanourek interviewed 55 individuals who have applied successful business lessons to their personal lives and extracted a number of hands-on lessons for their readers: if you discover your “core identity,” learn to recognize opportunities, develop a “life vision” and set clear, purposeful, achievable-but challenging-goals, you too can have an extraordinary life, they claim. While the book’s content is standard inspirational fare, the authors have given it a spin that effectively taps into modern day work trends and language and taken their thinking beyond the surface level of many books of this kind. They balance specific advice, such as stumbling blocks to avoid when setting goals, with big ideas concerning “untethering (more…)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring.
I read the book last year while working on my application to the Peace Corps. I am currently serving in Honduras as a senior volunteer.
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Challenging and Rewarding – Unlike any other book I have come across
Life Entrepreneurship is really unlike any book I have ever read. The content of the book closely resembles a course I took on “Visionary Leadership”, in which the prospect of…
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It provided me with guidance. It will do the same for you.
When you are young everyone tells you that you can become whoever you want, but after a few short years that ideology seems to become nothing but a myth.
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Not so ordinary people a little crazy like me!
I felt like I was reading my life story when I read Life Entrepreneurs. Sometimes as an entrepreneur you feel a little, well more than a little, crazy.
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Great book for wherever you are on your life journey
Really love this book for the fact that it is applicable and useful to everyone – whether you are just graduating from college deciding “what now?
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Inspiring, Genuine and Thought Provoking
This book challenges you to live the life you want to live, even if you don’t know it yet. A life without regrets.
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Make your life extraordinary
Everyone I know is looking for more balance in their lives: balance between work and home; between adventure and serenity; between individual growth and community connection…
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Great book
Greg and Christopher just get it -the content is good and the writing is even better. It’s easy to follow and well thought out.
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Strongly Recommended!
I agree with Paul’s review below — while a book like Good to Great profiles successful companies, Life Entrepreneurs profiles many terrific people, leading wonderfully…