The Circle Blueprint: Decoding the Conscious and Unconscious Factors that Determine Your Success - Hardcover

Skeen, Jack; Miller, Greg; Hill, Aaron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119434858 ISBN 13: 9781119434856

Publisher: Wiley, 2017

Synopsis

A roadmap to fulfillment, with practical tools for the journey

The Circle Blueprint is your personal guide to fulfillment. Are you thriving or just surviving? Are you energized, balanced, and happy? This book helps you dig to the root of the problem, and gives you a roadmap for getting your life on a more positive trajectory. You’ll begin with an honest assessment of your current situation, and the life choices that got you there; this is your Circle, and through it, almost anything becomes possible. Your Circle can be adjusted―expanded, narrowed, balanced, or thrown off-kilter―to steer your life where you want it to go. Your Circle must be tended to, and whether you realize it or not, you make these choices every single day. This book helps you define your Circle, master it, and create the life you want to live.

Finding satisfaction doesn’t mean starting a whole new life, it means reshaping the one you have to keep what’s working and adjust what’s holding you back. This book gives you the tools and insight you need to make the journey, with practical exercises to guide you through each step of the way.

• Think about how your life choices affect your emotional well-being
• Map your existing Circle to your current levels of life satisfaction
• Expand and balance your Circle to align more closely to your vision
• Discover the fulfillment of living life with purpose

Wanting more doesn’t mean not liking what you have, it’s simply an acknowledgment that there is room for improvement. Change is not only possible; it’s often inevitable―but it’s up to you to dictate the course of these changes. The Circle Blueprint helps you chart your path, and gives you the tools you need to reach that destination.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Circle Blueprint is a book about thriving. As the authors explain, thriving is unrelated to material success. Of course we need money to support our lives, but excess wealth does not add to life satisfaction. Security, peace, and success are not tied to increased financial wealth. The Circle Blueprint reveals how to make your life shine, to thrive, to live a life of purpose and meaning. It is your right to wake up every day saying: "Wow, my life is amazing." Discover what it takes to radiate joy, power, and peace every moment of every day for the rest of your life. It is your right to thrive.

Once you master The Circle: an individual map of life choices that shape the quality, satisfaction, and impact of your life, you will find contentment. We all long to live meaningful lives; The Circle helps to guide you on a life-long fulfilling and satisfying track. Based on the authors' proprietary, scientifically validated assessment, The Circle Blueprint clearly shows you how to evaluate the current size, quality, and balance of your unique circle.

To help you better understand where you are on your personal journey, the psychometric self-assessment is designed to bring forward your latent dispositional and enduring personality traits as they pertain to the concepts and elements of your circle. You will understand the way you are wired on the inside and how to best align with the world around you.

Throughout the book, the authors explore the various options for expanding and improving your circle, and include specific exercises that will assist you in making clear and compelling changes in your life in order to unlock your ability to thrive. They also refer you to a series of supplemental workbooks that offer many more exercises to help you master the four key developmental areas explored in The Circle Blueprint.

This book is your starting point for tapping into a proven system created and designed to move you forward on a journey to true contentment in your life. It introduces and explains both the concepts and the key elements required to sustain you on your way.

Discover Your Unique Circle to Find Fulfillment and Achieve Greatness in Business and in Life

"In my years coaching, I've seen plenty of talented basketball players, but the ones that sustain greatness are more than just great basketball players. I tell my team that learning to manage yourself is just as important as being a great ball player; that the best athletes live in their power by consistently executing ALL their skills and improving each day. They rise above the rest because they know who they are, they understand their goals, and they never get sidelined by failure or carried away in their success.

The Circle Blueprint really captures the essence of finding balance between independence, power, humility, and purpose. It teaches you how to take these crucial elements―the ones that can take your performance from 'good' to 'amazing'―and develop them for your specific goals. The assessment shows you what you need to work on. The tools in this book can help you achieve these objectives both on the court and off. If you want to really see how far you can go, read The Circle Blueprint right now."
―MARK FEW, Head Men's Basketball Coach, Gonzaga University

"Run out and buy The Circle Blueprint. It is a comprehensive guide to leading and succeeding. Truly a book you cannot afford to miss."
―DR. LAURA BERMAN, world renowned sex and relationship educator and therapist; popular TV, radio and Internet host; New York Times bestselling author; and Assistant Clinical Professor of OB-GYN and Psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago

"To get a great job, it used to be enough to graduate from a great school. No longer. Today's organizations require leaders that thrive, and that means impressive degrees aren't enough. To be a great leader at any level you must be an authentic and balanced 'whole person.' In a deeply competitive global marketplace, being responsible for a company's most valuable assets―its employees―requires an incredibly honed skill set. The Circle Blueprint lays out a path to becoming a productive, successful, emotionally intelligent human being in the workplace, at home, and in the community. It's a new day and Jack Skeen, Greg Miller, and Aaron Hill have written a book that equips us to thrive in it."
―MARK MITCHELL, Chief Accounting Officer, Frontier Airlines

"The authors provide the insights and ask you the fundamental, and sometimes uncomfortable, questions to drive you through a process to find your path to greater contentment and happiness in life. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is truly curious to grow into a more authentic life."
―FRANK SANDS, CFA, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Sands Capital Management, LLC

To learn more, please visit www.thecircleblueprint.com.

About the Author

JACK SKEEN, PHD, is the founder of Skeen Leadership Group, an executive consulting firm. Skeen coaches successful leaders, addressing every imaginable leadership, business, and life issue with wisdom and professionalism.

GREG MILLER, PHD, is CEO of CrossCom, a technology services company. Miller has successfully led CrossCom to become a market leader through process efficiency, technology innovation, and rigorous execution.

AARON HILL, PHD, is the William S. Spears Chair in Business Administration at Oklahoma State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1119434858
• ISBN 13: 9781119434856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176