Recipes for Success: A Cookbook with a Recipe for Life

This book is an exciting and unique concept that integrates a cookbook with a recipe for life. It is based on the idea that life is a lot like cooking. You get to select your ingredients, mix them together, and create your own dish. Your life is a dish that only you can create and whether or not it turns out the way you planned you are responsible for the results. Living a great life is like creating a great dish. You have to choose the right ingredients and bring them together with a thoughtful and well-executed plan of action – a recipe! Interestingly enough, most people can instantly tell you what their favorite food is, but very few can tell you without hesitation what success really means to them. This is surprising considering the fact that your life is the most important recipe you will ever create. So how do you create your recipe for success? There are plenty of great self-help and success programs out there, but too often they tell you how to be successful without asking the most important question of all – “What does success really mean to you in your life?” The purpose of this book is to help you answer this question and encourage you to create your own recipe for success. The book also includes over 100 recipes with simple step by step instructions. Bon Appétit!

Mark is a noted expert in the hospitality and real estate development industries and has been a guest speaker at hospitality, real estate and leadership conferences around the country. He has developed a variety of restaurant concepts including the award-winning Westgate Smokehouse Grill with three locations in Florida and Tennessee. Mark has enjoyed a remarkable and diverse career that included experience in the commercial space launch industry. Mark is a true-to-life "Rocket Scientist" that helped build the launch facility for the Atlas commercial satellite program and was the propulsion and pneumatics engineer on the launch team for 12 commercial space launches. Mark also served in the United States Air Force, spending 10 years on active duty and 10 years in the Air Force Reserves where he led a highly decorated unit that specialized in business reengineering. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Westgate Resorts, a major resort development and hospitality company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Mark has a Bachelor and Masters of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, and was elected to the National Honor Society for Engineers and the National Honor Society for Aerospace Engineers. Mark is on the Board of Directors of the Westgate Resorts Foundation. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the American Resort Developers Association. Mark is also a past board member of the Florida Special Olympics and is still actively involved in this organization.