If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest in It? : The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies

How to run your life like a successful business and find true fulfillment

Through their popular Life Business Program workshops and seminars, John Eckblad and David Kiel have helped thousands of individuals across the United States and Europe get their lives on track using triedand- true strategies borrowed from the world of business. In this book, they describe their original 13-step Life Business principles and techniques for renewing, refocusing, reforming, and remaking any life. Their basic philosophy is simple: we can learn much about how to live happier, more fulfilling and productive lives by following the examples of successful businesses.

Combining the best features of self-help, personal finance, and business strategy, this book shows readers how to:

• Identify what they really want from life
• Develop a clear plan for achieving goals
• Secure the financing needed to make dreams come true

Structured around the annual business planning cycle--the same process that successful businesses use to create, build, and maintain their futures--If Your Life Were a Business provides readers with concrete steps for achieving quantifiable life results.

John Eckblad, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist and creator of the Life Business Program, which has helped thousands of individuals, in the United States and Europe, to develop focused and vision-based life plans.

David Kiel, D.PH. is an experienced organizational consultant and has taught management courses at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the University of South Carolina.

Their clients include: P&G, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, IBM, ICI, Zeneca, Westinghouse, Nortel, and GlaxoSmithKine. They have also worked with many small businesses, government, and nonprofit organizations.