Creating Your Future - Softcover

Ellis, David B.; Ellis, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618001808 ISBN 13: 9780618001804

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1999

Synopsis

Provides a five-step program designed to teach one how to prepare for the future and successfully attain goals through steps such as construction, commitment, and celebration

About this title

Review:

"Most people spend more time planning their next vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives," says Dave Ellis in Creating Your Future. Yet one of the most powerful paths to creating the future you want is choosing it. You achieve this by setting long-term goals based on a long-range vision. This book shows you the process, with activities that prompt you to write your goals, then follow these five steps:

1. Commit to creating your future.
2. Create a vision of your future.
3. Construct a plan to fulfill your vision.
4. Carry out your plan.
5. Celebrate what you've done and continue creating your future.

Each step has its own chapter with many, varied exercises--mental, written, and active--to help you achieve that step. For example, the "Carry Out Your Plan" chapter describes 22 strategies that help you become the person you want to be and turn your goals into reality. This book won't be a quick skim--there's work to do as you read each chapter, in order to get the most from Ellis's process. You'll emerge much more knowledgeable about yourself and your goals, with a good start along the path to the future you want. --Joan Price

About the Author:

Dave Ellis is a nationally known author, lecturer, and workshop leader. He has facilitated four-day workshops on topics ranging from "Becoming a more effective college instructor" to "Creating individual life plans." These workshops have attracted more than ten thousand people. The author currently resides in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he writes and teaches at a retreat center that he designed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0618001808
• ISBN 13: 9780618001804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240