Elizabeth B. Crook - Live Large: The Achievers Guide to Whats Next

Advance Praise

If you are an achiever who has been waiting for that next big thingif you have felt the call for a larger lifethen this book is for you. Elizabeth Crook is the career guide for those who thought they had it all. Live Large: The Achievers Guide to Whats Next is the book 2017 has been waiting for. I highly recommend it!

Jane Pauley, Host of CBS Sunday Morning and Author of Your Life Calling

Are you an achiever ready for your next big step? Are you ready to live fully and authentically without limits or constraints? Live Large: The Achievers Guide to Whats Next will not only align you with your true purpose, it is one of the most thrilling ways to go after what you want to accomplish and make a difference in the world. Elizabeth Crook is the real deal, and delivers great value in this book.

Jack Canfield, Coauthor of the #1 New York Times Bestselling ChickenSoup for the Soul Series and The Success Principles

Youre successful, yet you feel that theres something more for you. The challenge is that you dont know what that something more is, how to find out, or how to get there. Let Elizabeth Crooks remarkable book, Live Large: The Achievers Guide to Whats Next, be your guide. This book combines Elizabeths insight as a business strategist with her genuine love of people to help you find your way to the next, quite possibly most fulfilling, stage in your life and career. Live Large isnt just a great resourceits a treasure.

Joe Calloway, Author of Becoming A Category Of One

In my field, I often come across successful business folks looking for their next big horizon. Elizabeth Crook, an accomplished CEO herself, who has helped build so many career success stories, has finally created the astonishingly effective Live Large process that moves you to your next great step. You will walk away from this playbook forever changed in the best way possible!

Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazelles, Author of Scaling Up:How a Few Companies Make It... and Why the Rest Dont

Elizabeth tackles the question of Whats Next for successful people ready for a new challenge. A big paycheck can feel hollow when disconnected from purpose. Elizabeth guides her readers back to their core strengths so that they can Live Large in their careers and personal lives.

Amanda Steinberg, CEO of Daily Worth

Live Large is a practical and wise guide that integrates inner exploration with real-world grit... an inspiring and easy-to-follow roadmap for personal and professional growth.

Marc Lesser, Author of Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less and Know Yourself, Forget Yourself

Elizabeth Crook captures the spirit of the entrepreneur in Live Large: that restlessness to see more, know more, be more. She illuminates for the reader a pathway to unlock our potential to do more than we ever imagined.

Michael Burcham, Founding CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center; Faculty, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt; Serial Entrepreneur

Live Large is for anyone who has already successfully achieved many of their life goals but may be just beginning to look at whats next in terms of making more of an impact and possibly even changing direction. Elizabeths process will help you look back to look forward, be honest about who you are and who you are becoming, and create a life lived with purpose and intention.

Pat Obuchowski, Founder of Gutsy Women Win and Author of GutsyWomen Win: How to Get Gutsy and Get Going

Elizabeths wise, conversational, and meaningful words inspire me to look deep inside, to reflect, to act, and to ultimately Live Large. I have no doubt that this book, and this process, will help successful people become even more successful and change lives for good.

Janet Miller, CEO/Market Leader of Colliers International

Im so excited to see this book coming to fruition! Elizabeth is a wise, experienced leader who has helped me in so many ways and has delivered big time whenever I refer her to others. She has been an essential part of my success, and Im confident readers will say the same after reading through and engaging with the pearls of wisdom and practical insights contained in this volume.

Joel Solomon, Chair, Renewal Funds; Chair, Hollyhock; Author of The Clean Money Revolution

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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PREFACE

Imagine the Unimaginable

P erhaps youve surprised yourself by buying this book. Youve lived a life people point to as successful: Youve made the right decisions, reached the goals you set out to, achieved status in your industry, and been rewarded or acknowledged for your accomplishments. But while you have every reason to feel content, instead you feel restless. You want to know whats next. To someone who has already reached a high level of success, this question may seem risky, unreasonable, and immature... not to mention far out of reach. The answer would surely lead you to that wider horizon you believe might be around the corner, but between you and that horizon lies an abyss that feels too dangerous to cross.

The truth is, the wide horizon you are imagining is right in front of you. You only have to discover the path that leads you there. This book will show you how. We all have limitations on what we can imagine. Its time to imagine the unimaginable.