McDargh - Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work

Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work

Copyright 2014 by Eileen McDargh
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To my sweet William, who makes it possible for me to breathe in this world

To my sister Susan and my twin brother John, support crew since the very beginning

PRAISE FOR
Your Resiliency GPS

Anyone who knows Eileen McDargh knows she is a ray of sunshine in an often cloudy world. As important, her work and ideas have substance and create powerful results. Your Resiliency GPS will provide you with new ideas and tools that we all need to face the challenges of life.

Mark Sanborn, Author, The Fred Factor

I really loved this book. It is chock full of powerful tools, questions, and suggestions on how to grow through just about anything that life throws at you. The Resiliency GPS is brilliant. Who doesnt need a GPS to navigate lifes challenges more easily? Youll never feel lost. The best part is that you arrive at your destination in a better place than you had imagined. Thank you so much for guiding us Eileen.

Lorna Riley, CEO, Chart Learning Solutions
www.chartlearningsolutions

Every life has tough moments, and Eileen McDargh is a master at helping people deal with those moments. Her book, Your Resiliency GPS, which contains some of her best ideas on moving through adversity, is an inspiring treasure.

Mark Levy, Author, Accidental Genius: Using Writing
to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content

According Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. There is no bouncing back to normal. This is the central theme of Your Resiliency GPS. Eileen McDargh challenges you to embrace the challenges of life and then gives you the GPS (Growth Potential Strategy) to guide you on the journey. Buy this book and start today.

Stan Phelps, Founder of 9 INCH marketing,
Forbes contributor and Author of Purple Goldfish,
Green Goldfish and Golden Goldfish

As surely as Robert Cialdini showed us exactly how to influence others, Eileen McDargh wisely describes how to turn challenging times into opportunities to become more alive and resilient.

Kare Anderson, Author, Mutuality Matters

I randomly opened the book at a number of pages. Each time, I smiled and felt both lighter and stronger at the same time. The quotes, stories and easy to implement action steps in Your Resiliency GPS actually rewired my brain to embrace change. This book isnt momentary motivation; the pages provide long-lasting hope and joy.

Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, Author of The Discomfort Zone
How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into
Breakthroughs and Outsmart Your Brain

I love this book! Its crammed with solid advice, hard-won wisdom, and powerful probing questions! Eileen doesnt stop with just this book. She continues your learning through a constantly updated resource page on her web site!

Jesse Stoner, Author, Full Steam Ahead

Sooner or later youll cotton on to the fact that if youre not enjoying the journey, whats the point of the end destination? This is a practical book that will help you maintain your focus, grow your courage and develop your resilience, so that your journey inspires you and nourishes you.

Michael Bungay Stanier
Senior Partner, Box of Crayons

No one quite approaches the subject like Eileen. She draws on a life of experience, lived fully, and thought about deeply. She knows a lot and she shares a lot.

Sprinkled throughout are some amazing insightful realculating questions that Eileen poses to her readers. These questions themselves are worth the price of the book. Actually if you take time to answer just 1/4 of them, youll quadruple your investment!

Bev Kaye, Founder Career Systems International,
Author of Love it. Dont Leave it. And many more!

Theres something very special about Your Resiliency GPS. Its more than a book, its a life-enhancing GPS system to carry with you as you traverse through the ups and downs. Eileen McDargh does a masterful job of mixing topical research, practical advice, and colorfuland often profoundstories. I just bought ten copies you should too!

Bill Treasurer, Author, Leaders Open Doors
and Courage Goes to Work.

This book offers a clear path to core skills that everyone needs. Listen to Eileens wise advice. You cant get much out of life if you dont learn how to be resilient!

Kathy B. Dempsey, Author, Shed or Youre Dead

CONTENTS

I first met Eileen on a day shed received a standing ovation at a large healthcare conference. Her slides had gone haywire right in the middle of her presentation, a crisis that would have thrown many speakers for a loop. But Eileen the Queen of Resiliency turned that apparent disaster into an opportunity to connect more closely with her audience. This is the book I have been waiting for ever since that day. Your Resiliency GPS is a practical roadmap for practicing what Eileen calls presilience (preemptive resilience). Its jam-packed with (GPS) Growth Potential Strategies, Recalculating Questions, and Resiliency Skills to help you overcome and grow through the inevitable challenges, obstacles, and setbacks in your life.

You have no doubt heard the saying that when one door closes another one opens. You might even believe it, at least in a theoretical sense. But for you to take advantage of that newly opened door, two things must happen. First, you must actually see the other door open. Second, you must have the gumption to walk through it.

In this book Eileen will challenge you to broaden your perspective to see opportunities where others might see only barriers to see open doors where others see only brick walls. She will share practical ideas for developing the character strength and fortitude that you must have to use adversity and opportunity as the springboard for personal growth and achievement.

Every great accomplishment was once the impossible dream of a dreamer who refused to quit regardless of the obstacles and setbacks. Your Resiliency GPS will help you transform your impossible dreams of today into your reality of tomorrow. Reading and absorbing these lessons will be one of the best investments you ever make in yourself and in your dreams.

Joe Tye, CEO and Head Coach of Values Coach Inc.

Author, All Hands on Deck: 8 Essential Lessons for Building a Culture of Ownership

Lorna Riley, you literally gave me three full days of your precious time to read every word, question order, apply punctuation, monitor spacing and be THE EDITOR of my dreamsall because you are my friend!!! How can I ever thank you?

Dear sweet Jesse Stonermy sounding board, my wordsmith, my dear dear practical guide who said Just get it out. You teach me so much. You rock. Thank you.