Self-Leadership: How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out

CHAPTER 5

Knowing What You Want

Most men lead lives of quietdesperation and go to the gravewith the song still in them.

—HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The previous chapters explored how we can be the driver in our life and how we can make effective decisions; however, all this could be for naught if we don’t know where we are going or what we want.

As a leadership consultant and coach, coauthor Andrew often encounters clients who have challenges defining what they want. Despite the difficulty defining what they do want, these clients can be very articulate about what they don’t want: they don’t want to be stressed, they don’t want to worry about money, they don’t want to be stuck in an unfulfilling job, they don’t want to be sick, they don’t want to be ...