Expert on Life Reinvention Releases New Book on Your Personal and Career Plan for the New Year

The Six Steps to the Freedom that Comes from Success in 2014
By: Mary Lee Gannon
 
PITTSBURGH - Dec. 19, 2013 - PRLog -- Pittsburgh, PA, December 19, 2013 – Just released in time to set goals and create a personal and career plan for 2014: Reinvent You – From Welfare to CEO: Your Six Step Plan to Enjoy the Freedom that comes from Success in Life, Career and Business. This book holds the strategies that took Mary Lee Gannon from the depths of homelessness and public assistance to a CEO of organizations with up to $26 million in assets.

Mary Lee had to reinvent her life in her mid-thirties when as a stay at home mother she filed for divorce from an unpalatable situation. She walked away from the country club life whereby she and her four children under the age of seven ended up homeless and on welfare, food stamps and medical assistance. Shortly thereafter with the ability to earn roughly $29,000 a year she applied the strategies in this book and became the CEO of three organizations over the next 17 years including St. Margaret Foundation in Pittsburgh where she is the President.

“Every New Year’s Eve people set what they think are goals that are never reached,” said Mary Lee. ‘I will lose weight,’ or ‘I will get a new job,’ are not goals they are notions. The let-down of not achieving these perceived goals conditions you to set lower reaching goals the next year: ‘I will not swear.’ ‘I will stop drinking coffee.’ Then when you can’t even stick with these lower-bar goals you stop setting goals all together because what’s the point.

“As a CEO I know that notions don’t come true. Measurable goals that are grounded in values married with accountability makes things happen. Would you go on a voyage to a place you’ve never been without a map? Would you take the time to read a map to a place you knew nothing about? Would you be interested at all in maps or travel if you didn’t have the time or money to enjoy them? Of course not.”

This book is not just another general self-help tool. It delivers a personal plan – full of pages to write individual answers to the guided questions that uncover values, strengths and vision. The book holds the techniques, strategies and exercises Mary Lee uses with her clients to help them get better jobs, relationships and fulfillment. It is for people who are: idle in their career, in need of executive presence, entrepreneurs in a flat business, chilled from divorce, unable to just move on, void of life purpose, missing healthy relationships, afraid "empty nest" means "empty future."

“Most people see the future pretty much like the present +/- 10%,” said Mary Lee. “Big change requires big thinking.  It demands a transformation from the head trash that holds you back to clarity with a succinct plan. In this conversion you swap your guarded and overwhelmed exterior for vulnerability and openness to intimacy and opportunity.”

"You can’t find the clarity to soar in your career or business if you don’t have nirvana in your personal life,” said Mary Lee. “Stop busying yourself with unproductive tasks, answer the difficult questions and listen to the silence as fulfillment unfolds in front of you.”

The Six Steps to the Freedom that Comes from Success in 2014

Step #1:  Clarify Your Direction

Create a wild-out-there vision of where you want to be by defining then aligning your strengths, values and purpose. Write these down and affirm them so that they are continually in alignment. Do the same thing with your team for your company.

Step #2:  Transform Doubts, Fears and Head Trash

There is an old broken record that keeps skipping in the same place when you try to advance. Transform negative head trash that keeps you stuck and unable to lead yourself and others in your new direction.

Step #3:  Optimize Your Environment

Eliminate negativity and detach from the impediments and the people around you who drag you down.  Know exactly what is draining you.  It’s not what you think.

Step #4:  Blueprint You Passion and Productivity

When you are in a position of clarity with a healthy life balance powerful energy flows through you and your team. Stop busying yourself with demanding unproductive work. Discard worn-out patterns and listen to the silence of your mind, body and spirit.

Step #5:  Breakthrough to Fulfillment and Spiked Income

Be grounded in who you are, what niche your company serves, where you want you or your organization to be, and what next action is in alignment with your values and those of your company.

Step #6:  Live Your Blue Sky Vision

Celebrate success! Remark in how things are different. Act deliberately.  Measure your success and sustain your new energy and fulfillment.

View the book at: http://tinyurl.com/k5gnuou

Mary Lee Gannon, CAE is a Life/Career/Business Reinvention Strategist and president of StartingOverNow.com (http://www.startingovernow.com/) - a coaching and consulting firm that helps people reinvent to enjoy the freedom that comes from success. She is the author of the new book Reinvent You - From Welfare to CEO: Your Six Step Plan to Enjoy the Freedom that comes From Success in life Career and Busines (http://www.amazon.com/Reinvent-You-Welfare-Freedom-Busine...)s with strategies that took her from welfare to CEO of organizations with up to $26 million in assets. Mary Lee is a graduate of the Duquesne University Professional Coaching Program, a Certified Association Executive and an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference. She has been featured in Money Magazine, NPR, Yahoo.com, U. S. News and World Report.  Her column appears in the Pittsburgh Business Times and she presents regularly to national audiences on leadership, coaching vs. managing, entrepreneurship, divorce and career turnaround. Mary Lee is also the author of Starting Over (http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Over-Rules-Youve-Bottomed/dp/0882823116/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1387468682&sr=8-3&keywords=mary+lee+gannon). Visit her web site for free tips and tools at www.StartingOverNow.com

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