Motivational and leadership books, workbooks, and CDs that will help you manage your career, build your business, create true wealth, and achieve your personal and professional goals. SparkStore.com is also the home of CourageWear – Apparel with Altitude!

Proven strategies for goal-setting, personal motivation, leadership development, and life success. You will learn how to:

• Dream bigger and think more creatively.
• Confront your fears with courage and determination.
• Stop procrastinating and use your time more productively.
• Overcome inner barriers holding you back from being your best.
• Be more effective as a leader – and as a parent.
• Achieve your most authentic goals.
• Become the person you are truly meant to be.
  

Values-based life and leadership strategies:

Motivation: Be your own Success Coach by applying the strategies in these books and CDs to your work and your life.

Leadership: Learn how you can be a more effective leader at work, at home, and in your community.

Goal-Setting: Stop cheating yourself with anemic goals and dreams!

Team-Building: Learn from the greatest leaders in history and fiction how to motivate your team for achievement.

Wealth and Money: Achieve your financial goals by living your values.

Spiritual and Emotional Strength: The ultimate benefit of values-based living is the emotional equanimity and spiritual peace that you gain.

Price: $25.00

Seven core principles and 21 effective strategies to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals – all battle-tested by the greatest military commanders in history. Listen to the audio CD and go through the workbook on your computer. Let Alexander the Great, Napoleon, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other great commanders show you how to win the battles of your life.

Contents of The Great Commanders on Success

Principle 1: Know What You Want

Strategy 1: Don’t Have a Job, Have a Mission
Strategy 2: Transform your Vision into a Memory of the Future
Strategy 3: Stay on Target

Principle 2: Know How You’re Going to Achieve Your Goals

Strategy 4: Plan for Your Success
Strategy 5: Prepare for Victory
Strategy 6: Be Flexible in Your Approach

Principle 3: Cultivate a Winning Attitude

Strategy 7: Believe in the Inevitability of Your Victory
Strategy 8: Have the Courage to Pursue Your Dreams
Strategy 9: Be Determined to Win No Matter What

Principle 4: Build a Winning Team

Strategy 10: Indoctrinate People with Core Values
Strategy 11: Commit Yourself to Constant Training and Learning
Strategy 12: Be a Motivator

Principle 5: Be an Innovator

Strategy 13: Be Insatiable in Your Quest for Intelligence
Strategy 14: Be Creative
Strategy 15: Know When to Be Audacious

Principle 6: Be Relentless in Your Pursuit of Victory

Strategy 16: Use Speed to Build Momentum
Strategy 17: Maintain both Physical and Mental Mobility
Strategy 18: Bounce Back from Setbacks with Renewed Enthusiasm

Principle 7: Secure Your Victory

Strategy 19: See the World as it Really
Strategy 20: Remain Humble in Success
Strategy 21: Commit Yourself to Constant Renewal

Excerpt from the Great Commanders on Success e-workbook

Strategy 1: Don’t Have a Job, Have a Mission

Seventy years into The Hundred Years War between France and England, the French generals were not doing their jobs very well. The English had conquered all of northern France, including Paris and Rheims, the city where by tradition the French king was crowned. They were besieging Orleans, the last bastion standing between them and the conquest of southern France. Fortunately for France, Joan of Arc did not consider fighting the English to be a job; for her it was a mission. Rarely does one person almost single-handedly change the course of history, but chances are that had Joan not galvanized the beaten and demoralized French forces with her spirit of mission, today English would be the official language of France.

George Washington and his ragtag army at Valley Forge were on a mission; the redcoats they faced had jobs. The true believers who followed Mao on the Long March were on a mission; Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist soldiers had jobs. For better or worse, those are the chief reasons why today America is the land of the free and China is still haunted by the violent legacy of the red revolution.

Writing both a personal Purpose Statement and a Mission Statement will help you cultivate for yourself a more powerful sense of meaning through self-awareness, discipline, and enthusiasm, and enhance coherence between the personal and professional dimensions of your life. As with any planning endeavor, it is not the final product that matters so much as the thought and work that goes into creating it. If you’re like me, anyway, it will take years to craft something that really works, and even that will be subject to change as you change.

Exercise: Write a Purpose Statement and a Mission Statement

A Purpose Statement is a broad overarching statement that addresses the questions such as “Why I’ve been put on Earth, what really matters to me, and what are the most important priorities in my life.” It is overarching, covering both your work and other dimensions of your personal life.

Example: Following is my own statement of purpose. Note that it has universal application – it applies to encouraging my son and the other members of Distinguished Gentlemen (his rock band) as much as it does to conducting training on The Twelve Core Action Values within an organization.

My purpose is to help people respark the spirit of mission in work and the spirit of adventure in life, and to help organizations tap into the invisible treasure of that spirit in the hearts of their associates.

Example: And here is my own Mission Statement. Note that this one is specific to my professional work. I have separate Mission Statements that relate to being a family man, for my relationship with the Grand Canyon, and for other important dimensions of my life.

I achieve my purpose by teaching values-based life and leadership skills and strategies through coaching, corporate training, writing, speaking, and other venues.