Leadership in Everyday Life: Book and Workbook

A life well-lived requires courage, insight and the ability to see one's self as a leader, not a follower. Leadership is not just for business executives-leadership is an essential quality for successful everyday life. The ability to lead and role model for others positively influences the outcomes of all human interactions. As therapists who work with the terminally ill and their families, the authors have observed that many people come to the end of their lives with numerous regrets. Their regrets are usually about situations they didn't take charge of even though they knew they needed to.

Leadership in Everyday Life follows six individuals who are facing challenges in their lives. It shows how they exhibited leadership traits that moved them forward to better places than where they had been before. Through their stories, we are challenged and inspired to examine our personal obstacles and use the illustrated key constructs of leadership to improve the quality of our own lives.

New to this edition, the workbook is a full one-year guide to help you become a leader in your own life. It has been designed to encourage you to become more aware of those internal thought patterns, coping mechanisms and personality traits that create obstacles to successful living. This workbook will assist you to apply important concepts and skills to life's challenges. The goal is to promote and support lasting change.

Mary Raymer and Gary Gardia are therapists who work with the terminally ill and their families. Collectively, they have over 54 years of combined experience in the field and lecture and consult extensively.