Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Through my long career as an Executive and Professional Project Manager in a broad range of sectors including Professional Services, Healthcare, Information Technology, International Retail, Construction, and others, I have had one singular goal … to get each project successfully DONE.
I successfully crystalized my own process for success into a bare bones and refreshingly frank simple to understand step by step book to help any reader achieve any goal or dream they have. Breaking from the traditional self-help genre, light on content and heavy on motivation, I provide real tools and techniques that can be incorporated into your life easily and produce results immediately.
A wonderful book to help anyone transform any aspect of their lives, Magic Beans are for Pussies is now available on Amazon sites worldwide.
With over 20 years of experience working on and managing projects of all sizes and budgets, across many industries I have developed a unique wisdom, sense of humor, ability to successfully deliver projects and transfer the knowledge of project management to just about anyone. I firmly believe in the application of project management principles to better an individual’s daily life and help them achieve their dreams is based on his own broad experience, and spend much of my time now delivering this knowledge to people around the world through public and corporate speaking engagements, executive coaching, corporate consulting, and now through this first in a planned series of books intended to help people achieve their dreams in all areas of life.
I have a real passion for learning and seeing others succeed in reaching their life goals is rooted in my own personal journey, leading to my own personal and professional successes. Successful senior professional project manager, executive, entrepreneur, investor, author, public speaker, friend and mentor, I apply project management knowledge in his daily life and helps others do the same.
My aim through this, my first book, is to provide a light hearted wealth of knowledge to help readers follow concrete steps to achieve any dream then can imagine. An unconventional self-help book that steps away from traditional high motivation, low useable content, this step by step guide is easy to follow, practical and can be applied over and over throughout a lifetime of bigger and better dreams.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is titled “Magic Beans are for Pussies” and it has been inspired by the notion of legacy, and what we leave behind for future generations. Throughout my life, I have read many self-help books at different points and they all, on reflection, failed to deliver on the promised success purported. Early on in my career, I was driven toward achievement and was steered toward project management, becoming a professional project manager. Realizing that the fiend of project management was all about building and achievement, I truly enjoyed working in the field, climbing to senior positions and eventually an executive level. Beyond my professional work, I made the connection of applying my project management knowledge to my own personal goals and developed my bare bones process for applying this knowledge. This led to much success in my life and much attention among friends, who began asking what I was doing to achieve this level of success. I began teaching my friends individually and then speaking to small and now large groups. Finally I decided to create this book as an extension of my teachings to help people on a broader scale, while accomplishing yet another goal of mine which was to publish my first book.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writing for me tends to flow quite naturally and seems to stem from my university education. Having studied Political Science and Social Sciences in university, there was a constant stream of papers and assignments in need of completion, which meant constant writing. I tend to write well in all environments, especially places where there is a lot of hustle and bustle. Editing though is a totally different ball of wax. Without total silence during the editing process, I would not have had the focus needed to create a truly enjoyable and successful book.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I think all of the books in the self-help genre really led me to write this book, as all supplied the notion of selling “Magic Beans” in a sense. Where they fell short, I wanted to deliver on a promise to the reader or true, unadulterated help to achieve success. I that sense, the negative experience of those books falling short, was transformed into the positive aspects of my book.
What are you working on now?
I am continuing to speak publically on the content of my book and helping people through the process. I am also outlining the next few books in the series that will work to crystalize and provide more focus to specific areas of life that readers need additional specialized support with, and deliver current knowledge and special techniques to work through those specific challenges.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Amazon and Facebook have been instrumental for me, but I love the idea behind Awesomegang.com and other reader focused sites as they really are at the heart of what I am all about as a writer and reader.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice to new authors is just write. Write all the time. In a journal, on napkins, or even online. Ideas keep flowing so long as you are writing and organizing your thoughts and refining or editing your work into a finished product is only possible if you have some initial content to develop.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never stop believing in yourself.
What are you reading now?
Most of my days are spent reading research on new developments in fiends related to performance and my profession as an executive and project manager.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Since my book is fresh off the press, I will spend a bit of time promoting my book and continue to speak publicly about the core concepts behind it.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
“The Art of Happiness” by Dalai Lama XIV
“The Art of War” by Sun Tse
“Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela
and the Complete works of Shakespeare