Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Takes More Than Heart is my first book. I am an author, Jon Gordon Power of Positive Leadership trainer, certified athletic mental performance master, and high school baseball coach. I bring years of experience as a twenty-eight-year retired major airline captain, and Fleet Captain, twenty-year-retired Air Force LtCol, and command pilot who had a career ending health problem
My goal with this book is to provide motivation, education and humor to inspire those who face serious challenges in their lives.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Takes More Than Heart was inspired by my aviation career ending health problem and the loss of my dream job. It details my 10 year search to find a new dream job where you never feel like you’re really working. My goal was to write an inspiring, educating, and entertaining book relating experiences and using wry humor. It is a story of “falling down seven times and getting up eight” of keeping a positive attitude and understanding success is not a destination and living is a process.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I would not call it unusual, but over the last ten years I kept a journal and when I finally sat down to writing my book, the journal entries neatly dovetailed into the story.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jon Gordon, Tony Dungy, Simon Sinek, Brene Brown, Jocko Willink, Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey
What are you working on now?
A athletic coaching book about high school and college team leadership. The unusual thing about high school and college teams is they lose their senior leadership every year. Can you imagine Ford, Microsoft, General Electric losing their leadership much less every year? How do you maintain the team culture and cohesion and develop the incoming coming leadership?
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
https://takesmorethanheart.com
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep a journal, it’s your story and can be used any genre.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Gratitude is the attitude that gets you altitude.
What are you reading now?
Legacy by James Kerr
What’s next for you as a writer?
Continuing to write and promote Takes More Than Heart using it as a springboard to entice attendance to my Power of Positive Leadership Training Events.
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 Power of Positive Leadership by Jon Gordon, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, The History of the Second World War by Winston Churchill, and if I’m strand on an island definitely a knot tying guide of some sort.
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