Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My Higher Purpose and Definition of Success are helping people be happy and successful. I have 30 years of business experience, the last 10 as a C-Level executive. I have found that the way to make a company successful is to make the employees successful. I have spent many years teaching employees how to be leaders, how to be successful, and how balance life’s demands so they can reach most people’s ultimate goal which is to be happy. I wake up at 5 am every morning to write before my kids get up and my real work day starts. I have been married for 25 years and I have 3 wonderful teenagers.
Connecting Happiness and Success is my first book, but I have enjoyed the process so much I have 2 more in the works with co-authors and 2 others planned. Stay tuned.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is called Connecting Happiness and Success because all the lessons I have learned about happiness and success through the years seem to be connected. There is not a single correct answer or single correct source, each of the ideas is connected to other ideas. Understanding those connections will give us lots of arrows in our quiver to attack each challenge. Religious texts, self-help gurus, and scientists are teaching similar concepts. They just spend so much time arguing the differences, they don’t focus on where they are all saying the same thing. In Connecting Happiness and Success I try to bring those lessons together in one comprehensive solution that anyone can implement.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I get up every morning at 5 am and write until my kids get up. Often I have to force myself to stop writing and get the day started.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Shawn Achor and Sonja Lyubomirsky have written great books on happiness. Jack Canfield wrote a great book on how to be successful.
What are you working on now?
I am working on a book called 52 which provides companies with 52 opportunities to help their employees be happier and more successful so the company can be more profitable.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Goodreads seems to be a great place to get my book noticed.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
It is about sharing a message rather than selling books. Share your message with enough people and the books will start selling.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
What are you reading now?
Arianna Huffington – Thrive
What’s next for you as a writer?
More books that help people learn how to be happy and successful. I am working with two co-authors on two books and then have 2 more in the planning stages.
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?
Michael Creighton, Clive Cussler, and Tom Clancy books.
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