Get Your Life: the Transforming Power of Turning Fate into Fortune

Publisher Marketing: If you're looking for motivation to pursue your passion, this book will change your life forever. Get Your Life introduces the new way to think about ambition, changing the way creatives map out their mission and act on their ideas. Kareem Taylor defines a creative as anyone who does work that requires you put your heart into it. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises get you thinking about your potential, your capability, your power, which, Taylor says, are your only assets. Get Your Life gives you the tools to find your creativity and most of all, keep it. Inspired by his own creative journey, Taylor takes practical advice and transforms it into powerful walkaway lessons that ignite or reignite your passion. If you're looking for a motivational book equipped with the ten easy steps to success, this isn't it. Taylor lures you in with his tell it like it is storytelling and shares with you ideas you immediately want to act on. We all set out to pursue a goal, Taylor says. But once we get what we want, either we don't want it or we want more of it. The bottom line is that the courage that got you to where you are, is not what's going to push you forward. Having a consistent flow of energy that inspires you is not science, it's ambition management. It's harnessing this consistent flow of productivity, Taylor writes, that provides us the satisfaction we've been searching for. If we can't describe it, we can't control it. Taylor introduces the term ambition tax to describe the price of success. It's hard to wrap your head around pain that has no name. The book argues that for anyone who wants to influence and change things, we have to understand ambition management -- a process that calls for endless reinvention. Get Your Life is nothing short of a roadmap to success.