Who Are You and What Do You Want?

by: Mick Ukleja, PhD and Robert Lorber, PhD

Published by: Meredith Press

Reviewed by Bob Pike CSP, CPAE-Speakers Hall of Fame

What do you really want out of living your life? Not what you can have – or what you must have – but what do you really want to have out of living your life? This book is designed to assist you in finding your own answers to four questions that will help you find your own unique person and purpose:

1. Who are you and what do you want?

2. Where are you and why are you there?

3. What will you do and how will you do it?

4. Who are your allies and how can they help?

Most people spend more time planning their vacations than they do their lives – but a life lived with true personal purpose is infinitely more rewarding.

This book is about discovering what energizes you and how to use that knowledge to shape a plan and purpose that will have you getting up each and every morning energized and excited about the day ahead. The reader discovers much more than a process, you discover a way of thinking. And the tools to create a plan that will ignite action and deliver results.

The authors speak from prepared lives, rather than prepared lessons. A friend of mine, Charlie Jones, used to say that you need to talk to people who have done what you want to do and who have gone where you want to go. These two authors bring credibility to their book not only with their own accomplishments, but with the accomplishments of those they have coached and mentored.

I have a shelf of books I reach for over and over again — that I read and reread. Up to now books like The Bible, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, What Would Jesus Do? The Greatest Salesman in the World, and The One Minute Manager have been on it. Now Who Are You and What Do You Want? joins them.

Don’t buy this book thinking your life will change by osmosis. Buy this book knowing that you will create the life you were meant to live – filled with passion, purpose, energy, and power because you used it as the road map it was meant to be – as you use the questions, the tools, and the processes in the book to create and execute your ultimate plan.

Armchair Interviews says: A marvelous roadmap for a fuller life.