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REACH helps readers find their potential by focusing on five key areas to improve in order to live their best life. Why was this an important book for you to write?
I’ve learned through my own winding journey that your personal growth is capped unless you look outside yourself and help others to grow too. So I’m very focused as a part of my personal growth path to help others to become their best and live meaningful lives. But that’s not where REACH first started.
I came up with the concepts in REACH to help improve my own life during an unexpectedly difficult period. Initially, I thought I was alone in my struggles. But as I was more open about my difficulties and the success I was having with the concepts in REACH, I found that many people, maybe even most, faced similar struggles and were looking for help. Some other people started using the REACH framework with similarly positive success, so I decided to more formally write down the REACH concepts. It wasn’t until my REACH partners encouraged me to keep writing that the idea for a book emerged.
You include personal stories in this book, what was the hardest one for you to write about?
The story about my mom and reference to her in the acknowledgments section were the most emotionally difficult for me to write. My mom and I were very close and she was always there for me when I needed her. For most of my life, she struggled with debilitating health issues and wasn’t able to participate in life the way that she wanted. And I always admired her ability to endure her challenges and keep pushing to become better.
A few months before I started writing the book, my mom passed suddenly and unexpectedly due to a health issue. Her passing was devastating and I thought about her frequently during the writing process. I didn’t initially expect to include anything about my mom in the book, but as the manuscript evolved, I found that her story fit perfectly. Writing about her was difficult, but it meant a lot to me to be able to honor her in that way.
What is one piece of advice someone gave you that changed your life?
I’ve been fortunate to have received fantastic advice from many people, including my dad. Ever since I was a kid, my dad has encouraged me to find ways to create optionality in my life. Options give you flexibility and that flexibility often has tremendous value. While there have been times throughout my life where I haven’t done a good job of creating optionality, having that mindset instilled in me from an early age has helped me on many occasions. I often fallback to this advice when I’m having difficulty, whether that be with a work or personal challenge.
What is the next book that you are working on and when will it be available?
I have ideas for a few other books in the personal development and business genres. But right now, I’m focused on creating supplemental REACH content that I’m distributing through the REACH website (www.reachpersonalgrowth.com) and building a community around the concept. I believe there is so much opportunity for REACH to have a positive impact on the lives of many and I’m on a mission to help make that happen.
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REACH provides a holistic, customizable framework to maximize your personal growth and development across all areas of your life. Centered on five personal development focus areas and the formation of a tight-knit support group, REACH enables you to accelerate your growth beyond what you thought possible.
Using the step-by-step guidance offered in REACH, you develop a bold, aspirational view of what you want your life to be in the future and take action to harmonize your growth around what matters most to you. But, achieving your full potential is difficult to do on your own. This is where your group of trusted advisors comes in, as they regularly hold you accountable, provide support and encouragement, and advise you on your growth journey. You do the same in return and in the process develop meaningful and lasting friendships.
With personal insights from the author, REACH is a real-world, “been there, done that” take on self-help that’s designed to help you maximize your potential and live your best life.
You have so much to look forward to and your future is far brighter than you can see today. So prepare yourself, choose your traveling companions wisely, and REACH.
REACH
The desire to achieve integrative success in life is frequently undercut by self-doubt in one’s potential. But what if everyone has a natural talent for success but is unsure how to achieve it? Keeping this in mind, author Nate Thurgood’s REACH system is a comprehensive and organized framework to awaken and actualize potential within.
The writing and inspiration for REACH resulted during the author’s midlife crisis. Surrounded by uncertainty, an ordinary commute to work and a podcast led the author to months of self-reflection, reflective thoughts, and a concept, which resulted in REACH: Maximize Your Potential and Live Your Best Life. The self-help book offers an individualistic and customized approach compatible with where people are in life. It provides the framework for development across a set of ‘five focus areas,’ whose fulfillment is conducive to attaining real-life value. It assists readers in establishing and pursuing their “Core Vision,” or life’s desires, in the five focus areas of life: Relationships, Career & Finances, Health & Fitness, Intellectual & Spiritual, and Service.
The guide first delves into each of the focus areas’ definitions of success regarding how well they attempt to maximize one’s potential. The chapter on clarifying the path to achieving one’s main vision follows. Next, the sections use examples from the author’s experience setting goals and accomplishing the core vision in several areas. Finally, following the idea of maximizing one’s true potential by affiliating with similar individuals, the following section discusses the role of leadership of the REACH group in one’s life. The group or partners serve as a personal advisory board, providing sound advice and mutually supporting one another on their quest.
The layout of the motivational self-help guide is extensive, and the content flows smoothly and clearly throughout. With a framework that speaks to people from all walks of life, the book provides solutions, a road map, and insight into one’s genuine capabilities. Everyone has something to gain in one or more areas of emphasis, whether in personal or professional life.
REACH: Maximize Your Potential and Live Your Best Life is a self-help book that assists one in breaking free from the state of “being in a fog” and gaining a purpose in life. Through introducing various techniques and growth strategies, readers will be able to put the techniques into action in their own lives. The entire concept of REACH urges one to take action since “the failure to act is typically far more damaging than taking an action that leads to failure,” making it a motivational read to reach the road of personal progress.
Pages: 164 | ASIN : B09TRWX6NS
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