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  • Published: 6 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241989654
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

The Earned Life

Lose Regret, Choose Fulfilment




A powerful framework for living a fulfilled life from the world's no.1 executive coach

Our lives reside on a continuum that roams between 'fulfilment' on the one end and 'regret' at the other. Where would you place yourself right now? And where do think you should be?

In his powerful new framework, the worlds' number one executive coach Marshall Goldsmith explains that there are eight 'satisfactors' that impact our position on the scale. These are happiness, meaning, purpose, achievement, engagement, relationships, health and wealth. And he shows how creating equivalence between (a) the choices, risks and effort made in pursuing the satisfactors and (b) the reward received for doing so, moves us towards fulfilment.

Drawing on examples from his work coaching the CEOs of the world's largest companies, he lays out three simple steps; living your own life, becoming a 'one-trick genius', and committing yourself to 'earning' every day to show how we all have the power to be fulfilled and to live the earned life.

  • Published: 6 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241989654
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

About the authors

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognised as the world’s most influential leadership expert, renowned for his uncanny ability to help CEOs achieve lasting changes in behaviour. He has been named as one of the world’s fifteen greatest business thinkers by The Times, described as one of America’s ‘Fifty Great Leaders’ by Bloomberg Businessweek, and twice won ‘World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker’ at the Forbes Thinkers50 Awards. His 2008 book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was an international bestseller and remains the market-leading book on professional development.