Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You’ve Always Wanted
Overview
What do you really want to do? Advance your career? Get a different job? Increase your earnings? Or maybe your goal has nothing to do with a job. Whatever it is, you have permission to do something incredible, and Start Next Now can give you the courage, the confidence, and the next steps to start your next now. Start Next Now is a fast-paced kick in the pants with an actual plan to start achieving your goal before you even finish the book. This is more than inspirational puffery from a life coach; it’s blunt, funny, practical advice on how to get ahead, with specific action steps you can take today. Bob Pritchett quit his job at Microsoft to cofound a company that today employs over 400 people. In Start Next Now, he shares the principles that brought him success. You can do it, too. It might be hard, it might take time, and you might not even want to. But you can start finding out right now.
Top Highlights
“Ignorant and incompetent aren’t elements of our character; they are descriptive terms for a temporary state of affairs.” (Page 23)
“LinkedIn has become the de facto home of professional identity online.” (Page 39)
“But the joy I find in my daily work doesn’t come from money or position, but rather from doing purposeful work I love with people I love.” (Page 3)
“If you’re going to get ahead in the world, you’re going to have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” (Page 23)
“It is ignorance and incompetence in the next things—the adjacent areas where we’ll find the knowledge and skills to help us take the next step—that make us most uncomfortable.” (Page 24)
- Title: Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You’ve Always Wanted
- Author: Bob Pritchett
- Publisher: Kirkdale Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Success; Self-confidence; Entrepreneurship; Career development; Job satisfaction
- ISBNs: 9781577996453, 9781577996460, 1577996453, 1577996461
- Resource ID: LLS:STRTNXTLWYSWNTD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-24T00:08:33Z
Bob Pritchett co-founded Faithlife (makers of Logos Bible Software) in 1992. Bob speaks regularly at industry conferences and to academic groups on entrepreneurship, electronic publishing and digital libraries. He is a 2005 winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and was included in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.