The Art of Significance: Achieving The Level Beyond Success

by Dan Clark

Overview

What would you rather have-conventional success or a high level beyond success? Dan Clark, one of the world's leading inspirational speakers and leadership trainers, vehemently opposes the conventional wisdom about success. He believes it's tragic and superficial to build our careers and personal lives around getting more money, bigger houses, cooler toys, and fancier job titles. What's it all worth in the end? How many outwardly successful people still feel empty inside? Clark has spent decades traveling around the world, interviewing the famous and powerful; consulting with presidents and generals and sheikhs and corporate leaders; creating a multimillion-dollar speaking and consulting business that teaches what works, what doesn't and why.

In our rapidly changing world where most leaders focus on what makes Millennials and other generations different, Dan focuses on the timeless truths that make us all the same. In this sensational and timeless book, Dan literally takes readers to the next level in every aspect of life! By challenging the most common principles of success that have created limiting beliefs, Dan replaces them with his Twelve Highest Universal Laws of Life Changing Leadership, and delivers them in his time-tested three step A.R.T. process that increases Awareness of the things that prohibit peak performance; Refines who you are and why you do what you do; and creates a Transformational experience that turns success into significance!

THE TWELVE HIGHEST UNIVERSAL LAWS

LAW 1: Practice Obedience Beyond Free-will Agency

LAW 2: Exercise Perseverance Beyond Patience

LAW 3: Proactively (Intentionally) Stretch Beyond Change

LAW 4: Trust Predictability Beyond Hope and Faith

LAW 5: Know the Whole Truth Beyond Believing What You Think

LAW 6: Focus on Winning Beyond Team

LAW 7: Do Right Beyond Seeking to Be the Best

LAW 8: Experience Harmony Beyond Forcing Balance

LAW 9: Accept Others Beyond Judging Them

LAW 10: Love and Be Needed Beyond Being Romanced and Used

LAW 11: Establish Covenants Beyond Making Commitments

LAW 12: Forgive Beyond Apologizing

Mindset Take-A-Ways: Inspired people don't have to be motivated; When we identify ourselves in terms of what we do instead of who we are, we become human 'doings' instead of human 'beings' - unacceptable if significance is what we seek; when we focus on purposes instead of just setting goals, our 'why' becomes bigger than our 'why not, and the 'how-to' becomes clear and simple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986404301
Publisher:	Dan Clark and Associates
Publication date:	06/11/2022
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

DAN CLARK is founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar international communications company; University Professor; High Performance Business Coach; Podcast Host; Gold Record Songwriter; Film Maker; New York Times Best Selling Author of 37 books; a Primary Contributing Author to the Chicken Soup For The Soul series; and an Award Winning Athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career.Dan has been inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame; was Named one of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers In The World; and has spoken to more than 6000 audiences, to over 6 million people, in 73 countries, to most of the Fortune 500, Super BowlChampions, the United Nations, and to our military combat troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, Asia and Africa.Dan has appeared on over 500 television and radio shows including Oprah and Glenn Beck; and has been featured in Success Magazine, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, Sports Illustrated, Millionaire and the Mayo Clinic Journal. Clark's inspiring life includes soaring to the edge of space in a U2 Spy Plane; flying fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds; racing automobiles at Nurburgring; serving on the Olympic Committee and carrying the Olympic Torch in the Winter Games; receiving the United States Distinguished Service Medal - America's Highest Civilian Award presented by the Secretary of the Air Force; and most importantly - being named Utah Father of the year.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jack Canfield vii

Introduction: Successful or Significant? 1

1 Practice Obedience Instead of Free Will Agency 17

2 Exercise Perseverance Instead of Patience 41

3 Proactively Stretch Instead of Change 52

4 Trust Predictability Instead of Hope and Faith 70

5 Know the Whole Truth Instead of Believing What You Think 84

6 Focus on Winning Instead of Team 104

7 Do Right Instead of Seeking to Be Best 122

8 Experience Harmony Instead of Forcing Balance 143

9 Accept Others Instead of Judging Them 159

10 Love and Be Needed Instead of Romanced and Used 179

11 Establish Covenants Instead of Making Commitments 194

12 Forgive Instead of Apologize 210

Epilogue: A Significant Life 225

Acknowledgments 233

Appendix: The Twelve Laws of Significance 235

Index 237

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Dan Clark shows how success is but a stepping-stone to the real prize—making a difference that benefits others. He offers commonsense tools for character building and focusing on the greater purpose. Mr. Clark’s work affirms my belief that ‘the best exercise for the human heart is reaching down and lifting another up.’”
—JON M. HUNTSMAN, Sr., founder and executive chairman, Huntsman Corporation
 
“Dan Clark’s The Art of Significance is a magnificent read! His Twelve Laws urge us to chart a course beyond the fleeting success found in money, popularity, and fame in order to enjoy the enduring rewards found in ser­vice, obedience, harmony, and love. Leaving a lasting legacy is our true gift to the world.”
—STEPHEN M. R. COVEY, author of The Speed of Trust
 
“This is one of the most important life-changing and enriching books you will ever read. Rare and remarkable insights and transformational laws that will help you not only become successful but significant. Destined to become a classic!”
—JASON JENNINGS, author of The Reinventors and Think BIG, Act Small
 
“I recommend The Art of Significance as a must-read to all of the officer, enlisted, and civilian personnel enrolled in our professional military educa­tion courses. In this extraordinary read Clark articulates the highest laws of life-changing leadership while illustrating the practical application of our core values: integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.”
—LIEUTENANT GENERAL AL PECK (USAF, retired), former commander of Air University, the intellectual and leadership center of the U.S. Air Force
 
“This is not just another motivational self-help book. If you are open to being challenged and are willing to work to achieve that next level of achievement Clark rightly calls significance, then please read this book and complete the exercises and you will reach a new level of effective leadership and meaning in your life.”
—SAMUEL L. SALTER II, CEO, MTBC LLC

Editorial Reviews

"I am a fan of Dan Clark. Every time we've shared the stage together, it is his devotion to service and unwavering belief in the value of putting others before ourselves that attracts me to his powerful message."

- SIMON SINEK, TED speaker, author of Start With Why

"Dan Clark shows how success is but a stepping-stone to the real prize-making difference that benefits others. He offers commonsense tools for character building and focusing on the greater purpose. Mr. Clark's work affirms my belief that the 'the best exercise for the human heart is reaching down and lifting another up.' "

- JON M. HUNTSMAN, Sr., founder and executive chairman, Huntsman Corporation

"Dan Clark's The Art of Significance is a magnificent read! His Twelve Laws urge us to chart a course beyond the fleeting success found in money, popularity, and fame in order to enjoy the enduring rewards found in service, obedience, harmony and love. Leaving a lasting legacy is our true gift to the world."

- STEPHEN M. R. COVEY, author of The Speed of Trust

"This is one of the most important life-changing and enriching books you will ever read. Rare and remarkable insights and transformational laws that will help you not only become successful but significant. Destined to become a classic!"

- JASON JENNINGS, author of The Reinventors and Think BIG, Act Small

"I recommend The Art of Significance as a must-read to all the officer, enlisted, and civilian personnel enrolled in our professional military education courses. In this extraordinary read Clark articulates the highest laws of life-changing leadership while illustrating the practical application of our core values; integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do."

-LIEUTENANT GENERAL AL PECK (USAF, retired), former commander of Air University, the intellectual and leadership center of the U.S. Air Force

From the Publisher

Is Clark’s latest a self-help book, a leadership book, or perhaps an all-round feel-good tome? In fact with all of the author’s (Puppies for Sale) personal accounts, family stories (particularly regarding his father), insights, and even a poem, Chicken Soup for the Soul might be the first thing to come to mind. The book is meant to be transformational, designed for readers “who want to achieve game-changing results.” Clark hopes readers will progress from wanting to be Successful to wanting to be Significant. For Clark, success is “getting what you want and finding happiness on a superficial level,” while significance is “a higher state of happiness and fulfillment beyond the merely successful,” where you understand that “being is more important that having.” But don’t expect philosophical arguments or theological sermons here. The book is mostly rhetoric and stories, passionately told, many coming from sports and the military. Agent: Nina Madonia, Dupree/Miller & Associates. (Mar.)

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