Lessons from Life: Four Keys to Living with More Meaning, Purpose, and Success

by Steven Darter

Overview

In this deeply personal self-help memoir, Steve Darter asks himself the question: What is the purpose of my life? Using incredibly entertaining and relatable storytelling, Steve takes you on a journey of emotion, reflection, and insight that encourages you to think about how to live with more meaning, purpose, and success at any age whether young, old, or in between.

If you apply the concepts and techniques described in Steve's book, it will help you:

. Identify and engage in work and activity that provides a sense of meaning, purpose, satisfaction, and fulfillment

. Understand and manage your motivated strengths and prevent them from becoming weaknesses that can damage performance, limit productivity, and create all sorts of problems in life

. Break free what may be holding you back, including physical and emotional pain

. Be who you were uniquely designed to be, realize the purpose of your life, and maximize your potential,

"Exceptionally well written. . . extraordinary personal story combined with life enhancing, life affirming commentaries. . . very highly recommended"
—Midwest Book Review

Ranked #1 "Profound Book About Finding Yourself" by Fupping, a media company that focuses on book and product reviews and expert buying guides.

For more than forty years, Steven has preached about understanding, using, and effectively managing motivated strengths to live a more meaningful, purposeful, and successful life. He has counseled roughly 5,000 people, ranging from CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to troubled teenagers, on work, career, and life issues.

What others have said about Lessons from Life:

“Steve Darter exhibits extreme courage, humility, and vulnerability as he tells a fascinating story of his lifelong journey leading to self-discovery of his God-given giftedness and life purpose . . . This book can significantly enhance your life!”
—Fred Sievert, retired president, New York Life Insurance Company; author of God Revealed: Revisit Your Past to Enrich Your Future

"Everyone who reads this will benefit from its honest self-reflection and will be inspired to find the hidden strength their life journey has to make them better people.”
—Kenneth Klepper, Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO, ReactiveCore; former president, Medco Health Solutions

“I highly recommend Steve’s book for everyone desiring to use their God-given gifts to their fullest”
--Stephen D. Ban, PhD, retired CEO, Gas Research Institute

“Whether you are early or late in your life, there is much to learn or relearn from Steve Darter’s Lessons from Life”
—Sam Havens, retired president, Prudential Health Care

“I found the writing to be magnetic, sentence after sentence. The communication is clear and deep; nothing hidden, so painfully honest. The message about life and purpose, consistent and growing, illustrated through struggles, victories, and defeats that are so real.”
—Arthur F. Miller, Author of: How God Shapes Our Lives

“Steve distills incredible wisdom from his own life’s experiences. . . I felt myself frequently laughing one moment, only to be startled by a moment of great poignancy the next.”
—Greg Baumer, senior vice president and chief growth officer, naviHealth; author of God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School

“This book reveals an amazing, intelligent, and proven way to discover your life’s purpose.”
—Dick Staub, nationally syndicated broadcaster and founder of The Kindlings; author The Culturally Savvy Christian, and other books

“Steve offers us the powerful reflections that have emerged from his own life story. . . This is a book you will read, reread, and gift to others.”
—Zara F. Larsen, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Engineering, Werner International POC GmbH

“Engaging life stories—each with important lessons for all”
—Robert C. Andringa, PhD, President Emeritus, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155221234
Publisher:	Steven Darter
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Steve has been writing and speaking about motivated strengths and the impact it has on individual, team, and organizational productivity, effectiveness, and work satisfaction for over forty years. He is the author of several articles, the book "Managing Yourself, Managing Others: Learn How to Improve Effectiveness, Productivity, and Work Satisfaction", which has three editions (2001, 2011, and 2015), and "Lessons from Life: Four Keys to Living with More Meaning, Purpose, and Success".

Steve has extensive experience evaluating and advising people, ranging from CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to troubled teenagers, on work, career, and life issues. His corporate consulting has focused on executive and management development, team development, selection, succession, and consultation on issues related to job fit, performance, and the effective utilization and management of strengths.

Since 1976, Steve has interviewed close to 5,000 people. In each interview he focused on understanding the person's unique motivational design {Motivated Abilities Pattern® (MAP®)} and best paths for success; and in some cases, what had gotten in their way. This vantage point gave Steve an unusually close-up view of how peoples' lives unfolded, including their successes and failures, and the impact of decisions they made, actions they took, beliefs they adopted, course corrections they made, regrets, feelings of disappointment and failure, and satisfaction.

Steve is a recognized expert in helping people understand the implications of MAPs; and is known for his dynamic and engaging presentations, workshops, seminars, and team building sessions.

Steve started his consulting career in 1976 with People Management Inc. (now SIMA International). In 1984, he was appointed Senior Vice President and Head of Executive Search and Selection; from 1990 to 2005, he was president of People Management Northeast Inc.; and from 1996 to 1999, he simultaneously served as chairman of the People Management partnership organization. In 2005, he formed People Management SMD, LLC.

Steve has taught a career counseling course to graduate counseling students at Saint Joseph College and an advanced practicum on "Managing to Strengths" to MBA students at the University of Hartford. His honors include being profiled as one of North America's top executive recruiters in the book, "The New Career Makers", based on survey results of CEOs, senior HR executives, and other business leaders.

Steve has an MS degree in education and an EdS degree in counseling from the State University of New York at Albany. His B.S. is in Sociology from SUNY at Oswego