Making Plans That Stick: An Honest Look at the Mindsets That Keep Us Stuck

by Josh Brazier

Overview

A no-nonsense guide for your journey into adulthood, realizing your potential and building the skills and confidence to launch a meaningful career.
 
More than a career guidebook, Making Plans That Stick teaches you how to create positive momentum in your life and stop holding yourself back from your own potential. With wisdom and encouragement, Josh Brazier helps you find motivation in the realms of education, career, relationships, and self-esteem.
If you're a young adult or college student at a transitional stage in your life, facing uncertainties about your future path and looking for ways to create purposeful endeavors, Making Plans That Stick will give you the tools you need to finally get unstuck and start living the full life you deserve to live.
Inside, you'll learn:

• How to strategically set and meet personal and professional goals by overcoming obstacles, recognizing opportunities, improving relationships, and finding a sense of purpose in your life
• How to make lasting changes and find an exciting adult job that fills you with pride
• How to gain self-confidence and self-assurance in who you are and what you offer to the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684816224
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	09/10/2024
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Josh Brazier is an author, mentor, CEO, life coach, and humanitarian. After a life-changing mission trip in 2004, Josh was inspired to create the Kaiizen Foundation—a groundbreaking organization designed to help orphaned and vulnerable children around the world.

Years later, in 2008, Josh created a humanitarian therapy group offering personal growth and healing services to young people throughout the US. Then in 2012, he pioneered a male mentoring program called Kwakha Indvodza, located in Eswatini. To this day, the organization has helped to mentor over 10,000 young men.

Josh is the founder and CEO of the technology platform Able, and co-author of Head Bang Here book series. He continues to mentor and inspire young adults through his mentorship and life-coach programs. He lives in Agoura Hills, CA.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Shaking a Bum Label

Part 1: Arrested Development

• Chapter 1: How am I here?
• Chapter 2: Interviews and Stories that connect the dots
• Chapter 3: Assessing My Current Situation
• Chapter4:Un-arresting Your Development

Part 2: Concepts and Insights to turn the tide

• Chapter 5: Key Launching Concepts
• Chapter 6: Key Launching Insights

Part 3: Skills, Formulas, and Tools

• Chapter 7: Your new skill set/part-time job
• Chapter 8: Formulas to practice every day
• Chapter 9: A diverse toolbox for diverse situations you’ll face while launching
• anew

Part 4: New Horizons, Opportunities, and Momentum

• Chapter 10: What’s next? Or Now What?
• Chapter 11: How to create/recognize opportunities
• Chapter 12: Maintaining your momentum

Conclusion

Additional Resources: books, articles, additional formulas

Editorial Reviews

I have known Josh for half of my life, and in that entire time he has been a constant source of guidance and wisdom. Josh has been one of my greatest friends and I feel forever grateful that he is in my life.”
—Nick A.

“Meeting Josh during my time in a residential treatment program was a turning point in my life. At fourteen, I couldn't see my potential or all that the world had to offer. Josh helped me build confidence in who I am, encouraged me to try new things, and guided me in creating plans to be more active and social. Thanks to his mentorship, I now feel empowered and fulfilled in my life. The positive changes and plans we've worked on together have truly stuck, and my life continues to improve every day.”
—Ethan F.

“Josh helped me understand what kind of man I want to be. And he taught me about good music too. And cars. He took me to art films and concerts and college tours and rides in his el Camino. He thought he was sooo cool. And he was. Josh introduced me to the idea of a career in advertising, which is what I do now for work. And in seventeen years he’s never ignored my call!”
—Will E.

“Josh's teachings have profoundly changed my perspective on life. His guidance in choosing a school and learning essential life skills has been invaluable. He has had a huge positive impact on my life through his mentorship.”
—Finn C.

“Josh is an angel for our family and I suspect for countless others. His guidance and support for my three children since 2011 continues to uplift and inspire us to live a better life where compassion is second nature.”
—Carmen E.

“Josh has been an incredible friend and mentor to me for many years. He has helped me work through a lot of issues that held me back in my life and I can honestly say I wouldn’t be where I am today without the wisdom that Josh has imparted on me. Josh has always known exactly where and how to push me, but he’s never pushed too far. Josh is also incredibly persistent and doesn’t give up even when I do. I’ve had so many therapist and mental health professionals throughout my life, but none of them have been able to pinpoint exactly what I need like Josh has. I feel so incredibly lucky to know Josh and to have had the experiences I’ve had with him. His coaching and mentorship have truly been invaluable in helping me find myself and my path in life.”
—Gordon C.

“In my darkest days I was closed off and unreceptive to help. Josh’s methods reached me when others could not. His deep empathy and understanding of the human condition, born from a life of service and charity, were a lighthouse. Josh gave me a mental toolbox that allowed me not only to turn my life around, but to maintain my trajectory through heartbreak, illness, and injury. I would not be where I am today without him.”
—Dr. Cole Woodland

“This man is a true angel on earth. He has been a bright guiding light for my family and I for over a decade…he became my older brother’s mentor at a time when things seemed dark. Little did I know Josh would open our hearts to the beauty of humanitarian service by visiting orphanages in Mexico, India, and Africa. I would not be the person I am today without him. His impact on my family has been such a blessing.”
—Angelica E.

“Our son journeyed to Africa and India with Josh and five other boys and lived for six weeks in orphanages. He came home driven academically and athletically. He came home a man. Josh continues to be in our lives and, more importantly, in Finn’s. The relationship and impact have been beyond our most optimistic expectations. Most easily put: A+”
—Tim C.

“I’ll never forget that one time in Mexico when I, along with a group of students, was helping out with an orphanage. It was late on one of the final nights outside Ensenada and Josh decided it might be a good idea to pick up a pizza. He must have been quite tired, because one of my earliest memories of our friendship is Josh sprawled out on his bed with nothing to accompany him but a steamy box of cheese pie. It was of this memory that I have reminded Josh during virtually every single one of our subsequent conversations. As strange as it sounds, I don’t believe our friendship of seventeen years could have prospered quite the way it did had it not been for that pizza. It signified the beginning of an everlasting string of late-night phone calls and texts with Josh typically saying 'let’s get creative.' And we would. We would figure out a plan to put myself back on track in an out-of-the-box way. During our numerous adventures around the world and countless conversations, Josh has given me the tools I need to look at problems differently and solve them creatively. And to think, it all started with a pizza in Mexico.”
—Brad A.

“Josh Brazier has been an awesome mentor and friend to me throughout the years. He has helped me to dig deep into who I am and what I want out of life. Often asking questions that I didn't know how to answer. He is very charitable, humble, and has a heart of gold. I have been very blessed to have known Josh in my life and very grateful to be able to call him my friend.”
—Cameron A

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