"Significance Starts Now" is a practical, real-world continual flow of ideas that will challenge your thinking on 'how we live our lives'. It will help you and those you touch in your world(s) to understand and leverage your significance. More importantly it is how to improve, change, and enhance the lives of others – workplace, friendships, children, the troubled, those starting over and even us ‘normal’ folks! This book is (NOT) about... RELIGION, PREACHING AT YOU, DENOMINATION, ATTACKING YOU/YOUR BELIEFS... It is about living right by anyone's standard. In this book, you are presented with the “8 Principles of Significance" that explore life and our different meanings of significance. Doug's life and decades serving as a “leader of leaders” who has been in the trenches with people demonstrate his ability to help those in his care. His experiences as a leader serve as backdrops as he shows us how we might grow “significance” in ourselves and others. His views are real vs. philosophizing - recognizing the imperfections and flaws we all possess as we take turns being knuckleheads in life.These combined experiences and learnings, along with the author's deep faith and wisdom combine to give you a remarkable gift of personal development and growth …a gift you will want to pass on to other "significant" people in your life. Enjoy the ride! Following my first three books on Leadership as part of two decades working with organizational leadership/management, I delved into the person. This book is about personal leadership, YOU, me, all of us in this world and society. My personal faith has become more and more part of who I am and the landscape of my work. My real desire here was to write a book useful to nearly anyone; applicable for self-growth as well as for the teaching of others. I wanted the book to work for anyone regardless of his/her faith (belief in God, Jesus, salvation...). I believe it is presented in such a way that the spiritual aspect/my faith is not the dominant perspective. God is indeed all over it from start to finish, however I hope the book will reach anyone anywhere. I hope to use this book to continue my work coaching, mentoring, guiding and advising people and leaders in my life. I am convinced that anyone attempting this read will not only profit and grow in their life but will use the messages within to grow others around them. Doug Booker This book is about YOU . It is also about ME . It is about PEOPLE, SOCIETY & CULTURE. It is about all those around ALL , ... our CHILDREN, our RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY, and your daily walk and lifelong journey. It is about how WE live this life substantively, with purpose with SUCCESS and yes SIGNIFICANTLY! Self-Development / Reflection / Personal Growth - A Guide to Grow Others - Full of Reflection questions/statements and Discussion Questions in abundance - Perfect book for a Small Group - Connecting 'How We Live' with Biblical Truths - A Resource to hand someone to Benefit their World - Thoughts related to Life's Ending, Starting Now - Development of your Personal Mission, Walk and/or Epitath - Helping Others in your World(s): children, mentored, young adults As President / Founder of Booker Training Associates, Doug is a Facilitator, Change Agent, Coach, Author and Organizational Developer. 15 years - a successful military career, retiring as a Major from the Army in 1992 / now 15 years helping people, leaders & organizations. His work evolved as Doug began realizing the 'challenge' facing organizations in managing (leading) people and assisting with what he calls your People-System. A strong believer in the need for continued learning...he has earned a Masters degree in Management. Doug preaches to 'Never Stop Learning'; personally completing an Executive MBA program, as well as Lean Business/Manufacturing certification. He has worked with a variety of industries and teaches with four different graduate-level universities. He primarily focuses on adult-learning organizations, in both regular classroom as well as Online facilitation. Along with his teaching and consulting work, he writes and distributes an article series called Leadership Moments along with authoring (3) books on Leadership. Doug was selected as the Army's National Leadership ROTC Faculty of the Year-1989; receiving this recognition from the Secretary of Defense in Washington D.C. He is married with many children and grandchildren, currently residing in Lexington, MO. Declaration of Faith: It is a part of who I am, and everything I do, say and believe. Jesus Christ is responsible for all I am and is totally behind how I help individuals, leaders, people, teams and cultures. Principles and practices of leadership are all totally aligned to the teachings of my faith. It is the backdrop and basis of relationships in my life and work; my faith is my direction. Clients nearly always become strong and lasting relationships because o
