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The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead
Are you more afraid of success than failure? Do you undervalue your worth? Are you unaware of the limitations that keep you from flourishing in your life, work, and relationships? A major reason why people don’t thrive is because we’re focusing on the wrong things―on keeping up rather than waking up to what matters most. In The Thriver’s Edge, master executive coach and transformational leadership expert Dr. Donna Stoneham uses her powerful THRIVER model to help readers uncover the beliefs and fears holding them back from more fully expressing their gifts. Page by page, Dr. Stoneham explores the many ways to develop and integrate the seven keys—trust, humility, resilience, inner direction, vision, expansiveness, and responsibility—that lead to thriving, illustrating her points with personal stories and inspirational examples of various people who have flourished in the midst of adversity. At the end of each chapter, powerful reflection questions and practices encourage readers to put these seven keys into practice. Practical, applicable, and transformative, The Thriver’s Edge is a “coach in a book” that teaches readers to unleash their potential, fulfill their dreams and offer their best to the world.
- GenresSelf Help
186 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 5, 2015
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August 20, 2017
I was a little torn with this book. The seven keys Donna talks about seemed pretty obvious although I did like the questions and self assignments after each chapter to practice the key. The general theme I got was to have a little faith that it will be okay, which doesn't bring comfort to me. I was hoping for more of a "shocker".
February 21, 2023
GoodReads First Read winner and a 5 star rating! I have had this book for a while and so glad I was motivated to read it recently. This book followed the motivational thread of “How to Win Friends and Influence People†and “Think and Grow Richâ€. While those other books focused on learning how to build relationships with other people this book focused on building a relationship with yourself (maybe start with this book before you hop to the others??? Just a thought…).
This book really gets into the psychology of why we are afraid of our own success and how to overcome the fear in order to chase success. In order to thrive and be successful we need to trust ourselves and the people around us, be humble and suffer humility (good and bad) with our weaknesses and strengths, be resilient, have direction, have vision, be expansive and last but not least be responsible for our success. No one is going to care more about you and your personal success then yourself. Being a victim and having an alibi (if I had more money, if I had more time, maybe before my kids, maybe if I had kids, etc) will not get you on the road to thriving.
This book helps point out the “alibis†and walls we build around ourselves and then provides a workbook like guide at the end of the chapters to help overcome them. Another book to buy, read, markup and read again and again.
This book really gets into the psychology of why we are afraid of our own success and how to overcome the fear in order to chase success. In order to thrive and be successful we need to trust ourselves and the people around us, be humble and suffer humility (good and bad) with our weaknesses and strengths, be resilient, have direction, have vision, be expansive and last but not least be responsible for our success. No one is going to care more about you and your personal success then yourself. Being a victim and having an alibi (if I had more money, if I had more time, maybe before my kids, maybe if I had kids, etc) will not get you on the road to thriving.
This book helps point out the “alibis†and walls we build around ourselves and then provides a workbook like guide at the end of the chapters to help overcome them. Another book to buy, read, markup and read again and again.
September 4, 2016
Though reading self-help books can sometimes feel like a chore, the good ones are worth their weight in gold. Donna Stoneham's "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" is pure gold indeed. In a short span of pages, the author delivers valuable words of wisdom that transcend the book beyond the notions of "bad, or good" in terms of content, and dare I say...entertainment value.
In very articulate terms, using engaging real-life stories as examples, Stoneham outlines what it means thrive, as opposed to survive. Thriving involves many things, including altering one's perception, being humble, taking more control of one's life, and have a healthy amount of gratitude in one's daily existence in order to fortify one's life, as well as the lives of others. Being grateful is the key to thriving.
"The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" offers up so many pearls of wisdom, that I found myself highlighting several notes in the book, something I rarely ever do. Stoneham uses a very insightful quote by Physicist Max Plack: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" to shed light an important step towards thriving: altering one's perception of people, places, things, and events. In other words, one could look at something with a narrow, negative point of view, which has no benefit at all other than making you feel bad, OR...one could approach the same thing with an entirely positive approach, which benefits you and the world. There really IS a silver lining to every cloud.
This goes hand in hand with the most important key to thriving: gratitude. In appreciating what one has, and what is in front of them, one can achieve not only a state of true presentness of being, but also an enlightened sense of one's life, which in turn can lead to a joy than can affect others in a positive way as well. It's not so much the power of positive thinking, as much as it is the strength of stopping to smell the roses, take in one's blessings, and pay it forward as you go about your life.
In addition, Donna Stoneham discusses the specific role we have in our own life, and whether we are happy in that role or not, or is it something we want to change, to "get on the right bus" to where and who we want to be. Another key is to understand that we get more by giving more. We are better off living under "What I can I offer to the world?" rather than "What can the world give me?"
Again, I never feel comfortable reading self-material, and the experience of reading "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" may not have been a fun time. I even dreaded reading the book at times. However, like any good medicine, Donna Stoneham's book offers value far beyond the notions of what tastes good, or what is fun to read. "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" is excellent medicine, that I believe too many of us really need.
In very articulate terms, using engaging real-life stories as examples, Stoneham outlines what it means thrive, as opposed to survive. Thriving involves many things, including altering one's perception, being humble, taking more control of one's life, and have a healthy amount of gratitude in one's daily existence in order to fortify one's life, as well as the lives of others. Being grateful is the key to thriving.
"The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" offers up so many pearls of wisdom, that I found myself highlighting several notes in the book, something I rarely ever do. Stoneham uses a very insightful quote by Physicist Max Plack: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" to shed light an important step towards thriving: altering one's perception of people, places, things, and events. In other words, one could look at something with a narrow, negative point of view, which has no benefit at all other than making you feel bad, OR...one could approach the same thing with an entirely positive approach, which benefits you and the world. There really IS a silver lining to every cloud.
This goes hand in hand with the most important key to thriving: gratitude. In appreciating what one has, and what is in front of them, one can achieve not only a state of true presentness of being, but also an enlightened sense of one's life, which in turn can lead to a joy than can affect others in a positive way as well. It's not so much the power of positive thinking, as much as it is the strength of stopping to smell the roses, take in one's blessings, and pay it forward as you go about your life.
In addition, Donna Stoneham discusses the specific role we have in our own life, and whether we are happy in that role or not, or is it something we want to change, to "get on the right bus" to where and who we want to be. Another key is to understand that we get more by giving more. We are better off living under "What I can I offer to the world?" rather than "What can the world give me?"
Again, I never feel comfortable reading self-material, and the experience of reading "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" may not have been a fun time. I even dreaded reading the book at times. However, like any good medicine, Donna Stoneham's book offers value far beyond the notions of what tastes good, or what is fun to read. "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" is excellent medicine, that I believe too many of us really need.
September 23, 2015
Written with insight and inspiration The Thriver's Edge encourages me to keep following my path with an open heart. It is a map for those in the rat race of life who need guidance on how to get off that track, slow down and find a true calling in order to share their gifts with the world. Dr. Stoneham through her own experiences and those of her clients' articulately relates the steps necessary in order to do this. She relates that despite hardships it is possible to live a life with gratitude, meaning and fulfillment.
January 19, 2016
Wow – I loved this book! 'The Thriver’s Edge' is inspiring and uplifting and yet so practical. The seven keys are incredibly helpful and easy to apply to real life. Donna Stoneham’s writing style is engaging and easy to read. I found the book and the exercises relevant and stimulating. It is a book to keep on the bed-side table, to read again and again. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for inspiration on this life’s journey.
July 4, 2015
Simple, yet deep - or is it deep, yet simple? This book doesn't let you get lost in such loops. Instead, it sets a steady, no-nonsense course toward an intentional life. If you are willing to internalize these tenets, your life will be all the better for it. Well done, Ms. Stoneham.
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