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Five Bold Choices: Rise Above Your Circumstances and Redefine Your Life
There are times in our life when we feel stuck. Our noble desires for a successful career and family life get bogged down or derailed by the challenges before us. Whether it be a difficult circumstance or our own limiting beliefs and fears, we can’t seem to get past what holds us back.
Jay Coughlan was confronted with a personal hell that started with making a terrible choice to drive home after drinking with his father. This decision resulted in a horrific car crash that killed his dad. Jay provides a remarkable story of perseverance from convicted felon to successful CEO.
Five Bold Choices helps you break free from the barriers that prevent you from realizing your untapped potential. What if the things you fear and avoid are portals to your success and significance as a leader at work and at home? No one seeks trials, but they can put us on a pathway toward realizing our true purpose and potential.
In this book, Jay Coughlan and best-selling author Larry Julian map out five bold choices that can get you unstuck and enjoying the journey God intended for your life. This book will not only inspire you to triumph over your most challenging issues, it will provide a practical plan to persevere and realize the true potential that lies within you.
Jay Coughlan was confronted with a personal hell that started with making a terrible choice to drive home after drinking with his father. This decision resulted in a horrific car crash that killed his dad. Jay provides a remarkable story of perseverance from convicted felon to successful CEO.
Five Bold Choices helps you break free from the barriers that prevent you from realizing your untapped potential. What if the things you fear and avoid are portals to your success and significance as a leader at work and at home? No one seeks trials, but they can put us on a pathway toward realizing our true purpose and potential.
In this book, Jay Coughlan and best-selling author Larry Julian map out five bold choices that can get you unstuck and enjoying the journey God intended for your life. This book will not only inspire you to triumph over your most challenging issues, it will provide a practical plan to persevere and realize the true potential that lies within you.
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190 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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July 21, 2017
Great Book Loaded with Insights
If you don’t like the circumstances of your life and feel stuck, I encourage you to read FIVE BOLD CHOICES. Jay Coughlan and Larry Julian trade back and forth on the various chapters. The book is open with lots of white space and easy to read. As Larry Julian writes in the opening pages, “I’ve seen people rise to the occasion and use their challenge as a springboard to realizing their full potential, and I’ve seen others die a slow death of mediocrity. How we respond in these moments is critical.” (Page 12)
The transparency in this book is remarkable as Jay Coughlan writes, “I’ve had success, but I’m also a convicted felon. In the midst of a skyrocketing career, I went to jail. What does success really mean? For me, it was about perseverance. It’s not really about success. Success is fleeting.” (Page 22). Scattered throughout the book is a series of discussion questions for individuals or small groups to use. The five bold choices explained in depth in the book are: Clarity, Accountability, Adaptability, Confidence and Balance.
As Larry Julian writes in the final pages of this book, “The very difficulty before you is a portal of your significance and the bold choices you make now in these tough times will determine your better tomorrow. Your journey is extremely valuable to God and others. It has worth that will appreciate over time. Others will be blessed because of your perseverance, so make it count for all its worth.” (Page 180)
I learned a great deal reading this powerful book. I highly recommend FIVE BOLD CHOICES.
If you don’t like the circumstances of your life and feel stuck, I encourage you to read FIVE BOLD CHOICES. Jay Coughlan and Larry Julian trade back and forth on the various chapters. The book is open with lots of white space and easy to read. As Larry Julian writes in the opening pages, “I’ve seen people rise to the occasion and use their challenge as a springboard to realizing their full potential, and I’ve seen others die a slow death of mediocrity. How we respond in these moments is critical.” (Page 12)
The transparency in this book is remarkable as Jay Coughlan writes, “I’ve had success, but I’m also a convicted felon. In the midst of a skyrocketing career, I went to jail. What does success really mean? For me, it was about perseverance. It’s not really about success. Success is fleeting.” (Page 22). Scattered throughout the book is a series of discussion questions for individuals or small groups to use. The five bold choices explained in depth in the book are: Clarity, Accountability, Adaptability, Confidence and Balance.
As Larry Julian writes in the final pages of this book, “The very difficulty before you is a portal of your significance and the bold choices you make now in these tough times will determine your better tomorrow. Your journey is extremely valuable to God and others. It has worth that will appreciate over time. Others will be blessed because of your perseverance, so make it count for all its worth.” (Page 180)
I learned a great deal reading this powerful book. I highly recommend FIVE BOLD CHOICES.
February 12, 2022
Good points, but nothing earth-shatteringly novel. I appreciated that it didn't drag on, repeating points, but to a fault--a couple paragraphs, an anecdote or two (all from male businessmen), and you were on to the next chapter. In any case, the 5 choices are:
--Clarity (what do you want and why?)
--Accountability (to yourself and to others)
--Adaptability
--Confidence
--Balance
I like the idea of seeing Accountability as a tool for improvement, not something to fear.
--Clarity (what do you want and why?)
--Accountability (to yourself and to others)
--Adaptability
--Confidence
--Balance
I like the idea of seeing Accountability as a tool for improvement, not something to fear.
August 20, 2019
Bold Choice #1 - Clarity: Keeping the impprtant things important.
Bold Choice #2 - Accountability: Taking responsibility for your life journey.
Bold Choice #3 - Adaptability: Personal change precedes practical change.
Bold Choice #4 - Confidence: Keeping your thoughts in perspective.
Bold Choice #5 - Balance: Choosing the harder right over the easier wrong.
Bold Choice #2 - Accountability: Taking responsibility for your life journey.
Bold Choice #3 - Adaptability: Personal change precedes practical change.
Bold Choice #4 - Confidence: Keeping your thoughts in perspective.
Bold Choice #5 - Balance: Choosing the harder right over the easier wrong.
October 27, 2020
I liked the 2 authors trading chapters and the ease in reading it. One has a compelling tragedy he overcame. I wanted to read more details about it and his turning to God to succeed. Some nuggets in here like focusing on how you fill your weekly 168 hours! Some good reminders too!
January 23, 2020
This is a good book and an enjoyable read. The chapters are short but filled with gems of wisdom. I would recommend this book.
February 24, 2023
This was a quick read. Very simple and easy to read. Lots of personal stories to make the points. Not sure if I got that much from it though.
February 10, 2017
Normally I groan when given a book on business to read; it is not my go to genre of choice. But this book was delightful. It is a short sharp book that reads so simply and with good advice to take on board that if flips from start to finish in no time at all.
Larry Julian is the author of "God is My CEO", who focuses his writing on the why and how we do things whereas Jay Coughlan gives his testimony throughout the book of how he killed his father in a drunken car accident and went to jail for six months for his crime and yet was able to rise to CEO of his company despite his mistakes. This tag team style of writing is used very effectively.
"Jay will show you how to achieve your goals, Larry helps discover the why behind your goals."
The five bold choices are Clarity, Accountability, Adaptability, Confidence and Balance. With each of these choices outlined, specific examples and testimonies are given from a variety of sources. They encourage you to view the choices as a circular rather than linear in process.
One negative of the book is the assumption that its men in leadership positions so the book is tailored to men as its dominant audience, which is more than a little disappointing for a modern day piece.
This book is unabashedly Christian in outlook, but there are no Bible bashing sermons inside. I believe that even a non Christian reader could make use of these insights and just skip the occasional verse of example or illustrations as given. These bold choices aren't things that are difficult to enact, rather they are highly achievable. Touted as a business book, I believe the five bold choices would be useful in anyone's life.
Larry Julian is the author of "God is My CEO", who focuses his writing on the why and how we do things whereas Jay Coughlan gives his testimony throughout the book of how he killed his father in a drunken car accident and went to jail for six months for his crime and yet was able to rise to CEO of his company despite his mistakes. This tag team style of writing is used very effectively.
"Jay will show you how to achieve your goals, Larry helps discover the why behind your goals."
The five bold choices are Clarity, Accountability, Adaptability, Confidence and Balance. With each of these choices outlined, specific examples and testimonies are given from a variety of sources. They encourage you to view the choices as a circular rather than linear in process.
One negative of the book is the assumption that its men in leadership positions so the book is tailored to men as its dominant audience, which is more than a little disappointing for a modern day piece.
This book is unabashedly Christian in outlook, but there are no Bible bashing sermons inside. I believe that even a non Christian reader could make use of these insights and just skip the occasional verse of example or illustrations as given. These bold choices aren't things that are difficult to enact, rather they are highly achievable. Touted as a business book, I believe the five bold choices would be useful in anyone's life.
February 2, 2017
This book would be a great read for anybody, especially those in any leadership role whether at home, at work or in a voluntary role. I am none of these but enjoyed it and found it an asset in my own life.
The five bold choices are clarity accountability, adaptability, confidence and balance.
Each of these are explained and clarified in the life of Jay Coughlan who is an amazing guy and went from prison to CEO in less than 6 months.
I was given this book by Netgalley and the publisher. This is my voluntary review.
The five bold choices are clarity accountability, adaptability, confidence and balance.
Each of these are explained and clarified in the life of Jay Coughlan who is an amazing guy and went from prison to CEO in less than 6 months.
I was given this book by Netgalley and the publisher. This is my voluntary review.
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